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by bittired 13y ago
This brings up a good question: Is RMS a hacker? He has made important contributions, and at one point could have been considered so, but what has he created lately that is worthy of the title? Some titles like "doctor" are really
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by bittired 13y ago
> I still understand "hacker" to mean someone who re-tasks something from one use to another. I dont see it as computer specific. So, if I beat someone with a phone, I'm a hacker? > when Apollo whatever number went wron
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by bittired 13y ago
> Somewhat surprisingly, hacking isn’t at all about technology. It’s about community. It's like a Sociology grad student (in this case, somewhat surprisingly, a Law student) read the following from "How To Become A Hacker"
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by bittired 13y ago
> Not enough people have the gut and commitment to create or help create something truly meaningful. That's not the whole story by any means. No matter where you are the problems are almost always money and time. In this case, how m
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by bittired 13y ago
A neat design here, but I'd rather see designs that are more creative. What about an iShirt whose color could change via bluetooth from your phone, depending on how many unread emails you have? And the quote about graphene was distract
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by bittired 13y ago
I cannot believe that the #1 comment responding to his thanks is basically a political one to raise awareness of the "broken" U.S. healthcare system, so I'll respond in-kind. What was broken in this case was described by his
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by bittired 13y ago
RVM is not that terrible. If your biggest difficulty in Ruby or Rails is RVM, you haven't been around long. The cause of problems for beginners is quite simply "change". Rails has been through a few major revisions now, and t
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by bittired 13y ago
Access modifiers provide limited access control that should not be depended on. They are there to indicate what is in no way contractually agreed to retain the same implementation between versions of that code. So, test what you want, but t
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by bittired 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss Those are stories that pass muster. The reason why you shouldn't rely on score-based is that someone will game the system and it will become worthless. PG helps choose the main feed&#x2
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Ask HN: Why do you think what you are doing is worthwhile?
6 points by bittired 13y ago|2 comments
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by bittired 13y ago
I completely and wholeheartedly disagree with this post. Though Google might be the pinnacle of employment, at most jobs, if you leave, you can often get a salary or rate increase. On top of that, some employers will ask if you got fired an
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by bittired 13y ago
> eight hundred continuous hours of play That is supposed to be eight, not eight-hundred. Someone should edit these before they are posted. It was stated as eight hours at the top, so there is little excuse to get this wrong.
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by bittired 13y ago
Libertarians != libertarians. The difference is that Libertarians are a party and libertarians like to party. :) The Pauls are fiscally conservative which is only 1/2 of the Libertarian equation. The party stands for social liberalism
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by bittired 13y ago
> Whatever you thought about Ron Paul, his politics would have prevented all of this. All of the wars. All the foreign aid. And we would live in paradise ;) This made me laugh. Considering how much Republicans and Tea Partiers are ostrac
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by bittired 13y ago
HTTP 2.0 is going to happen whether we complain about it here or not. While we can certainly wait and see whether people will balk and make changes, the only true way to stop it is to replace it. If you can write a better set of protocols t
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by bittired 13y ago
If that is the prime directive, we're doing a really poor job at it. We haven't even gotten off the planet and we already have started to deplete resources we rely on and either ignore or deride those that provide us with food whi
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by bittired 13y ago
I think the prime directive stated is a little too long and lofty. Instead how about: "Love or die"?
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by bittired 13y ago
Thanks! I'll definitely take a read of those. I'd also like to take the Strong Interest Inventory but already think I'm an Artistic + Realistic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_codes
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by bittired 13y ago
Looks like maybe PG changed the title to removing "fucking". Sorry for the offense! Thank you for fixing it.
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by bittired 13y ago
Good suggestion for some, but those that know me know I would give away the farm and would be a poor salesman. I'm also not outgoing and don't enjoy seeing people and relationships as a means to an end.
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by bittired 13y ago
Good idea for some. Unfortunately, I have not directly interacted with many outside of my team at each company, and all of those teams are developers and almost all still work in development.
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by bittired 13y ago
I have tried teaching in the past, but it isn't my strong suit. I enjoy manual labor, but I'm not sure I could do it full-time and know myself well-enough that I couldn't manage various teams, etc. to work my salary closer to
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Ask HN: I'm tired of development. What should I do next?
3 points by bittired 13y ago|13 comments