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by bennysomething 4y ago
To the people who responded to what I wrote, thanks. I think both views are right in a way. I don't even think that the disagreement here is a real disagreement it's just different ways at looking at things. There's truth in
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Yes went through this. Early 30s my dad died, completely changed my view on what I was doing. He was self employed and successful. I started to hate working for someone else. I really started to dislike being a developer. Kept trying to fin
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Me too, how strange! I do something very similar, except I look from underneath each shelf as then I can see items that are behind bigger items.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/06/08/sweet-dreams-are-mad...
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by bennysomething 4y ago
You might like the book "beautiful code"
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by bennysomething 4y ago
One of the ex rare Goldeneye Devs said in an interview that the N64 not having a cd drive lost them that generation. I think he's probably mostly right. Cartridges were not only an anti piracy move, it saved on cost of console manufact
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Ah I see! Thanks
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by bennysomething 4y ago
That's a good way of looking at domain knowledge "one layer up". I'm have been terrible at this in the past and I have been making an effort to improve. Business knowledge seems to provide the most leverage, especially i
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Genuine question, what do you mean escape html by default?
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Have you heard of a book called Dominion? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43885149-dominion I was also an atheist fundamentalist, I still don't think I believe in God, but that book showed me how Christia
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by bennysomething 4y ago
http://www.tartansauthority.com/global-scots/us-scots-histor... The term redneck has quite a funny (if you are from northern Ireland or scotland) origin. Maybe mildly interesting to everyone else :) Though obviously it
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by bennysomething 4y ago
I'm on Android and have done no extra config other than use Firefox and install ublock add-on. I get nearly zero ads. Plus I think there's an add-on that allows you to continue listening with screen locked.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Had me in stitches that line :)
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by bennysomething 4y ago
I'm not in America and I use it twice a day, non alcoholic one though. Dentists have all told me it's good to use. is it not!?
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Genuine question, what happened to your uncle? Was he screwed in the 2007/8 crash? A close family member of mine was nearly bankrupted when the banks tightened lending policy.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
"Of a 100-page grammar book, you may need 3 pages, or less." Or fewer!! (I think)
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by bennysomething 4y ago
I haven't read the article but I have read this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forgotten-Slave-Trade-European-Slav... Not the best book I've read but it was pretty eye opening. Slavery was pretty much universal since t
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by bennysomething 4y ago
"That crisis is caused, in part, by the failure to appropriately use valuable in-demand land for its best purpose. " So this is all based on the assumption that the government knows what the best use of your land is.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
So you are certain that you know who invented this and that it was "appropriated"? (Whatever appropriated means)
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by bennysomething 5y ago
Yeah maybe it was that not sure!
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by bennysomething 5y ago
Diminishing returns? Covid vaccines that can be developed over a weekend due to computing power don't sound like diminishing returns, more like we are just getting started.
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by bennysomething 5y ago
I think the idea of deep work has a place too. I haven't read the book but I think it touch's Linus locking himself away at a critical point in Linux's development. Bill gates did something similar (not sure what he was worki
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by bennysomething 5y ago
You are very right. What I said was sort of incorrect. I'm referring to this in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_Country_Planning_Ac... In particular it means that owning land does not automaticall
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by bennysomething 5y ago
You might be right, but there was an interesting thing on BBC radio 4 s few years ago, an British architect who grew up in Lebanon explained that he thought the UK should bin it's planners completely as all that had been built post ww2
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by bennysomething 5y ago
Best thing about living in older European cities is they don't have this stupid zoning, they mixed commercial and housing because that's how people chose to live before planners got invented after ww2. Now planners are patting the
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by bennysomething 5y ago
Is there anything in game theory related to this? (Very naive question, so probably not) But yes my intuition when selling my house was "surely I'd get more if this was open bids"
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by bennysomething 5y ago
I doubt there is a conspiracy to stop house building, there's just planning laws that prevent and slow down development. The public want to two contradictory things, homes their children can afford and banning anything that could red
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by bennysomething 5y ago
I think the root cause is supply, demand, the salaries of buyers, interest rates and multiple of salary for mortgages permitted by law.
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by bennysomething 5y ago
This is an interesting question, what is worse for buyers, blind or open bids? Blinds bids prevent bidding wars. They use them in Scotland. Not sure if buyer or seller is better off using them.
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by bennysomething 5y ago
Well he did turn tesla round in a way, as in he wasn't a founder.

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