MrDom

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by MrDom 12y ago
> getting a good night's sleep each night is definitely crucial for learning anything challenging. That makes me wonder why sleep deprivation is such a large part of the college experience.
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by MrDom 12y ago
> Most people on HN are level minded enough to realize that it is hypocritical to try to block people from immigration to protect their own jobs. Why is this hypocritical? Hypocritical of what?
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by MrDom 12y ago
Did I misread your comment? I took it as an insult on the author, but re-reading it I can see where it could have been just a humorous observation. Could you clarify?
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by MrDom 12y ago
> Why can't an introvert put on headphones or simply disregard irrelevant conversations in an open office? You can't disregard your peripheral vision. People walking behind me all day stresses me out in a predictable fashion, a
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by MrDom 12y ago
> Unfortunately I have no good suggestion how to escape from that situation (quickly) Java apps! ducks But seriously folks, I'm curious what went wrong there. The JVM these days is very fast, runs everywhere and comes installed by
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by MrDom 12y ago
> Irony is an important part of your diet, kids. It certainly is, since the author of said article contributes heavily to freebsd. You know what else is an important part of your diet, kids? Reading and thinking before speaking.
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by MrDom 12y ago
Why the downvote? Is discussion of a previous discussion too meta or otherwise off topic?
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by MrDom 12y ago
What strikes me the most, while reading through that thread, is how many times I saw the phrase "I didn't read the book that defined the terms "cathedral" and "bazaar", but cathedral/bazaar is..." Or
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by MrDom 12y ago
The author's latest blog post says that exactly: "Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free" [0] [0]: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2636165
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by MrDom 12y ago
Snow.
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by MrDom 12y ago
To be honest, the only language I've really taken an interest in for the past few months has been Jonathan Blow's Jai, which isn't available yet.
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by MrDom 12y ago
IntelliJ?
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by MrDom 12y ago
It's not an attack, it's what's happening to the public discourse right now. There are areas of the internet that are right wing. Left wing people go to those areas to debate ideas, but when they see the comments sections are
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by MrDom 12y ago
How long before the trigger warning itself triggers the very behavior they're trying to warn about?
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by MrDom 12y ago
> it doesn't interest me enough to choose it over C. Why? If it's as fast as C but has the benefit of sugar, why not use it? > People are (for good reason) very suspect of dependancies. Not web developers. :D Although we sho
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by MrDom 12y ago
> But this is going to remain very difficult until fully decentralized, peer-to-peer communication networks become widespread. Do you think they ever will? There's not much financial incentive for companies to embrace decentralized
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by MrDom 12y ago
Most people hate individuals who act like they have greater moral authority than us mere mortals. It feels like an implicit judgement of our character. The fact that he's been proven right over and over makes it worse. This thread coul
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by MrDom 12y ago
Why is this always the first comment on posts like these? "This hiring process is messed up." "This guy has an inflated ego. We shouldn't listen to him. DISQUALIFY!" Pretty much anytime somebody posts a story about
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How Zoe Quinn and Margaret Pless Tried Getting Mike Cernovich Killed(crimeandfederalism.com)
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by MrDom 12y ago
Are you sure you're an introvert then? Being around people doesn't energize an introvert. That's the definition. Being an introvert myself, hanging around in a coffee shop even without interacting with anybody will wear me do
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by MrDom 12y ago
If this is all it takes to demoralize you, don't go into gaming. I put it off for years myself because of the EA spouse scandal in 2004. When I graduated, I went into web development instead. Years later, I had a convenient opportunity
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by MrDom 12y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, no, because most of those female computer scientists won't be looking for jobs writing code. They'll be looking for project management roles. So while female applicants may bump qualified male applican
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by MrDom 12y ago
No, it isn't. I agree the nerd part should be ignored, but the sentence itself is her way of saying she's not attracted to the OP, which he should pay attention to. The OP should do what it is in his power to do and improve his so
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by MrDom 12y ago
I was thinking a complete replacement of the entire platform, but thinking about it more made me realize that's not practical for anybody. For better or worse, a lot of applications are already written for this platform. A drop in &quo
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by MrDom 12y ago
Are these numbers so low because of rent control? I lived in a 300 square foot studio last year that cost me $1400 a month. That exact same studio now costs $2800. I've seen similar increases from craigslist posts throughout the city,
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by MrDom 12y ago
> I'd use an embedded compiler running in a fastcgi like daemon. Sounds like nginx's lua plugin. Anything non-performant can be written in lua. Anything performant can be written and C and called from lua. Best of both worlds.
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by MrDom 12y ago
> the guy bet the farm on a technology without looking into whether that technology actually worked. > When I had not gotten it working after just two hours, he started raging at me about how it was all my fault that it didn't wo
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by MrDom 12y ago
Were they quality hires? And are you still hiring at amazon? ;)
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by MrDom 12y ago
Here's something my mother badly needs: an alternative to meditech that is easy to program and use, but cheap enough for small hospitals to afford. Just to put this in perspective, Meditech allows users (ie: non-technical medical perso
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by MrDom 12y ago
What is it about the current solutions that leave you cold? It sounds like google calendar, anki, evernote and Tinder could all work together to do exactly what you suggest. I'm curious what you think is missing, the X factor that anot

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