nickelbob

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by nickelbob 3mo ago
Paul, we know you're not stupid so please engage with the real argument, not a strawman. The middle class is shrinking. Social mobility is decreasing. There's now a man who is worth a trillion dollars. Something is broken. Say som
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by nickelbob 8mo ago
We teach software engineering like it's a craft. And some of it is. But 95% of it is not. 95% of it is in service of making money. Try to understand the quality of the software in your org as a function how likely it is to increase the
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by nickelbob 9mo ago
Should engineers be pushing product forward?
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by nickelbob 9mo ago
Shouldn't this live under the VP of Product?
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by nickelbob 1y ago
This is awesome, I was trying to build this as well. I'd love a windows version if that's on the roadmap.
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by nickelbob 1y ago
I had an otherwise very competent VP of Engineering who was enamored by a former employee. One day during our 1-on-1 we got to the topic of what we know for sure vs. what we don't. He said that he tried to avoid thinking about that bec
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by nickelbob 2y ago
Construction workers built the modern world, why shouldn't they run it?
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by nickelbob 3y ago
How sure are you that you were on the losing end? What even is the "losing end" of a bailout? Rising tides lift all boats. Do you know any people who worked on wall street? Then they were helped by a bailout. Do you know any peopl
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by nickelbob 3y ago
Sad that you're getting downvoted. OP's post is essentially "People who made different choices than me should be punished."
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by nickelbob 3y ago
Please do - not trying to be snarky, just legitimately interested.
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by nickelbob 3y ago
If your self worth is related to how much money you make (not saying that's bad) then go for it!
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by nickelbob 3y ago
Where's the contradiction? Are you saying that "not being able to trust your thoughts" implies that materialism is false? > This article was written by someone with very poor philosophical training. Strange to throw shade
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by nickelbob 3y ago
Perhaps one solution is to divorce your own self worth from the quality of the software you happen to write and to realize that you are an employee first and a software engineer second - make decisions that increase the amount of money the
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by nickelbob 3y ago
> This is true... but it's also true of ≈everything else in the organization. Except for sales?
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by nickelbob 3y ago
Just curious - why is it so hard?
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by nickelbob 4y ago
Limitation of 3rd party. Apple has basically hamstrung all widgets in response to a few bad actors draining batteries.
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by nickelbob 6y ago
I think he meant that "you" can manage (or not manage them at all) them inefficiently because the proxy pool well take care of that for you. It reads awkwardly.
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by nickelbob 6y ago
This is your privilege. Here's a really great article that helped me notice my own privilege - https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
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For anyone having difficulty shining bright(linkedin.com)
1 points by nickelbob 6y ago|0 comments
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by nickelbob 6y ago
I'm working on https://lazysurfer.app - it's an app that helps surfers dial in the exact conditions they prefer at their breaks. It's been a great way to learn some react native and also explore meterology.
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Reading Surf Forecasts: Swell Height(medium.com)
1 points by nickelbob 7y ago|0 comments
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by nickelbob 8y ago
> I also tried Quiver for storing code, but it is specialized towards code storage. Can you expand on this? Was quiver not good enough at basic text?
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of small pieces of useful code?
27 points by nickelbob 8y ago|28 comments