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by sakoht 6y ago
Google is clearly guilty of neglect because they like to do everything in an automated way ...even if it can’t possibly be done well at this point. But that is way different than Embrace, Extend, Extinguish from MS. I would not trade, say,
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by sakoht 6y ago
Narratives that blame "greed" and other kinds of non-egalitarian behavior seem to forget that humans are animals. We should recognize that expecting organized forethought across a species, and organized ethical behavior is expect
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by sakoht 6y ago
The SBA has set the interest rate on the loans to a very low level. Low interest on a house isn't bad b/c it can go 15-30 years and has closing costs. A low interest rate short term loan probably doesn't cover the legwork f
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by sakoht 7y ago
It's sad that even the BBC allows people who don't know what they are talking about to spread propaganda, not even knowing it. It kills everything the size of a virus because of its size, not some magical attributes the virus may
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by sakoht 7y ago
The last time I moved a large codebase from git to svn the surprising thing for me was that a git clone was _smaller_ even though it had all of the history, than svn was holding only truncated history. Everything runs faster, and the tooli
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by sakoht 7y ago
A lot of people can write code, but on the path to making a shippable product a ton of programmers don’t have clarity on “what to write next” to arrive at the finish line. It often seems like a product is 80 or 90 percent done, but by the
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by sakoht 7y ago
Often when someone says they want more self-esteem, they want to stop feeling bad. You have an ugly idea of who you are and think that replacing it with a not-ugly version would be good. People try to solve the problem by building themsel
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by sakoht 7y ago
I am not a lawyer, so this is merely a speculative guess: Currently, if they technically own the code, your open-sourcing it isn’t valid. You can put an Apache license in the repo, but you can’t legally give a license to others to use some
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by sakoht 7y ago
The exciting thing if you are a hiring manager is that, as long as there is talent that is being passed-over for the wrong reasons, you can beat your competitors in one of the most challenging ares of building a compay by being good at avoi
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by sakoht 7y ago
Depending on your state, laws will work more/less in your favor. California law makes it hard for a company to sue you unless you explicitly steal IP and/or are a founder. Even non-competes don't hold up as well. If you wo
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by sakoht 8y ago
That used to be true before it was sold in 2016 to a Chinese conglomerate. As noted above, the Chinese removed VPN apps from the Apple app store, but they left this one. Which means it's compromised.
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by sakoht 8y ago
The real problem is that any app I run accesss all files I own with equal permissions. App1 and App2 shouldn’t write their data to my home, or read each other’s data, or, please, be able to write each other’s data. A video game can read my
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by sakoht 8y ago
There is a natural repercussion for being a manager who passes on talent, and hires something less. You lose. Unless you are in a company where being good doesn't make a difference. Working in a company that hires poorly is its own p
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by sakoht 8y ago
I'm 45 and I know a bunch of people far older than me who are highly-valued on their teams. Even in Silicon Valley I found younger engineers enjoy working with super-experienced people _IF_ those years actually translated to expertise
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by sakoht 8y ago
Perhaps they can use their new found AI skills to detect and flag propaganda from the tech industry.
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by sakoht 8y ago
"Why are programming environments still so primitive?" Try JetBrains tools (IntelliJ,Pycharm and kin). I still use vim to edit from a shell, but the JetBrians suite is higher-order coding. Editing a function while debugging it wa
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by sakoht 8y ago
"Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?" Because we are lying about inflation. It's not a conspiracy, just a mutually agreed-to delusion. By pretending inflation is lower than it is, the poor feel like they
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by sakoht 10y ago
To have a moat, they just need sufficient software/human network/infrastructure/legal infrastructure that competing requires too much investment. All of these things are a PITA, and not immediately replicable by fresh local
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by sakoht 10y ago
Get good at building excellent front-ends. I have been doing scalable back-end systems for years and can tackle interesting problems quickly. But, with UI work, I am like an infant with crayons. It takes too long to go from desire to prod
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by sakoht 11y ago
Hah. Good to know how this happens. I thought it was an personal insider convo...