K0SM0S

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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> I remember passing around sheets of paper with URLs to type in, before there were search engines Wow, what a throwback in time! I had completely forgotten that. Thanks for the sweet memories! Also, I agree with your take. One key diffe
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> I like using the app since Premium allows for playing stuff in the background I remember vividly the day (sometime in 2013?) when they removed that feature from the base app. I had been streaming music or casts from YouTube in the back
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Edit after the fact: called my ex-boss, she kindly reminded me that as a company we would store goods for months and sell them during "les Soldes", so yeah you get twice a year a 6-weeks period to offload your stock. Sorry for the
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
It's fine, don't apologize. I didn't take it as a dismissal, and I was the one to offer entirely unsollicited advice . No worries, and I do appreciate your replies!
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> people might be a tad leery of having a large asteroid on a course where if you miss by 100km you kill a billion Fair point! If unsure, we'd better not play this game too close from home. > I'll say "10 years after we
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
“My current org's obsession with enforcing PP for its own sake as a measured performance metric has conditioned me to squirm when I hear the term” That's just bad, imho, I would have the same response. And thanks a lot for the kin
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Aha... so you know. Hopefully my long piece will be useful to someone else, then. "Red flag", that's the expression I was looking for indeed.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'm not an expert in accounting but I assume there's a legit way to write it off as some exceptional loss and offload it, maybe even to customers; what's however certain is that if you get audited by fiscal authorities, you b
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'm curious, what do you think is a "good" answer? Because, from the interviewer standpoint, here's what such questions are about. Prepare to have your mind blown, maybe. 1. Hiring is by far the most stressful, unpredict
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
“The time between my thinking and typing is spent auditing my thinking” Apparently this isn't limited to code for you, what an eloquent way to put it. I'm definitely stealing this, thanks! ;) “creative” I hear you loud and cle
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
OK, I see. First of all thanks a lot for this link. Fantastic website! I genuinely had no idea the delta-v of so many asteroids was so small, compared to LEO. It fills me with 'educated hope', in regards to not-too-distant (in tim
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I know retail stores in France cannot legally sell anything at a loss, except during government-decided 'sales' periods (twice a year, usually in January then June) which are mostly aimed at emptying stocks for the new 'sea
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Indeed. Probably like, what, 10-20% of our time? Maybe 25%-30% on a good week? I'll even argue the opposite: there are many ways to write code slowly that yield better results. - sometimes, you are 'thinking slow'. A paus
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Would you care to explain? His idea is simple: an asteroid is but a huge pile of resources, so instead of having to go e.g. to the belt and back (that's the major cost for space mining, especially from Earth to there — out of our gravi
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
“if X rolls of dice resulted in just a single success - then the remaining less than X rolls simply won't suddenly roll a hundred more successes” Mmhh.. not so sure you can conclude this. You assume all rolls of the dice are identica
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Indeed. Meet accidentology , “the study and analysis of the causes and effects of accidents”, which became a huge applied field during the second half of the 20th century — notably driven by air traffic (also championned by medical care am
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
The best advocate of that I could find is Isaac Arthur on YouTube[1]. He explains it so well, including why a technology-advanced civilization (not much more than us) would see an asteroid coming straight to earth as a great economic opport
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Perception is trained, whether visual, auditory, etc. It's true that people who live next to the sea/ocean are trained to differentiate shades of blue and green much more than people who live in woody areas — shades of greens and
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Same here, what tipped the X1 for me was the impossibility to buy a Surface Book with US QWERTY keyboard in Europe — the only options are country-based and that's a no for me as a dev. The alternative, buy it from the US and pay for sh
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
ThinkPads tends to be pretty solid. When they fall, it's not uncommon there's a dent in a wooden floor, but no scratch on the laptop itself...
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
“That’s probably enough about Apple. They forgot about good design a long time ago” A few years ago it was anathema to say this, even as a designer yourself — how could you even think of beginning to criticize Apple?! But now people and t
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I don't share your pessimism, but you do make a very interesting point, or diagnosis. There are other evolutionary traits to consider: bigger groups of animals do not necessarily correlate with better communication, hence economic&#x2F
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'm exactly the same. I actually consider it a matter of intellectual honesty to listen to 'the other sides' of what I believe/think. I didn't know this was called Hegellian dialectic but that's exactly it (jus
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
As a European, everytime I'm in NYC the sound of horns and sirens is a non-stop nuisance — I personally enjoy the feeling for a few days because I don't live there, but I sympathise with actual New Yorkers who put up with this all
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
It's effectively doing the work like an entrepreneur with anywhere between too little to no upside, indeed. I'd agree you shouldn't work at a startup unless you're personally vested in its success — the core team, with
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Thus you don't want to work at a startup. It's not 'attitude', it's just reality: you simply can't have all of these things and a thriving startup. You'll have to give in on some or all of them at some p
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This is true. It's complex, takes time, trust and spirit is not something you promote but something you build, then care for forever. Here's a more verbose take on SE Project Management: https://pm.stackexchange.com&#x2
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
“We found that interviewing at Ben&Jerry's removes most of our circadian bias (a.k.a. how an empty stomach turns us back into evil predators), while reducing candidates anxiety.”
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Oh absolutely, do use gofmt, always. The above example was just to make a point, and perhaps give insights into how the compiler works. IMHO, Go's 'enforcement' of common formatting is powerful; it has an incredible compoun
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
“When I started working professionally in IT this division [the schism between 'systems' programmers and 'applications' programmers] was still quite visible.” I think you nailed a rather fundamental trait (spectrum) in

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