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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I agree with this, but I think most people don't, until it's demonstrated Rust kicks ass. Javascript is all the age right now. People might think "I'll get a Javascript job now, and I will learn to optimize later. Javasc
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I'm afraid it's easier to get started as a Javascript developer than a Rust developer. What if it's easier to learn JS optimization quirks than to become an average Rust developer ?
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I agree that knowing yourself is important. It's no use forcing yourself to do things you clearly don't enjoy. However, I want to share a motivational hack with you. I have a bad back. By far the best treatment I got is regular ex
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I have a bit of similar problem. I have a bachelor's degree in CS, but I'm not passionate about programming. I mean, I like it, but in the way that people like strawberries. I enjoy it, but 3 courses a day is too much, or several
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I feel you. For any given subject there are 140 people who are an order of magnitude better/more skilled/smarter than you, and can make much better points in with less text. On the other hand, remember the saying: "Aim for th
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Oh come on. You keep coming back. If nothing else, HN gave you something intriguing.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Don't forget about forking. Lack of source code might not matter for the 98% of application users, but the remaining 2% can modify it for everyone. If people don't like the new direction of OpenOffice or MySQL, they make LibreOffi
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
It's a bit subtle, but Frank Herbert's Dune universe is based on the premise that spoiling convenience is outlawed, and punished by death: --------------------- In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of 1965's Dune, Fr
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I'm not going to get upvotes for that, but some of humanity's most profound achievements happened during times of slavery and feudalism. At times even majority of population labored so that the privileged few could pursue philosop
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I think he's making a good point but arguments it poorly. A better argument would be not that "it makes us less human" etc, but that it teaches people to be lazy and avoid problem solving. It's the "there's an
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Oh please, like cars aren't the most common cause of violent death! There are many good arguments against horses, but it isn't one of them.
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For telephone calls you could use a voice distorter application. The trick would be finding one that sounds quite natural but makes gender hard to identify. Or maybe it's just enough to sound like an old lady?
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
In Poland, right-wingers / conservatives use "lemmings" as a derogatory term for political opponents and basically anyone who doesn't agree with them. It isn't because they're fans of the game from 90's. T
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Pop-ups and autoplay videos inside your email. What could possibly go wrong ?
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Junior developer here. I worked as a programmer for 1.25 years. I left 3 years ago, the company went bankrupt yesterday. When I last checked about it, I saw several of my coworkers replaced with someone else. The boss kept adding people to
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Is writing extensions a lost art? I read a few blog posts about speeding up Python and Ruby with Rust extensions. This should enable rewriting only the slow parts. Later, you could replace more of it if needed. Is writing extensions so very
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Focusing on exterminating of social elite (doctors, lawyers, famous artists, officers, writers, journalists...) is admitting there was an elite. How can a slave race have people creating culture and order?
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
The "polish death camps" laws are intentionally bundled with the more controversial ones that take more time to understand. This makes it easy to craft strawman headlines. As for the word like "szmalcownik", throw it aro
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I don't remember exact source, but I read American leaders didn't like allying with USSR one bit. It's just that it was necessary to stop the Nazis.
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I'm no expert on history, but this is where Nazi ideology seems contradict itself for me: * They claimed that all development in Russia was led by people of German (Aryan) origin, * Yet they focused their efforts on exterminating
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I like to say that Poland has two official religions: * Catholicism * History of Poland As a Pole, I'm dismayed that history is taught as something to treasure, not something to contemplate, discuss and take insight from. Hist
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The Nazis were delighted to ally with Poland for that. They had more foresight and understood this opportunistic move would greatly damage Poland's diplomatic relations with its allies. And it did. I was one of main reasons why Allies
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Hitler had this list of peoples to exterminate: * Jews * Romanies ("gypsies") * Slavs (Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Czechs, modern Macedonians, Serbs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Slovenians...) Jews took the biggest blow, but
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need a coreboot-compatible motherboard ?
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I've heard this point of view before - Robert Kiyosaki, his books and the Cashflow board game. It's based on the assumption that work is something inherently unpleasant, and therefore it needs to be reduced, ideally to 0. Aside fr
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It also strongly applies to aspiring game designers. What many young people don't understand is having an idea doesn't make you special. The devil is usually in the details - execution is harder. Furthermore, learning a useful gam
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To put it in context, Russian Federation has only 15% larger population. Japan's population is 39% of US. Japan is pretty big, even if only 61th by area.
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After thinking about it a bit, one of main advantages of HN and reddit is to me very good signal to noise ratio. Screenshots of Talkyard seem to repeat those "socia" etc icons a lot. Most message boards are ugly in this aspect: th
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I don't mean colors instead of indentation, I mean in addition to. Indentation works well when there are very few replies and few indentation levels. But once there's a long debate, it becomes a well. Then when the well ends it&
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Indentation depth is an issue for me, too. I would solve this differently: color coded post backgrounds (or similar indicators). Parent post = red indentation 1 = orange yellow, blue, green, brown, grey, black, white, etc. Then colors could

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