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by ritchiea 13y ago
As a black NYC resident I'm actually surprised by this. Stop and frisk is a major violation of the rights of those stopped without cause but I have generally viewed it as more of a class issue than a race issue. I have never been stopp
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Actually the stop & frisk policy the author is writing about is legal in NYC & ex-Mayor Bloomberg was a big proponent, going as far as saying New York police stop whites too often and nonwhites not often enough[0]. 0. http:/&#
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by ritchiea 13y ago
We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
It would be even better if this was about more than gender. I am not one of the gender inequity deniers in this industry and I don't see anything wrong with valuing a better gender balance in the industry, in fact I think it's a g
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by ritchiea 13y ago
What's an HMF?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
There's a major bias to guessing in the 70-90k range. People likely to earn far less or far more than that are being pushed toward the middle.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Agreed, thus far the predictions seem very low to me. With the exception of the occasional non-profit professional profiles, where the predictions are much higher than what my friends who work in the non-profit sector report.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Salary is a weird number. For instance giving a startup founder who is an ex-Google engineer a prediction is awkward because she could maybe fetch a mid six figure salary if she wanted but she is probably is paying herself enough to get by
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Thanks for responding to these threads. While the "beautiful & unique snowflake" stuff is a bit much, I appreciate developers standing up for simplicity in design. The architecture astronauts try to take the intellectual high
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Well it's unfortunate that we didn't get more of his comments. It would be interesting to hear why he thinks the Mars shot is a better investment if he does in fact think that. It could be Slate's framing but it's easy t
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Unfortunately the parent link is to a second hand source rather than a direct quote. The way Slate frames Page's answer makes it seem lacking in empathy to people alive today who suffer. Maybe it is just Slate's framing, but readi
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Well that's very speculative. Mostly I disagree with the heavy-handedness of his stance. I think it would be great for humanity to donate part of a fortune to research & technological advancement and the rest to helping people in n
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Seconded. This shows an amazing lack of empathy on the part of Page. I love science and technology, they move society forward. But we shouldn't obsess exclusively on progress while ignoring the people who are born without access to hea
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by ritchiea 13y ago
As I point out here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437872 I think Steve Klabnik's argument is actually conflating two phenomenona. One that there are a set of tools/gems that are more conducive to productiv
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Actually I disagree in a big way. I think it's a mistake to conflate choices in tooling like HAML/HTML & mySQL/pg with architecture choices. Your architecture choices change the way you write your application code and how
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Sorry I don't mean to be overly dismissive. I'm taking a look right now. I do like that you include history & background. Also I like the addition of a style guide and a separate section on tools like modules & package man
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by ritchiea 13y ago
It's a great intro to Javascript. It's not going to teach you the most current webdev libraries but if you start with a strong foundation in Javascript (which you will get from Eloquent Javascript) you should be fine applying your
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Agreed. Books that focus on teaching syntax and common use cases really fall flat for me. The best programming books teach you how to think in the syntax of the language. Eloquent Javascript [1] does a good job of that and is also free. The
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I second Eloquent Javascript. It's the book I recommend to JS beginners. Secrets of the Javascript Ninja by John Resig & Bear Bibealt is another good one once you get past the terrible title. I will checkout Learning Javascript Des
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by ritchiea 13y ago
That's true. I am doing far better than just scraping by but I also don't have much in terms of savings. One challenge is that I live in Brooklyn, which has a high cost of living.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Then why go home or take off days at all?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I think for many people, most people even, this is not a rational decision. It's not about your time being worth a certain amount of value to the company and 4/5 or 3/5 of availability being worth proportionately less. Some p
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Well, to be frank, I am putting off thinking seriously about retirement. I feel like I can accomplish some substantial creative work and that the time to try to do that is now while I'm young. I guess you could say I'm hedging mu
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Thanks for the advice. Some people do ask out of curiosity in the initial conversation. Or just ask "what else are you working on?"
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I try to think this way. One thing I try to do is not work too much, so I had been freelancing trying to keep my hours to around 25 a week. It freed up time to do other things, I was learning to play guitar and working on some film scripts
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I use homebrew terminal colors and I still find it painful to read the type on Jamie's blog. Font choice is a big part of it. I also turn down the opacity to soften terminal.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I was in the same boat a few years ago at about the same age. I doubled down, wrote a lot of code, got a junior level dev job. I read books at night (I recommend SICP & Coders at Work above all else). I watched a ton of screencasts. I a
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Seems to me if you start writing your app with a service oriented architecture in mind then you have the flexibility to make your calls to services either in memory function calls or HTTP requests/RPCs. One example case: you write a m
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by ritchiea 13y ago
This definitely makes sense, as you can't open up the execution environment of native programs and execute code there. Though it is disappointing.
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Disable the User's JavaScript Console(davidwalsh.name)
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