trcollinson

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by trcollinson 5y ago
I have a wonderful colleague who has a PhD in mathematics and never tells anyone about it. I sort of love calling him Dr. just to push his buttons because he is the opposite of a person who guides others attention to his work. He often dese
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by trcollinson 6y ago
Oh! The tubes from Cento, which is a particular good brand, are metal. I understand the acidic substance from plastic concern. Though reducing your own is a good idea as well. If you grow the tomatoes they will be significantly better.
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by trcollinson 6y ago
They make lovely squeezable tubes. I would suggest giving them a try! They are much better.
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by trcollinson 6y ago
Wait... You wrote it with him? Are you Dave Bayer? That's amazing! What was it like working together? And absolutely fantastic paper! I have so many questions lol
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by trcollinson 6y ago
One of my absolute favorite mathematicians is Persi Diaconis who is mentioned in this paper and was the original basis for this area of research. Well worth learning about. He was a runaway. Then a magician, trained by Dai Vernon and worked
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by trcollinson 6y ago
You make a great point and one thing I posted a bit further down was when I was a director level I did a really poor job of leading by example when it came to vacation. I would literally force people to use their pto and I didn't and t
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by trcollinson 6y ago
I don't disagree. And I mean this much more generally, I have worked quite a long time for quite a lot of companies. The amount of PTO that is given up, which I was privy to, was staggering. The interesting thing is I used to try to fo
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by trcollinson 6y ago
I guess my point on vacation is more around the culture of using it. As a senior level engineer/architect with maybe a small team leading role, when was the last time you took a solid 2 week off without anyone calling you for work? Hec
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by trcollinson 6y ago
I am a W2 employee for a consulting firm. They pay me a salary with some benefits and some vacation time and bill be out to clients. I'd say it's a cultural thing why we don't use it. Working hard and making big money is the
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by trcollinson 6y ago
I'm pretty much at the top end of the salary range where I live. I don't make an extra $150,000. I make a sizable amount. But outside of a few niche places and a few niche companies in those places, people aren't making an ex
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by trcollinson 6y ago
I make pretty good money as a consultant. Last year I had 180 hours of saved vacation time (4.5 weeks). I gave up 115.5 hours of that on January 1 because I didn't use it. I expect I will lose a similar amount on next January 1st. I di
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by trcollinson 6y ago
Do you mean a particular part of Europe? I only ask because there are more factors than salary. I have friends who have moved to work in France, Norway, and Germany. They do make markedly less than I do on my US salary. However, they also g
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by trcollinson 6y ago
Does it bother you so much that he would put in a link that had an affiliate? I doubt he was trying to hide anything nefarious. I am linked to a few affiliates and when I share a link, it has the affiliate tag in it. He uses a great laptop,
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by trcollinson 6y ago
> "alternating with short bouts of motivation" I think you might have pinned it here. It may be that you are just fine as a developer but that you have burn out or some other mental health issue honestly. I don't mean that
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by trcollinson 6y ago
The problem I have with it, and I would imagine a good percentage of people who frequent Hacker News, is that I know how to build websites, and Wix, Squarespace, etc. just slow me down more than speed me up. Some of this may be psychologica
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by trcollinson 6y ago
We don't. But the reason why isn't because politicians don't like to follow rules, it's because they are following the rules that their constituents provide. Even if you disagree that they are following what is best for
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by trcollinson 6y ago
To be a partner at a VC you have to have money and connections (though with enough money, connections is a pretty easy problem to solve). To be an intern/employee for a VC you need to have basically graduated from one of the big busine
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by trcollinson 6y ago
You can make a very good business of consulting people off of Stripe. Developers do love it, and for good reason (as the article points out). But it is expensive. If you are running $1,000,000 in credit card transactions per year at $29 eac
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by trcollinson 6y ago
You know, I'm trying to steer this towards a conversation. I guess I missed the mark. But I am undeterred. I will still try to pull something educational out for myself. According to the knowledge I have humans born with two X chromoso
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by trcollinson 6y ago
I don't love fighting over these sorts of things, especially on Hacker News. So I am not trying to fight at all. But I am genuinely and honestly asking, where do I find research to say that not "only women have cervices"? Aft
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by trcollinson 6y ago
A number of people will probably tell you to be your own boss, try herbal remedies, change your sleeping habit, etc. And those are all really good answers. But let me suggest one other thing. First off, if you think you are feeling burnout,
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by trcollinson 6y ago
The current annual cost for Harvard is US$50,420. So the other poster who said many are more than double is, well, off by a bit. So the "best" University (by their own marketing) is about 60% higher. The University of Utah where I
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by trcollinson 6y ago
Learn to Knit or Crochet. There are a bunch of fun benefits! First, it's not hard. Second, you really can make nice things that last a long time and are useful. I personally have been on a sweater kick. Look or Aran and Gansey sweaters
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by trcollinson 6y ago
So, I am also not a lawyer, and also not giving you legal advice. I do have some legal background and some HIPAA background. This tool would fall under HIPAA compliance. In that, it doesn't matter if you know who has access to the data
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by trcollinson 6y ago
So this isn't so much a "Startup CTO". This is DHH, CTO of Basecamp and created of Ruby on Rails. Not that that entirely matters. But that's why he has a large group of twitter followers and why he's well know. You
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by trcollinson 6y ago
Basecamp is a very popular product, and they make a lot of money on it. I am not sure what the particular issue is. What point are you attempting to make? Also, having worked with a lot of startups, they are living the actual dream. They ha
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by trcollinson 6y ago
I think DHH is just pointing out what "HEY" runs on ( https://hey.com/ ) But AWS is really pleasant to use in most cases. Especially for anything more than a trivial application.
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by trcollinson 6y ago
You are right, my apologies. You were responding to another person who was having a discussion about Section 230. I thought you were adding on to their thoughts about Section 230. If your point is entirely that users can backlash against a
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by trcollinson 6y ago
That's actually not the point of Section 230. The point is that if you remove Section 230 and then you accuse someone of trolling, flaming, or swearing, that could be considered libelous. If you would like to learn more, and see exactl
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by trcollinson 6y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think you understand the extent to which you, as an individual user, would be under obligation if Section 230 wasn't in force. Section 230 protects you, the "user" as much as it protects the platfo

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