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Comment · 5 years ago
discriminating by age is ok in the workplace. only 40+ is a protected class in the US.
Comment · 5 years ago
How is borrowing then selling 140% of the available shares legal? How is that not market manipulation?

This is the market at work. This was taken too far and the market has a method for correcting this behavior and we're seeing it now. The difference is retail is going to win AND there's no backroom deal to be made to stop the bleeding.

We NEED financial reform but we need to look at what allowed this situation in the first place, not ways to silence what are effectively the whistle blowers.

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Comment · 6 years ago
Totally makes sense as a plugin - I love vscode for both golang and javascript. The IDE itself seems clunky but I'm not against IDEs themselves.
Comment · 6 years ago
I feel like people upvoted this because it said don't use eclipse but didn't read the article. Now I'm questioning my sanity - given a choice, do professional developers choose to use eclipse?

The question is somewhat loaded given the previous statement based on my own biases but I've never written java professionally so excuse my ignorance.

Comment · 6 years ago
Add this to your global git config `[alias]` block:

    cpr="!f() { git fetch origin refs/pull/$1/head && git checkout FETCH_HEAD; }; f"

`git cpr 207` then checks out PR #207.
Comment · 6 years ago
Such is life
Comment · 6 years ago
I love the infinite time explanation. It's a great way to explain how/why tradeoffs are made. I haven't been able to put it so succinctly, so, uhhh... that's mine now I'm stealing it. Please credit me in your original post.
Comment · 7 years ago
GNU switched to GPL v3 a while ago, I imagine this is a license thing
Comment · 7 years ago
Did you read the sentence right below that conveniently cropped screenshot?

| Searches for terms associated with white supremacy will surface a link to Life After Hate’s Page, where people can find support in the form of education, interventions, academic research and outreach.

Comment · 7 years ago
It sounds like they're only suspending free accounts for adblockers. At the same time, I don't mind spotify tracking how I use the application. It generates valuable data for their product managers to improve the overall experience. If there's evidence spotify is using this data to track users across the internet, then there's problem.
Comment · 8 years ago
I love my standing desk for these reasons. The tailor that did my wedding tux last year also commented on my posture being near perfect. I attribute it wholly (maybe inaccurately) to using a standing desk (and standing most of the day) for the last three years.

Also, maybe it's all in my head, I don't get that "afternoon drowsiness" at all since I started standing up after lunch instead of eating and then sitting in a comfy chair.

Comment · 8 years ago
The NSA has never done something on this scale. With sec researchers looking at _everything_ right now it would have been uncovered by now. The major point in this story wasn't a hardware hack, it was a hardware hack on a MASSIVE scale, a scale that would have to be treated as an act of war against the _rest of the world_.

If this article were true it would have been the first public volley in WWIII.

Comment · 8 years ago
Pros:

* Technical skills sink or swim very quickly - you'll learn vastly more in the same period of time at a startup than you will at a big company. Or you'll fail.

* You learn to accept that failure isn't as bad as high school / college would have you believe - as long as you learn from it.

* Invaluable leadership experience very early on.

* A lot more responsibility early on - if you like to take charge and see things through it's a wonderful experience.

* Startups are usually founded by intelligent, successful, driven people - based on head count you usually work closely with them and have the opportunity to soak in that knowledge and experience.

* Connections. When you're young / early in your career a startup puts you in situations to meet people you wouldn't normally be in the same room with at a large company.

Cons:

* Equity is a joke. Liquidation preferences are always against the employee no matter how early. I'm at my second startup and anytime I hear a coworker talk about taking a pay cut because they got equity I cringe.

* The pay CAN suck, it doesn't have to. It took two tries but at my second startup (current job) I'm paid fairly. Maybe slightly less than I would be making in the same role at a large company but coming here included a promotion I was 6-12 months away from at the previous large company.

Neutral:

* Transparency. Some startups keep everyone in the dark about cash on hand, burn rates, fundrasiing, etc. Do not work for one of those startups.

Comment · 8 years ago
With 100B XRP eventually in circulation, $10 would give it a preposterous market cap. The current price is based on only 38B tokens in circulation.

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