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by borplk 9y ago
Just curious is it a very large $TECH_CORP?
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by borplk 9y ago
Perhaps like gyms there are a good bunch of people who don't use it nearly as much.
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by borplk 9y ago
Almost never ever. What are you even trying to achieve?
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by borplk 9y ago
Random question .. what do you eat with toast? (jam, spread, etc...)
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by borplk 9y ago
I agree. But I think people who get angry about someone using big words tend to have quite a low bar for what is considered a big word.
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by borplk 9y ago
I rarely use big words when there's a simpler one that has almost the exact same meaning. Sometimes I'm communicating something quite precise and nuanced. In those cases I may use big words because it is the right word to use. Eng
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by borplk 9y ago
We can't and don't have to give up text. Text is essential for humans and could be a significant part of the interface (both reading and typing). The problem is more about the underlying unit being text. The problematic part of te
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by borplk 9y ago
See my recent comment: > We need model based editing environments that will allow us to have a much richer set of software building blocks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16117668
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by borplk 9y ago
It amuses me to no end to see that the west has now reached a point of peace, abundance, and prosperity for people to start to ponder these twisted bizarre questions. It sounds so sheltered and out of touch.
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by borplk 9y ago
I thought one of those "red button under protective cover" would be the best?
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by borplk 9y ago
Unplug your devices for maximum security. In all seriousness it's not a bad list as a handy reference.
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by borplk 9y ago
> On socialization, I can understand the feeling there, but for me the solution was to find social circles beyond work. This should be the norm not the exception. The impression that I get is that this idea of socialising at work is stro
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by borplk 9y ago
It's just marketing fluff. If you like the taste go for it. Add a little bit of butter to your coffee and shake it up and what not. And I'd skip any extra oil/drop additions.
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by borplk 9y ago
I will add, remember the problem is not with text itself. I'm not saying "text bad visual shiny fancy stuff good". Text is great. But "textual representation" of a rich model/object is different than text being
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by borplk 9y ago
I think the next game-changing evolution in programming languages is moving beyond plaintext. Our basic building blocks of programming has not changed essentially since the beginning of programming. We still treat programs as nothing but a
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by borplk 9y ago
Nice to see something like this on Show HN. Well done. What is it made with?
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by borplk 9y ago
I think you can make decent money in it. However like a lot of other similar jobs you will fairly quickly hit a ceiling in terms of career progression at which point the only way up is becoming a manager of sorts.
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by borplk 9y ago
The benefit of blockchain is distributed consensus about a database. When compared to a central regular database, blockchain is a compromise you make so that you can have distributed consensus over the state of the database. Apart from that
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by borplk 9y ago
So here's a question, These services obviously didn't all appear at the exact same time. So ... at some point there were 20 of them around, then a bunch of people launched new ones so now there were 30. This trend continued. At so
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by borplk 9y ago
Are you talking about a specific feature of it or the whole thing in general?
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by borplk 9y ago
Not everyone is a leet open source enthusiast lisp-loving kernel-compiling hacker. People go to the shop down the block, pick a product from the shelf and they are done with it. This doesn't make them deserving of backdoors. "Boug
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by borplk 9y ago
> IME the next place is likely to be not much different and you can quickly be labelled a job hopper I guess the suck it up part means staying long enough to avoid that.
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by borplk 9y ago
I'm sure people will have a bunch of feel-good suggestions here. Want a good dose of reality from my perspective? I'd say suck it up, then move on somewhere else and hope that it will be better. I don't mean be silent either.
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by borplk 9y ago
I think it depends on the topic a lot. Desktop apps are good if you are actually making a use out of desktop capabilities. They can also be good for low maintenance low churn apps if they don't need any servers. Because you can publish
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by borplk 9y ago
If they don't force a minimum number of days to be taken per year it often turns into a guilt-tripping fest.
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by borplk 9y ago
Not really true. Lots of terrible companies manage to continue to exist just fine. Maybe in the very long term it will eventually catch up with them. But then who cares?
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by borplk 9y ago
Nice to see a concrete descriptive answer to these questions here for once. I shall reward you with some flavor ideas/inspiration: - Big Nuts, Little Nuts, Smashed Nuts, Nutted, Instanut, Bananuts, Walnuts, PeePeanuts - Smartits (play
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by borplk 9y ago
This is a popular suggestion but I don't think as well as people make it sound. Lots of problems don't have solutions that would be viable for a new startup (especially not for lean bootstrapped ones). The problems tend to be eith
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by borplk 9y ago
If you are a straight male, statistically speaking a hacker meetup is probably not the best place to go for that :)
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by borplk 9y ago
It doesn't have to be exclusively one or the other. It's like you are blaming people for having "impure intentions". Lots of things are like that. People who go to a local food event go there to eat food but also they kn

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