rjkennedy98

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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
H1-B holders cant start companies anyway. It’s a temporary migrant worker visa.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
I took it in the context that it is a necessary condition for the Guinness Book of World Records that he did it by himself, since the next sentence is about Guinness. If he says he got helped from other people that would invalidate the Guin
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> there are many proper economic analyses that show that native-born workers benefit from immigration I actually read through two of the "proper economic analyses" in that reddit link since I am interested in this. One of them
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> It's also ironic that there is always generic xenophobia against "second-tier programming talent from India" when Indians as a group pay the highest taxes per-capita in the US and are one of the most law-abiding. I'
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Yes, our company squashes commits (we have tens or probably hundreds of thousands on the main branch). Yes, I routinely look at commit history. Commit history is also used for doing analytics for performance reviews such as how many commits
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Yes, humans have created harm "just doing their job", such as purposefully making addictive apps like youtube or social media sites like Facebook that make people depressed, or gathering vast amounts of personal data for targeted
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> It could also be a sign that people feel more empowered to express themselves in work The cynic in me feels like it's a casual way for engineers to feel better about themselves. It's no wonder to me that this "bring your
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
But not to JUST that group. You are also providing "material aid" to every other group that uses your service which is what makes it apolitical. We have a system for resolving political differences in America. It's called ele
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> SAX parsing of XML is pretty cheap computationally. SAX parsing is also very complex programatically. Who wants to switch on various SAX events when handling a XML document? No, we want the full thing parsed into an object. I've s
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
I think his notes about performance miss the full picture. Obviously gzipped XML and JSON aren't going to cause network slowness, but I've been on big projects that use XML as a data interchange format and XML marshalling and unma
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the case here, but why is spoofing orders a crime? If the answer is: because algorithmic trading computers get screwed up and try to front run and buy the asset when they think there are buyers - I just can&#
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> You can reduce alcoholism and drug use by giving people interesting and useful things to do. My personal experience makes me doubt this is the case. To give an example, my grandpa was an alcoholic and had a family of 7 and was the lead
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Its called a metonymy.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
As an equal analogy - why can't we design our way out of governments having lots of "human bullshit" problems? If you can answer that question, you solve a much bigger problem than energy.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
I suspect that has to do with the iPhone which had replaced the digital camera for almost everyone.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> I would recommend to just call it for what it really is. Bad code If you work on a team, that just isn’t going to fly. I can’t imagine the toxicity of an environment where someone constantly was calling out other people’s code as being
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Debt is perfectly good metaphor for the collection of issues described. Just like one can get into financial debt via student loans or reckless credit card spending, tech debt can be accrued many ways. Additio
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
I was going to share this myself. It's really great knowing that it stuck a chord with others. So much to takeaway from that post. For me it is 1. Its important how you structure your code (flags and global state can wreak havoc on a
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
You are right we should listen more to terroristic suicide bombers because they put their lives on the line for what they believe /s. Seriously, haven’t they don’t studies that most of these revolutionaries are actually not very smart
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> How are people so keen on asking private companies to behave like public institutions It's ironic to see the same people turn around and say that the internet is a public utility and service providers shouldn't throttle conte
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Bleeping swearwords and sex is about keeping things innocent and appropriate for children. Has nothing to do with censorship. No ideas are discussed when a breast is blacked out.
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> I've already shown you how millennials benefit from Obamacare. Actually you didn't. Pointing out a single feature that benefits them while ignoring all the others is not a cost benefit analysis. > Your note about young peo
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> Have you considered that many millennials are OK with paying more if it means everyone is taken care of? People don't always vote for policies that benefit solely themselves. So that's why they vote for policies that exclusiv
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
Except that you skip over the most important provisions. Do you think that insurance for a 60 year old is 3x as expensive as a 30 year old for health care? The government MANDATES that to be the case. Who do you think pays for that? Obamaca
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
My point wasn't to pooh-pooh on the Democrats (Republicans are worse obviously with their awful tax policies). My point was that they should care about millennial issues. Whether you like or not WE are the ones paying for increased soc
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> Millennials face a very real risk of being a lost generation financially I think it's already a done deal. Millennials aren't as young as they seem (over 30) and as the own a minuscule percentage of US household wealth. The n
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> You hold a very narrow view of multicultural societies No, I hold an accurate view of them. Differences matter and the difference between two Han Chinese is not the same difference between a White person and a Somali refugee no matter
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> Xenophobia and nationalism sure don't help. But somehow China a country with even more Xenophobia and nationalism is catching up to us. And the U.S. used to have more Xenophobia and nationalism in the past and was also substantial
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
It's also way less effective than they mentioned because they didn't get hacked either way. So there was 0% difference in effectiveness between port 24 and 22 since the ssh was properly configured. Security by obscurity only matte
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by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> You can fit two such pods side by side in one of the tunnels of the Boring Company Counting cars instead of people again. You should work for the department of transportation.

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