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by sky_rw 7y ago
It seems reasonable to make a run to Costco or Sams club to load up on dry goods and paper supplies. Better to do so now than after a panic hits. You don't have to go all doomsday prepper and get 10 year shelf life cans of beans. But m
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Insurance is irrelevant if there aren't enough hospital beds or medical staff/facilities to handle a widespread pandemic. I think you're focusing on the wrong issue, likely based on the political nature of the current healthc
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by sky_rw 7y ago
There is also a limit on articles you can read before they throw up a paywall. No clue why anybody would use this as their blogging platform.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
More unpopular / true opinion: Coronavirus will probably fix this problem.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
I encourage everybody to work as little as possible, that way the competition for me is lower.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Slightly disagree. The metric the author is measuring against is hassle. In my experience up front yearly payments often are much more of a hassle. Invoices, accounts receivable departments, paper checks, etc. I absolutely agree with your m
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Trade shows are absolutely critical if you have a niche B2B product. Especially the smaller ones. The benefits of face to face communication and feedback cannot be beat. For startups, there are many ways to hack this process and get in chea
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Recently. They need to pay for the new stadium they are are massively leveraged for.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Every-time a PR comes out like this I see this sort of comment. Is there any evidence that layoffs are engineering based? I always assume the first to go are marketing/admin/etc rather than developers.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Yes, sell your soul to Google.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Ironically the real issues is that they probably weren't able to bill enough.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
In my experience it actually means less. SWE who cut their teeth at google are spoiled with amazing tooling and processes to support everything they do. My personal experience with google engineers is 20% code and 80% complaining that our i
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by sky_rw 7y ago
You can't bill 10's of thousands of dollars to a donation funded political organization if you do that.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Agree that this is certainly the greatest example of Hanlon's Razor in recent memory. This includes their naming choice.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Pandemonium and uncertainty in this situation favors the losing candidates. Would the underdogs in this fight be getting the same level of attention today if the results were clear? I do not think it was rigged, but there are many levels of
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by sky_rw 7y ago
This is true for all business. People don't buy the objectively best product, they buy the product from the people they know best. Until you are capable of changing human nature and purchasing behavior challenging this phenomenon will
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by sky_rw 7y ago
One Amazon is worse enough.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
I completely agree
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by sky_rw 7y ago
None of the graduates I talked to could handle CS grad level questions, especially the typical ones you get at any given tech startup large or small (sorting, binary search, etc), and I never approached my interviews with them that way. Her
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by sky_rw 7y ago
follow link, reads twitter bio He's teaching people how to code, the hard way.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
In my previous roles as lead developer at startups in NYC and SF I interviewed roughly 30-40 bootcamp graduates looking for RoR jobs. The bar for a jr. position was extremely low and still none of them were able to pass. Many knew they cour
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by sky_rw 7y ago
As somebody who has suffered through "networking events" I can assure you, what you described is a very real community.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
"Software as a Service" implies a business. I don't think this was an attempt to build a business. If it was in some skewed sense an attempt at that, then the entire post save for the "Ignoring customer development"
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Yes, actually. Academically marketing is defined by the general marketing mix of: Product, Pricing, Place, and Promotion. Product here relates to fully understanding the end users goals. You then need to design a product that meets those go
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by sky_rw 7y ago
If you truly have never met an eng that complains about open office spaces, I submit that you have not worked in an environment where engineers feel safe to voice their true personal opinions.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Well he made billions from UBER and is now getting $400 million in funding for his new business, so maybe it's you that hasn't learned the value of being unethical in business.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
When I die I hope I achieve such fame as to be immortalized in a pedantic hacker news arguement.
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Dismissing the above use cases as "developer's whims" is the fundamental issue most people here are taking with these decisions. I think we can all agree that browser behavior should not be left solely up to the developer and
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by sky_rw 7y ago
Curious as to the global business impact this has had. I personally have spent at least a dozen hours debugging forms and trying to disable autocomplete/autofill on my kiosk-based applications. How many development hours collectively h
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by sky_rw 7y ago
I worked at costco during college. The receipt checking stops a significant amount of shrinkage. At these warehouse stores it's surprisingly easy to walk out the door with large items you wouldn't be able to take at places like Be

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