an_opabinia

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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Adobe is one of those companies that [isn’t] nice… See for example, [it charges money for software] The absolute state of HN.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
If the son of a Tencent executive had a video game idea, it has a ton of value. I don’t know, there are a lot of games out there that are “well executed” that no one plays. Lots of indie developers who repeatedly make hits, and yet still no
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
You could say all the same things about video games. Serious mental health costs. Reinforce bad behaviors (like procrastination and inability to delay gratification). There are even almost nude characters in video games, mainstream ones lik
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
There are lots of human endeavors that have zero shareholders, involve computers, and the people doing them think about security exactly 0 minutes out of the day and everyone thrives. This is to say that the opinion about how it’s the botto
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Is it? Benchmarks routinely show the async native database drivers outperforming JDBC ones in Java, and evented (async) IO is king in the only other contenders, C++ and Rust runtimes for RESTful and other server apps.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Most people are best served by the big vendor OCRs. In my experience Amazon’s works the best, followed closely by Microsoft and Google at a distant third.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
It’s one of the few interesting games out there whose rules can be neatly represented as algebra on binary matrices and still make sense.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Nobody will be playing a competitive FPS with joysticks when the user also owns a PC.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
The Steam Deck is as much Linux as Android is. The reason it will be a better gaming platform is because the users that will buy it will be rich, whereas that is not true generally of Android. This is just my perspective, but it should also
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
You’re not “framing the risk in terms of profit.” You’re talking about a set of equations in your head, that only you know, that come up with weird results like “it takes way more revenue to ‘offset’ an expense” because you’re holding “net”
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Most companies have really rosy gross margins, but really tight net margins, so a $100K expense will take $2.8 Million in revenue to offset it. I don’t think you are interpreting things correctly here. This is both counterintuitive and
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> An interesting thing we saw was that investing in D-list creators could have a way higher ROI than A-list creators. Nobody cares about an “ROI” metric, “marginal minutes of viewing content gained per marginal dollar given to personalit
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
What conversation could this person possibly have on a take like this? So what if the answer was simply “Yes.”
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
It’s pretty incomplete to figure that the coast or the weather are the reasons land is expensive in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> alpha go is special The VC community is in denial about how much Go resembled a problem purpose built to be solved by deep neural networks.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Patients will eventually die or like go blind on “regular” insulin.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> And that's ignoring the who-knows-how-many secret un-released projects that might relate. Most software businesses exist on a tenuous information asymmetry turbocharged by capital (dumping, to reduce prices). The noncompete is abo
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> If I work as a studio musician can I also be working on my own album after hours? Yes. > Why is that obvious? Just because there's a law somewhere that covers both a part of making music and part of making software, and just be
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> It forces you to actively work against git's design goals and implementation. It works against GitHub's design goals. You could work on multiple, logically distinct projects in the same git repository easily, if you so choo
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Most recruiters and hiring managers will never even open your GitHub profile. This is the first thing I do, because seeing the code you write is the very best story of them all. Maybe every person I've worked with who came in with
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Instead of relying on the system to provide security, we're relying on Apple, Google and Microsoft to decide what we can run, or can't run, even though Apple is responsible for distributing 500 million copies of Xcodeghost[3]
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> I get people sending me things that I might like as a screenshot. Great, nice jacket, if only I could click that "buy" button. People like the psychic pleasure of browsing and collecting and making recommendations and having
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t know. Lawyers and doctors also say the workload burns them out. Some doctors have to do 24 hour shifts which are more than 3x physically demanding than working 1 8 hour day. I understand what you mean b
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Getting an education (even an advanced one) is a completely separate thing than entering academia and I suspect you know this. This is the same energy as saying that being the son of an incredibly rich person is a completely separate t
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Anyone who has shown a kid an iPhone would know that touch screens are immensely more intuitive for kids. They can write words in days compared to months of rote handwriting practice. Of course the press around this study will be flawed. An
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
On the contrary the biggest critics of the car’s QA problems are the people driving them. It’s the people who don’t own them who say dumb shit.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
But weren’t all those Google employees trained in the academy? Wasn’t this competition organized and designed by people in the academy? Who defined the goal, who laid not just the foundation but built the whole town? It’s clearly a positive
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> There is not much your local councilman / state rep / US Rep / US Senator / etc can do about a problem with Comcast Because of its presence on public utility poles, there is a lot that they can do about Comcast. Man
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> replace Bash with PowerShell On the contrary I wish Windows shipped with busybox, so that it would be easier to run scripts with some bashisms portably.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> look at everything in your trash can this week. You’re just saying, “if it’s small it’s okay” again. It’s not that reductive. I agree that plastic is bad. I also think throwing away AirPods is bad, for a different reason than plastic i

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