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by aahortwwy 4y ago
notch's decision to add survival and traditional RPG mechanics to Minecraft is what led to its mainstream success. Based on Zachtronics' other games, I really doubt Infiniminer would've gone in that direction had its developm
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Microsoft's internal policies don't allow their employees to do this without legal approval.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> it forces teams to deal with issues that they're not necessarily ready to deal with just yet. Exactly this. Polyrepos, microservices, and their ilk all do the same thing. Bring forward problems you may one day need to solve and ma
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Before Patreon people had direct links to donate to them on PayPal. You can still that (or use Stripe, or Ko-Fi, or whatever). So why do people use Patreon? The answer to that is why Patreon can charge what they do.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> I pledge to drop all work on Hub20 if Ethereum doesn't complete the transition by the end of the year. Why not two months from now? That's when they'll be done, right?
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Sounds like a lot of work. I'd rather pay someone to do it for me.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Lottery tickets aren't worthless, and the expected value of a startup option is higher than a lottery ticket. You shouldn't value them at $0.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Yeah, the arbitration was between the woman and the insured. GEICO's basically trying to object to the amount of damages that the arbitrator awarded the woman. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n0rTW
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Slightly different from what the parent is describing. Especially the "little collateral damage" part. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
This comment implies a great sense of knowledge, authority, and superiority on your part. But it doesn't demonstrate any of that. You couldn't even recommend specific reading. Just "a great textbook". A pretty frustrat
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Happens pretty frequently. One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Irish_Americans_in_...
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> there's absolutely nothing stopping a third player from entering and eating their lunches Any challenger is going to be ten years behind on market and platform development with no access to cheap capital for customer acquisition.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
I think he's a good contrast to the "great computer scientist, but not a JS person" in the linked article. He initially built Universal Paperclips to learn JavaScript. It's a cool thing, a lot of people played it, and it
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> I think the problem is that there are so many options, some more accessible to newcomers, some less. For example, I think Thonny is a nice entry level Python "GUI" And I think users tend to grow out of entry-level tools prett
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
That's not what the linked Twitter thread is talking about, nor is it how I interpret "make a quick app for yourself, or make something small to share with the world" or "make a quick application to accomplish a small ta
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> What Aella wants to do is something pretty simple, and it's frustratinc that this is so hard. It's not that hard. Doing it like a Real Data Scientist is hard, but also completely unnecessary for a beginner non-programmer. Tha
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Download Python. import csv ?
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
This just isn't true, though. I have quite a few non-technical colleagues who know just enough Python to Get Shit Done. My father (a writer) taught himself R for research purposes and is productive with it. Universal Paperclips has a s
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
You really don't see the difference between popular fiction and cultural texts that have survived for thousands of years? How do you feel about The Iliad, Plato's dialogues, the Mahabharata, Tao Te Ching, or the Epic of Gilgamesh?
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> If it wasn't for Iraq But it was.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> the diagnostic criteria for ADHD and many other disorders require that the deviation amount to a disorder rather than not interfering with someone's life. > interfering with someone's life The specific phrase used in the D
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
This is a huge issue in security. At all levels, not just senior management.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
It sounds a lot like music pre-2000s, perhaps a little less sophisticated/optimized due to a longer feedback loop.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> In peer review, if a small clique of authors reviewed each-other's articles favorably, while ignoring, and being ignored, by the rest of their field, that would be ethically problematic. The comparison to peer review is perfect, b
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> the rest will be payed out Yeah, because you're purchasing them.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> You lied to get in. By emphasizing your strengths and hiding your weaknesses. The employer did the same thing. One of the most powerful tools I use when interviewing senior candidates is being brutally honest about the company's w
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
If the demand for labor exceeds the population there will be a labor shortage that is not a wage shortage...
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
Yes. I left security a few years ago because I saw the industry turning to shit. It's gotten worse since then, IMO. What I see as the contributors to this, in no particular order: - Computer security is growing much, much faster than s
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
That it doesn't compound doesn't mean it's not interest. That just means it's not compound interest .
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> As long as management thinks there has to be a ROI of investment into the blueteam/cyber defense part, nothing will change. Security shouldn't be exempt from ROI concerns, that's bizarre. Governments should regulate more

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