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by abraae 5y ago
> a guy building a business he knew would be irrelevant in 10 years To be fair, almost any software based business could be irrelevant in 10 years.
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by abraae 5y ago
My son wants your job!
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by abraae 5y ago
Cats are literally the apex predator in New Zealand.
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by abraae 5y ago
You seem to have taken one point (that the soviets would sooner or later have eventually defeated germany - perhaps true, or perhaps not), and stretched that to breaking point to try and make another (that Enigma had no material impact on t
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by abraae 5y ago
Brutal honesty can be a wonderful trait all of its own in a team however. We can assume the author is not a BS artist from his very candid self-evaluation. This is a good thing he should hang onto. "My haphazard strategy resulted in th
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by abraae 5y ago
Additional context: it was provided to me as suggestions, none of it came as a surprise, and I decided to put on the wall. There was no "forcing" involved. I personally don't have any problem with anyone suggesting areas of i
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by abraae 5y ago
I was at IBM, fixing a critical mainframe that had brought the entire check clearance system for the country down. An angry customer was breathing down my neck, making idiotic suggestions. I was rattled. He wanted me to try swapping out som
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by abraae 5y ago
A reasonable argument for stoners lighting up in the supermarket carpark. Not so for someone flying several tons of metal that will absolutely fuck up the lives of many people if they aren't paying full attention.
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by abraae 5y ago
You may think differently as you get older.
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by abraae 5y ago
I guess you're talking about a physical, actual train, but it would be cool to tack onto the back of a conga line of cars, and let some AI take over maintaining the gap and alignment with the vehicle in front, while grabbing a nap.
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by abraae 5y ago
Did you put a cute animal on the front, give it a funky title, and embed amusing memes at pagely intervals?
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by abraae 5y ago
I can't disagree with what you observed. However these stories involving some mega corp as an evil actor always raise the question: what's to be gained, and what's the risk. As soon as some manager instructs someone beneath t
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by abraae 5y ago
When someone demonstrably lies constantly, it's not unreasonable to assume that the truth is most likely the opposite of what they say.
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by abraae 5y ago
> Still, I want to avoid hosting a service where I have to be on-call. For sure it sucks being on call but usually because you're dealing with someone else's crap. But as the big Kahuna, aren't you in a position to make th
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by abraae 5y ago
Those were not the words you used, and (continuing the pointless arguments about words), "morally abhorrent" does not mean the same as distasteful, at least to most english speakers.
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by abraae 5y ago
Funny you mention the machete. Last time I was in Suva in Fiji, some of the locals come into town for their evening drinks, directly I guess from cutting sugar cane in the fields, all with machetes hanging from their belts. It's a head
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by abraae 5y ago
Magnificent rant, I will forward it to an editor of my acquaintance.
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by abraae 5y ago
Pointless pendatry over words doesn't move discussion forwards. I wouldn't personally use either of those words to describe Nazis, which is largely what WWII "happened for".
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by abraae 5y ago
That's a wonderful story and and an uplifting rebuttal to Lord of the Flies. But to be fair, six Tongan boys were probably far hardier and well equipped than the typical British schoolboy of that time would have been. It seems they tho
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by abraae 5y ago
To me, SO is the very opposite of TFM. A manual contains all the possible answers to all the possible questions in a single document. To get an answer to your question, you just have to read, re-read, assemble, interpret and then you have y
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by abraae 5y ago
I'm not an economist but it seems that gazumping and it's evil twin, gazundering (where the purchaser demands to pay a lower than agreed price, or they will pull out) don't necessarily cause increases in prices over the long
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by abraae 5y ago
When I lived in the UK last century, there was rampant house price inflation. It seemed to me to be at least in part due to the bizarre contractual setup where even after a vendor had accepted an offer, they could still pull out and sell to
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by abraae 5y ago
Awesome cheers for that.
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by abraae 5y ago
All sounds amazing. On esp32 though I'd settle for simply a way to emulate the TFT display. It gets old re-flashing the device to move a pixel one to the right or to add a println for debugging.
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by abraae 5y ago
Rancilio Silvia also warms up very quickly - faster than boiling a kettle. I've had one for > 20 years, it's had a few repairs but still going strong.
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by abraae 5y ago
I believe there is a market opportunity for something similar, but where someone else can helicopter to watch your application attempts. It's likely not relevant to the sorts of jobs HN readers do, but in many countries, unemployment b
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by abraae 5y ago
The opposite. No sign up with Google, too much friction if there is another service that does offer it.
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by abraae 5y ago
At the other end of the scale is a data model designed for extreme extensibility. If you ever hear anyone bragging that their data model is entirely metadata driven, and can be used to model anything - without changing the database - that&#
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by abraae 5y ago
There was no edit to my original content, and I'm astonished that anyone could read into it that raising children is work of zero value - that has nothing whatsoever to do with what I said.
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by abraae 5y ago
It's surprising that human society has survived, given that half the population was artificially excluded from many intellectual pursuits - or many pursuits full stop really - and the other half perhaps underperformed as they wallowed

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