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by andirk 4y ago
I understand that even the safe bet is under water now, but that's a poor strategy to expect that for sure those bonds were safe. Is this true: any hike in interest rates since you bought the bond is usually bad? And they were bottomed
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by andirk 4y ago
To be fair, it's not money printing. They just change a number on a computer at the Federal Reserve. We don't even get cash!!
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by andirk 4y ago
To blame interest rates for banks failing is pretty ridiculous. These giant monsters were shitty with their/our money.
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by andirk 4y ago
Private enterprises are plenty responsible for this situation and similar past situations. Ironically (is it ironic I don't know), SVB got in trouble _because_ of the regulations. Time will tell if that dang govment got ahead of the si
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by andirk 4y ago
If you bought $10 USD of it "at the time", you'd have a giant pile of USD. Who is stupid in that lack of purchase? Point is a lot of things are stupid and turn out to work really well. USD is backed by a computer at the Feder
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by andirk 4y ago
How does a decentralized network go "down"?
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by andirk 4y ago
Bipartisan support from two parties who are usually in the hands of Big [name the industry] doesn't negate it in the slightest. Sure one is more outwardly against any regulation that can negatively affect the ultra rich.
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by andirk 4y ago
I learned C++ on CodeWarrior (and then vi) and its debugger made me require a debugger whenever I write code. I am currently using PHPStorm (or any JetBrains) and its XDebug debugger. For Javascript, I use Brave/Chrome debugger. ...And
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by andirk 4y ago
Wow that is really pathetic. There are easy ways around it but the implication is quite ironic: talking about chat bots taking all the credit for everything and then not letting anyone quote them.
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by andirk 4y ago
No factors that could be considered useful analysis. Something like: since most BTC has been mined + its general popularity + its usefulness, it seemed to me to be undervalued by some 10-20x (when it was 1-3k). Similarly, when it was 50k+,
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by andirk 4y ago
What editor are you using that uses angled quotes on HN plain text comments??
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by andirk 4y ago
"This too shall pass" we would tell each other. You're not getting paid to stress and age like [some animal that ages quickly]. My favorite battle cry of "Fail fast" was from this Microsoft head of something enginee
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by andirk 4y ago
Often times, people would walk up to the devs and ask if we could work on this thing. Often times, especially if they were fat cats in the company, we'd happily switch gears to appease. Our manager homie eventually told us like "L
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by andirk 4y ago
Gold has very little practical value outside of the small % used for manufacturing. Most precious stones have lab-created near equivalents. There is still a multi billion $ market for the real deal. BTC is just a bunch of code so it's
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by andirk 4y ago
I think most of us use Mac because it's the breed standard. If it was something else, then we'd all use that.* * Obviously not Windows though. A linux flavor
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by andirk 4y ago
Let's remember when Marissa Mayer took over Yahoo and quite successfully turned the company around for the better, all while being pregnant if I remember correctly and if I don't then wtf, she banned working from home. https:&#x2
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by andirk 4y ago
"clean" means more formal and specific?? That's often the opposite of clean. But ok understood. I should have read the article. Let's not add LOC if it's not helpful. I finally picked up Typescript to strengthen my
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by andirk 4y ago
Haven't read but it's definitely time to start demanding people write clean code. My house often gets messy, and so does my code. And then I clean my house and refactor my code. I try to steer away from refactoring for the sake of
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by andirk 4y ago
It's probably time to stop recommending "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code"
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by andirk 4y ago
If there was a correct answer to this whole discussion, this down-v'd comment is it. Instagram is being flooded with 20- to 30- something people bragging about how they hate work, hate their coworkers, hate going out with their friends
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by andirk 4y ago
Walls?
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by andirk 4y ago
Didn't bother reading the article. Why does anyone care what Facebook says about the workplace? They have a lot of cool tech for sure, but this whole reinventing how people collaborate on basic shit (not lab science, open heart surgery
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by andirk 4y ago
Am I the only one who almost never gives a F what office set up there is? Loud, quiet, people around, no people, open floor plan, cubicle, office, I just don't care. I'm doing my work and others are doing wtf they want. However, I
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by andirk 4y ago
Netflix had a hack day and one guy made a really cool and simple keyboard shaped in a circle with the cursor in the middle. Every letter was one joystick movement from the center. They buried it. That and other UI blunders convinced me the
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by andirk 4y ago
You're not supposed to speak unkind of Apple products [0] or its peripherals North Face, Patagonia. How is any operating system supposed to log everything an application does and then remove it? If it's allowed to add data beyond
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by andirk 4y ago
Pro-tip: On Instagram, interact with ads that you don't mind. That way the algo picks those or similar ads which makes a more pleasant experience. For example, now I mostly get ads of nice pictures of watches.
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by andirk 4y ago
Agreed. She didn't necessarily decide to click through 20 small clips of lazy cheerleading. She was probably hoping to find a good hit but is satisfied with useless crap because it's better than being present.
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by andirk 4y ago
It seems ad prevalence is directly inversely related to the market in that in a down market, we get flooded with ads to temporarily increase the co's cash flow with more ads, but people this time around are claiming it has completely s
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by andirk 4y ago
Similarly, the various dating apps I have used clearly front-loaded the matches with the objectively attractive women in the area. This has been especially hilarious to me as a female friend will often start the process for me (search store
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by andirk 4y ago
My friend's cat never wanted me to pet her and wouldn't sit near me or anyone much. Now that my friend and his wife have a baby who I assume gets all the attention, that cat says what's up to me every time and wants me to pet

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