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by tboyd47 8y ago
There would be replacements but they wouldn't have staying power. Twitter works because there's only one. Powerful people in the world can use it to monitor popular opinion on any topic. So its main role today in the lives of youn
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Good Lord, yes. "Just" is a cuss word coming from a programmer. "Just" include this gem? "Just" use this new database? "Just" rewrite in new trendy language? How about "just" understand the
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Your problem is not that you lack confidence. Your problem is that you aren't interested in B.S. contests. Unfortunately these contests are often how managers discern the natural leaders of a team and you are probably feeling the urge
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Some games are very social. I get the chance to meet people playing online games I never would have had the chance to meet, from all over the world. I've spent whole Sunday mornings discussing life, the universe, and everything with pe
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I would appreciate this if more front-end specialists actually had all four of the skills that the author claims separates them from full-stack devs: elegant CSS, high-performance web engineering, accessible markup, and in-depth knowledge o
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Another thing is Nintendo's focus on intellectual property over technological superiority. Nintendo has at least 8 different game franchises that consistently deliver (Mario, Mario Party, Mario Kart, Smash, Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, Pokem
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by tboyd47 8y ago
What if you do not have confidence in America's economy, long-term? What do you invest in, then?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Ask questions to find something unique and interesting about the person you're talking to and get them to talk more about that. You walk a fine line between small talk and prying but it usually works for me.
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Listen more
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The first thing I do is fix bugs. It lets me know the types of problems that come up.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
The topic of grotesquely inappropriate kids videos on YouTube (aka "Elsagate" videos) comes up on HN and offline every so often. I've noticed that people's opinions on it tend to fall into one or two categories: they eit
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by tboyd47 8y ago
> It's not your job to convince your coworkers that your tool should be configured one way or another. That decision is owned by the team. It's only your job to get them to adopt the tool... "But lo! Men have become the to
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Ask HN: Best Docker consultancies?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Hey! Loved the article. I am currently employed as a scrum master in a scrum environment. About your proposed "fix" to management: even with the light pairing you recommend, wouldn't kanban eventually cause siloing? Even usin
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Like many companies its size, it does not operate like a single company but like many companies. I don't know what you are implying is the true cause, but developers make these kinds of bad decisions all the time in companies of all si
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by tboyd47 8y ago
A fascinating look at race and color among the Ancient Greeks, and well-contextualized. It's as if the author is trying to exonerate the ancient Greeks from the pervasive ideological racism (I really wish there was a more specific word
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by tboyd47 8y ago
There are some things about Silicon Valley startup culture I don't think I'll ever understand until I go there, and the obsession with Basic Income is one of them.
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> There are also tons of evangelists, which promote their technology/process/approach of choice, giving endless introductory talks and blogposts, but without answering complicated questions. I find some programmers are very ada
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Involve other people in your major life decisions. Ask them for advice even if you don't feel you need it. At the very least it will bring you closer.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I'm just relaying the reason the senior director gave us for the switch. I evaluated Mapbox, but more from the angle of can we use this rather than should we. It was really as if the decision had been made already. We did have a pa
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Showing apartment listings and houses on desktop and mobile web.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
No, but that's actually not a bad idea. I agree with what most commenters here have said: don't listen to advice from strangers on parenting. But at the same time, I would expect that advice to regress to some sort of mean if enou
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by tboyd47 8y ago
More crucially, they are winning over executives of medium-to-large internet businesses with superior sales and marketing. Individual engineers at these places do not have the power to make decisions about which map software to use, which a
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Did either job know you were doing this?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I think this would a lot more common if it wasn't seen as unethical to bill time in two places at once, as well as if companies were more open to hiring part-time. Why do you think your old supervisor was so open to this arrangement (n
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by tboyd47 9y ago
If the only value you provide as a developer over a low-cost outsourcing agency is your physical presence in a location, then outsourcing your job is probably the right move.
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by tboyd47 9y ago
You say, "traditional," but has one ever actually taken place?
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Interesting. Wouldn't this be riskier than non-collusion, since it diverts hashpower from the main chain and the merging of the side chain depends on help from non-colluding miners?
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Union membership rates are highest among workers aged 45-64. It may be a self-fulfilling prophecy to say that unions are for the older generation, but I think there would be either non-participation or real resistance from the younger gener
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by tboyd47 9y ago
There's a huge variation in recruiter quality and it's pretty easy to tell the good ones from the bad. Just spend a couple of weeks taking calls and emails and following leads and you learn quick.

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