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Ask HN: Does this old horse have a few years of useful work left?
139 points by andywood 11y ago|107 comments
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by andywood 11y ago
https://goo.gl/FmhaAp Nothing bullet-proof definitive here, but the consensus certainly seems to be that colds are caused by virus entering the respiratory system, nothing more.
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by andywood 11y ago
The subject at hand is valuation. The future is more relevant to valuation than the present.
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by andywood 11y ago
I got my last 2 jobs simply by updating my LinkedIn, and having recruiters contact me. Both were high-paying, high-profile, really painfully awful jobs. I'll be looking out for ways of getting actually good jobs, assuming such a thing
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by andywood 11y ago
During times when I lack rewarding work and relationships, I get diagnosed with clinical depression. During times when I have those things, I feel great. I don't think everybody will ever agree on the distinction.
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by andywood 11y ago
I love programming in general, but I've struggled through my last few jobs. I'm pretty close to hating my current job, despite that fact that I work on a well-known product with millions of users. The analogy that comes to mind is
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by andywood 11y ago
I've never worked in the valley, and I usually don't have much to do with the web or mobile. I don't have a degree, and the subject has literally never once come up in an interview. In 17 years, I've never encountered an
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by andywood 11y ago
I can never understand how Jupiter can be thought to have any significant effect on the fate of Earth, given how tiny it is compared to the solar system, or even just to its own orbit.
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by andywood 12y ago
Professionals do in fact date coworkers. It happens all the time - it's a matter of culture. Spend some time at Microsoft, for example. "Microsoft Married" is in the corporate slang lexicon on the intranet.
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by andywood 12y ago
I've had to use Safari lately because Hulu simply won't work in Chrome. I've also found that some sites that are unusably slow in Chrome scroll like a dream in Safari. It's too bad, because I prefer Chrome's UI. YMM
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by andywood 12y ago
It's not a matter of truth, just convention. "Software Engineer" is a title used in many organizations - not a subtype of engineer. It means programmer. Trying to apply arbitrary qualifications after the fact to make it more
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by andywood 12y ago
Some comments here suggest the possibility of making manual changes to the Rust code. After cross compiling, how does one make changes to the Rust code, then go back and make changes to the Python code, and cross compile again without losin
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by andywood 12y ago
IMO there is an enormous difference. I've always defined hatred in terms like "motivated to kill, for real." Less serious is anger. Far less serious is mischief, which is where I feel most trolling sits. Put another way, if a
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by andywood 12y ago
I have to agree with you. It's never registered as a problem for me. I think of it like an ordinary kitchen knife. Yeah there's an off chance I might cut myself, but 99% of the time I'm just going to enjoy a steak.
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by andywood 12y ago
Seems there's nothing specific in the article about which which changes to DX are supposed to enable CGI quality, or how. Is it more polys/sec for smoother models and more geometry? Maybe a more efficient shared memory architectur
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by andywood 12y ago
As a whole, I think the article finally provides a fair amount of specificness, but I was initially struck by how much space is devoted up front to "he-said she-said". It reminded me of celebrity gossip, sportscasting, and punditr
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by andywood 12y ago
I've seen countless instances where an anecdote is perfectly reasonable and interesting by itself, yet the anecdote itself is denigrated or at least devalued. [1] I don't like it. I don't think it's reasonable to expect
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by andywood 12y ago
Your comment is worthless without at least one footnote with a link to a published study.
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by andywood 12y ago
Or in summary: 1. Our ways > your ways. 2. Nuh uh. 3. (Optional) Wanna fight about it? Iterate! (HN version of #2: "Hyperlinks to statistically rigorous peer reviewed studies or GTFO")
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by andywood 12y ago
I'd say it depends on context. Historically, voxels have been analogous to pixels. This has been somewhat blurred by Minecraft, and the widespread reporting on and discussion of it. At first, the cubes in Minecraft are analogous to ti
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by andywood 12y ago
That's my only point: that there's correlation between his condition, and his rants, therefore we don't say, "That guy?? He 'espouses racist ideology'!! * Screw 'im!" * (actual comment in this thre
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by andywood 12y ago
To anyone brandishing the word 'racist' here, can you point us to any instance where what Terry wrote was not merely a rambling screed with the n-word in it, but actually racist thought. Because to me, those are different things -
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by andywood 12y ago
I think the human mind is over-willing to get lost in dreams. Normal consciousness itself is sort of patchwork and fuzzy. I find it very easy to get lost to the point of immersion already in WoW and Minecraft on a medium-sized screen - he
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by andywood 12y ago
I think most of us have known "real" VR is inevitable ever since the idea clicked, round about 1990 or so. So far it's lacked the urgency that could have made it a "moon landing"- level quest. Maybe it lacks a kille
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by andywood 12y ago
I have quit jobs due to burnout and said it was something else, too.
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by andywood 12y ago
What's happening now? We all carry cel phones that are also personal computers, MP3 players, and gaming machines. They're made by Apple, Microsoft, and Google (which started as a search engine, like Lycos. Kurzweil and Berners-Lee
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by andywood 12y ago
Don't panic. The page is titled "Essential...", but unless you're beginning a new AAA engine by yourself, much of this laundry list is more like "Interesting"
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by andywood 12y ago
I see. I was thinking generally about tools / libs / ecosystem, and platform presence. I actually didn't realize Haskell was already so established.
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by andywood 12y ago
Now, as a follow-up: is anything holding back Rust?
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by andywood 12y ago
A lot of times people like the idea of a thing more than the thing. Meanwhile, a lot a people hate on C++, which they're only able to do because they learned its nuanced spec, which they only did because it had already reached critical

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