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by achenet 2y ago
Being good at acquiring fancy academic degrees != Being good at programming. If you ask the top 1% of FAANG engineers, the Jeff Dean's and Ken Thompsons to try to make it as professional ballet dancers, they're probably going to f
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by achenet 2y ago
The problem with the "it could be worse" line of thinking is it ignores that it could also be better. Yes, there are far worse jobs. Yes, being a slave is infinitely worse than being a software engineer. But that's like sayin
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by achenet 2y ago
This is exactly my experience. I like to think I'm a decent thinker. I've spent the past 6 months basically in constant burnout, started smoking again and am up to a pack a day now, because my job is "we're going to tell
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by achenet 2y ago
motorcycles are also significantly more dangerous, regrettably. I used to be very into them when I was younger, and then having multiple friends get into motorcycle accidents kinda turned me off of them :/
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by achenet 2y ago
you could argue that the Islamic caliphates were also relatively benign, as far as hegemonies go.
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by achenet 2y ago
to my knowledge, Sun never actually made money off of Java, their main source of revenue was always selling hardware (indeed, one of the reasons Oracle bought them out was because Oracle was one of the biggest consumers of Sun's hardwa
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by achenet 2y ago
am I allowed to answer my own? https://arielche.net/ I also quite like Dan Luu's website https://danluu.com/
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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?(longform.asmartbear.com)
3 points by achenet 2y ago|1 comments
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by achenet 2y ago
France is not, and has never been, ethnically homogeneous (I'm French). It was always a mix of different peoples - Celtic, then Romans when they invaded, then various Germanic peoples (including the Franks that gave the country it&#x27
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by achenet 2y ago
this is a really intelligent way to reframe unsolicited criticism, thanks for sharing it :)
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by achenet 2y ago
Interest. "oh, X sounds cool, let's try that!" Of course, I should clarify that I generally have multiple side-projects going on at any given time. If I'm not getting paid for it, I let myself do whatever I feel like doi
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by achenet 2y ago
Look up Clarence Bass [0] You can stay impressively fit well into your 80s :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Bass
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by achenet 2y ago
if you believe that enabling people to easily communicate with each other and access basically the sum total of humanity's knowledge whenever they want is a good thing (ie if you think giving people iPhones so they can message each oth
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Outdoor Consumerism(arielche.net)
2 points by achenet 2y ago|0 comments
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by achenet 2y ago
If you're working with C, your developer environment should include, in addition a good text editor and debugger, a fully furnished recording studio so you can record an album while waiting for your program to build. If you'd like
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by achenet 2y ago
how is Spotify generating a bunch of of royalty free music in a way that kinda screws over the actual musicians making that music, which, for the musicians, isn't much worse than getting screwed over by record labels and may even be be
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by achenet 2y ago
I prefer YouTube Music's webapp and Android app to Spotify, personally.
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Ask HN: What do you think of Agile/Scrum?
2 points by achenet 2y ago|4 comments
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by achenet 2y ago
I'm a programmer, I know linear algebra (I actually have a master's degree in maths). I grew up in Houston, lived there from 1998 to 2010, but never got a citizenship owing to some of my father's medical issues disqualifying
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by achenet 2y ago
This is an interesting article. I do appreciate the focus on pair programming, which is probably something that's really helped me improve as a programmer, and their process seems quite interesting. It would be interesting to see this
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by achenet 2y ago
well, congratulations to pg for bucking that trend with the desgin of HN :)
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by achenet 2y ago
I'm an amateur musical artist and writer of literature, and while I agree with you on the importance of the creative act - fundamentally speaking, I've come to accept that my music practice, like a good diet and exercise routine a
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by achenet 2y ago
interesting, thanks for sharing this ^_^ I'd heard that towards the end of WW2 Hitler was getting daily shots of speed/meth administered by his doctors, who told him it was 'vitamins' but didn't know he did other st
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by achenet 2y ago
cannabis and opium are both smokable, and accord to TFA were both present in Central Europe during the ancient times.
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by achenet 2y ago
no, I'm pretty sure that's basically it. "we found something that kinda looks like a coke spoon in some Germanic warrior burials, let's see what drugs were available to people back then - opium, nightshades, cannabis and
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by achenet 2y ago
Mourtada was a professor of mine during undergrad. Really happy to see him in this article ^_^
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by achenet 2y ago
apologies for the pendantic nitpick, but: iOS is based on Darwin which is BSD based, and Android is based on Linux, which is heavily inspired by Unix. So technically, we are "all running some unix os on our phones"... perhaps you
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by achenet 2y ago
ok, thanks for the warning :)
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by achenet 2y ago
ok, I guess from what you say Math Overflow might be my best bet then, I'd like to have the competence of a professional mathematician, even if I work as a software engineer because it pays more :)
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Ask HN: Good Online Maths Communities?
85 points by achenet 2y ago|27 comments

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