DougN7

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   by DougN7 4y ago

   That’s some wicked humor :)
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   by DougN7 4y ago

   Forget cooling - I want to mount some larger versions on some boots and start flying like Iron Man!
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   by DougN7 4y ago

   CICO is true, and it’s the same as saying being an excellent driver is merely controlling friction and inertia. Factually true, but almost meaningless in and of itself.
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   by DougN7 4y ago

   Realistically, what would need to happen for it to not be the case? How many millions or billions of people would have to use it before the government would give up and stop looking at you if you use it?
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   by DougN7 4y ago

   I’m sorry that happened - that was hard to read :( In my opinion, in ANY relationship if someone demands full control of all communication, then they are trying to hide something.
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   by DougN7 4y ago

   That’s an interesting question. If you didn’t have parents, spouses, children, etc who would be crushed by your own destruction I’d agree. But being part of a family, and even part of a friend structure, neighborhood, society necessitates
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   by DougN7 4y ago

   I wonder. Everyone has heard of the Apache. Does removing the name cause the name to be used less? How many tribes are there, for whom there are living members, but for which most of us have never heard of? Is obscurity better than havi
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   by DougN7 4y ago

   I don’t know if it applies to you, but this post from a couple of days ago on HN might apply. People pretty much said to stay away from weed, and I’d alcohol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34279527
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   Ask HN: How to make a living designing human languages?

   4 points by DougN7 4y ago|6 comments
10. 490.▲
    by DougN7 4y ago

    Did anyone wonder if this was written by an AI? 3 of the steps boil down to figuring out what your crows like to eat.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I have also never heard if brownshirt gangs, and I feel like I’m fairly in top of the news. Is this some sort of name connected with Nazis?
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I suspect this refers to small mom-and-pop shops and restaurants that couldn’t survive the lock downs. Much bigger chains seem to have survived better.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    In my opinion we’re seeing exactly this with the US Senate race in Georgia right now.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I’ve been pondering a bit in this area, especially around things that are addictive harmful. It seems like things that give a pleasure reward for little or no work, and aren’t furthering relationships, are dangerous. They sap motivations
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I don’t understand where this sentiment comes from. Don’t vote?? It’s not like being tired is being dead. The status of the world/country/society still impacts older people too.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I see the exact same thing. It’s frustrating because CPU, disk, memory usage, etc are all super low. The machine is idle and there I sit waiting for the first web page to load.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I did exactly this. I worked 2 hours per night after the kids went to bed on week nights, and for about 3 hours early on Saturday morning. It took about 10 years until I went full time, and I now been doing it full time for 10ish years.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    This sounds quite interesting. Are you willing to elaborate more about what these programs do?
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    If you find this interesting, you might like learning about the Goethenborg, which you can even volunteer and sail on. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff6aQdszTiE
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    InnoSetup for the win!
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I like the AWS suggestion. Then I thought about hosting with Google instead. Then I had a good chuckle to myself - no one would be that foolish :)
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I’m not sure you can extract $4 trillion over and over, year after year. Maybe once or twice. Maybe.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    In my opinion it’s because it’s so easy to assume a day has 24 hours. Coding for an occasional day that has 23 and another with 25 just doesn’t occur to most people.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I kind of like the idea, but feel like there would end up being some bad unexpected consequences. On the other hand, we have lots of that now too :(
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    The Iceland Sagas (Egil’s Saga, etc) are worth reading
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    Education is obviously important. Making school less expensive for everyone would be great. I just don’t understand why of all those that have ever or will ever borrow, current borrowers get this pay off. Why are they special?
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    The Hobbit, in German and English. Tolkien has such expressive language it’s great to read in a foreign language.
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I’m having a hard time understanding what you mean. Can you give some examples?
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    I still don’t understand why _student_ loans in particular are being forgiven (paid of by the government). What about home loans? Car loans? Credit card debt? What makes student loans worthy of forgiveness that others aren’t?
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    by DougN7 4y ago

    > They only give you the illusion of fast prototyping. You just shift your time to fixing type and binding errors later in your dev cycle. That is the perfect way to describe it! And sometimes you’re out of the dev cycle and into produc