trentnix

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by trentnix 6y ago
Location: Dallas/Fort Worth Remote: Preferred Relocate: No Technologies: C#, C++, Java, web development, high-volume data processing, full-stack development, API design, Agile software methodologies Looking for: Deve
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This post was just a couple of months too late. I recently started a new, lucrative team lead job in a problem space I was interested in that promised to be structured, ambitious, and full of opportunity. I even requested a follow-up post-o
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Power. It's the hunger that is never satiated.
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While hiring senior developers doesn't necessarily inoculate you from the same fate, your point about the lack of experience is real. Some lessons can only be learned via the ass-kickings that come with experience.
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Exactly. Besides the fact that the need to copy and paste such asinine, archaic terms and details in an agreement is exactly why a country shouldn’t want to be ruled by the Vogons in Brussels. It’s Pournelles Law on steroids.
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Next post you'll be complaining that the food the people are buying is unhealthy.
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It will kill virility but should reign in stupidity being broadcast. Why do they have a responsibility to 'reign in stupidity' in the first place? Who gets to decide what's stupid and what's not? I understand removing
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Not only was he not wrong, his solution even addresses disagreements about whether the gap still exists. You say the remaining gap is a 'motherhood' gap. Someone else thinks its chauvinism. And someone else thinks it's femini
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That's the thing: one's bias and one's bigotry are competitive disadvantages. A competitor without those biases and bigotry would have a financial and strategic advantage. As Friedman points out, the market punishes the bigot
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That's precisely the point Milton Friedman made regarding the 'wage gap' when asked about it 40 years ago. He noted that if one group of people could be every bit as productive as another at a fraction of the cost, that'
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I appreciate Uncle Bob's opinionated approach. The easy path would be to remain agnostic on which way is best. But that often, at least for me, results in design paralysis as I try to figure out that magic best way to organize a proj
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Yep. That's what I was thinking, but not what I wrote. Sincerely thanks for pointing that out.
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I can't understate how important Steve McConnell's writings have been to my software career. Many years ago I was just a young developer completely immersed in tech and algorithms, but I was frustrated that the teams I was involve
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True story, but I feel like that's the fairly distant (in Internet years) past. I just know that the improved state of affairs has my wife and I dreaming of remote work in a rural area one day soon. Come on Starlink!
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I'm not sure it's relevant. It's not as if remote options haven't been available for a long time. The wages in San Francisco aren't determined explicitly by cost-of-living, they are determined by the scarcity of ava
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When all the errors go in one direction, it "smells a lot like smoke", as you put it. And nobody has even mentioned the, as the New York Times referred to him, "senior administration official" Anonymous who described
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https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-mill... https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w...
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Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about the contents of his conversations with the Russian ambassador Sounds scandalous, but we actually know the actual contents of the those conversations! And once again, there's no there , there.
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Was exaggerated, but resulted in multiple guilty pleas and convictions of Trump associates and campaign workers. Not for any actual Russia collusion. Seems like that's an important detail you missed in your yeah, but .
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The first major reason is that price controls influence and protect perception of value. The primary means a consumer uses to assess value when comparing product options is price. Lots of brands (particularly of the premium but still mainst
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A profit opportunity requiring significant investment has led to fast and fantastic results that will benefit us all. But you want to punish the opportunists who've absorbed significant risk to bring us those results because you'v
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In regards to dirt cheap OEM parts from Europe, that's largely stopped. That is excellent news for bike shops. I just hope it's not too little, too late. It kinda defeats the narrative from Shimano and others it was legally impo
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Apple and Garmin manage to successfully enforce MAP. Nintendo, Sega, and Sony before them. Parallel Import Law is the means they use to do so. Shimano could, were they willing, use Parallel Import laws to prevent European retailers from sel
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In the bike business (and many others), there are middlemen in between the middlemen! Between me and a bike brand would often be a distributor and in between me and the distributor was a sales rep! I found my sales reps (who took 1-4 points
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I assure you, there is plenty of outrage directed at Shimano, over many years. And little has changed. Any retailer that is furious at their customers is misdirecting their anger, for sure. The customer would be a fool not to seek the lower
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My anecdote must be then, at best, a few years old. But I am continually amazed at the quality of the cameras available both in my phone and in standalone cameras. Innovation continues even though the market has radically changed.
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The playing field is still unlevel - those overseas retailers don't pay sales tax and are still getting the products cheaper than they are made available to US retailers. The US government even subsidizes some overseas shipping, making
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I'm familiar with Hambini - and his bravado is well ahead of his actual knowledge. I'm not familiar with Durianrider. I can say this with confidence - the bike industry isn't built on a scam. There are scammers within it (lik
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I'm probably being a bike industry apologist when I say this, but I think maybe you don't appreciate how complex some of the parts and materials used in bikes are. The quality of the manufacturing and materials is outstanding. Als
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I've seen similar conversions to service-only, and I'll just say that service was a loss leader for us. We never found our service department to be profitable on service alone. Some of it was the complexity of the type of bikes we

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