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by rongenre 7y ago
I never see it as thinly-veiled. Just-world fallacy is pervasive.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Having gone through an eviction in SF, it's not rich residents, but residents who don't want to risk a 5-figure judgement against them and an adversarial relationship with a landlord. If I didn't mind the financial outcome
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by rongenre 7y ago
RMS has all the resources he needs to get an Asperger's diagnosis and appropriate therapy.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Silicon Valley: Where??
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by rongenre 7y ago
Supercool offices are a negative signal when I'm interviewing. I need fewer distractions when I'm trying to get work done.
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by rongenre 7y ago
He's not in jail, he can continue on twitter all he wants.
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by rongenre 7y ago
This isn't an index fund we're talking about.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Once, on a hiring committee, someone said their definition of a "decent [American] college" was "You've heard of their football team". I suspect that's a pretty prevalent opinion, wrong as it may be.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Yeah that was my experience too. I did a lot of calculus in high school, but it was.. High School Calculus, and I was definitely good at doing high school plug-and-chug math. College math is entirely different and I think the arrogance fro
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by rongenre 7y ago
"blame-the-game-not-the-player" is so typical of polite SF (and greater CA). A lot of homeowners are quietly rubbing their hands knowing their houses suddenly got more valuable. My experience with SF rent control is that it'
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by rongenre 7y ago
Again - if you've got the talents to make $20k/yr day trading, you can do much better working remotely at far less risk. So higher sharpe ratio. Also the UP is pretty much miserable.
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by rongenre 7y ago
I'd love to own a full-featured digital camera (and I've bought a bunch over the past couple decades), but unless I enroll in a class to learn to use it well and get in the habit of using it I'm pretty sure it'll collect
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by rongenre 7y ago
Oh that return policy. When I was working at a startup in the early 90's, we decided we needed to max out memory for a demo to a big potential customer. They sent me to Fry's in Palo Alto to get the module. After the demo -- boss
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by rongenre 7y ago
If he thought it was close to roll-out and worth billions, he's more a lucky manager than an actual engineer. Which makes his criminality far more understandable.
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by rongenre 7y ago
It's red-line different to take one's skills and know-how and experiences with you than to copy documents and designs from one's current employer and take them to a new gig, especially at the executive level.
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by rongenre 7y ago
I do a lot of travel for family reasons, and even a cheap airbnb (Joe Schmoe's extra bedroom) is better than a budget hotel. Hotel WiFi is generally way worse than what you get in someone's house, so's the work surface. I do
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by rongenre 7y ago
Buy random, short non-random.
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by rongenre 7y ago
As of 2015, one was still running: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
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by rongenre 7y ago
I don't see this as a culture issue, but really poor professionalism. These are people who don't seem to realize that work small-talk is... at work. My non-work life is by most measures pretty unusual. But my answer during the Mo
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by rongenre 7y ago
Save it for performance reviews. Be a professional.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Being rude to anyone is unkind, tech is a small world, and people remember. Self-centered reason to cut it out: Sure, you might hand-pick your references for that dream job, but what happens when the hiring manager at said dream job checks
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by rongenre 7y ago
Why would someone want companies to grow to dominance where their size becomes leverage in itself? I'd rather have rich set of alternatives.
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by rongenre 7y ago
I leave my graduation date off -- it's never been a problem.
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by rongenre 7y ago
56k modems were pretty routine by 1999 and ISDN (It still does nothing) was a thing. But by 2000, DSL rollouts were starting to happen.
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by rongenre 7y ago
I used webvan back in 1999, and it felt... ridiculous? Like they had to be spending a ton of money to bring me basic groceries? But 1999 was like that. What I think they really missed is how much they were in the logistics business rather
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by rongenre 7y ago
They lobbied for this particular disease. They're entirely worthy of blame.
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by rongenre 7y ago
I imagine a big benefit to employers is that if a valued employee doesn't live in a tech hub, then there are limited opportunities to get another job. It's the counterpart to the Silicon Valley saying "My job security is I ca
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by rongenre 7y ago
Wikipedia link: https://bit.ly/2ZJLGPi (because HN isn't dealing with a period at the end of the URL)
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by rongenre 7y ago
That's not how scarcity works.
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by rongenre 7y ago
(2017)

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