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petraeus··on Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years
Both are easy to make.
petraeus··on France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994
canada.com is not owned by the government, its owned by postmedia the parent of rogers
petraeus··on Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away free
Its like this, linux is FREE, but if you start impersonating red hat to push linux you'll be in trouble
petraeus··on Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away free
Its free for YOU to use, its not free to copy them impersonate MS and profit off them en masse
petraeus··on Civilization Is Built on Code (2017)
Civilization is built on communication.
petraeus··on jQuery CDN having SSL issues
Only hobby websites would host jquery off a cdn
petraeus··on Be likeable or get fired
You are thinking like a junior programmer and instead you should be thinking as an investor. The investor gives little to no damns about your opinion of the underlying code base.

Investors do not make fortunes based off the opinions of junior programmers nor on their understanding of the nuances of codebases.

Demonstrating such a lack of awareness and understanding does explain why you are a junior programmer and not an investor.

My advice to you is the age old adage, put yourself in anothers shoes, go and buy some stocks, etfs, mutual funds what have you and experience the other side of business, let your eyes really be opened before casting judgement on processes you have little understanding of.

petraeus··on Be likeable or get fired
I actually took the time to scan the OPs long winded story about his firing, and the TL;DR version is nearly an copy/paste of a story we've heard a thousand times if not more.

A junior lone-wolf junior programmer who knows everything and always has the "best" solution unilaterally decides to become the CTO of a company he is unfamiliar with and places so much stress on the existing personnel he is escorted out of the building.

Even his closing paragraph demonstrates he has learned very little from this ordeal he orchestrated himself and will most likely hop from job to job until he reaches the level of maturity and the amount of wisdom required to move beyond anything but a junior programming role.

petraeus··on What Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old
In fact, reality is the exact opposite as what you describe. The more you know right? Let me educate you, in africa, whites are preferred in sales meetings because empirical evidence shows that simply having a white person present increases the chances of a sale.

So in REALITY elon musk had an even bigger advantage being white in africa than whites do in america.

You are now smarter and hopefully less racially bias

petraeus··on Ask HN: What's a good response to “It's fine, I've got nothing to hide online”?
The most correct answer is in fact, yes I do have something to hide from you. All this reasoning and rationalizing is a distraction from that main point. I have stuff I dont want other people to know, and there is nothing wrong with that.
petraeus··on Gibraltar will veto parts of Brexit if sovereignty threatened, minister warns
Its a common term, just because a communist used it doesnt make the word commie
petraeus··on Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?
Let me see, if nine out of 10 people asses this poster as having non-fluent english and 1/10 seem to think he is fluent, the most resonable explanation is that there are now 2 people who are not fluent in english. Stop trying to grasp at straws, it quite clear the poster is not a native english speaker nor does he fool fluent speakers.
petraeus··on Sheryl Sandberg: Want Privacy? Must Pay to Use FB
alternative, i wont pay for fb and I also want privacy
petraeus··on Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for a serious, long-term business app
Ruby with rails or php with laravel, the js stacks are too new and too hip for a long term application, go with a mature stack that doesn't change with the wind
petraeus··on Back end development in 2018
looks similar to the web developer in 2017 graphic, are the the same person?

you are also missing a big important part of being a full stack developer in 2018 and that is adwords and seo. Not being familiar with these topics will put you at a massive disadvantage in comparison to your peers and for your business.

petraeus··on Reddit holds the secret to fixing Facebook
There are many major problems with reddit,

the foremost being the abusive mods on each sub reddit who let their power delude themselves into forming a god complex, the second being the voting system where it costs nothing to down or up vote leading to extremely bigoted subreddits where those in opposition to the hivemind are quickly banned and their opinion suppressed. lets not even get started on the karama junkies who will repost anything of significance repeatedly if it means getting another 100 or 200 karma, reddit is a cesspool of spam and ignorance fueled by a failed system.

petraeus··on Google and HTTP
Thats your problem
petraeus··on You can write a keylogger in pure CSS
*with the use of JS
petraeus··on Twitter and the Internet War
Twitter chased growth at the expense of quality, quality moderation, and quality infrastructure. Thats all it boils down to.
petraeus··on Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?
i'd like to see this question answered only by companies grossing over $100 million and less side-dev passion projects.
petraeus··on Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
Its the country best sheltered from

1. population increase (immigration) 2. climate change

petraeus··on What I wish I knew when I became CTO
Tests by definition are recursive, you need to know what to test for before you can test it.
petraeus··on Who Killed the Junior Developer?
I like to go with master developer and not rockstar for the very reasons you state
petraeus··on Uber Sales Reach $7.5B in 2017
The moment uber stops subsidizing their rides a million competitors will come out of the woodwork with a comparable app. its not the app thats unbeatable its their vc money, you cannot have 10 multi-billion dollar unicorn taxi providing companies existing at once.
petraeus··on The effect of ad blocking on website traffic and quality
The google search engine rewards click bait its not smart enough to recognize organic text and organic traffic. It only knows pure clicks and un-ironically has created the very ecosystem it was meant to destroy.
petraeus··on How Chrome’s built-in ad blocker will work when it goes live tomorrow
Will it pop those annoying popup subscriptions
petraeus··on “App Developer” bamboozles Redditors as a millionaire using verified profiles
Bamboozling redditors is a really low bar to set as a life goal
petraeus··on Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
Facebook has turned into a platform to spam you with ads no wonder their losing marketshare
petraeus··on What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death
its called planned obsolescence
petraeus··on Show HN: Simple SaaS app to receive call requests from your website visitors.
Please hire a copy-writer the sentences read like they were written by a foreigner
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