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by ruswick 13y ago
Front-end developer in Chicago, $20/hour.
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by ruswick 13y ago
His argument regarding the way in which we develop "demons" is incoherent. Negative emotions are not just the product of disdain or fear of our own actions. Just because one thinks murder is abhorrent does not mean that they are secretly ha
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by ruswick 13y ago
People argue as though there is some sort of dichotomy; that either she ought to be prosecuted or exonerated entirely. Both are absurd. What she did was dangerous and clearly impermissible, and the school should take action. I don't think t
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by ruswick 13y ago
The issues is that, for every Kiera Wilmot, there are a dozen kids, many of them with substantial potential, who adhere to the rules and elect not to detonate draino bombs in the school bathroom, but no one makes an effort to aid them. This
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Inside Google's Secret Lab(businessweek.com)
5 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 13y ago
I vehemently dislike how they don't inform you that this is a paid service until after you've signed up. I signed up, but was unwilling to pay for the service (it doesn't seem novel enough to warrant use over like HN and Feedly, which const
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by ruswick 13y ago
I agree that there is nothing "unfair" about charging exorbitant sums. People fail to acknowledge that price is not a representation of innate value (such a thing does not exist), but is rather a manifestation of what the market is willing
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by ruswick 13y ago
I agree. Mindless consensus is not the way to probe issues and engage in meaningful discussion; contentious discourse is.
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by ruswick 13y ago
Are you implying that he is predisposed to blow it like a lottery winner given the fact that hasn't worked there for years and was really just the beneficiary of luck and inflated valuations?
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The Rumor Mill as an Evaluative Apparatus(danr.us)
1 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 13y ago
Am I the only one who despises the gamification and absurd elitism present in this product? I've neven been fond of exclusivity, and am of the opinion that good content ecosystems are resilient and will surface superior content regardless o
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by ruswick 13y ago
Still, if one only needs to monitor five feeds, they have no need for RSS. I've always been of the opinion that the free tier should at least allow one to test the service in a realistic way or to meet the demands of a common use case. Ther
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by ruswick 13y ago
I'm not sure who this is for. Square originated as a simple way for individuals and very small businesses to take credit without a massive investment. Evidently, businesses also took interest in such a product. However, a $300 kiosk is prob
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by ruswick 13y ago
Yes. Charging LTV for a product upfront would be categorically untenable for both sides.
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by ruswick 13y ago
" Higher learning institutions should help you explore your interests regardless of the applicability of those interests to employment. " I disagree. Historically, postsecondary education might have been limited to the disciplines of academ
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by ruswick 13y ago
I think the connotation is that they feel as though they ought to be able to obtain a livable job doing what they want to do, which is not the case. They aren't necessarily entitled, but are naive and have unrealistic expectations. Just bec
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by ruswick 13y ago
Certainly, this "door-slamming" practice is detrimental and is a UX decision that needs to be confronted, but this sort of incoherent diatribe doesn't contribute to the discussion.
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by ruswick 13y ago
Of the six sites on this list that I attempted to visit, four did not resolve, one was an arabic blog, and one was an archaic-looking but functioning job board. This list is obviously outdated and needs to be pared down.
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by ruswick 13y ago
If deactivation of you account is something that would induce "panic," why did you play? In my opinion this game seems fucking absurd, if it's not altogether a social engineering scam anyway.
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by ruswick 13y ago
I agree. Call me crazy, but it just seems intuitive that the title "I learned to code to launch my new startup" should be about, ummm, learning to code. I also think that the blog post would have been much more pertinent to the OP's experie
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by ruswick 13y ago
" 92% gave us the highest Customer Service rating. " This seems somewhat disingenuous, considering that the rating scale was only out of three, and the "highest" level is used to show any satisfaction whatsoever. Their copy implies some sor
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by ruswick 13y ago
$120K is typical? Even if you only isolate the executive/management positions from SF, which is one of the most inflated markets in the world, the median is still only about $100k. Obviously, the average of all white-collar jobs will be far
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by ruswick 13y ago
Chicago ought not to be lumped in with Boston and DC. DC and Boston are both quite nice (comparatively). The CTA is not. It's barely tolerable (and by tolerable, I mean that people are even capable of using it to get around and/or commute a
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by ruswick 13y ago
" Asking $30 for a book is shocking? " Where did you get that? He explicitly said that "if the information contained is proven to be valuable and well-expressed than yes, I agree, $39 (or even $99 or whatever) is totally worth it." He liter
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by ruswick 13y ago
" If you're a contractor billing at market rates in SF, $30 is one-third to one-fifth of a single hour's income. " The issue is that the overwhelming majority of technical people don't live in SF, nor will they ever earn SF rates. It's absu
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by ruswick 13y ago
" Your time should be a lot more valuable than that, so even if it was free you should evaluate what Dropbox is worth to you. " I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you stating that the price of the conference is irrelevant and that one
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by ruswick 13y ago
I don't like the copy or the lack of content on the site. The phrase "request an invitation" seems self-aggrandizing and conceited, as if one is supposed to beg for the elite privilege of being "invited" to give them $400. It's purchasing a
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by ruswick 13y ago
> That's what being a child is all about. That may be true, but it does not exonerate her from any wrongdoing. Just because some kids aren't cognizant of what is appropriate or safe to do in certain situations doesn't mean that those
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It's Crowded at the Top(freakonomics.com)
1 points by ruswick 13y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 13y ago
$9 seems quite excessive to mail a sheet of paper. I'm not sure whether or not people will be able to justify the inordinate price, and I'm of the opinion that it's simply too hight to be tenable. As an aside, the site crashed upon closing

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