Ologn

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by Ologn 11y ago
> Challenge the when...for items on your critical path, it’s always useful to challenge the due date. All it takes is asking the simplest question: “Why can’t this be done sooner?” Asking it methodically, reliably and habitually can have
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by Ologn 11y ago
Driving at 1 AM from Plattsburgh, NY to Albany, NY, I did worry about whether I would run out of fuel. Including seeing an exit sign for a gas station, and driving a mile out the exit only to find it was closed, only to turn around and get
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by Ologn 11y ago
Fine I'll use the S & P 500. It opened 1969 at 102. It opened 1979 at 99.71. Adjusted for inflation, the SP500 had a peak in 1968, then dipped and did not return to this real level until 1992. 22 years. The S&P 500 entered 20
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by Ologn 11y ago
A DJIA index bought on September 3, 1929 was underwater until November 23, 1954. That's over 25 years to get back the exact amount you invested. Of course factoring in inflation, that investment had actually shrank. The attitude that
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by Ologn 11y ago
Valgrind is good. Gprof is good too.
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by Ologn 11y ago
Also, codegen exists on a solution continuum. Codegen is a superior solution to manually pumping out lots of boilerplate code with slight variations. A solution that does not need lots of boilerplate code would be even better, but codegen i
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by Ologn 11y ago
> I've never understood why so many companies are comfortable giving Amazon such leverage over their business infrastructure. You have to be a pretty big company in order to not let another company have leverage over your infrastruc
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Glad to see innovation in action. Thank you! I sent in a registration for proof.com on February 3, 1996, but missed out on it by a few hours to some other dude. Never again! Just snapped up remar.xyz, networ.xyz, noteboo.xyz, payche.x
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by Ologn 11y ago
Yaa, $1 for a domain like hooli.xyz or Google, I mean Alphabet ( https://abc.xyz ). I'll try it out. Just snapped up prefi.xyz, suffi.xyz, picka.xyz, icebo.xyz, equino.xyz, mailbo.xyz, postbo.xyz, rolode.xyz, soapbo.xyz, t
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by Ologn 11y ago
> And Sun customers should blame the planet model for one of the worst decisions in the history of a company that had plenty of contenders for the distinction: unbundling the compilers from the operating system and separately monetizing
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by Ologn 11y ago
The XScreensaver project is in the process of being ported to Android. A number of the screensavers (or "live wallpapers") already work on Android, as well as some of their settings. If you're interested, download the sourc
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by Ologn 11y ago
> What do you mean by a sense of presence? A VR simulation where you are on top of a high tower/building, and you are physically unable to take a leap forward because your amygdala won't let you, that is VR presence.
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by Ologn 11y ago
Location: New York City and NYC metropolitan area Remote: Probably not, but if it was a really good match, I would consider it Willing to relocate: No (I would not relocate without working remotely first for some months. I would consider i
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by Ologn 11y ago
The press, and some people here, are always saying they can't find good programmers, and it is certainly something that is overstated. One reason there aren't enough good programmers are people in your situation - you got by for
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by Ologn 11y ago
> I make low six figures in the US Even in the good old days, people at Bell Labs were paid decently, but less than if they had gone into industry to really try to make money. > Been there for almost 7 years. I feel like a peon .. I h
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians but also somewhat of a coward, was certainly aware of the fate of Galileo —and could probably have predicted the calumniation of Einstein— when he decided to suppress his discovery of
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by Ologn 11y ago
> First question: "Backups?" followed by "When was the last time you did a restore?" KDE almost lost hundreds of their git repositories in 2013 because they were not doing backups ( https://news.ycombinator
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by Ologn 11y ago
Yes. The main cause of my beeper going off at 3 AM during the time frame he talks about (early to late 00s) was due to brand new EMC storage hardware continually collapsing under a moderate load, even though the hardware's specs claim
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Bitcoin is not competing with gold, it's basically competing with "I owe you" notes, managed by some central entity. You could argue that those "I owe you" notes have value, but maybe so does distributed transa
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by Ologn 11y ago
History is often clearer than the present, so let's look at the price of silver around 1980. In 1979 silver was $6 an ounce, by 1980 it was worth $48.70 an ounce by 1982 it was back below $5. Was silver really have $48 of value in 19
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Something has "value" if people will buy it. People buy it because they can use it. Gold, oil, sitting chairs etc. have value because they are useful. Bitcoins have no inherit use after purchase. > People have been buyin
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Works pretty fine for me when I buy stuff with it, idk. Were you around for the last .com bubble? You could have ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com ) said the same thing ( https://en.wikipedia.o
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by Ologn 11y ago
91 year old billionaire Charlie Munger has referred to Bitcoin as "rat poison". His friend, 84 year old Warren Buffett has said Bitcoin is "not a currency" and advised people to "stay away from it". Now you ca
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by Ologn 11y ago
Hunter/gatherer tribe is an oxymoron. Hunter gatherers are grouped together in bands, not tribes. By the time a society has a chief, it is always larger than a band, and almost always larger than even a tribe. The great mass of data f
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Recent trends in economics leads me to believe the accumulation of wealth and capital from gains in productivity and technology is amassing into huge piles of cash that want Yes. > & need No. > to invest in something, so
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by Ologn 11y ago
Absolutely. More than one out of eight Americans is black. So if you look at Strange Loop's dozens of speakers for 2015, you'd expect on the basis of random statistics that at least one of eight was black. Of course, this is not
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by Ologn 11y ago
It exists as one for many platforms http://rss-glx.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml I ported some of the RSS-GLX screensavers to Android, but never tried this one.
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by Ologn 11y ago
I have been in IT since 1995, and in my experience people with a BSCS have an easier time getting a job, and are usually working better jobs. Some jobs say from the get-go they're unavailable to people without a Bachelors. Here is one
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by Ologn 11y ago
I often program Android in Emacs as well. I use the Java Development Environment for Emacs and have been happy with it. If you add an Android-specific class like TextView in your code, you can easily have Android Studio add the needed impo
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by Ologn 11y ago
> goes through all the hoops to teach themselves The average course is 50 hours a week in class, plus 150 hours a week studying, meaning 200 hours total. So to repeat what I did, you would have to spend 200 hours studying graph theory, t

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