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This goes on all over the country. For every rotten officer that steals, there is a whole bushel back at the station that turn a blind eye and happily have bbqs with them on the weekends. Did you also know that when the police record an interview they do not have to preserve the tapes, the officers summary of the conversation is often taken as fact.
My close friend is opening a gym, part of this includes purchasing these thick rubber mats from Chinese suppliers. The new tariffs made it unprofitable when buying from china. His equipment supplier is currently negotiating with a US supplier. My friend is fine with waiting a few weeks.
Re:Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use? on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:17PM (#19716204)
I had my bank cancel all amazon music subscription charges after paying for it for almost a year after I stopped using it. Turns out they cancelled ALL charges from amazon. Am I a bad person?
Re:Ask HN: Products that suck but you still use? on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:15PM (#19716191)
This is configurable.
Yeah, what a life, without his family friends.
How do their "leaders" still have their heads?
The problem is that the changes you propose rip out the framework that allowed our country to become a leader in many respects, show me a socialist or communist country that innovates, there are none, they all come to capitalist countries to learn and compete, your missing the forest for the trees mate.
I have an ereader
They don't, they fire the employees that got caught, then rebrand the group that does the laundering as a new "wealth management" group, and start the cycle again.
They should arrest Zuckerberger, I'd like to see RICO applied within the ranks of a single corporation, epic trial.
Why aren't the batteries hot swappable?
Re:Ask HN: Can you help me validate my MVP? on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:34PM (#19650268)
What's the url?
Re:Stargazing technology used to spot cancer on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:38PM (#19616464)
The breakthrough seems like the clarity of the images, few cameras operate with as little light as a space based telescope used to view distant objects. They seems to have paired that tech with tradition CT scanner. So you are not technically wrong but I'm not sure why those are wtf points, any improvement is a good improvement when hunting for tumors. I have thought to myself many times while observing a doctor look at the various scans they take, "wtf, those images are shit, you sure there is no cancer doc?". Also competition in this space is excellent, hyping this is better than your next deliver service startup.
Re:Stargazing technology used to spot cancer on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:28PM (#19616343)
The small numbers they use to fund projects like these is laughable. If this is remotely true they should fund it with 1 billion.
Re:Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign? on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:49PM (#19591624)
Hate it, old.reddit.com stays in my address bar
Re:I’m a Tech Addict and I’m Not Ashamed on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:56PM (#19586957)
Same here, my friends be like "let's go out and socialize" I be like "no way I'm learning about graph algorithms", they just dont get it.
Let's not forget the oceanic ecosystems they also remove co2, all 3 should be mentioned all the time.
Re:Being a middle-aged junior on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:36PM (#19547948)
I started at 16 during a summer while still highschool as a SQL developer for a staffing agency, it was technically an internship according to the company handbook but I had real deadlines and the code I wrote ran in production until the owner retired and shut the company down about 1 year ago. That experience lead me to advise anyone that asks me how to learn to code to start with SQL. It's easier to go Excel -> SQL -> OOP than Excel -> OOP -> SQL. SQL is such a small language, great docs and a much smaller envelope of operational freedom that a general purpose language. Also teaching SQL first provides more career path options earlier in their careers, mainly because they could screw the OOP and pursue positions as a DBA, which made me feel better about firing or laying off people. Most enterprise projects involve databases anyway.
Re:Being a middle-aged junior on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:27PM (#19547864)
That guy should have left, but he probably negotiated a salary commensurate with his true experience, with people who just love to code, I can imagine they would not care about the title, the real win is in the bank account. Call me a code janitor if you want as long as I get my 120k 4 weeks of vacation and my co workers are not total wads, I'd be fine.
Re:Being a middle-aged junior on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:23PM (#19547808)
The amount of spam I get from recruiters looking for junior devs would lead me to believe otherwise. And as a dev that used to work as a dev at a staffing agency, hiring managers often scrutinize the skills of juniors less than a senior or lead dev.
Re:Being a middle-aged junior on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:20PM (#19547766)
Can I pay you as if you only actually have been typing code for the length of time you have been using the framework I am building my current project with? Do you not feel that after learning 10 different frameworks over 10 years that you can pick up new ones faster and become more proficient than a truly noob who has only been coding professionally for 2 years? The value in a senior dev is the experience they have in quickly learning new concepts and the speed at which they apply those.
Re:Intel abandons development of modular Compute Cards on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:58PM (#19468058)
They should buy a mobo mfr and include one of these coprocessors on each board.
I bought my house, at age 19 without the help of an agent, all the have to do is coordinate: home appraisal, home inspection, title company. If you can make 10 phone calls you can buy a house without an agent.