CameronBarre

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by CameronBarre 6y ago
In 4 years I haven't felt the need to look elsewhere.
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by CameronBarre 6y ago
non-entity is right, we do not exist in a free market, due to government intervention through regulations. It's not simply 'some' businesses that are forced to shut down, it's non-essential businesses where the majority
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by CameronBarre 6y ago
You're getting some things mixed up. We must be careful when comparing tangible goods (like food) to intangible goods (like a browser app). Food has an element of genuine scarcity. This scarcity is what causes food to have economic cha
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I worked as a PeopleSoft developer in college. It's a competitor to SAP. Working with esoteric software taught me how to properly read documents with hundreds of pages. It also showed me how to get by in a less than ideal circumstances
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Decentralized ledger technology and the notion of value are different from manipulative pyramid corporations.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
MLMs / Pyramid Schemes and bitcoin are fundamentally different constructs.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I didn't say it wouldn't affect google. If everyone who uses the internet suddenly realized the joy of ad free browsing, then that would be something of a paradigm shift in my opinion.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Cult is the right word for it. I went to a meeting once, met the leader, and it was fascinating. I caught every bit of the psychological warfare in play. Shortly after, I realized an important fact about MLMs, or at least Amway: They encour
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
>My understanding is that these services are paid for by ads but I've had an ad blocker most of that time. Google makes money by collecting behavioral data generated by its users, which it then uses in the form of raw materials to c
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Like a-saleh says, about 'building your case', you want to position yourself such that it's undeniable you are producing more value with your time. Point out that there has plainly been a shift in the value of your time for t
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
clojure
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Maybe you should try to find an opportunity that isn't dependent on what you're bumping up against repeatedly.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
So true, humor is essential to (my) life though.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I think it's pretty clear by now there are both incredibly rude people and incredibly generous people on HN - despite that I understand how you feel, because this is a community, after all, and there is an inherent desire to be accepte
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
You have to take accountability for your own path. Choose to evolve your role, and if there is resistance, find someone to work with who you're more compatible with.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Considering writing an introduction to BLS (bureau of labor statistics) data, including the tech to ingest the data automatically for usage. The above is part of a wider project of mine to bring together as many sources of macro-economic da
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Hi everyone, author here, I put this small utility together while exploring the idea of using existing tools to import macroeconomic data from the BLS vs a pure homemade solution with a full-on Clojure project. With that project I ended up
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Show HN: Tsv2csv Clojure Powered Command Line Tool(github.com)
2 points by CameronBarre 7y ago|1 comments
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Hubbits, not to be confused with hobbits.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Crash Only Software https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
The armstrong thesis is one of the most insightful reads on software construction (I think).
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
You mean gitters? Or even go-gitters?
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Personally, I agree. I love working with other people, but NOT under those circumstances!
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Face to face? None. I've never met anyone I've worked with or work for at my current gig in person and I am well over three years in on it. There is no point in arguing that face to face time isn't beneficial though. If it fe
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Business Secrets of the Pharoahs by Mark Corrigan.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I went through this transition in college. I was bad at math, historically, and after 2-3 years of obsessing over programming, math finally revealed itself as something mechanical and conquerable. I'm NOT a math genius (or any kind of
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Unless you're building an application that doesn't interact with external systems, chances are your job is never finished, even if you choose to consider it finished. If you don't want to be a lifetime maintainer, then you ha
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
What I'm discovering is simply: that's capitalism. You're being paid a lot and unless you work for a lossy company, you must be contributing to a profit margin that amounts to more than what they're paying you. Writing a
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I just read "The Worldly Philosophers" by Robert Heilbroner and I can recommend that. I now have a tab with Marx's "Capital" open and I'm about half way through Joseph Schumpeter's "Capitalism, Social
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I think gao8a is probably right about data analysis providing a more comprehensive answer to the question in lieu of a greater quantity of subjective responses. Two sides of the same coin.

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