holograham

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by holograham 5y ago
Not a ton of details in your post but I will attempt to decipher what appears to be the problem from a tech dev manager perspective 1. Project time - were expectations communicated up front? What estimation methods are you using? Agile scru
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by holograham 5y ago
dont know anything about the economics panel/survey but citing Krugman on HN is pretty weak given his most infamous quote: "The Internet's effect on the economy is no greater than the fax machine's. https://ww
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by holograham 9y ago
this is only really possible in a very controlled ecosystem. Apple has this down well but MSFT does not. For example for this recent patch certain (major) antivirus vendors rendered computers unusable with the update. What if MSFT force upd
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by holograham 9y ago
this ^ Value is value -- for sure but Value derived from luck of the draw (e.g. Norway's current citizens banking on their ancestors settling in a land rich in oil). Frame it this way -- would Saudi Arabia be as wealthy as it is today
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by holograham 9y ago
simple sure but let's talk about what it would take to give a meaningful dividend to all americans If we used a conservative 3.5% average return to give $1,000 USD for each American (~325M) you need nearly 10 Trillion dollars in this f
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by holograham 9y ago
have you ever worked in a government setting? I would hardly call them the epitome of a highly functioning workforce. Laziness and waste is rampant.
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by holograham 9y ago
Why is this trait desirable vs. teaching self reliance? Philosophically I personally dont see why the obligation should be on the children to support the parents. The parents choose to have children not the other way around. I love my paren
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by holograham 9y ago
TLDR: 60% DNA shared with humans + 4 chromesomes for easy mutation tracking + 2 week reproductive cycle for fast generation studying + easy to house/keep alive = great lab specimens to test genetic mutations
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by holograham 9y ago
the article doesnt mention this but I will ask ... does sephora attract more female candidates because it is a very popular makeup brand? Or perhaps do they also get less male applicants because it is a female dominant brand? "“Everyo
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by holograham 9y ago
my dad is a chef - he taught me 2 rules for wine: 1. Drink what you like 2. You will always sound like a pretentious douchebag talking about wine I find these to be universally true.
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Remote code execution in Apache Tomcat 7.0(nvd.nist.gov)
71 points by holograham 9y ago|11 comments
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by holograham 9y ago
you are confusing "work" with "value" it is possible to do hard "work" and produce zero value. Example: digging a large hole in the middle of the desert. Conversely it is easy to do little "work" and
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by holograham 10y ago
You are conflating fairness vs. justice. The world is far from fair -- genetics, place of birth, medical conditions, accidents, etc will always exist like you mention. The moral/civil question is what is the role of government in an un
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by holograham 10y ago
+1 for this. Libertarians are not against laws. In fact contract enforcement is arguably the most important law.
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by holograham 10y ago
The fallacy in your logic is that the streets were not designed for kids to play in. They are designed for cars to drive on. Furthermore, like was mentioned by previous posters and the article, there are further legal traffic laws that can
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by holograham 10y ago
do you know the level of security they put their code through? Especially for mission critical systems? Most of us programmers take for granted libraries and COTS products that we find online when we have little idea who coded them and if t
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Economic Class vs. Social Class(siderea.livejournal.com)
3 points by holograham 11y ago|0 comments
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Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers(slatestarcodex.com)
3 points by holograham 11y ago|0 comments
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by holograham 12y ago
While this post has some good points it lacks an understanding of capitalism. Mainly that the prices charged are in relation to what the market can bear and NOT just what the costs are. A real estate investor is (just like any investor) is
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by holograham 12y ago
A bit of both actually. No one is immune to some of that bias even the big league players. The over-zealousness wasnt necessarily a turn off but it put the corp dev department in the drivers seat. We could then respond and shape a deal to o
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by holograham 12y ago
I used to work in corp dev at a big tech company (not a typical silicon valley). This is pretty much spot on by Paul Graham per usual. I was typically the one doing the initial contact with companies (as a junior analyst on the team). I alw
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by holograham 12y ago
I have seen this problem with my own eyes. My parents own several (small) restaurants and despite my tech background I struggle to get them to to adopt any sort of technology. The main issue is the lack of data/guarantee that making th
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AI and VR About to Arrive(singularity2050.com)
1 points by holograham 12y ago|0 comments
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by holograham 12y ago
not sure there is much new here. Interesting story for the guy
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by holograham 12y ago
I find this binary opinion flawed. Programmers have short term and long term views. If you push a release out with a huge painful bug you will QUICKLY rush a fix out even if you go into technical debt to do so. Alternatively (good) programm
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by holograham 12y ago
Misleading question since it implies that all programmers dont get along with business types. Clearly a subset of programmers DO get along with business types after all most established companies have programmers working for business types.
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by holograham 12y ago
not to get into the nuances of how modern democracies work but thinking that politicians are constantly crowdsourcing the best ideas and using that information to guide them is an incredible naive view of how modern democracies (usually dem
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by holograham 12y ago
> You need to realize that, if high-speed rail and the other discussed modes of transport compared poorly to highway travel in economic terms, governments would stop supporting them. I am sorry but this argument is not gonna fly. Saying
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by holograham 12y ago
this is a point I can agree with/ponder especially as a techie the problem is hard though...you could pay for long bureaucratic studies on whether this would pan out or not or you just do it problem is that building the cell phone was
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by holograham 12y ago
thank you happyscrappy :)

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