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by tboyd47 8y ago
Best results come from teams of generalists working as specialists. What if my "thing they are best at and enjoy the most" is just creating new functionality, no matter what language I use? There's no place for me on a team o
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I've seen the claim made elsewhere that the server-side web architecture is sexist, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was meant to be taken literally (although I was astonished the first time I saw it).
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by tboyd47 8y ago
IMO, best thing to do when starting out is go where the opportunity is. You have an entire career to form opinions about licenses, OSes, org size, etc. Those opinions limit you more than help you. Also, accept you are going to be underpaid
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by tboyd47 8y ago
A health insurance startup with a medical tourism option to Cuba, Canada, or India would be a promising venture, for sure.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I think by "apolitical," they are referring to Bitcoin's property of being censorship resistant, not claiming that politics do not apply to it at all. I prefer to call it a "people's currency."
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by tboyd47 8y ago
> It's sometimes useful for non-Americans to think of the U.S. like a federation of weak semi-autonomous countries. That may have been true in the 18th and 19th century, but since the early 1900s, I don't think it's accura
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Swift!
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by tboyd47 8y ago
That's happened to me a couple of times. Maybe you just need to look in a different city.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Open enrollment ended 5 days ago, so unless you just got hired, or you had a baby or something, you're stuck with the plan you have already. If you're under 30 and wind up not staying with your employer, I'd look into Catastr
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I've read this explanation (two equivalent choices, one is taxed higher than the other) so many times, but I can't believe there's no downside to stock buybacks. Something about it just feels very wasteful, like picking the f
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Excuse me if this sounds tongue-in-cheek, but is "behavioral finance issues" another way to say that the people placed in charge of the large pile of cash can't be trusted with it? Are you saying the solution to that is to ju
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I guess I don't understand the mindset in which having extra cash is some sort of problem to solve. Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Qualcomm, etc. all have large stockpiles of cash and no one thinks of them as hedge funds, right?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Why does a company have to grow, if it's doing what it does well, workers are happy, and customers are happy, and growth is not occurring naturally? Could it be that the expectation for all companies, everywhere to grow at a constant r
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by tboyd47 8y ago
True; but the revenue / additional market share is never a sure thing. The company can't make a contract with the universe. The interest payments, however, are a contractual obligation.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
> Further, it’s extremely hard to statically analyse selectors to see whether any rules are broken (or even a typo!) this means constraints have to be enforced via code reviews and education, which is a harder problem to solve and scale.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
How would you have phrased GP's point to make it more acceptable?
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But then you have to accept a situation where only the people who have money (or those on their payroll) can implement policy. You might improve the efficiency that way but it doesn't sound much better to me, especially in communities
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Why would private charities be any less corrupt than public ones?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Jira is a bit of a kitchen sink, so it's strange for them to be doubling down like this. Lots of customers have complained about the restriction and the other trackers don't have it. It would be great to see some research supporti
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by tboyd47 8y ago
All three of these "rebuttals" can be countered by one simple fact: Jira does not allow multiple owners on a story. That misguided restriction creates much administrative headache, and is not shared by most other agile boards, suc
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Agreed. Not to mention the fact that companies do this to protect themselves from what happened to Microsoft [0], not out of some evil desire to create an underclass of workers. [0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/busi
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Really? The idea of age being a publicly known and verifiable fact is completely specific to highly developed Western cultures. Many places in the world attach no importance to date/time of birth and do not record it.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
The "flooding" attacks identified by the researchers work by raising the cost of consensus building in a democratic society. Your approach helps deal with the increased cost on an individual level, but it does not help prevent the
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by tboyd47 8y ago
"SSR" is the default behavior of most pre-2016 web frameworks. Only when ReactJS became hip did it appear on lists of nice-to-haves that people weigh the pros and cons of.
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Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Practices [pdf](usccr.gov)
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I don't think most people in HN are seeing the real story here. This is not another harmless stunt like left-pad to make us all wag our fingers at the Node community. This is a coordinated, targeted attack on a popular Bitcoin wallet s
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Occam's Razor - could just be a symptom of the current stock market crash.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
> I get asked all the damn time by young people in my side job how they can become software developers so they too can make the big bucks. Simple, put fingers on keyboard, struggle, and figure it out through practice. None of them follow
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They touch on how true bipartisan laws like the New Deal and the Civil Rights Act just don't get passed anymore, but legislation tends to get passed based on which party has the majority of reps at that time. (Then they immediately dig
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Our world looks similar to 1914 in a lot of ways, but it looks different in a lot of ways too. 1) Mutually assured destruction. 2) No major empires dissolving. 3) Global news keeps everyone on the same page as crises unfold. 4) World powers

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