andyjdavis

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by andyjdavis 11y ago
>We don't like conformity. I forget if there is a name for this phenomena, probably, but people are strongly biased towards thinking that they are open minded, that they don't like conformity etc. Everyone likes to think that t
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by andyjdavis 11y ago
>My favorite was a visiting professor from MGU (Moscow State University) teaching 5th graders how to translate Babylonian Cuneiform, including how to infer meaning of writing that no spoken reference exists for. Not really useful right n
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by andyjdavis 11y ago
This jumped out at me. >I am now lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel to many different countries and I sadly realized that this planet is not nearly as big as I hoped when I was a kid. Fly less. I find that my sense of how big
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by andyjdavis 11y ago
Bah, HN seems to have eaten my original response. Retyping... >do you have kids while living in a walkable city? I do although my collection is limited to a single 1 year old at this time. >Other days its simply that we haven't g
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by andyjdavis 11y ago
>Personally I found plenty of little things to love about otherwise horrible dead end jobs, but that wasn't really the reason to keep going back to work, I was there to get paid to live my life outside of work because the job itself
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by andyjdavis 11y ago
Its worth noting that in walkable cities people shop more frequently as a rule. If where you do your shopping is within a short walk of your home it becomes practical to buy stuff most days. In fact if you are traveling to and from work or
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by andyjdavis 11y ago
>and like to drink. I actually wonder how big a factor changes around drink driving are. Certainly in Australia (where I am from) blood alcohol limits have decreased during my lifetime and police enforcement has massively increased. It i
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
>our DST does not quite align with the switchover in the US, but only by a couple of days, and b) out of the four states on the east coast time zone, one of them does not use DST which makes things more confusing. Quite a few years ago I
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
>it can take a few months to finish the entire process with Google. That is not too bad for such a large company really. Personally I have always worked for small software companies where the hiring process frequently consists of one int
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
>It feels like there's a constant friction to overcome--like every choice takes a bit more willpower than it should. I think this is part of the reason that truly counter-cultural people and movements tend to segregate themselves fr
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
I am just surprised that it is apparently still going. I last listened to a Mixergy interview in 2011 I think. A big life change at the end of that years makes me reasonably confident that 2011 was the last time I heard Andrew Warner's
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
Can you (or anyone else) explain why these occur? Is it simply a case of the acquirer wanting the technology and maybe the personnel while the acquired company is losing money hand over fist so they just shut the company down?
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
>know how to minimize complexity I don't think this gets nearly enough praise when assessing people. I've worked at a few different software companies with a raft of different programmers and among those who were deemed "s
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
In theory late fees would work well but in practice a large enterprise dealing with a small supplier is likely to do one of two things: 1) Flat out refuse to agree to late fees. They get removed from the deal or the whole thing is off. 2) S
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
My wife and I travel a great deal and have had the chance to spend at least a little time in relatively undeveloped areas where people still fish, farm and so on to provide some or all of their regular diet. Note that it being a primarily a
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
It would be nice to hope so but I'm actually unsure. We are becoming more efficient with resource management because our resources are increasingly constrained. If those constraints are removed, over the course of a few generations, it
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
> It has an essentially limitless supply of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur available to it. Are you able to provide a rough summary of how the quantities of these materials compare with the quantities available on earth? It wasn&#x
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
Its probably relevant that games, the law, medicine and start ups are all perceived as being quite glamorous by many. The games industry seems quite similar to the music and fashion industries in some ways. They are all glamour industries t
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
Those are actually rather interesting questions. The completely honest answer is I don't really know. The man in the street will typically say "of course you need a work permit" but I am not so sure. The practical answer is n
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
Serious question, what is a "co-working vacation"? If you are working surely your employer doesn't expect you to use your vacation time. I have been remote working full-time for over 3 years while my wife and I have traveled
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
The use of the word vacation in relation to remote work is definitely odd. I personally have been a full-time remote worker for over 3 years now (I'm Australian but sitting in an apartment in Barcelona right now) and work with a bunch
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
>Since "losing email" is more-or-less impossible in year 2015 Actually losing email is basically impossible but non-technical people still do it all the time. What they mean is that they can't find the email they are after
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
I would guess most are either "burrito", "password", "1234" or similar with the remainder being forgotten by the person who set it the instant they entered it. I am curious what percentage have a reasonably str
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
>this makes me think that the main problem probably comes from the age of the infrastructure. I suspect this is the cause. I don't know what level of technology is running behind the scenes but it certainly didn't feel anywhere
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
>yet kind of efficient I dispute the efficiency of London public transport. On paper it looks great but it has some major reliability problems. I don't know if "signal failure" is some sort of catch all error code but it s
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
>If you wanted to try something more exotic, you can do the digital nomad thing and rent somewhere in Thailand for ~$100 a month, I feel like I should point out that getting something that cheap in Thailand is difficult and certainly wil
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
Not sure if this is relevant but Moodle (open source course management software) has a job board for Moodle related stuff. Its mostly in person jobs but there are some remote gigs. https://moodle.org/mod/data/view.
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
I'm curious. Did they excuse the bill or was this a $1000 lesson?
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
Although I imagine being able to conduct research but never commercially exploit any discoveries made without the prospect of winding up in court would have a significant chilling effect on research funding.
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by andyjdavis 12y ago
> It's seem that it will be really difficult to get translation near the quality of pure text translation I am fairly suspicious of this new product given that text translation is not exactly a solved problem. My wife and I travel a

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