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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
>And still, this wouldn’t be so bad, if the crap wasn’t starting to seep into things that actually matter. >A leading indicator of what’s to come is the state of computer security. We’re seeing an alarming rise in big security breache
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
Funny story, while working for a large company in 2012, that may or may not have written this article. I followed these exact steps on the advice (via podcast) of Merlin Mann who talked about how a sane person gets a raise and keeps their d
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
One point I’d like to add which a lot of people disagree with is that we should all focus on writing simple and easy to understand code. Enigineers shouldn’t worry too much about optimizing code unles there is a good reason to do so. I’d sa
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
Student loans are the stupidest form of loans. Do people need a college education? Absolutely. What's the best way to provide it? I have no idea. Here's why student loans are dumb. 1. They are practically guaranteed to anyone who
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
This article brings up a common theme, people don't want to work 40 hour weeks. I see nothing wrong with that sentiment, but I also don't see any wrong with a 40 or 60 hour work week. Every person on this planet needs to decide h
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that these are democratically dominated cities who heavily favor regulations. Portland in particular has been trying hard to wave or temporarily relax many of it's regulations in order to deli
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
Appnexus is a good competitor to google ads. It provides many of the same features that google ads offers. http://appnexus.com
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
"I know there are tons of programmers churning out low-quality code." People repeat this kind of sentiment all the time but is there anything to back it up? I know we've all run into to random bits of code we considered &quot
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
I'm sure this comment will get buried because I'm so late to the thread but oh well. "Later, the guilty programmer thanked the lead developer for protecting him. He said: “I knew I shouldn’t have reused that code, but we were
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
I probably could have said it better, the point I attempted to make was that without the support network most of that other stuff doesn't help. I have seen many people get clean, get their life back on track, and then a disaster happen
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
I'm a foster parent to 3 kids and have 4 of my own. In my opinion, the primary problem with poverty is that everyone wants to solve it with money. Poverty can't be solved by throwing money at it, children in poverty need a stable
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by tenpoundhammer 9y ago
I've worked for 2 fortune 500 companies that have brought in multiple low payed H1-b visas instead of hiring at the standard US rate. As an engineer I was part of the hiring process. All of the candidates at both places ended up being
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
That's why I posted it, I'm trying to get the context. Waffle has some great programming related blog posts.
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Waffle: I’m not your f****** monkey anymore
4 points by tenpoundhammer 10y ago|2 comments
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
There are a lot of reasons for horrible complexity.... 1. There are many ways to roll out a video conferencing system because the hardware is all commodity. Many companies will have their IT department buy all the hardware and try to deploy
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
Gimme your specs, I'm curious to know what meeting infrastructure you're using. I can start a vidyo meeting in about 15 seconds.
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
But it's important to remember that UX is only about a quarter of the total experience.
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
If you are only looking for UX vidyo has a decent product, Microsoft's latest enterprise offering is good, HPs halo now owned by polycom is good, polycom has some cutting edge stuff that is good but very expensive.
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
I worked for over a year writing software for video conferencing systems. It turns out the market has a lot of very strong solutions, but no one is willing to pay for them. The cost of building great video conferencing solutions begins to s
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
Well said, this is the comment of the year.
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Ask HN: How do you evaluate programming languages/frameworks?
2 points by tenpoundhammer 10y ago|0 comments
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
Career insight: If your boss isn't invested in your success you won't succeed.
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
I've been programming professionally for the last 6 or so years, I've been in 4 teams across 3 companies. The reason this question generates so many answers with such great diversity is that the answer really depends on where you
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
Hey Joe, I also work from home full time but as a backend systems developer. I was not trying to highlight that it would be impossible for someone with hardware to work from home, simply that in some cases it's not feasible or doesn&#x
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
Wow, don't know where to begin... 1. this article seems to be aimed at startups, but the author then goes on to complain about having to work 8-5 ( good hours for a startup). 2. "Let the bad actors fail" I've met very
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
Page views would be helpful, how often they are updated, topics covered, and maybe even voting.
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Ask HN: Are Product Ripoffs by Large Companies Legal?
1 points by tenpoundhammer 10y ago|2 comments
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
This article is light on details and appears to be extrapolating a few specific cases of "bio-hacking" into a silicon valley wide trend, which then gets generalized to technologists. I bet the number of people actually doing the k
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
I consider it normal to not work on side projects. How many other industries consider it normal to work 40 - 50 hours a week and then your "free" time working on other projects? Everyone I know clocks out and does something comple
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by tenpoundhammer 10y ago
With the current ad networks, it's easy to have well-tailored ad's, but most publishers choose not to do so in order to increase the revenue on their inventory.

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