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by ritchiea 13y ago
Wherever you work, whatever you do, you have to trust the people you work with for that relationship to be ongoing and productive (i.e. staying out of court). It sounds like you have a problem trusting women not to take you to court rather
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Thanks. Though ultimately it's not a moral choice or about doing the right thing, it's not the kind of environment I want to work in. And that comment absolutely was not where things began or ended with that guy.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Agreed. I worked at a company where my CTO said "Well we couldn't seriously consider hiring a woman for this team" after interviewing a female developer. I couldn't believe what I was hearing and it was a pleasure to lea
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I actually disagree. I believe abstract self-betterment is as important as what you are calling "real work". There's certainly a balance to be kept between direct production and abstract self improvement but they aid each oth
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by ritchiea 13y ago
It really depends on what you're reading on HN, if you're reading about acquisitions or gossip or meta commentary like this, then definitely HN != work if you're reading a technical article then definitely HN = work. And I be
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Competition is much higher in urban areas. There are more black families in urban areas and thus there are more black dropouts while simultaneously urban areas have become hip destinations for college graduates. I know 20-somethings in NYC
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Now when people say no one in music makes money anymore we can simply point to Andrew Mason.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Or you could see historic landmarks during the day and explore restaurants and bars local residents actually enjoy in the evenings. Restaurants that cater to tourists do so because you can profit off of their unfamiliarity with the area wit
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by ritchiea 13y ago
What year do we live in that newspapers control what information a programmer can disclose to the public?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
While the way to change things as an engineer is often to make something better than the alternative, one way to change things in politics is to keep the issue actively in discussion until public perception reaches a tipping point that some
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Are you honestly arguing against doing something because intellectuals that inspire you advocate it? That's a fantastic reason to seek out a new experience.
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How do physicians and non-physicians want to die?(thesocietypages.org)
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by ritchiea 13y ago
And once again the top comment doesn't do anything to continue the thoughtful discussion that began in the article, instead providing a pedantic correction.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
You're right, I was projecting the idea that "work which is not in a full time setting in an office in the US is not real work" onto your comment. My mistake.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I disagree. There are lots of different types of venturing out into the world that aren't necessarily just bumming around on the beach. I went traveling when I was 20 and ended up spending months at a hostel in exchange for building th
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by ritchiea 13y ago
You're assuming a lot here. A lot of intelligent people are told at a young age that college is an answer to their life aspirations. Just college. Not college and smart decisions about what to study and what habits to form and who to m
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I think you're overstating what it takes to get through elite colleges and perhaps misunderstanding what it takes to get in them. There are many strategies to get through those sort of institutions. Ideally the experience at an elite c
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by ritchiea 13y ago
It's tough, I've long empathized with complaints about SV taking over San Francisco and the soaring rents. Largely because I believe SV culture is intentionally blind to or intellectually dishonest about the fact that it is first
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Obviously. The thing about America right now is that there's no one city or even state that is representative of the country. The country is experiencing a cultural and political deadlock which can sort of be generalized to a divide be
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Indeed. The only thing scarier than the US monitoring 95% of internet traffic is the US deciding the best use of its super-secret super-powerful internet surveillance is to keep illegal au pairs out of the country. But I doubt they're
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Well obviously many governments have spies. There's even a genre of entertainment constructed around spies. And generally in the spy narrative the spy is after guys from the other country, not his own. The revelation here is that if yo
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by ritchiea 13y ago
One biggie that the author left out of the piece: The US Gov continues to insist that they are not monitoring the data of US citizens because that would be unconstitutional without warrants. But that's a tacit admission that they are o
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by ritchiea 13y ago
All of the comments taking umbrage that the article isn't celebrating Snowden's character are missing the point. While it is entirely possible that he was qualified or even overqualified for the position he had at Booz Allen Hamil
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by ritchiea 13y ago
That is not the case according to the article. I understand how you could believe this is happening but specifically with the SV companies we have no evidence of it and even the Washington Post is backing down from some of their boldest cla
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Are you talking about Verzion? I would consider that a different case than the SV companies.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Some things happen in secret but are not part of a conspiracy. Conspiracies require secrecy because they are unlawful or unethical. It is codified into law (which is public) that the US gov will make classified information requests like the
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I dunno, it sounds to me like the companies in question were being hit with a lot of government requests and they did the natural thing to take them seriously and make it easy for their employees to deal with: make an API for it and automat
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Allow me to correct you, everyone wants to design for smart, advanced users who have the latest browsers that allow us to do cool stuff while we hope that the masses will get with the program / super users will tout our product so well the
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by ritchiea 13y ago
This is great advice. One thing you also need to develop is a sense of who is a good client. Choosing who you work with is going to be have a huge effect on your happiness and career direction as an independent developer.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
The irony is that HN upvotes light commentary with blanket generalizations to the front page and also upvotes cruel dismissive comments criticizing that sort of light commentary to the top comment.

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