urthor

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by urthor 4y ago
Well, I think you write the 35 page business plan. Then if you can't impress people with your 35 page document, back to your day job. Getting excited about a subpar startup idea seems like the biggest point of failure. > I think you
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by urthor 4y ago
It's something to be aware of. I think it's an underestimated aspect of why CEO's get paid the big bucks. They're paid money to not let this stupidity happen.
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by urthor 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy I never realised Bullshit jobs was written by an actual academic. It's not a new idea.
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by urthor 4y ago
Software industry is just so weird. iirc, graduates at Goldman and similar traditionally do/did a 20 page investment banking proposal every 2 days. They're filtering, so whenever they don't have enough real work, research and
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by urthor 4y ago
Gridiron games edited down to 45 minutes are one of humanity's greatest inventions. I say this as an Australian. Gridiron edited down so it's only back to back plays, no ads no stoppages, is the greatest sport on television.
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by urthor 4y ago
I mean, I really really do enjoy coding. It's just so fun to do something where knowing stuff actually changes people's lives every day. I'll be happy along the way regardless I'd say.
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by urthor 4y ago
My circle of friends has three self made 8 digit millionaires in their 20s. I've honestly been slacking. I don't think I can do it in 1 year. 5 years is perfectly possible. We live in the golden age of computer science entreprene
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by urthor 4y ago
Honestly, I've spent so much time learning computer science trivia. I truly enjoyed learning all that computer science knowledge in my spare time. Now I feel obliged to work even harder to make a few million dollars out of it before I
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by urthor 4y ago
I'd agree... for the 250k (or more, much much much more) Silicon Valley jobs. My university internship and first job was at an insurance company. Know who works less than employees in the insurance industry? Almost nobody. I don't
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by urthor 4y ago
I'd argue that knowledge about concurrency, a model of CPU threading, and race conditions/data sharing between threads is foundational. Database transaction locks, data (form of race condition), SQL (declarative graph traversal
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by urthor 4y ago
University interns are mostly 21 years old. 21 year olds won't know very much of anything in general. A 21 year old 3rd year college intern is... 21 years old Three quarters of a four year computer science degree doesn't change th
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by urthor 4y ago
Anaconda is really a solution for a personal dev box yes. For containers a version controlled requirements.txt or Dockerfile is the way. Realistically, Anaconda is a venerable solution from the truly god awful old days. The ecosystem is va
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by urthor 4y ago
Think of it a different way. Wells Fargo/BoA are "too big to fail" institutions in the United States. They got significant back hand, handshake deals, from Washington institutions to not only stay afloat, but for hundreds o
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by urthor 4y ago
Creativity is originality. Engineering is accuracy/precision. Financial is efficiency. Design is connecting to the human experience. Design is usefulness. Elegance, the appropriateness to the task at hand. It's about design. You
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by urthor 4y ago
Epistemology, cognitive science behind deliberate practice, time management, design theory. Depends if you want to make things faster, or make better things.
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by urthor 4y ago
Exactly right. We're complaining about a problem that was no different in the heyday of IRC. Ultimately, publicly searchable information is a voluntary act.
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by urthor 4y ago
True. Ultimately we can't know until we quantify the costs for high-rise apartments. All I'll say is that, yes labor's an input. You have to quantify that cost per square foot. But, given the number of property developments
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by urthor 4y ago
$450 to $550 seems like the price for detached homes. For a 2BR apartment at 850 sqft, that's $425,000. In the Bay Area I presume, Anecdotally, from memory, the price of high quality apartment, globally, varies around the $125,000 to
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by urthor 4y ago
Everyone did it.
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by urthor 4y ago
Extremely well known and experienced modder, PLUS a highly competent Korean game development studio. So essentially, AA production values and a highly talented game designer who'd perfected the gameplay formula.
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by urthor 4y ago
This exactly. I have three accounts, private, public, work. GitHub asking for one account? Crazy.
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by urthor 4y ago
Explain, clearly, the fact you're perfectly alright. And, lay out for them another important job to get on with.
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by urthor 4y ago
Often, what people truly need from you is a kick up the backside.
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by urthor 4y ago
Some piece of psychology research said having others depend on you is a deep source of happiness. You were contributing to the hunter gatherer tribe or whatnot. Another piece of psychological research. When you did something for a gold st
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by urthor 4y ago
All jokes aside. COBOL ranters rarely make it to retirement age, 60/65. Usually only intelligent, die hard, hardened professionals, make it there. Find the real thing .
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by urthor 4y ago
"Mentor" seems too complicated. Programming is like learning the piano. That's it. Programmers need music teachers, and eventually professional self learning. Eventually you learn how to perform particular practice on your o
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by urthor 4y ago
Find retired programmers. Buy them coffee.
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by urthor 4y ago
Being counter cyclical pays. Immensely.
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by urthor 4y ago
They're used in that fashion, yes.
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by urthor 4y ago
Mob programming, aka the juniors sit and watch the senior do the thing, 2x1 hour per week is the solution.

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