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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Absolutely. The talent in the US is certainly higher than it is in Canada, due in no small part to the brain drain which has been happening for decades.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Toronto is the finance & arguably tech centre of Canada. Great universities & access to VC cash, lots of startups. It also shouldn't be ignored that labour costs in Canada are less than half of what they are in the US, due to
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Cookie-cutter is also what 99% of programmers work on. Yes, it's nice that you were on the team at facebook that built the first react prototype, or that you were the first software engineer at oculus. The rest of us are building app
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
And I doubt anyone at the National Review would consider that a slur.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
>However, I don't think you can discount the politics angle as a reason that a sizable number of people have finally decided "you know, I can do without ESPN." I don't. In fact I agree entirely with the notion that E
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
>This sends the alt-right sewers of the Internet and their minions at publications like the National Review into fits of hysterics. Calling the National Review alt-right is an affront to the English language.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
ESPN would be in trouble without pushing progressive politics. The business model simply isn't holding up. But alienating half of your consumers probably isn't the best way to deal with a failing business model.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
To the extent that's true, artificial constriction of supply does not escape "supply and demand".
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Or just fix the US' broken immigration system, move to a points-based system like Canada or Australia uses, and get rid of the kludges like the H1B which exist to circumvent the current system. If you had an immigration system that pri
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Or, rather, that a conviction is much more likely to go to appeal than an acquittal, and "the jurors were drunk" is the sort of thing the defence might reach for when they can't identity a miscarriage of justice in the trial
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
>Those that wish to distract from the industry's systemic issues insist on evidence. Insisting on evidence is verboten. On HN. I'm quickly growing tired of this place.
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
So, progressives in SV have moved from trying to get you fired if you say something they don't like on twitter, to pressuring you to quit your job if an accusation is made against somebody at your company. Great. This couldn't po
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
This is an insane reaction. There is literally no other charge for which "I would like to see supporting evidence of this claim" is somehow problematic.
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
1. Lay off most of the workforce. There is absolutely no justification for them to have as many employees as they do. 2. Start charging people based on how many followers they have. Twitter isn't worth much for the average consumer,
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
Yup. Some of our machines in us-east-1e dropped out of the load balancers.
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
Necroposting here, but that's an extremely interesting comparison. Would you be able to elaborate?
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
You've really nailed Wikipedia. That describes my experiences exactly, and it's a big part of why I left.
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
Elihu Yale was a slave trader, might as well rename the whole damned school. Or we could stop freaking out that historical figures didn't have 21st century values, but that proposition is clearly too radical.
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
It's certainly contributed to the irreparable ending of the relationship between conservatives and the MSM (to the detriment of both, and society itself). But conservative journalists and pundits are no less shy about spouting off, pr
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
There's a reason all of the Rust Belt manufacturing moved to the South East, and it ain't the weather. Who'd have thought that low taxes and right to work laws would lead to economic expansion, and their opposite would lead
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
It's fascinating how effective the foreign ownership tax has been. It's only 15%, but it essentially halted the Vancouver property bubble in its tracks, and is now deflating it. I'll admit to being one of those who thought V
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
Pretty sure any company with Thiel on its board is sitting pretty.
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
Toxicity, not harassment, has always been the glaring issue with the Wikipedia community. Of course there are the occasional miscreants who look to personally attack and harass people, but the entire site seems to be dedicated to finding
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
Will jQuery ever not be relevant? It's still the easiest way to accomplish most basic tasks, and 90% of the websites out there make use of it in some fashion or another. There are now a plethora of frameworks for building front end
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
Tabs are a todo list. I've currently got two pinned tabs open, JIRA and bitbucket tabs that act as placeholders, one unfinished email, one spotify playlist for work, one podcast, and 6 articles to read. And that's only because I
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
Unfortunately, I find a lot of sites don't play nice with The Great Suspender. Lots of js-heavy sites would break when they were "resumed", resulting in my place in an article/podcast/video/etc being lost. I&
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
>monoculture is undesirable. I agree. I would also gently suggest that the Silicon Valley monoculture is not one of 50 year old Republicans.
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
It's not an assumption I'm making at all. It's an independent variable. I'm assuming that talent is more or less uniformly distributed among applicants. If that assumption is true, then an optimal hiring process will,
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
>And the objective truth that having more ideas and more viewpoints makes for much more effective teams. This seems to be an article of faith among the diversophiles, and it seems to me to require a lot more supporting evidence than is t
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by redthrowaway 10y ago
How does one gain a reputation for being "female-friendly" (or hispanic-firendly, or gay-friendly, or whatever) without going through one of the three steps above? Personal networks are huge in hiring, but you have to have a lot

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