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by slumdev 7y ago
Learn as much as you can throughout the process. If you can still talk about it with a straight face afterwards, leave and go to work as an ERP implementation consultant!
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by slumdev 7y ago
Yes, and it's not just plastic either. I shy away from buying produce from farms next to interstates. In a grocery store, though, it's impossible to tell where something was sourced.
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by slumdev 7y ago
> I would like to build an app that's a series of games, that are all related. I want to use the freemium model, with a one-time payment. No ads, no subscriptions; once you pay, you own the entire game. That sounds a lot like old-sc
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by slumdev 7y ago
What's frightening is that advertising does work on all of us, even when we find it offensive. I buy warehouse store house-brand laundry detergent, but if you put me on Family Feud and asked me to name a detergent brand, it'd be T
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by slumdev 7y ago
I have concerns about this. From their website https://atomocoffee.com/formulation > By evaluating the individual compounds in coffee we were able to map the most significant ones contributing to the characteristic arom
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by slumdev 7y ago
As a kid, anytime I stayed home sick from school, I watched TV. I would see only advertisements for catheters and guaranteed-issue life insurance. They didn't occupy much of my conscious thought. They were annoying at worst. When I
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by slumdev 7y ago
When I was very young and didn't make much money, there didn't seem to be any point in saving it. It could have been just immaturity on my part, but short-term thinking and the availability of unsecured debt made it too easy to s
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by slumdev 7y ago
Most coffee is grown well above sea level. If other organisms start creeping into higher altitudes, we could be in for a rough ride.
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by slumdev 7y ago
How many corporate Centers of Excellence produce excellent work?
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by slumdev 7y ago
These stories are too common. I would guess that the median* wage on HN is probably around 5x what your brother-in-law makes. And I would also guess that many of us are perfectly content with old phones, old cars, and generally reduced con
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by slumdev 7y ago
FAS is correlated with low socioeconomic status of the parent(s). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860552/ Likewise, poor educational outcomes not caused by FAS are also correlated with low socio
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by slumdev 7y ago
Are there any papers on this? I can only find references to the consensus algorithm.
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by slumdev 7y ago
He's delivered that talk at many different companies. I had the opportunity to see it last year. I was surprised at how consistent his word choice and cadence were between the two instances of the talk.
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by slumdev 7y ago
> the argument that a CS degree makes one more likely to understand big O This is 101-level content at most institutions. If you manage to graduate without understanding it, you are a magician or some kind of con man savant.
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by slumdev 7y ago
Proper API design is software engineering, not computer science. And it does come with experience, but it's not necessary to start from zero. Schools are coming around to the necessity of software engineering principles, and they&#x27
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by slumdev 7y ago
I've met people with CS master's degrees who seemed completely useless. My cognitive bias is that generalizing is more useful than focusing on exceptions. Studying computer science at a 4-year institution is more likely to produce
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by slumdev 7y ago
Imagine approaching that codebase without basic foundational knowledge. What sort of mess would you get into then?
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by slumdev 7y ago
This is a silly, silly attempt to knock down a point that should be self-evident. Success in life isn't a formal proof. Exercising every day, keeping your weight down, eating a Mediterranean diet, not smoking, having healthy relations
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by slumdev 7y ago
I thought the article would be about the Winklevoss brothers.
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by slumdev 7y ago
If we did a little more gatekeeping and a little less bootcamping, we might have the respect and autonomy afforded to doctors, lawyers, and actual , P.E. engineers. Instead, we're just an annoyingly expensive cost center. What we do
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by slumdev 7y ago
Some number of years of experience is not and never will be equivalent to a CS bachelor's. I'm done explaining why an undocumented O(n^2) solution that violates most of the SOLID principles is a Bad Thing.
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by slumdev 7y ago
What you're suggesting is what I mean by compliance. You don't have to talk to them. It's probably the one thing you shouldn't do. You should respectfully refuse to answer questions, even before the point that they arr
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by slumdev 7y ago
This is bad philosophy masked in scientific jargon.
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by slumdev 7y ago
We live in a police state. If you're not an attorney (or as well versed in law as the attorney in the video), your best bet is usually to be friendly and comply. You comply because they're allowed to lie to you, they're allo
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by slumdev 7y ago
I think the "strength" of RPA is creating GUI-based automations and then laying programming interfaces (web-based or otherwise) on top of them. It's still hogwash.
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by slumdev 7y ago
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the new "No Code". And it will fail the same way every other "No Code" fad has failed over the years, no matter how successfully McKinsey sells it for the next few years. It will neve
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by slumdev 7y ago
Yeah, the cybertruck gives me hope, too. If the $40K model had a longer range, I'd place a preorder.
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by slumdev 7y ago
> The 737 MAX was a failure of process So they use SAFe Agile at Boeing, too?
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by slumdev 7y ago
> We can easily take the containers out again, if we find a better way to dispose or (re)use the garbage We already have ways to reuse the garbage. No new science required. What we need is to lift the ban on breeder reactors and other m
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by slumdev 7y ago
I do not own one, but I had a Lyft driver show up in a Model S once. The interior was nice but spartan. The ride quality was absolute garbage. I felt every single bump, crack, and pothole in the road. Tesla does not compete in the luxury

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