aggieben

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by aggieben 3y ago
Can you share comp range?
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by aggieben 6y ago
Copy to another hard drive. Guess twice. Wipe hard drive. Rinse, wash, repeat. Infinite guesses.
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by aggieben 6y ago
As an individual, I almost always would choose a language I already know comfortably, and every other factor would come after that - unless I were setting out to learn something new. Other factors: - is there tooling that will help me be pr
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by aggieben 6y ago
> I am much more interested in talking about steps we can take to mitigate and prevent misinformation while preserving free speech. How do you even categorize misinformation when western societies have decided that there is no such thing
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by aggieben 6y ago
ASP.NET is pretty bare bones, all by itself. It's pretty much just a simple pipeline of request handlers with DI support (which is also optional). MVC, routing, Razor - all unnecessary if you don't want to use them. I agree that
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by aggieben 6y ago
+1 for choosing .NET Core. I'm right there with you. Extra points for F#.
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by aggieben 6y ago
Not at all. Keep in mind that YC startups are birthed from a very narrow slice of the tech world. .NET Core is very, very good tech and unless you need something super niche, there's no reason to doubt your choice. Press on.
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by aggieben 6y ago
This would be more interesting if YC didn't have a strong inherent bias toward these particular languages. In other words: these are the results because this is what YC picks and filters for, not because of any inherent meaningfulness
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by aggieben 9y ago
This is incorrect. Firstly, it's 10 per second. Secondly, it shouldn't be all that hard to imagine "side chains" or even "local-party networks" being built to handle transactions and use the underlying blockc
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by aggieben 9y ago
This is very old news. We've been doing this in the US for at least 15 years.
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by aggieben 9y ago
I've seen some employers keep an "unlimited vacation" policy with strongly-suggested (i.e., mandatory?) minimums like 3 weeks a year. Having minimums would probably help with this trap, although I can't really speak fro
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by aggieben 9y ago
I did talk to someone on the phone, and she indicated that this position is onsite. :-(
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by aggieben 9y ago
Why the downvote? The listing doesn't specify. Not sure how else one would clarify without asking.
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by aggieben 9y ago
I lived there for an internship once, and I totally agree. But: moving just ain't happenin' for me :-) Happy hunting!
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by aggieben 9y ago
Very interesting - on-site only?
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by aggieben 9y ago
Remote? Super interested, but not relocating.
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by aggieben 10y ago
They appear to only publish it by ISP. Part of my problem is not knowing comprehensively what ISPs serve my area, so I need to look it up by zip code or city.
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by aggieben 10y ago
1. When will someone build a tool like this and then open up the measurements data? A speed-measuring tool would be infinitely more useful if we could investigate the results beyond just our one device for one test. A question I really wa
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by aggieben 10y ago
I would pay a hefty premium for a well-done dumb pipe.
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by aggieben 10y ago
I find exactly the opposite in my circle of influence: my conservative friends are actually more open to arguments from people who disagree with them, and are more likely to _understand_ the opposing viewpoint than are the people I know who
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by aggieben 10y ago
I used to work defense, and with a few exceptions, I always thought most people who worked at the company could have been remote without much problem. It's really not that hard to deal with classified information remotely, and most th
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by aggieben 10y ago
Stack Exchange (now Stack Overflow) has a lot of remotes. I'm not sure what the exact ratio is, but it's not too far off from 50/50 (in engineering, anyway).
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by aggieben 10y ago
Have you considered letting your senior people, whom you apparently trust to be remote, mentor your juniors remotely ?
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by aggieben 10y ago
Yep. I bet this covers 95% of cases.
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by aggieben 10y ago
I once got a remote job with a startup in Dallas, but it was a bit of an unusual circumstance where I had all the bargaining power. A friend was going in as the director of engineering and really wanted me, and I basically made being 80% r
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by aggieben 10y ago
I usually decide based on some combination of a) do I know the language/platform well b) is this for a client or for fun c) is this for learning, and d) is this a mainstream platform, then (e) if not, then does it have an advantage sol
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by aggieben 10y ago
To my mind, the judgments that Comey represents in his report simply aren't believable ("there was no intent"). The Patraeus prosecution is a good example of a case that was very similar in many respects. Also, technically,
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by aggieben 10y ago
I think Hillary is better suited for jail than the White House, but +1 for a chuckle anyway :-)
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by aggieben 10y ago
I am strongly interesting in seeing her prosecuted less because of my political feelings, but more because I know without a shadow of a doubt that if I, as a person who once had to handle classified information, had done what she had done
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by aggieben 10y ago
I thought the video was interesting, but the CNN editorial commentary is just vapid: > There's no one reason why the middle class is shrinking, Kochhar said. One of the main causes? Rising income inequality, driven by factors Right.

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