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by urthor 5y ago
The Bay Area is a skewed microcosm of transplanted misfits. I'm not sure this is a great surprise to anyone. But the Bay Area is filled with people who: 1) Move cross country to live in the most bohemian region in the entire United St
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by urthor 5y ago
Throwaway's point about how the system is extremely self-selecting is still a very good one though.
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by urthor 5y ago
The nature of the business is that artificial intelligence of all flavors is extremely poor at being 100% correct. 90%, maybe one day, but not now. The concept that automobiles will travel without human assistance to override IO mistakes f
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by urthor 5y ago
The closed border approach had fascinating consequences. Little impact on many factors that had previously been put down to population growth. It decisively proved that overcrowded infrastructure and inflated house prices were definitively
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by urthor 5y ago
Without limiting the answer to the United States: Antitrust law is very complicated because there's multiple different legal concepts in play. The punitive action response above is probably much better informed than my off the cuff on
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by urthor 5y ago
Terms of service are, legally speaking, hogwash. Their purpose is almost entirely to scare legally uninformed end users.
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by urthor 5y ago
FYI this is open and shut antitrust. If they tried to do this you'd have a wonderful legal case against them if you so choose.
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by urthor 5y ago
Also that changing clients is just as lucrative for contract employees as it is for fulltime employees. You're usually expected to have 2-3 solid backup options, minimum.
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by urthor 5y ago
"Hello! I'm Phil, based in Queens, NY. I've been a developer and manager in the past. Some of the most viewed posts on this site are about building compilers, databases, and emulators from scratch. I am building Multiprocess
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by urthor 5y ago
In my experience, honestly the advantages of a unit testing suite are extremely minimal depending on your integration test runtime. However, they're a good tool if for example you're working with a Big Data system, where an end to
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by urthor 5y ago
A philosophy of software design is an excellent book. Although its ideas are heavily couched in OO terminology, it's changed my ideas about interfaces and exposure to complexity utterly. Not comprehensive, but every programmer should a
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by urthor 5y ago
I feel like there's two big issues at war with this one. 1) The Web 2.0 war over how much legal liability internet platforms have to bear. This is the big one to me, ever since the DMCA this is the pivotal issues about the internet.
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by urthor 5y ago
Keep in mind consultants don't get 401K plans or many other things, AND they have to save about 15-20% of their income as "in between jobs" money, in case they don't line work up. If you earn 30% more than a salaried emp
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by urthor 5y ago
I think that's a good point. I guess I should say the healthy thing to do is to work at 100% of your capacity, whilst going to bed at 9pm and doing 25 minutes of exercise every morning?
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by urthor 5y ago
Well it's a negotiation. Those guys succeeded at asking for 2500, but you would start at a number they are guaranteed to say no to, and work your way down. Like the going rate for a senior here is 900, and a good senior is 1200+. S
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by urthor 5y ago
Amazon's mentality is pretty clever I think. The entire company is designed to repeatedly test all its employees till failure by piling on the workload until they say uncle, then backing off 20% if they push-back. It's a crazy ap
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by urthor 5y ago
I'm convinced human beings are naturally designed to operate at 120% for 6-12 week long periods. \ Hunter gatherer survivalist genes just kick in. YMMV, but I consider it a healthy thing for, at least for some part of your career, to
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by urthor 5y ago
During log4j, I was a contractor embedded in a team that was 2/3rds fulltimers. Guess who got called in on the weekend for log4j? Guess who only heard about the problems on Monday at 9am? You guessed it, the call was made to not pay th
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by urthor 5y ago
700 a day??? Why did you undercharge by so much. I know the EU dev market isn't great but those are rookie numbers for "danger money." Three of the "retired, then handed enough money to unretire" COBAL guys at my ol
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by urthor 5y ago
I agree. Telemetry is mostly used to figure out things which you don't need to do because nobody uses them in my experience. Still, it's a tool of big corporate to provide transparency to VPs, and VPs would love to cut costs in W
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by urthor 5y ago
Oh nobody is ever disabling telemetry by default, system wide. Telemetry is too damn useful for developers. Nobody gives a damn.
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by urthor 5y ago
My counterpoint: More than half the population doesn't use ad block when they browse the internet. The mind boggles. There is, clearly, an enormous gap between the Hackernews perception of Windows, and actual non-ad block using end use
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by urthor 5y ago
I think the vast rate at which things are improving every decade is really dramatic. Compare now to ten years ago, before me too. Things are hugely different. I fully expect that if you give it a long time, things will be markedly better
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by urthor 5y ago
"It is not a beloved consumer brand like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, or Google." They're not a beloved consumer brand, yet. Microsoft has made an enormous investment in consumer and developer sentiment. VS Code, Microsoft Flight
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by urthor 5y ago
I strongly protest the concept that the recent introduction of politics is making things worse than they used to be. If you ask anyone who was senior working in these institutions in the 1970s, things were far more dodgy back then. Corr
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by urthor 5y ago
The example I had in my mind was "to numpad, or not to numpad." Apple has an, issue, with keyboard layouts. Keyboard layouts in general are very variable because of that "numpad" issue, as well as the rarely used keys li
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by urthor 5y ago
Mice and keyboards have always been problems Apple has been entirely useless at. It's because the usefulness of a mouse/keyboard scales exponentially with user facing complexity . A Logitech MX Master 3 for example is packed wi
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by urthor 5y ago
Semi-related: The amount of complaining about "dumb management" amongst software engineers is truly out of control I find. Newsflash, usually your principal engineer and VP are a lot cleverer than you, on average. They're
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by urthor 5y ago
That's the entire point. Dominos is happy to offer you those coupons and deals etc, in exchange for using Dominos's preferred platform (its website, which doesn't cost minimum wage) and providing your user data (via channel t
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by urthor 5y ago
I'd love to figure out how to quantify this. What you say must be correct some degree, but to what extent? I seriously wonder what percentage of US households in say, 1975, did not receive any newspaper subscription for example, what&#

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