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faddat··on Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
Inverse Commerce -

Customers simply type what they want. GPS locates the customer. Companies submit reverse bids both manually and algorithmically. Customer accepts what suits them best. Yay, money saved, time saved, customer happy.

Specifically, I don't have enough experience building android apps to make it as slick as I would like. Happy to talk with anyone about it. Can build back end, will travel, etc :).

faddat··on Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
Not certain I could implement.

Certain I'd like to talk with you about your strategy and see if we can get any closer than you did the past three times.

faddat··on Is RethinkDB shutting down?
Well, that would suck a lot for my recent projects.

Also, anyone aware of any close-ish equivalents in the realm of open source, specifically golang?

faddat··on Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
Yes.

Tier 1: Those who solely re-implement. You can do a lot copying and pasting. It's just not worth as much money.

Tier 2: Those who re-implement while creating anew, typically in specialized areas or occasionally very well over a wide range of tasks.

Note the importance of re-implementation to both job tiers.

faddat··on Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
Yes.

Tier 1: Those who solely re-implement. You can do a lot copying and pasting. It's just not worth as much money. Tier 2: Those who re-implement while creating anew, typically in specialized areas or occasionally very well over a wide range of tasks.

Note the importance of re-implementation to both job tiers.

faddat··on Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
I'm of the opinion that it's both problems in many ploaces.
faddat··on Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
Blended professionals FTW, (almost) every time.

(not speaking to parent poster, but instead generally) Were you a foolish humanities student when you got your bachelors? Worse, did you take it seriously and actually learn something? Great! Now study a technical discipline and blend away. IT is increasing the depth breadth and profitability of these blends daily.

faddat··on Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Employment Status
Entrepeneurship killed a significant relationship of mine. It was entirely about money, she felt that I should continue to pursue my former profession, which provided meager, but stable income.

I was thinking about her and my future, which would require more than meager, stable income could provide.

Society hates entrepreneurship and that is why it is not a popular track: you need really thick skin to pursue it.

faddat··on Uber Has yet to Reduce Drunk Driving Deaths, Study Says
Well, this doesn't surprise me.

Who Ubers? Those who aren't broke.

Who drives drunk? Those who are broke, and occasionally those who aren't. Those who aren't broke occasionally choose uber over driving drunk.

....and there you have it. Uber doesn't reduce deaths from drunk driving because too many people are poor. Fight poverty, not inequality.

faddat··on U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrants on Internet Firms
Reasonable request.

Sorry bout that.

faddat··on Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site
Well, in that case, they probably really are working for Killary.

Damn, I thought google was one of the good guys.

faddat··on DOD officials say autonomous killing machines deserve a look
No thank you. I like my earth earth-y and not scorched Armageddon style.

Hubris!

faddat··on Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses
I'm strongly in support of holding cisco accountable for this in any way, shape or form possible.

....but if we do that, where will we get routers with backdoors for us.gov from?

faddat··on Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
No! No more slack!

* Rocketchat * Gitter * Let's Chat https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat * Baloons https://github.com/rickyrauch/Balloons.IO * Friends https://github.com/moose-team/friends * Chats https://github.com/acani/Chats * HackChat https://github.com/AndrewBelt/hack.chat * Jabbr https://github.com/JabbR/JabbR * qTox https://github.com/tux3/qTox * TorChat https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat

I bet that they can be just as friendly using an open source application on golang-based kubernetes clusters.

faddat··on Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
Awesome open source crews:

* Rancher - https://github.com/rancher * Weave - https://github.com/weave.works * OpenStack (IRC) - irc.freenode.net #openstack * Kubernetes - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes * Docker - https://github.com/docker * EmileVague - https://github.com/EmileVauge/traefik * Enspiral - enspiral.com * MetaMaps - metamaps.cc

....That's an incomplete list of projects whose teams have put up with me, and even gone so far as to ask for more. I've worked in OSS for a little over a year now, and I can heartily say that I haven't regretted the decision once.

faddat··on Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
He has fucked up personal beliefs-- this is a fact. These personal beliefs could have been kept in a box in his mind, but when he spoke on this publicly and loudly as a public figure, well.....

It'd be nice if we could all do work that allows us to voice our exact thoughts at every moment.... or would it?

faddat··on Jolla survival plan: suggestions
For a creator, one of the very best parts about open software is that even if the organization producing it goes belly-up, your software is yours (and everyone's) to do with as you (and they) please.
faddat··on Jolla survival plan: suggestions
Jolla's bankruptcy positively sucks. Their entire enterprise had this... ebullience about it that couldn't be faked, and from what I hear, their product matched that.

Well, it's back to the old Fruit vs Chocolate Factory decision...