ritchiea

I'm suggesting that people often don't act in line with their proclaimed political beliefs when those beliefs don't benefit them in the immediate.

I wonder if any of the people objecting to the sale or the possibility of paying the new owners for parking spaces describe themselves as "libertarians."

Can you be more specific? What exactly do I need to disable to see a battery life boost?

Username "degenerate" defines startup culture as equivalent to macho culture and wonders if women are as good and determined at work as men. Got it.

Yes yes, clearly there are points in time where there is a real entity that exists as a company. But in the context of "can I lose all this?" where you are a founder building something, you don't just not have control, you don't have anything when you are dependent on future investment.

You don't have a company yet if you're dependent on future investment.

Yes, I look at the people I grew up around in a poor-to-working class neighborhood in Chicago and I feel guilty that most of them didn't get the same opportunity I did to do better. I was bused to better schools because of my test scores, I had a family that really cared and was relatively stable so while we didn't have a ton of money we had that. It's definitely not fair and not a product of anything I did other than being lucky to be born intelligent and into a caring stable family.

I'm not sure whether I should be blamed for other people not moving up the ladder, I don't have kids or a house so some of his critiques don't apply to me. But it does feel like in many cases the upper middle class stands in the way of progressive policy.

I'm a freelancer/run-my-own small dev consultancy and I pretty much never jump through hoops. The level of demand doesn't create the hoops. Some combination of needing to create the appearance of "only hiring the best of the best of the best just like everyone else" & fear of a bad hire creates the hoops.

I don't have trouble finding work and often need to bring on additional help. The hoops are cultural.

I'm typing this on my iPad & it strikes me that there's not a lot of motive to upgrade your iPad once you have one. It's a consumption device, as long as I can continue easily browsing the internet, listening to podcasts and watching movies I have no reason to upgrade.

My laptop I may want to upgrade to improve computing power and phone form factors continue to improve. Both of those things sort of affect the iPad but not nearly to the same degree. I carry my phone around in my pocket, if it's a tiny bit lighter it makes a huge difference. I mostly use my iPad at home, it's great for the things I use it for and there's no upgrade I can imagine that would significantly increase its utility.

Having picked up dating apps and Okcupid recently after ending a 4 year relationship, my guess is that Okcupid has become particularly friendly to people seeking BDSM and non-monogamous relationships. I had used it before and at least anecdotally what I see OKC users looking for is different from before. A lot of people have moved to swipe dating apps like Tinder and Bumble where the focus is almost entirely on photographs and not what users write about themselves. Maybe Okcupid is drawing users into BDSM and other non-traditional relationships because they can talk about it in their profiles and potential dates may actually pay attention rather than just swiping.

Seconded, NYC is great for tech meetups, there are several everyday. And if you're unemployed it certainly doesn't hurt that they often are catered or at least provide pizza.

If you go to meetups and actually talk to other attendees you will certainly learn a lot, meet people in the industry and open new doors for yourself.

SEEKING WORK - New York City/Brooklyn, NY - Remote Ok

Experienced full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with work history focused on startups. Some big company (e.g. NY Times, Cleversafe), small business and agency experience as well. Most of my experience is with Rails and/or Angular but I've also worked with node.js, React, Sinatra and Python/Django. Not dev-ops per say but I have experience managing deployments with AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace and Heroku.

A lot of my projects have involved helping startups get to an MVP or build out features from an MVP. I've also done cleanup on projects when another agency or developer was behind schedule and a project needed to ship ASAP. Really I'm open to any project that sounds interesting, let's talk. Lots of client facing experience as well, great at communicating with the business side. As well as picking up the slack when design resources are short.

Github: https://github.com/ritchiea

Resume/CV: http://www.andrewritchie.info/docs/andrewritchie.pdf

For everyone on HN that's afraid of being harassed for their politics because of how Trump support was received, this story and worse ones to come are exactly what we were afraid of coming from Trump. This was never just about policy, the current administration is giving license to treating people who don't look "American" enough with suspicion and they made that intention clear in their campaign.

If this was just about tax rates and government spending policies no one would be nearly as upset.

It's odd to me that someone who's worried about intellectual debate becoming rare would vote for Trump. Trump avoids substantive debates and relies on catch phrases. It seems to me that the lack of intellectual debate is tied to polarization of political parties rather than anything done by the Obama administration.

And there is real evidence that the republican party is driving the lack of real debate. The republican party refused to allow hearings for a Supreme Court nominee for a legitimately elected sitting President. That's obstructionism driven to ignoring the constitutional duties granted to the President to achieve political ends.

I would argue this is an unduly negative take on following the work of other developers. Following the work of one of your peers in your field does not have to become a cult of personality. It can help you discover what kind of open source work or intellectual direction is actually useful, especially at the beginning of your career. It's totally reasonable to not follow other developers but I also wouldn't want to cultivate the perception that following the work of others is a failure to be busy enough on your own.

Hopefully all of our work is appreciated by the people near us but it's really ok to be a "nobody" as in you aren't famous or even regarded as a "dev to be followed." There shouldn't be the expectation that to be a professional who's good at your job and solves problems you should also be on the list of popular devs people follow.

How is calling it a bet missing the point? As a scientist investigating a phenomenon in the natural world, assuming you wish to make a new contribution to your field, you are betting your time that you will both arrive at a new understanding of your subject matter and also be the first to do so.

If you're apologizing for being meta and off topic you could also just save your comment for when it's on topic.

It's just unfortunate he's distracting from discussing the content of the post to make a pedantic point that recurs on HN ad nauseam despite fostering no interesting discussion.

So if he had simply titled the piece "Types of Software Engineers" you would be happy?

The case isn't "my kid mellows out on weed" it's "my kid has behavioral problems that prevent him from functioning at home & in school that are alleviated by weed".

Serious question: Does science have an answer for what is the right action in a given situation? Is that something we can determine from a study or a calculation? That actually sounds like the perfect question for modern philosophy.

Do you also find things like art, literature and film pointless because they don't help you solve problems? Humans have wants and needs that exist outside of the type of problems that can be solved with CS & engineering. Present day science isn't even very useful in helping us understand human emotion. Your attitude reminds me of traditional economics, anything that doesn't fit neatly in the model we might as well pretend doesn't exist.

Sounds like the advice to be distilled from this anecdote is "start making games and meeting other people who make games."

How do you find consistent work doing that? I try to work part time as a developer and usually either my clients pressure me to full time or hire someone else who will.

Scale is also scarce. There are few companies operating at Google or Facebook or Amazon scale. You can't just create a product at scale if you want to gain the experience of scaling a product, you have to be working somewhere that grows tremendously.

The timer is/was the worst, I once decided not to buy tickets for an event because the timer wasn't giving me enough time to fill out my CC info and I didn't want to bother rushing or filling out some kind of user profile w/saved card to fit their awful UX.

Don't recyclers have to sort submissions anyway? It's expected that citizens will fail to completely adhere to recycling instructions and submissions must be sorted anyway.

In your opinion what does it mean to know JavaScript?

It tends to be people that enjoy their work. I know a retired TV comedy writer in his 80's that continues to meet with, edit for and make industry introductions for young writers just because he loves storytelling and comedy writing.