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by michaelvkpdx 9y ago
They sell all those Rand books in Portland, at Powell's. Every one of them. It's no wonder that Portland is a hotbed for libertarian thought and free market propaganda. It's awful. Don't move there.
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by michaelvkpdx 9y ago
Did you know it's legal for anyone to sleep on your sidewalk in Portland? And where are they going to the bathroom? It's terrible. Don't move there. Go to Beaverton if you need to move to Oregon. But you'll be sorry. Sta
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by michaelvkpdx 9y ago
SOMA is So Mach Better than Portland. You can meet other people who work in your field. No one looks at you weird when you get on the bus for work. You can get a real burrito. You can find a bathroom. Don't move to Portland. It's
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by michaelvkpdx 9y ago
No toilets anywhere. They are into that composting thing and they think it's all fertilizer. It smells like a mix of rotting feces, pot, and body odor. Horrible place. Don't move there.
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by michaelvkpdx 9y ago
Oh it's terrible. There are no toilets. Even though open carry is legal there's crime everywhere. It's horrible. The suburbs are so much better. Lake Oswego is a nice place. None of those dirty anarchists or loud musicians or
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by michaelvkpdx 9y ago
Portland is terrible. Don't move here. There's nowhere to park. There's homeless everywhere. There's no real tech companies. There's no VC. And the air smells like pot. Don't move here. Trust me. Stay in Califo
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
If your mindset is $$$ first it doesn't matter where you live. We have a ton of valley expats here in Portland. The ones who are really artists and creatives at heart and work to subsidize their outside lives tend to thrive here. The o
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
The dream of the 90's is alive and not just here in Portland! I'm still writing Java to make money to buy music. Just like the 90's.
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Perfect, bug-free software has economies of scale. There is no such thing as perfect, bug-free software. Once you start getting into any sort of maintenance, bug-fixing, feature creep- you lose all of the economies of scale of perfect softw
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
This is only new for people who did not grow up in poverty. For those of us who were below the middle class, the daily competition to avoid last place was a fact of life in school and in college, and those behaviors and scars don't hea
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
You still need the capital to feed, clothe, and shelter yourself. If you don't have a hereditary source of wealth, you need to work for that, and if you don't have enough wealth to pay for the education necessary for a living-wage
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
"Step 1: Spend less than you make...You don't need to be from a rich family to do these things." Uh, in the USA 2015, you do. Or you need to be a very lucky lottery winner. Living-wage jobs are not available to all, and you n
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Remember, in the post-WWII USA we live in a feudalist society. If we lived in a true capitalist society, with societal mechanisms in place to keep wealth circulating, this wouldn't be a problem. And we'd still know how to get to t
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Strong typing, declarative code, containerization, microservices, reactive systems...trendy? I've been doing all that in Java for 20 years. Break out the flannel and turn on the Oasis CD... The dream of the 90's lives on in thi
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Thanks for the posting. The article is dead-on but it misses one important contributing factor- the rise and mass acceptance of the "disrupt" culture. It's become acceptable, desirable, even lucrative to use Internet technolo
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Idiocracy rules! See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ And of course Idiots Rule. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUUd-30Bzw
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Related- my post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999817 (Ask HN: How many non-techies are employed in software for every engineer?)
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999935 ("On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs")
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Thanks, but that's not really the question. I'm trying to find out how many non-techies are supported by each engineer, and my hypothesis is that the number is increasing. My hypothesis for US companies is that the number of non-t
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
And a corollary question: how many US engineers in US companies are employed for every non-techie? My experience has been that the more non-techies come on board, the more inclined the company is to offshore development.
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Ask HN: How many non-techies are employed in software for every engineer?
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Greedy advertisers + good Javascript libraries used by bad Javascript developers= end of the Internet we loved
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
The Valley will be the next great ghost town. 30 years from now, most of the current offices in SJ, Mountain View, and Palo Alto will be abandoned because people will be sick of the suburban lifestyle. Plus earthquakes. I'm looking for
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Silicon Valley refugees and people complaining about Bay Area prices, please note that this is 100% true. Portland will be completely wiped out within the next couple years by a giant earthquake followed by a Sasquatch Apocalypse. Don'
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Most of the problems of coding interviews can be solved by good reference checking. Code problems in isolation will never expose how a developer will do when faced with real-world issues, users, QA, and teammates. Why are people so afraid t
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
Without any demographic data about who the interviewees were, this is basically useless. Are they all under 30, white and Asian men? Where?
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
My takeaway- the VC's have leveraged the money from their successes to create a vortex that sucks in money from consumers, into privately owned companies, back into VC pockets, and back into more companies that get more people to spend
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
I learned a dozen new things in the first 100 lines or so, that will save me hours, and I've been living in bash for 20 years. Thanks for this!
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
But wait... didn't the "What Is Code?" thing say that Java is just for white-collar IT workers? If you've got Node.js, why would you ever need Java? Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
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by michaelvkpdx 11y ago
My first reaction to this... the document says "We are owners of each and every feature we build", but who is "we"? If I write a feature, am I expected to own it throughout the lifecycle? It's easy to hide behind &q

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