corpdronejuly's comments

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Bill to require job postings to include salaries passes Washington Senate

Then those of us able to get more might be pushed into taking the risk of making our own company and competing against the major players who are currently controlling the market by paying more than God to keep talent focused on selling ads instead of creating value?

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf]

Not when the objective is to increase the companies Visa quota not to find talent at market rate.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: U.S. Inflation Accelerates to 40-Year High

Ultimately I only have anecdotes. But I suppose we could look at the child-care sectors employment growth vs other sectors to see if it's recovering at the same rate as the rest of the economy.

Not very strong evidence but I think it would support the idea that more families are taking care of children in the household economy rather than the cash economy if it is recovering less quickly.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Windi – knowledge management and sharing platform based on short notes

Just build progressive web apps done.

But seriously this is not just a privacy thing. It's also an accessibility problem. Why is it that we have lost the art of just making a web page that does stuff, and then enhancing that functionality?

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers

My response is. You lied not me, and I know how many recruiters emailed me this week and you don't. Please don't play those games, I am here because I want to be. Lies make me not want to be.

Yeah I'm replaceable, but the pain of that replacement is usually more than the pain of making a sales guy eat some crow.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers

It amazes me that simple honesty and integrity wind up being such a huge value add.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers

It's not typical. It is possible though.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: U.S. Inflation Accelerates to 40-Year High

The job market seems to be tight because the folks hiring are unwilling to pay folks to keep up with the inflation we're seeing. It's not worth it for many people in a family to take outside work when childcare costs so much more.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Thank You, Valve

What I would love to see is open source kernel level anti-cheat.

The issue of course is that would reveal just how much of our data those things Hoover up.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Arizona Introduces a bill to make Bitcoin Legal Tender [pdf]

Have you seen the news in Florida... on most days?

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Why is there no theory of the just riot? (2021)

This has interesting implications for the events of the past 2 years in general given how little power any of the levels of Government had to prevent protests from interrupting their exercise of power and monopoly on force.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Arizona Introduces a bill to make Bitcoin Legal Tender [pdf]

I'm curious now... could a state just stop accepting USD and demand gold and silver.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Against 3x Speed

That may have to do with Duolingo optimizing for paying and returning customers instead of for fluency.

Their app has to be "fun" or in flow rather than in that difficult challenging place to actually help you grow.

In learning both German and Old Norse the most helpful thing for me was to translate texts, read them aloud to a fluent speaker and get feedback. Which is hard to scale.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published

I'm fighting this battle right now.

Inches from just emailing the list of CVEs to someone way above my paygrade and letting the chips fall.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Discourage use of Mailgun as a mail provider

Then they can do their job with professionalism and courtesy for those they contact.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)

Ironically understanding that was the gateway to a zen like state of, "Sure but it'll impact our ability to succeed in next Quarters objectives"

They do think about those bonuses longer than the next quarter.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: 1632 by Eric Flint (2000)

For most fans of the series this is a feature, not a bug.

There is a lot of desperate demand for the simple acknowledgment that America got a lot of things right, and had a deep commitment to doing better.

The books have some lengthy subplots exploring our nations sins, and dark parts. But the general framing is, "good people with good intent doing their best who fall short, get up and do their best again. And that is AWESOME!"

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: California plans to turn the screws on NIMBY cities

Only because we have decided to consume 16,000 a year in city service on that same house, and finance the rest with the urban development Ponzi scheme.

I suspect the appetite for suburban living would dry up if we all paid the actual maintenance costs of those streets, water and schools on a land-value basis

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (2012)

I teach intro to CS for a homeschool co-op and love seeing this kind of story!

Children can absolutely learn a lot more than we think they can, provided we take their capabilities seriously and give the appropriate scaffolding.

corpdronejuly | 4 years ago | on: Finishing my first game while working full-time

I feel like the value for you there is to incrementally add a little bit and keep your project fresh in your mind.