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by njr123 12y ago
Its not prevalent at all. The HN echo chamber makes it seem like there are many people who do this, but the number of people in the real world is basically zero.
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by njr123 12y ago
This attitude makes me crazy. Women dominate PR, Nursing, Child care and Therapy? No problem, women are better at these jobs anyway Men dominate engineering? Patriarchy!
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by njr123 12y ago
I think is this also what happened at Microsoft to cause them to put out a new programming framework every 18 months. They got some huge architecture team together to design .net, but then never disbanded them.
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by njr123 12y ago
How do you store a version number in a single bit?
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by njr123 12y ago
I am soo glad that viewpoint is on the way out, and we no longer have to live on the web equivalent of a brutalist concrete cube.
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by njr123 12y ago
You're assuming you would never want to use the same markdown on different sites. As soon as that happens you discover all sorts of weird cases and ambiguities. I don't think this standardization is meant to stop sites from adding
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by njr123 12y ago
> should the owner of a spec really be expected to continuously hunt down and test/validate every implementation of their specification? I'm pretty sure thats exactly what trademark law says you have to do. You have to defend y
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by njr123 12y ago
That wasn't the question. You just asked for things people under 30 had accomplished. Not things only someone under 30 could accomplish.
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by njr123 12y ago
Bill Gates was ~25 when they founded Microsoft
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by njr123 12y ago
Yeah, but they push down the rents on the older apartments. At least thats the way it worked in my city, which has a similar housing situation.
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by njr123 12y ago
Pretty sure the SR-71 is not a combat aircraft.
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by njr123 13y ago
About $50k a month. http://gold.reddit-stream.com
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by njr123 13y ago
You don't need a travel agent for that, just use skyscanner or something. The case where a TA adds value is something like: 'I am going from Australia to Canada for work, and I need to visit a bunch of small towns that are only se
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by njr123 13y ago
But most of the traffic to sf is just users downloading the software. If you were to look at the number of commits per day on sf v github, I wouldn't be surprised to see a x100 difference.
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by njr123 13y ago
This was strongly my impression as well. A bunch of business guys who have seen The Social Network a few too many times chasing the worst ideas imaginable.
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by njr123 13y ago
If you only care about CPU speed and memory, then apple is going to seem pretty overpriced. But if you also care about weight, battery life and build quality, then apple is almost then only option. Not only is there no cheaper option from t
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by njr123 13y ago
Just as an aside, if you have a project that you're not sure is going to take off, there is no reason to shell out $29/month for it. Shared hosting will do the job for $5 - $10 a month. No its not super reliable, but if you have n
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by njr123 13y ago
In my experience minified js is 30-40% smaller, which can make a pretty significant difference in terms of load time. The debugging argument doesn't really make sense to me, since the code should only be minified in production anyway.
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by njr123 13y ago
We absolutely do throw people in jail for being bad at their jobs. If an engineer signs off on design work which then fails and injures/kills someone due to their incompetence they can and are charged with professional negligence and
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by njr123 13y ago
> People unlikely to be able to contribute won't have a strong opinion Oh man, you are so so wrong. Sure the people who know nothing won't contribute, but there will be a large number of people who know 'just enough to b
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by njr123 13y ago
This argument drives me crazy! The CPU speed is probably one of the least important things to me, basically any laptop sold today is fast enough. What I care about is weight, build quality and battery life. The macbook air weighs ~1kg, has
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by njr123 13y ago
I disagree with the whole premise of 'productivity => better pay'. I think it is much better and easier just to pay everyone in the same role the same (maybe with some company wide profit share) and then fire all the bad people
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by njr123 13y ago
Yes, I would be shocked if an extra millionth died, because we have done many many studies of alcohol consumption, and they show that below a certain level (40ml a week or something?) there is no measurable effect on health.
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by njr123 13y ago
> Microsoft should have released two separate OS's Surface for tablets and Windows 8 for the workstation market This was the fatal mistake IMO, and I don't know why it doesn't get more discussion. I think Metro is a great
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by njr123 13y ago
> Microsoft isn't cool, and that's okay Isn't that pretty much the attitude that RIM had as well? This is not a successful strategy when you have to compete with a new class of devices.
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by njr123 13y ago
How can you say that? So many different systems of government have been tried in the last 2000 years, and the only ones that have lasted long term (> 200 years) seem to be democracy and feudal systems.
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by njr123 13y ago
IE5 and 6 were great browsers, and they were much better than their Netscape equivalents at the time. The problems came when they decided to stop any more development once they had put Netscape out of business.
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by njr123 13y ago
> When people will realize that the problem is always in the governments themselves as a concept, not in any particular issues? Maybe because most people can see, that while governments are not perfect, they are a net benefit? I pay some
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by njr123 13y ago
The quality of the outsourced programmers is extremely low. They might cost 20% of a domestic programmer, but if you got even 20% of the productivity you'd be pretty lucky. These outsourcing companies will also only do exactly what y
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by njr123 13y ago
Have you ever actually met any normal users? They have work they need to do, and the software is just a means to an end. They don't want to be 'empowered' by developers, and they definitely don't want to have to deal wit

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