vpmpaul

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by vpmpaul 8y ago
The puzzle solver obsession in SV has always confused me. Seems to me that you would only need a handful of those type of personalities at any software company. The majority of the work is just shoveling so to speak. I'm no expert
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
In a word sorta, but if you are on HN you are probably overthinking it. A guy I work with looks for bad small business sites on the side then he tries to convince them to let him "redesign" the site. He then moves their site t
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
If you can't see this is 100% politically motivated I have little faith in the HN community anymore.
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
All that does is give you an invalid certificate warning when you go to the site. How does that warrant shutting it down. If you can't see that this is 100% politically motivated. Well... there is one born every minute...a <blan
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
Comments like this make me sigh at the gulf of brilliance and borderline mental disability of HN. Literally every single person contemplating suicide has access to means. Every single one. No matter how much regulation is imposed which is
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
If there was ever absolute proof that non-competes are nothing but a way to exercise absolute power over someone weaker. Now we have it.
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
Yeah. I worked in banking during the crash. Upper mgmt literally told us to pretend we were XXX small bank (on a list of banks) if someone called and asked about it. Even though we were just large bank 1-4 that bought them.
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
You're not wrong. A Princeton study found the average voters have almost no impact on policy anymore. However corporations have taken over that position of influence. https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default&#x
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
You legally need something like $10 Million in reserve capital to start a bank. Pretty much any business is profitable if you can afford to start with 10 million in savings plus have enough money to run the business.
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
>No one will ever refer me to any job because no one likes me This may be true however. It is more likely they are not sure of your capabilities. A recommendation for a programming job is basically a sure thing job placement now days.
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
Dont forget one of their biggest failures. Fire Phone.
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
IANAL If the prosecutor can claim conspiracy and they almost always can. they can reset the clock essentially forever on the limitation statute. As I stated in my post you are essentally commited to variations on money laundering for the
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
It is and it is (sorta). I worked in the bank industry for many years and I could have stolen money a hundred different ways without getting caught. The problem is that in the end the money has to go somewhere or be spent (why else steal i
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
I've noticed one thing about this feature. If a person can be responded to using this feature they don't matter. They are just some time waster bureaucrat,salesman,ect. Its actually a good feature for those of us doing real(ish?
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
Most people on HN are very quick to dismiss the role luck plays in their life. I realize many are very accomplished so they don't want to devalue/dismiss their own efforts.
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
Not true at all. The main reason that people get off their ass is to improve their life. People that have everything are constantly offered amazing opportunities just for existing. You may not have ever seen this because you don't fa
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
Who considers 55-60k "high paying" especially when the job contains potential life threatening risks and other health issues. I wouldn't do much of that dangerous and exhausting work for double that pay range and I would stil
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by vpmpaul 8y ago
I've hired and it is astounding the number of people with CS degrees and years of experience that can barely program. Until there is some sort of professional IT association like the BAR for lawyers this type of treatment will continue
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by vpmpaul 9y ago
Perhaps it has something to do with the individualistic culture that that exists in the US leads to people making risky decisions for personal benefit?
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by vpmpaul 9y ago
The reason prison exists and has existed for all of human society and history is that it works. How arrogant of you to think you have some revolutionary new way to punish societal defectors. The main issue with these types of programs. On
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by vpmpaul 9y ago
Mechanisms legal or otherwise already exist. The problem is they "have no teeth" meaning the punishment is worth taking to get the benefit of the illegal action. ie. Its illegal but worst case is we get fined 10% of what we will
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by vpmpaul 9y ago
I know people consider it condescending if they are actually a competent programmer. However as a person that has done hiring I can't tell you how many people have a CS degree that they supposedly attended school and passed(as in thei
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by vpmpaul 9y ago
In the southern US I have atteneded rich old southern parties where it is traditional to have a toast to "the confederacy/south rising again" Yeah the old pre-civil war government who's main ideological difference was th
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by vpmpaul 9y ago
I once got a call(or email to call them I don't remember which) from my bank about a check I had hastily scrawled out. They said it was suspicious looking and they wanted to verify that I had actually written and authorized the check.
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by vpmpaul 13y ago
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