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by skewart 11y ago
> Building features in a cluttered codebase is like being asked to install plumbing in a hoarder's basement. Hah, yes! That's a great analogy. It doesn't mean you can't get the job done, it just slows you down every
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by skewart 11y ago
I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on what it's like being remote when a team is partially remote - say, 30% are remote - vs when a team is fully remote. I've never worked remote in either situation, but I'm kind
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by skewart 11y ago
That's fine. I think most of the HN community disagrees with him on that. Given the way HN is designed (comments are ranked, low scores get grayed out, user karma scores are visible) if people downvote to express disagreement it would
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by skewart 11y ago
I completely agree. I do the same thing for subjectively downvoted posts. I want HN to be a place where people share all kinds of ideas and ask questions at any level.
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by skewart 11y ago
I'm not sure if it will save stores money or not. A lot of stores don't want it to be too easy to check out and leave. Getting to the cashier and waiting in line increases the chances that you'll make another purchase. Stor
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by skewart 11y ago
I totally agree that a different business model with low-priced devices might be needed for consumer gamer VR to take off any time soon. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw adoption of expensive VR/AR devices for industri
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by skewart 11y ago
> For a single person, or a small group? I know of no one who believes that. Fair enough. Neither do I. I meant it as a rhetorical question because it's such an absurd thing to think, but I realize that wasn't necessarily clear
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by skewart 11y ago
I completely agree that the "curb government power" is a common argument for gun ownership in the US. However, I've never understood the logic behind it. Do people really think their handgun is going to help them resist a pre
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by skewart 11y ago
I think that list is more of an answer to the question "What are some examples of widely-used FOSS projects created by famous programmers" than it is an answer to OP's question about beautiful software.
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by skewart 11y ago
I completely agree. It sounds like the opposite of beautiful software if you ask me. Maybe it's interesting, thought-provoking, or amusing code, but not beautiful.
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by skewart 11y ago
I didn't know that. Any idea why it was taken out?
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by skewart 11y ago
Except they effectively are gaining wealth by the increase in their home's value. Also, there are lots of other factors that make long term financial planning hard, which dwarf changing property tax rates - health, employment changes,
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by skewart 11y ago
It sounds like the requirements for becoming a doctor in Australia are quite a bit different than those in the US.
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by skewart 11y ago
I honestly think "writing" code in 3d with VR could be incredibly effective. I'm starting to work on a project to test it out.
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by skewart 11y ago
I clicked on the link with a lot of interest, but ended up kinda disappointed with the article. It didn't provide as much insight or analysis as I had hoped. Okay, so GrubHub and JustEat have had different fortunes over the past decad
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by skewart 11y ago
I really like these "how do other people do X?" questions on HN. Thanks for asking it! I work at a small startup with a roughly 10-person eng team. When we write docs we focus mainly on architecture and processes. The architecture
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by skewart 11y ago
Interesting. I typically see 1 maybe 2 people smoking in public every day in SF.
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by skewart 11y ago
"I'd rather have someone transitioning to DevOps with more SysAdmin experience than Dev- the cleanliness and composition can be learned a lot faster than the networking, security, and other topics that most Devs have never had to
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by skewart 11y ago
That is a really good point. I suspect in 20 years we will look back and laugh at how today's VR apps kind of MIS the point of what you can do with it. I think VR has tons of potential for office/enterprise apps because the richer
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by skewart 11y ago
That's very cool! Nice work.
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by skewart 11y ago
The marriage penalty is simply absurd. My wife and I have talked about getting divorced to save money, but staying together, and then getting married again later in life when the healthcare-related benefits might start to make it worth it.
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by skewart 11y ago
Hah! The exact same thing happened to me.
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by skewart 11y ago
So, it looks like at the moment Descartes is basically SASS or LESS, but in JavaScript. My reaction to that is, 'uh, okay, sure, why not.' However, where Descartes starts to get really interesting, is if it began to provide a sub
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by skewart 11y ago
Wait, I'm really curious about your plugin. Do you have a public repo somewhere? Writing JS in CSS, on the face of it, sounds, well, kinda perverse. I'm picturing something where you apply "float": "left" to
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by skewart 11y ago
The author makes some really good points. It's kind of hard to think of what value Uber could really bring to the car industry in the scenario he outlines. Google and others are far ahead on autonomous driving tech. A ride hailing app
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by skewart 11y ago
"People with more education have higher earnings. Boosting college education is therefore seen by many—including me—as a way to lift people out of poverty, combat growing income inequality, and increase upward social mobility." Co
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by skewart 11y ago
Yeah, I know. I wouldn't think of living without roommates in the bay area at her age. It sounds like she moved to the bay area with a fantasy about what her life would be like, and some optimistic ideas about work, and she never stop
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by skewart 11y ago
Amen.
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by skewart 11y ago
Is it just me or does it seem like a lot of media outlets really, really want to see a big tech downturn? I want to say to the collective writers ofthe WSJ, the NYT, and everyone else, "stop trying to make a bubble happen, it's
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by skewart 11y ago
> They really don't seem to want to share with their influential users the value they generate. And that means they don't want share with their shareholders the value Tumblr generates. It's really mibd-blowing to think tha

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