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by vijayr 11y ago
My boss (CTO !!) used to put up this poster with "I rarely test my code. When I do, I do it in production". Good times.
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Hansard Corpus: British Parliament, 1803-2005(hansard-corpus.org)
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Anyone knows what software Sam is using for his blog?
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Along similar lines, it would also be nice to have resources for one (or max two) person businesses, with 100-300K revenue per year (clicky was two man team making 500K/year). That is more than enough to live well and spend some time p
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Confiscate and do what with it? Distribute it to the poor? That would only be a (very) short term fix to a long term problem. These billionaires would be replaced by new ones. Perhaps a better solution might be to fundamentally rethink the
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Isn't this a problem in most markets though? Take writing. Most authors starve or make a pittance, while a handful of authors at the top make most of the money. Stephen King comes to mind. Same with music.
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Thank you for answering. How did you find the first two clients?
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it's been amazing Could you please share more? What kind of work, how many hours a week do you work and the like?
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May be we should start a community then? Specifically for those looking to make something useful and make enough money to sustain themselves and their families.
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I started writing a comment that is nearly the same as this one, I'm glad I read yours before commenting. I guess there are lots of people who think the same way. I wonder where they hang out (other than HN)
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Does it include React Native too?
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It isn't fair to compare U.S with countries like Japan, Denmark etc. U.S is very big and very diverse compared to these countries and that presents a different set of challenges. Once a friend and I started counting languages as we wa
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I wonder how many of us reading this are nodding their heads and saying the same thing! Either there are too many spies in the workforce, or the agency needs to up it's tactics. Perhaps starting with "keep fiddling with your phone
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Couple of years ago, someone from HN was trying to improve their imagination skills, based on the life of Nikola Tesla. Not sure what happened to that experiment. Anyone knows?
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The attitude of American public about criminals is also not great. For example, it is appalling how common male prison rape jokes are in the US (in movies, in everyday conversations etc) - how can one joke about it, I don't understand.
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Again, I am not saying Clemans isn't wrong. That said - I work for a private firm, not even remotely as crucial as the police dept. cops are trained to deal with all kinds of situations/personalities (my boss is not). The captain
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Not saying Clemans is right, but couldn't the captain have handled it better, instead of just banning him from the building? We have a talented, enthusiastic, but inexperienced youth on one side and a police captain (whose job by defin
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Somewhat similar is the behavior of families of famous personalities after their demise - MLK's famous speech is still private property a full 50 years later. Same with George Orwell's family aggressively going after people using
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Ask HN: What is your favorite text based game and why? Ever written one?
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What is nootropics? If it is a drug, could you explain more about how it helps you?
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Is it autoannotate?
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Ask HN: Those who develop desktop apps, what is your toolset?
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4 years since Stephen Colbert created a super PAC – where did all that money go?(sunlightfoundation.com)
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Here is another interesting data point - Taylor Swift has been making a million dollars a day this year so far, and she is on track for 365 mil by the end of this year. She will make in 2 hours what these PhDs will make in one full year
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It is not just the prison. In some places, ankle bracelets are outsourced to private companies [1] and they charge the user rent for it and if they can't pay, guess where they go back? [1] http://www.dailykos.com/stor
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I was a lowly engineer at a huge company with a huge product. It had one product manager whose job was to come up with product features, about a dozen engineers and a tech lead. The product manager was a nice guy, but we (the engineers) con
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That would be solid business sense. If developers are successful on Twitter's platform, they wouldn't easily leave for the next shiny thing. Customers also would benefit, as products won't disappear overnight because twitter
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If someone were to do it (make all the laws available in one place, in machine readable format, version control it etc) - is that even possible? Wikimedia might be a good candidate to take on such massive task (they'd need to restrict
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Ask HN: Know of orgs, projects that use tech for social good?
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I really want to do it, but it is really hard to believe they can guarantee the safety of the data. What if they get hacked or forced to give the data to one of the three letter agencies? It would be nice if they offer to completely destroy

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