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Ask HN: Underground Vacation Destinations?
8 points by acuozzo 4y ago|13 comments
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Excellent work!
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I laugh every time I see it, but PNAS has been around since 1915. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceedings_of_the_National_Ac...
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Got it. Thanks! Perhaps he can just reply here instead (if he's interested, of course).
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by acuozzo 4y ago
You have to, at the very least, vet the problem domain first though, no? Building hundreds of AviSynth filters won't bring in a cent.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I do this too, but the larger issue I face is that none of my ideas are even the slightest bit marketable. I suppose I naturally gravitate to problem domains with little market potential. I don't know why. I go into more detail here:
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by acuozzo 4y ago
If you have some time, would you mind replying to my "Ask HN"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217221 Thanks!
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by acuozzo 4y ago
This is my story as well, more or less. Want to compare notes? Perhaps figuring out what we have in common would help us understand what we're doing wrong.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The Linux kernel doesn't.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The issue is that many people view inquisitiveness now as a dog whistle due to its increasing use in bad faith by extremists. It's called "sealioning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The issue is that many people have my problem (click below), but no scruples. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217221 The desire is there, but the idea(s) aren't and it's not for lack of trying. I've be
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Isn't this essentially the difference between motivation and discipline though? The standard advice around these parts is that relying on motivation/passion is an easy way to lose steam once the going gets tough. I imagine this is
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Ask HN: What do people want from SaaS nowadays?
7 points by acuozzo 4y ago|5 comments
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Sure, but if you're a weirdo then the problems you have are not necessarily marketable.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> the world won't go down due to climate change. It won't go down because of some silly war either. When most collapse-aware persons write about "the end of the world" they mean "the end of complex human civiliza
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Did you make a video about this on YouTube? The YouTube app on my TV autoplayed a video last night while I was doing chores around the house. I didn't get to listen to it closely, but I overheard "Gupta SQLWindows" (for the f
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Framing obesity as a choice is at least as useless as framing any other drug addiction as a choice. I don't understand why the discourse on this topic so rarely focuses on its root cause: food addiction. Is it just easier to think of f
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by acuozzo 5y ago
Are you interested in teaming up to build one? I've been meaning to write a tremendous header for compiler & compiler version identification.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> The C community would do well to acknowledge that build and packaging system convergence is overdue. This would require an enormous amount of planning and forward thinking to pull off successfully. I mean, hell, there isn't even a
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by acuozzo 5y ago
1. It's far easier to populate a dishwasher after feeding e.g. a family of four than it is to immediately wash all of the utensils, dishes, bowls, pots, and pans. This task is usually delegated to one member of a household in the US. 2
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by acuozzo 5y ago
Have you really never met a guy with OCPD?
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> Even very poor people have very high standards of material living. True, but their standard of living is still worse than that of their parents which is what I believe OP is trying to convey. It's no longer possible for an assembl
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> and in some places, recursion is verboten, along with memory allocation) Indeed. This was the case for my project at work. With that being said, one can always hand-roll recursion with iteration by pushing the state onto their own loca
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by acuozzo 5y ago
One thing I noticed while using your code as a reference for a project I worked on several weeks ago is that it doesn't record the state before following the pointer, so unless the pointer you follow eventually leads to another pointer
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by acuozzo 5y ago
Apple has been there since the start of OS X thanks to NeXT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UiGnpmwAJk
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by acuozzo 5y ago
My hunch is that it's for roughly the same reasons so many people bought disposable cameras in the 80s/90s/00s. 1. Low initial investment: Disposable cameras were cheap to buy and so are most SaaS subscriptions, at least in t
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> On the other hand, `sizeof (int8_t)` is the same size no matter which architecture you are running on. EDIT: See account42's reply below. ORIGINAL COMMENT: No, it's not. CHAR_BIT is not required to be 8 and sizeof (int8_t) is
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> You could imagine a subset of C that does away with macros, typedefs, etc. in order to be easier to parse, and in doing so forms a more accessible ABI specification language. A start? https://github.com/cil-project&#x2F
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by acuozzo 5y ago
No, it does not. With that being said, I suggest reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th... When/if you're done reading, please tell me who defends the little guy when both
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> the switch statement is really just an “if” statement in disguise If the switch is over a fixed set of strings, then can't the backend generate a perfect hash function ala gperf and then proceed to use the computed hash value to i

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