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by undreren 8y ago
As always, you get exactly what you are measuring. I've experienced sales people who oversold more or less everything. They weren't measured on whether or not what they sold could be delivered. Instead, product teams had to run ar
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by undreren 8y ago
Do you work at my workplace?
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by undreren 8y ago
There’s horizontal and vertical specialization. Your “vertical” is your “ideal clients”, and your “horizontal” is your product. Solve an expensive problem for a niche industry and roll in gold.
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by undreren 8y ago
The amount of money you can earn as a contractor depends heavily on your brand. From what I've heard from contractors, their playbook seems to be the following: 1. Work to increase strength of brand to get more leads. 2. When number of
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by undreren 8y ago
Given that I'm living in Denmark, I can't really apply for this position. I appreciate it though.
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by undreren 8y ago
> What’s wrong with making rich people richer? There's nothing wrong with it, I just don't feel like it's a worthwhile goal in itself.
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by undreren 8y ago
I'll look into this. The problem is just that in Denmark, the government outsources everything related to software development to the private sector.
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by undreren 8y ago
> Are you directly or indirectly hurting others? Are you preventing others from exercising inalienable rights, regardless of your feelings? That's a pretty low bar to set. I'm not just trying to avoid hurting other people. I wi
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by undreren 8y ago
There are roughly 18.2 million devs in the world right now, and the number seems to double every five years. In fifty years, that's 10 doublings, meaning 18.2 billion . Of course, that won't happen, as there won't be that ma
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Ask HN: How can I avoid just making rich people richer?
67 points by undreren 8y ago|44 comments
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by undreren 8y ago
I don't understand your reasoning here. If we accept the premise that 40% of people add no value to the world in the jobs they have, it seems preposterous to even entertain the thought that none of these people would add any valu
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by undreren 8y ago
It doesn't matter. A whole swath of people are employed to make a few rich people richer at the cost of the rest of society. The world would be better of without it.
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by undreren 8y ago
Yes. To the person or company paying . The entire tobacco industry thrives on destroying public health.
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by undreren 8y ago
> Once people start using Elm the way it was designed to be used, things become simple and start to flow. But how will anyone ever get anything done, when they can't make everything in their code exceptionally clear by wrapping it a
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by undreren 8y ago
I have more or less the same experience. I used tomato-timer.com. It’s really good.
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by undreren 8y ago
The term for this is "developer abuse".
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by undreren 8y ago
Really? Where?
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by undreren 8y ago
> One criticism of New York Times that I've read online is that they won't allow you to cancel your digital subscription through their website. They force you to call them. I'm not sure if that has changed recently, but th
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by undreren 8y ago
> ...and you thought you were heating with renewable energy. No we didn't. As a mathematical modeller and software developer for their inhouse production optimization software, I was perfectly aware of what was happening. > Much
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by undreren 8y ago
It's a nobrainer, but the electric kettles are rather expensive and are usually therefore only bought to ensure production capacity in the case that the powerplant's own kettle malfunctions. Besides, district heating produced on p
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by undreren 8y ago
That requires big water deposits up in the mountains, along with a dam. Norway is having great success with this strategy on their hydro plants.
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by undreren 8y ago
> but theptip writes below that heating water in residential and commercial settings might be better. When I worked at Ørsted, we did this all the time . We had a huge electric kettle, which we used to produce district heating water. Bu
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by undreren 8y ago
All chemical energy available through coal and oil stored in the earth is the product of a massive amount of highly ineffecient capture of energy from sunlight. [0] All wind is caused directly by unequal warming of our planet through sunlig
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by undreren 8y ago
Your question isn't stupid. Right now though, we are storing our CO2 in the atmosphere. This causes problems. To solve those problems, we need to store the CO2 somewhere else. It can be released again, but lets hope that the massive
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by undreren 8y ago
As I commented on the other reply, I wasn't aware that this was a problem. Personally, I really dislike 3D movies and wouldn't go to one unless invited.
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by undreren 8y ago
That was not a problem, I was aware of. That seems pretty annoying.
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by undreren 8y ago
Movies in 3D might not be accessible to everyone, but that doesn't mean it should be accessible noone . I agree to your general point, but not this specific one.
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by undreren 9y ago
Capitalism is great for the many when most business are small and there's plenty of competition. Capitalism is great for the few in more or less all other scenarios. We live in one of the others, I'm afraid.
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by undreren 9y ago
I actually feel that shared_ptr is a better fix, because that makes the memory handling consistently opt-in, instead of inconsistent.
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by undreren 9y ago
Discipline. The same way you do in Java and C#. Don't use singletons and global variables.

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