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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Along these lines, it doesn't fit to equate unpaid internships to serfdom. Serfdom involves effectively permanent, near total servitude to a landowner for most aspects of life. You don't travel. You don't get educated. You don't have upsid
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
A "brand-name" company that can't even afford to pay you minimum wage is not worthy of that brand.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Sorry, thanks for pointing it out. Good article that raises the issues with this appalling practice.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Complete and utter bullshit. When I started work I produced little output, because I was a newbie and knew nothing. I was paid just a little over minimum wage - but I still produced, even if it was crappy code and routine tasks nobody else
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Unpaid internships are essentially a form of serfdom. The serf system in Russia IIRC started with free peasants who sold themselves into slavery to the landowner when they fell into debt - unlike African slaves in the US, who were essential
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
You didn't need other people to join gmail.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
There's a lot to like about node.js - I'm playing with node+express+coffeescript right now, and it's fun. That said, some things I don't like so much: - "inception" style development. Callbacks within callbacks, especially if you are doing
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
The "Keep me posted" link on their home page returns a 404: https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/+/learnmore/notifyme.html A bit strange to see a rookie mistake like that from Google, given the fanfare over this thing. I have a bad feeling t
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
However, things are getting better - Edinburgh has a pretty decent cycle path network (mostly on old railway lines, so they sometimes appear to be ridiculously over-engineered - with huge bridges and tunnels). We had a family cycle on Sund
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I've lived in the UK and Finland. When I lived in Finland, I cycled everywhere in town, for work and shopping and for pleasure (needless to say, I was more than a few pounds fitter). I never, ever cycle in the UK. Reason ? In Finland towns
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Which is actually a good thing, provided you know what you are doing.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Funny that - Concorde from drawing board to maiden voyage was what - 12 years ? JFK's speech to moon landing - 8 or 9 years ? Seems that despite all the advances in computer modelling etc we're going backwards.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I've built many a "sprawling web app" quite successfully with Django. Django and Rails have long since outgrown their original, in-house roots.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Why, is the risk somehow greater ?
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
The mean age for founders in the US is 39: http://blog.checkadvantage.com/2011/02/09/baby-boomers-job-m...
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Well, the Soviet Union was certainly innovative in certain areas - they did, after all, get the first satellite and human into space. The point isn't whether "the free market" or the "will of the proletariat" will solve all the world's prob
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
> So, you don't believe in innovation on demand. Innovation isn't guaranteed to happen "on demand". Some things may not be physically possible, or even if they are, may prove economically or environmentally unfeasable. "Everything will
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
If anyone of voting age bought their mother to a job interview at my company that would be the shortest interview on record. Seriously, what's wrong with these people ? Are they so mentally stunted ?
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Legally, I have no idea as I'm not a lawyer and even if I were I'm probably not even living in the same country, let alone the same state. You really need to talk to someone qualified to answer that. Ethically...I think as long as you are a
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
There's two options at this point. Keep the business going or give up. There's no way anyone can make that choice but yourself. Many people will say "don't give up" but there is little to be gained if the business is going under and you sta
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Lots of people may want it, for 99% of us it's not an option and we have to work for a living.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Generally I've found domain experts to have a healthy respect for other professions, including developers. I'm not talking about the caricature Craigslist mouth-breather with the awesome let's-clone-Facebook-for-$200 idea. Sure, the real es
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
The sad thing is that most likely, nothing will come of it. They'll be the usual "in 10-20 years" bullshit (i.e. some time way beyond the current Congressional sitting/Presidential term of office) and the whole thing will get quietly cancel
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
A "business person" may be a domain expert in a vertical market. They may have an idea that requires an insight that only comes from years of working inside an industry that a developer, unless they have also worked in that industry, will s
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
That was my impression in the UK. One could argue the toss whether, say, being able to read ancient texts in the original Greek was easier or harder than quantum physics (or the relative usefulness of either) but there was general contempt
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Which is one of the reasons I chose to leave London. My brother is in his 30s and still has to flatshare, despite getting a good developer salary in London. What's the point of working there again ? I'm not a student any more dammit: I wa
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Could be they work at MacDonalds to supplement their major source of income (pension, working partner etc).
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
I spend more time on HN these days for that reason. I actually prefer the content of Reddit (or at least in the specific subreddits I subscribe to) and it does have a better sense of humour and is less insular than HN. But HN loads faster a
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
"" This is especially true in the world of Rails and other frameworks, where there is a tendency to treat one's app like a high-level character in a role-playing game, equipping it with epic gems, sinatras, capistranos, and other mithril ar
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Modern logistics developed mainly during the Second World War and post-war period, along with the computer revolution. My point is however that the last few decades have seen a refinement of more revolutionary changes in the first half of t

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