yanilkr

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by yanilkr 10y ago
The good programmers I know are not attached to their tools. They prefer to use the right tool for the job. Many other programmers want to solve the problems using tools they know. There is nothing wrong with that. A company with good progr
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by yanilkr 10y ago
This feeds into language supremacy mindset. There is no universal best language nor there will ever be the one. Right tool for the job is a better flexible mindset. If you are a master painter, you could paint something amazing with anythin
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by yanilkr 10y ago
I once tried to convince an enterprise java developer to give golang a try. The guy passionately hated it and the reasons were very very petty. The other younger engineers who did not have prior bias loved golang and they were productive so
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by yanilkr 10y ago
or there is a simpler explanation. Those 60 studies made assumptions about what a job is and that definition would have excluded working for yourself. The study would still make perfect sense if you look at job as an employment working for
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Disagree. Working for yourself would provide none of these but allows you to create all/many of these out of your sheer will. These things are not a pre-condition.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
You have to take such studies with a grain of salt. The most important one that put hacker news on the map was "Working for yourself" is missing from the list. Paul graham in the early days of hacker news wrote great things about
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by yanilkr 10y ago
we could say the same thing about software engineers. you were born smart.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Actors put in an enormous amount of effort and discipline to get where they are and need more personal character to stay relevant. I don't think Matt Dameon's opinions are any better but I think they should not be dismissed. May b
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by yanilkr 10y ago
* * un popular opinion alert * * I don't think the employers in this case deserve prison time. I understand they are being made example of. This law breaking of h1b ranges from subtle to glaringly wrong. Where should we draw the line?.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Like someone else said. Love your job, but do not fall in love with your employer. You never know when your employer stops loving you.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Look at your self righteous attitude. Maybe you should grow some tolerance for alternative ideas and thoughts. There are many of us who are skeptical about the idea and would like to see how it goes.
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Or moving backwards, the study will findout.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Lot of people made tiny fortunes writing "How to interview" kind of self help books and blogs, just like this article they want people to believe that there is a formula to this madness and for a price you can know it. Smart peopl
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by yanilkr 10y ago
whiteboarding is not evil. We stretched its use beyond limits during tech interviews. If you are a competent engineer and given a problem and whiteboard you should be able to paint a decent picture of your skills and capabilities. The probl
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by yanilkr 11y ago
Ya who?
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by yanilkr 11y ago
I'm afraid you share an omnipotent-state convictions.
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There are similar number of people who are raising above their class and similar number of people falling below their economic class. The income inequality will probably exist no matter what we do because not everyone of us are born with sa
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by yanilkr 11y ago
If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. If the only thing you can imagine is taxation then you try to solve every problem with taxation.
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by yanilkr 11y ago
They are productive people, they do other things like move to places where there are less taxes mostly out of USA. They hire people outside USA where payroll taxes are less. Or they stash in cyprus and panama. Or buy politicians. Why do you
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by yanilkr 11y ago
just like you want to reward stupid people having kids. true idiocracy.
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by yanilkr 11y ago
You should try reading an economics textbook.
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by yanilkr 11y ago
Looks like a wealth transfer scheme where the wealth transfers from America to outside America. At least if the spending happens with in an economy it circles back into economy. Just earn monthly recurring money for being a citizen, take th
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by yanilkr 11y ago
People also don't want to let go of their hard earned money. It is also an enormous natural force. Our society is doing that to productive people forcibly and for your just theory you are picking and choosing which force of nature we s
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by yanilkr 11y ago
did you try breathing? well there is no oxygen on mars so breathing always does not work. You are correct but we are talking about America.
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by yanilkr 11y ago
Hacker news crowd are usually wealthy programmers who got very lucky in the nature's randomness. You have to be definitely smart to be a good programmer and the comments are usually very optimistic and ideal world scenarios. The progra
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by yanilkr 11y ago
You think UBI will eliminate corruption? All the money collected as taxes goes to the govt every year and the govt is still in debt and taxes go up every other year. People voluntarily invest their extra savings in the wall street, look at
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by yanilkr 11y ago
how about insurance and charities? If we have a transferrable health savings accounts for everyone, a parent can insure their child incase of worst case scenarios and the savings transfer from parent to children. If we have a productivity s
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by yanilkr 11y ago
Citizens are not some helpless victims. They make their life choices and they should by exercising personal responsibility. The same benefits also applies to non-value creators who want to avoid tedium of work and the incentivizes to not do
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by yanilkr 11y ago
did we ever try no taxation?
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by yanilkr 11y ago
Do you think I can get the check in America and go and spend it outside America?

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