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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
But is there a social equivelent in tech? If anything, in tech, "anyone who doesn't know exactly what I know is an idiot" send to be the dominant attitude. And management generally sees anyone in tech as a socially stunted
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
We can't retreat to the comfortable confines of our algorithms and code, the real world needs us and needs us now. Judging by the comments here, HNers have nothing to offer the real world (of politics) other than shrill shrieking abo
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
I have no idea how my car works. I find this weird. As I proceeded through Comp sci in high school, going from Pascal to C to assembler, I was always troubled by my lack of understanding, "but why does it work?" That anxiety
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
In the USA, heroin overdosing now takes more lives than all homocides I'd been hearing about the heroin epidemic for years. I saw articles about needles in Golden Gate park, I saw discarded needles and black-lit[1] restrooms in Vanc
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
I don't know why you've been downvoted, since IMO you raise a valid point. I've known a few prepper types. They had plans for escape rooms, a significant cache of weapons, some ammo, and a few MREs in the closet. Nobody had
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
Back in 2009, you could join, I think, two "networks" and easily search and browse within those networks, firing off messages to anyone who seemed interesting. IIRC, that functionality disappeared a few years ago. Now FB is almo
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
The article it links to higher up (the part about the tribe knowing what the hunters killed from 50 miles away) is a fascinating read about telepathy that vacillates between vaguely scientific analysis and outright fantasy. I enjoyed it fr
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
You can be confident but humble. I agree with you in principle, but again, I don't think that's a winning strategy. A humble, competent woodworker creates a piece that's beautiful, visually rich, has a solid, study feel to
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
In my opinion, "be humble" isn't a winning strategy. Don't be so arrogant that you stop improving or fail to understand mistakes, but by all means don't be humble. Be proud of who you are and the work you've d
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
In my opinion, the greatest advantage to an automatic is never getting ripped off by a watch repair place again. With past watches, one little issue that required a visit to a repair shop would inevitably incur the $30 "the battery nee
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now. Nope. Not even close. We survived the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam War protests. For all our online angst and whining, we're not even 1/10th as far toward the tipping
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
These are usually techniques to weed out people that the people defending those strategies think (consciously or not) are unfit. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
(terse && correct) != helpful The art in writing documentation is in effective communication to a varied target audience, not in simply fulfilling the obligation to be technically correct.
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
There is a weird meme that tech people aren't capable of being "team players" or working with other people. This is purely anecdotal, but at one particularly memorable company, the head of HR would regularly make casual com
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
What?
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
your problem here is that you consider climate change something you can believe in or not, and consider it as such. GP didn't say anything like that. You're all jumping on him in a strawman beat-down party.
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
That varies wildly by the design of the glasses. I tried rock climbing once with my glasses instead of contacts and it was intolerable. It wasn't immediately obvious how often I relied on a quick flick of the eyes to the outer edges
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
Have you tried oral probiotics? Mind you, I have no reason to believe they'll help you, but at this point why not? I think I first heard about them on HN. BLIS and K12 are the keywords, if I remember correctly.
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
I think it's simply because the election cycle was excellent fodder for the already-increasing fake news trend. Incidentally, here's an interesting podcast episode where they track down and interview a fake news producer. I don&#
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
What basis do you have for either of those claims? What sort of irregular streets do you think "serious" road bikers use, and why do you think serious road bikers don't also use a bike for shopping?
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
I'm not particularly interested in gender and race, I'm interested in culture. Gender and race happen to be pretty easy metrics to break up monoculture on a typical programming team. The term diversity by itself has no meaning.
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
Wouldn't homogeneous teams make "jelling" easier? In my opinion, no. It's been my experience that a large portion of programmers are the type to easily lose track of the real goal (delivering a product that generates
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by awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
retina itself is a buzzword and literally means "high pixel density" No, 'Retina' means that the pixel density exceeds what the eye can distinguish at the expected viewing distance. IMO, it's a much smarter way to