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by benched 13y ago
I have very often worried about how much goes undone, because it can't be done for a profit. As a musician who has never made a cent from it, I know that I make what I make because I want to. I know there are people who make crazy art&
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by benched 13y ago
Have you ever received praise, or even an award, for being great at something despite having no clue what you’re doing? No. I have to know years worth of mountains worth of knowledge and skills to get even the slightest nod from anybody.
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by benched 13y ago
Nor is it really important that people reading this understand.
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by benched 13y ago
Hacker News commenters spin pseudo-economic yarns like frogs say ribbit. If the really real reason why the chef made $20M is really because he contributed as much value as the engineers, and if that is not just a cheering sentiment, then we
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by benched 13y ago
You are not wrong. The majority of comments in this thread, and the original article, are all written as if by people who do not actually know what the current state of the art even is. They just know their favorite video game is disappoint
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by benched 13y ago
Since this is inherently a moving-goalposts conversation, I am not going to argue with you. I will say that, speaking as a graphics programmer who has been writing advanced renderers for more than 20 years, I do think the sense of your comm
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by benched 13y ago
I am a long-time 3D graphicist, and have written numerous software and accelerated renderers. I am really struggling to see the point of this article (it seems trivial and tautological to me), although I'll be glad if it generates some
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by benched 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis The chef got $20M because Google gave him stock options early, which later became worth $20M. That's mostly all the explanation this needs. It's mechanical.
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by benched 13y ago
Well, sure, if you're pulling assertions out of thin air that agree with your narrow-minded views, and declaring them fact.
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by benched 13y ago
Oh, ok. Look everyone, now it's the number that's the problem. How many more ways can we think of to discredit this notion, which is clearly so in need of discrediting? Get to work, people.
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by benched 13y ago
I think you are presenting a pristine idealization of a free market that doesn't exist in the world.
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by benched 13y ago
In Internet argument fashion, a bunch of people will just jump all over you, and take your words through every useless permutation of meaning they can think of, for which they can contrive a shallowly plausible counterargument. I grow more
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by benched 13y ago
You are thinking of a different class of people than I am.
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by benched 13y ago
I.e.: Let's explore every possible angle from which we could detract from the phenomenon. Leave no stone unturned! By my count, I've worked with 6 of these mythical creatures at 3 jobs in 15 years. Is that rare? I don't think
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by benched 13y ago
I agree it's too bad. I also think the problem is many orders of magnitude larger than I am. That is, the ol' "being the change I want to see in the world" will most likely end with me getting shafted. Until the day pigs
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by benched 13y ago
And yet nobody denies there was something highly unusual about Michael Jordan.
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by benched 13y ago
I haven't actually done this, not to this extent. Still, I absolutely see myself morphing more in Roy's general direction as I get older. I see it a little like extracting karma from the world on my own terms. That is, in my youth
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by benched 13y ago
I honestly think a lot of you have gone plainly insane from years of Internet arguing, and can now write verbose devil's advocate arguments for absolutely anything.
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by benched 13y ago
I downvoted it because people will go to any rhetorical lengths, including "un-defining" the very word intelligence to death, just to believe some people aren't more intelligent than others. Oh, new rule! We can concede there
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by benched 13y ago
Oh please. How utterly patronizing. Even down to the hackneyed "humbled" cliche in the first sentence. Jan Koum and WhatsApp, just take your billions and go buy a yacht. Are you really having fun trying to control the message? Wil
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by benched 13y ago
Tons of 10x hate in here already. Is there a reason this is such a stumbling block for people? Is there a reason that isn't tinged by sour grapes? I'm like 99% convinced that I've worked with such people and seen what they ca
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by benched 13y ago
Let's reduce the fox's many points of knowledge down to a single principle, to make him more symmetrical with the hedgehog. Ok, why?
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by benched 13y ago
I think there exist potential implementations of virtualization that are not detectable from inside the virtualization.
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by benched 13y ago
I really find this type of verbal meta- rearranging to be incredibly unhelpful. It reminds me strongly of arguments that atheism is a religion, or that abstaining from a choice is a choice. It's a kind of word-lawyering that never impr
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by benched 13y ago
As a sufferer of various mental things, I feel like the suffering and problems can be real, and the diagnoses and explanations still carry a heavy bullshit component.
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I'm more likely to act as if I trust others, which is behaviorally very similar to trusting others. I don't, though.
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by benched 13y ago
German people writing iOS software must be having a hard time then. Seriously, even in the context of cultural sensitivity, this seems pretty silly to me. Really? National Socialism gets to own the letters NS for the rest of time? I mean, i
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Yes, and it matters. It makes it easier.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation I really, truly despise middle positions. They're just concessions made to incorrect people.
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by benched 13y ago
I love the way this short, badly written article rises up the front page with only 4 points, while several times a day, a lively discussion will be suddenly swatted from the front page to the 8th for no discernible reason.

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