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by bootsz 8y ago
Yes yes yes. For years I've been hoping for someone to launch a business to solve this. It exists for dress clothes but I'm not sure if anyone is doing for jeans. I want to be able to just send in a pair of my favorite jeans an
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by bootsz 8y ago
I'd love a service like this for denim jeans
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by bootsz 8y ago
Amen
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by bootsz 8y ago
I have an early 2013 MBP that I'm going to hang on to as long as I possibly can. It is truly a wonderful machine. I'm long out of warranty and just opted to pay $600 for repairs rather than upgrade. Really hope apple can turn t
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by bootsz 8y ago
Yeah, this. I've noticed some people in my family / social circle have starting using Evite for event invitations in the past year or so, presumably because they know a lot of people don't check facebook regularly anymore.
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by bootsz 8y ago
I fully expect that but it's not an argument to not pursue it in the first place. A lot of people (myself included) seem to get stuck early on in life trying to immediately jump to some grand vision or purpose without figuring out the
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by bootsz 8y ago
I'm still early-ish in my career as a software engineer but currently I'm deriving meaning from pursuing mastery of my craft; trying to get better every day, tackle harder and more advanced problems. For me this pursuit feels mea
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by bootsz 8y ago
Same. He was a hero to me as well. I'm devastated
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by bootsz 8y ago
This. To me Microsoft has basically become the embodiment of mediocrity in tech. Just about everything they offer, maybe other than Office, is a worse version of a better product by someone else. And they can still rake in profits because
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by bootsz 8y ago
IMO the problem is that today we generally still only have one name for all of these jobs (software dev|engineer) when it reality we probably need 2 or 3. It makes planning one's career and searching for the right job very difficult.
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by bootsz 8y ago
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by bootsz 8y ago
I don't think he means typical TV millionaire lifestyle. It's referencing things like being able to "travel the world" which many people think requires being rich; when it reality it can be totally doable if you have en
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by bootsz 8y ago
> Not to mention, your life is going to be pretty miserable if you're working two jobs and spending a lot of effort on living frugal. Agreed. A few follow-up points: 1. Frugality isn't a binary state. There's a balance t
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by bootsz 8y ago
Reminds me of this quote, can't remember by whom (maybe Tim Ferris?) something along the lines of: "You don't really want a million dollars; what you really want is the kind of life that you think you need a million dollars t
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by bootsz 8y ago
Yeah, there's the Tangier Island in Virginia where people have an accent that some claim is closer to the English accent spoken in pre-colonial times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16320595
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by bootsz 8y ago
It's definitely important. My point is simply questioning whether it's really critical to always get it right from day one. Certain types of refactoring like public -> private really aren't always that hard in a closed sy
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by bootsz 8y ago
> In the attempt to make this move, the first step will be to find all the places in the code-base that make use of this public property and fix those so that they don’t do this anymore. If the tooling around the project is amazing, the
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by bootsz 8y ago
Every day I become more convinced that we've really let tech get a little too out of control, and could probably benefit from putting the brakes on a bit to get some very critical stuff under control first (e.g. security/privacy).
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by bootsz 8y ago
Exactly. This is related to The Deathbed Fallacy, discussed recently in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17112241
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by bootsz 8y ago
As with many things in life, I think the takeaway is that it's all about balance and moderation. The classic "deathbed" list is illustrative of one type of lifestyle "out of balance", but the author makes a very go
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by bootsz 8y ago
Yep, 100% this. I recently finished a series of interviews after extensive preparation and had at least 3 sessions that went something like this. Practice enough problems and eventually you start seeing them crop up in real interviews. Do
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by bootsz 8y ago
> How do you deal with the fact that we don't know why anything at all exists? Why, for instance, do atoms, subatomic particles, etc, exist AT ALL? Why not NOTHING? The "why something instead of nothing" question is one
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by bootsz 8y ago
> It would be nice to have nerdy interests and sensibilities be the norm for once; to get to feel as if society is organized with me in mind, and not feel a bit like an anthropologist observing an alien civilization. For real though...
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by bootsz 8y ago
Too real...
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by bootsz 8y ago
> Moments later, 33 inches (84 centimeters) of lake history break the surface. > The results of previous coring studies suggest that this sample represents about 1,500 years, which carbon-14 dating of the mud will later confirm. A ba
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by bootsz 8y ago
> Learn how to master the art of baking the programmer way. If you love programming, you will also enjoy breaking some bread. As a hobbyist sourdough baker and professional software engineer I definitely think there is some truth to this
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by bootsz 9y ago
Just cause we're bereaved doesn't make us saps!
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by bootsz 9y ago
While I agree, I wonder how relevant this still is today. I could see the value in stressing this point back when computers weren't an integral part of daily life and a programmer might only ever use a keyboard when doing actual progr
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by bootsz 9y ago
Good points. I'd agree (as would most people) that a strong middle class is highly beneficial. I think the disconnect I see is more related to how likely/realistic that particular set of conditions is. But of course just becaus

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