ithilglin909

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by ithilglin909 8y ago
The problem often is needing to fight with less technical higher-ups for adequate time and resources for tooling/testing/infrastructure work.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
As someone who's family is from a former Socialist/Soviet Bloc country, I have to note that "one failure" is a bit of an understatement...
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
"Feeling tired" is a bit subjective. There are numerous studies indicating that caffeine enhances cognitive function, improves test scores, reaction times, etc. Personally, yes, I feel less tired after drinking coffee, but seem to
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
YES to whether it's relevant. Regardless of opinions about PHP as a language, it's way too widely utilized to be irrelevant in the near future. Whether it's worth investing time to be a PHP master is subjective. Personally, I
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
An adolescent isn't a fully developed human being, aka an adult. That's medically verifiable.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
By “Tesla Doubters” do you only mean people who don’t believe it’s a viable auto manufacturer? It seems pretty clear that it’s a viable auto manufacturer -- as in it manufactures and sells a significant number of vehicles. But I think many
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
Really? I don't know that the story is especially important, but it seems like plenty of other tech-related stories which are equally or more political or business focused, don't get 'flagkilled'. Frankly, I feel like pe
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
I assume "Show HN" items aren't necessarily news, but just someone showing the community something new that may be of interest. There already appears to be too much flagging around here just because someone doesn't parti
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
1) Propose your ideas in an email, preferable with someone else cc’d on it. 2) Propose your ideas to several people on your team at once. 3) Find someone more trustworthy if you need a sounding board. 4) Talk to your manager. 5) If you don’
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
This isn't about American vs. non-American workers. It can be hard/impossible for most humans to do quality mental work for extended stretches of time.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
For a long time, I felt that Firefox was just less nice to work with than Chrome and couldn't quite make the switch. However, Firefox developer addition feels pretty "Chrome-like" and I've yet to experience any noticeabl
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
Managers who call meetings for the sake of meetings.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
That's cowgirl to you. So, if we prioritize, say, addiction treatment, more people will want to be addicts. Right.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
I mostly agree. But, surely, you'd agree that personal experience, especially extensive personal experience, might give one an inkling about whether a particular statistic is accurate. I wasn't arguing anything more. I've loo
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
We’re not talking about “getting in people faces”, we’re talking about a situation that is extremely unsafe, for everyone , homeless and non-homeless alike. If you’re suggesting more of that, there’s something seriously wrong with you.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
Why are you assuming I'm a bro just cause I'm on hacker news? 1950s are calling you. Get back to me when you have something logical to say, not just ad hominems...
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
I don't disagree, but in Seattle, the streets are a huge problem.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
To be clear, I have volunteered with a number of organizations that help the homeless in Seattle. I don't know where you're getting 25-30% from, but that doesn't match with my experience -- I'm inclined to believe it&#x
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
Agreed, there are many problems worth solving in Seattle, but some are more clearly urgent public health problems than others.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
I agree that both are problems worth solving, but one is pretty obviously a more urgent public health problem, and unfortunately, the more difficult one to solve. When people are talking about Seattle's worsening homeless problem, they
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
I'm not against programs to help people who can't afford normal housing. However, that's not the specific, hugely obvious problem in Seattle.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
This isn’t popular, but I’d challenge anyone who thinks homelessness in Seattle isn’t primarily an addiction and mental illness problem to go spend a few afternoons in areas with significant homeless populations (3rd Ave in Pioneer Square i
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
This is just a PR move and isn’t going to help Seattle’s homeless problem at all.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
As an engineer who gets a lot of resumes from HR to make decisions about who is coming in for in person interviews, I would be rather annoyed. I would feel that you were dishonest and lacked respect for my time. Saying you have nothing to l
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
Also, it would be helpful to know more specifically you're hoping to achieve by the end of that year. A software engineering job?
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
By self-taught, do you mean you don’t want to take classes, even if they’re online or get any kind of mentorship, or just that you’re not going to go back to college and getting a CS degree? Also, do you have any understanding of programmin
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
It's not that they "don't count" but that it's relevant to include the calculation.
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
So...are those people on food stamps? And is this adjusted for part-time or seasonal workers?
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
> Meanwhile, thousands of Amazon workers rely on food stamps because their wages are so low I'd be interested to know if this is actually true/where they're getting their numbers from, and if these are full-time, or seaso
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by ithilglin909 8y ago
So the average teacher's starting salary is more than 30% higher than the average person's salary in Texas. I understand that teaching isn't a highly paid profession, but when you only work ~75% of the year, that doesn&#x27

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