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by ritchiea 9y ago
I'm typing this on my iPad & it strikes me that there's not a lot of motive to upgrade your iPad once you have one. It's a consumption device, as long as I can continue easily browsing the internet, listening to podcasts
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Having picked up dating apps and Okcupid recently after ending a 4 year relationship, my guess is that Okcupid has become particularly friendly to people seeking BDSM and non-monogamous relationships. I had used it before and at least anecd
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Seconded, NYC is great for tech meetups, there are several everyday. And if you're unemployed it certainly doesn't hurt that they often are catered or at least provide pizza. If you go to meetups and actually talk to other attende
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by ritchiea 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - New York City/Brooklyn, NY - Remote Ok Experienced full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with work history focused on startups. Some big company (e.g. NY Times, Cleversafe), small business and agency experience as wel
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by ritchiea 10y ago
For everyone on HN that's afraid of being harassed for their politics because of how Trump support was received, this story and worse ones to come are exactly what we were afraid of coming from Trump. This was never just about policy,
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by ritchiea 10y ago
It's odd to me that someone who's worried about intellectual debate becoming rare would vote for Trump. Trump avoids substantive debates and relies on catch phrases. It seems to me that the lack of intellectual debate is tied to p
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by ritchiea 10y ago
I would argue this is an unduly negative take on following the work of other developers. Following the work of one of your peers in your field does not have to become a cult of personality. It can help you discover what kind of open source
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Hopefully all of our work is appreciated by the people near us but it's really ok to be a "nobody" as in you aren't famous or even regarded as a "dev to be followed." There shouldn't be the expectation tha
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by ritchiea 10y ago
How is calling it a bet missing the point? As a scientist investigating a phenomenon in the natural world, assuming you wish to make a new contribution to your field, you are betting your time that you will both arrive at a new understandin
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by ritchiea 10y ago
If you're apologizing for being meta and off topic you could also just save your comment for when it's on topic.
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by ritchiea 10y ago
It's just unfortunate he's distracting from discussing the content of the post to make a pedantic point that recurs on HN ad nauseam despite fostering no interesting discussion.
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by ritchiea 10y ago
So if he had simply titled the piece "Types of Software Engineers" you would be happy?
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by ritchiea 10y ago
The case isn't "my kid mellows out on weed" it's "my kid has behavioral problems that prevent him from functioning at home & in school that are alleviated by weed".
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Serious question: Does science have an answer for what is the right action in a given situation? Is that something we can determine from a study or a calculation? That actually sounds like the perfect question for modern philosophy.
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Do you also find things like art, literature and film pointless because they don't help you solve problems? Humans have wants and needs that exist outside of the type of problems that can be solved with CS & engineering. Present da
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Sounds like the advice to be distilled from this anecdote is "start making games and meeting other people who make games."
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by ritchiea 10y ago
How do you find consistent work doing that? I try to work part time as a developer and usually either my clients pressure me to full time or hire someone else who will.
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Scale is also scarce. There are few companies operating at Google or Facebook or Amazon scale. You can't just create a product at scale if you want to gain the experience of scaling a product, you have to be working somewhere that grow
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by ritchiea 10y ago
The timer is/was the worst, I once decided not to buy tickets for an event because the timer wasn't giving me enough time to fill out my CC info and I didn't want to bother rushing or filling out some kind of user profile w&#
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Don't recyclers have to sort submissions anyway? It's expected that citizens will fail to completely adhere to recycling instructions and submissions must be sorted anyway.
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by ritchiea 10y ago
In your opinion what does it mean to know JavaScript?
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It tends to be people that enjoy their work. I know a retired TV comedy writer in his 80's that continues to meet with, edit for and make industry introductions for young writers just because he loves storytelling and comedy writing.
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by ritchiea 10y ago
So you're saying it's difficult for you as a white male (at least according to your linked social media) to deal with the issues that you encounter related to grayed out HN comments about the president-elect? The same president el
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by ritchiea 10y ago
There are myriad ways the status quo can be at odds with people's values and desires. Sometimes the status quo remains so because we can't decide on the proper remedy or disagree on the proper remedy. Just because something is sta
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by ritchiea 10y ago
The parent to my comment complains about HN being unfair to his political viewpoint and has a history of posting somewhat sympathetically about Trump. He seemed to assume that sympathizing with Trump or conservatives is the only way one cou
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by ritchiea 10y ago
Hacker News is an unfair place for people to speak up about about the lack of racial and gender diversity in tech. I have been downvoted for comments where I felt like I was making uncontroversial critiques of the status quo. I have seen HN
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If culture is too expensive for most, everyone pays a price(aeon.co)
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SEEKING WORK - New York City/Brooklyn, NY - Remote Ok Experienced full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with work history focused on startups. Some big company (e.g. NY Times, Cleversafe), small business and agency (ALLDAYEVERYDAY,
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by ritchiea 10y ago
A title like "The art of building products" is upvote bait for HN users. I don't do it anymore but I used to upvote submissions with titles like that without reading the article. My thinking being that if my vote gets someone
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by ritchiea 10y ago
When I started using Stripe the thing for me was ease of use, it was quick and painless to add to an app, the APIs made sense and were incredibly well documented. They also had a reputation for great customer service (though I've heard

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