jonesb6

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by jonesb6 10y ago
As someone who developed a mild anxiety disorder after ~6-8 months of starting work as a SWE, this hits home pretty hard. Luckily I've been able to overcome with help from my family, friends, and coworkers, but whenever I try to warn o
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Energetic. Productive. Cheap. They want all three. Easier to get that when you target college students.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
People expect immediate gratification. They pay for it and expect it two days later. We become upset because it falls out of the patterns we have adapted to.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
FWIW your kitchen is beautiful and your HTML is formatted nicely.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
At the same time we have to remember these apps exist for a reason.. to make a small group of people money. In the quest to accomplish this goal marketing, combined with PR, government relations, and legal, attempt to manipulate society in
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Also wasn't this a law firm whose data was leaked? A lot of that information is probably financial and personal records which would be massively irresponsible, not to mention highly illegal, to release in a dump.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Apparently there are no American politicians or businessmen listed. And no coverage on NYTimes, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNN, USAtoday, LA Times, etc. That seems strange to me.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
I think OP meant that bootstrapped code, written as quickly as the developer feels like writing it on a weekend, has its own flaws as well.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
But we look up to assholes don't we? Steve Jobs. Michael Jordan. The Wolf of Wall Street. There's something to be said by that. If only "different people are motivated by different things".
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by jonesb6 10y ago
The opposite side of idealism is cynicism. Further more if there's one thing humanity has proven itself bad at, it's the ability to make economic predictions. I'm not saying your comment isn't a valuable counter-weight,
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by jonesb6 10y ago
When we fully understand the psychological effects of advertisements on the brain like we do the physical effects of cigarettes on the lungs. IMO a pretty long time.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
I wonder how the engineers on these projects feel. To work really hard on something just to have it thrown out due to "business reasons". Must suck.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
So, in other words.. for bad_thing in life: delete(bad_thing) # program crashes
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Didn't you see how much credit was given to the investment group during the parade last Summer? They're going to have to install tables for the new courtside seating so that handjobs can be given out under them.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Look past the marketing. They aren't selling "we run algorithms on your data" they're selling "we run algorithms on all your data". There is still a large value proposition in managing large data and until some
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by jonesb6 10y ago
We should really just start calling it software implementing..
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by jonesb6 10y ago
It's ok I'm about to get my philosophy degree.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
I don't use or develop for OS X, but I know it has a reputation for some pretty bad desktop applications. Do people think React Native might lower the barrier enough to improve on this problem? Thinking of getting a Mac soon and am cur
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Would be interesting to find out the value (upvotes) of sponsored content vs. unsponsered content, as well as comments from green users vs normal users.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
I think it's also important to point out the the timeline for all these events is murky at best. We know when the West announced their support for these various movements, but that doesn't always represent the exact time or size o
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by jonesb6 10y ago
I actually think Go's simplicity is a weakness because it will only get you so far. Take web development for example, all the tutorials show json.Unmarshall, but this one stackoverflow post says I should use json.Decode. Oh shoot now I
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Yes let's make the reputation of Python more cryptic and culty. Because cryptic and culty things are better right? Han Solo said it best "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
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by jonesb6 10y ago
I imagine a much greater emphasis is put on the value of time as time really becomes the only finite resource in most circumstances.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
I was just adding another possible solution. I thought it would beg the question that their are likely unknown solutions to most problems, which is applicable to the original article. That said my definition of communism is off. Sharing wor
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Like most things the answer isn't one or the other. The answer is a compromise based on the situation at hand. Sometimes Angular (or any other SPA framework) is the right choice, sometimes it is not. And if it means anything, I agree w
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by jonesb6 10y ago
- person one soaks the dishes in a basin filled with soap + water - person two removes half the dishes and goes over them with a sponge or towel, then places them in the cabinet. - person three removes the last of the dishes, goes over them
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by jonesb6 10y ago
I want the "does not leak environmental variables in production" test to stay in my codebase, thank you.
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by jonesb6 10y ago
"Rushing to market" Reminds me of the kid going "I want to play, I want to play".. sorry George you suck at basketball, go shoot some free throws. "You won't believe one startup's new growth hack, their te
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Is code valuable because of conciseness, clarity, and speed, or because it can provide business value that can be monetized? The prevalence of Angular and React would suggest it does indeed provide the latter and that the latter is more val
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by jonesb6 10y ago
Cool I guess. But people will still find a way to write bad ES7. Will it be harder to do? Maybe. Hard to tell until it gets implemented by all major browsers, at which point i'll have given up programming for professional hover board r

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