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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"Yes, the good times for software engineering will come to an end. I'm a software engineer, this will affect me. But the question is, do I have a natural god given right to have a ballooning salary every year, while fighting attem
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
How many of these grants are going outside of already tech heavy areas? How many of them are going to coal country, or to the Rust Belt? It's great that they're doing this, but unless they're going to be doing it in the place
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I've not seen any correlation between availability of engineers and how hard retaining efforts are. It really comes down to if management knows what they're doing, or has their head up their ass.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Getting fired/laid off in Topeka means you'll have a harder time finding a new job than you will in Seattle.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I feel this focus on valuations, and saying that Trello "failed" just because a bunch of people who were not involved with the company at all thought they should have hit a different number is truly bad for our industry. There is
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"A few generations ago inner cities were too dense, filthy, undrivable and morally corrupt to allow civilisation to flourish." Read: "Non-white people were living there." Seriously, don't try to whitewash what happe
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
They already have one distributed through the Play Store. That's the proprietary bits. The Support libs are open source, they can work without the Play Store, and different apps can have different versions of it.
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They're lost to those who would have earned them.
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Bloat would imply that stuff does not serve a purpose.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Unfortunately, that seems to be the only way to get a reasonable baseline, given that Google has no way to actually update Android devices.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
But again, do we? Is that an absolute need?
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
A good amount of the "key apps" are free anyway, so a lower margin wouldn't have helped there.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
There are only so many hours in the day. And, given the choice between fixing bugs and adding features for the many users on Android & iOS, or taking a gamble on a much lower userbase on WP, I'd probably take the first one.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Sideloading is a thing on Android too, but it really doesn't attract a lot of devs or users. Most users stick to the stores, cause they don't want to go chase down and give their payment info to infinity different sites.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Not just one app. They would need Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and a number of other staple apps.
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Do we? I mean, a netbook isn't that big, and it doesn't have the added requirement of always needing to work as a primary communications device.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Well, we don't yet. But I do wish them the best of luck in creating one.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Good luck to them, but getting the funding is only a third of the battle. Now it remains to see if they can build something that a substantial amount of people will want to use.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
As someone who enjoys breathing clean air, they can't continue to mine coal. They just cannot. And I'm sorry they feel that way about their wages, but they have to continue to adapt.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
That is an awful solution. Housing is already extremely expensive on most coasts. Adding huge amounts of people to that would make it even worse.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I hear that, and for the record, I don't support everyone moving to the coasts either.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"Regardless of wether I do nothing or go out and explore, it would mean I'm not essential." You never were. Neither am I. "Working is not only about the money; is about finding a place in a community and having some sens
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You don't have to run there. If you wanted to better your local community, you'd be working to better opportunities there, instead of decrying the idea that the economy is changing.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
It's not tone deaf. It's tone deaf to not recognize that what these people want is a handout of it's own sort. They want to do the same stuff that they've been doing for the last 50 years. And it sucks for them, but that
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
That's not true at all. Clinton had plans with job retraining for coal miners. They were offering jobs. They got swept because Trump came in and said, "We'll keep coal mining," despite having no actual plan for what to d
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
The big problem is that they do want handouts; just of a different kind. Jobs retraining programs have been around for quite a while; they were central to Clinton's plan for what to do with people who used to work in coal mines. But th
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"Well, if anyone can start a company the door isn't shut. I don't buy that white men only invests in white men. I think people invest in companies (for the most part) where investors think they will gain the most money from.&
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No, they don't. However, it would be rather silly to not acknowledge that the majority of people making these decisions are white and male.
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"It's basically consigning the bulk of humanity to the status of "surplus flesh."" It only does that if a recipient decides to do nothing but sit on their ass. Otherwise, it provides the opportunity to explore thing
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
That is an incredibly uncharitable and biased take on things.

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