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by cdoxsey 8y ago
> I think the reason for this is that our brains just generally don't operate on a rational basis because it's not practical for humans. Not meaning to pick on you, but this line of reasoning is ultimately self-refuting. If we&
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
I was (and still am) an old-earth evangelical christian. Many of my friends were young-earth creationists. It's not a topic I hear much about anymore, but I've had many lively discussions about it. YEC is interesting because there
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
I took a geology class once, which I quite enjoyed, and a certain point we were discussing radiometric dating. I understood the idea of a half-life and how you could use a known half-life and the current ratio of isotopes to measure the age
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
Healthcare systems are not uniform. Canada or the UK's system is quite different from other systems. For example the Netherlands has a hybrid system that utilizes a competitive, private, for-profit insurance market (with subsidies from
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I don't make 400k per year and I've tried to work at high paying tech companies in the bay area in the past and was rejected many times. At one point I was close to giving up on being a developer enti
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
Thank you for saying this. The point about FAANG paying so much gets made a lot, and that employees of startups are fools for their decisions, as if everyone's handed a dozen offers and makes a choice. Most of us are lucky to get a sin
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
The history of the web is one of centralization not decentralization. Steam is already a very good solution for distributing PC games and it has the added benefit of implementing a payment model, DLC features, social capabilities, updates,
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
This website is a great example of the challenges with being data-driven. It leads to a conclusion which is terribly flawed because of a failure to account for relevant nuance in the data. C# is definitely not C++ or C. It would be better t
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
It won't be so nice in Brooklyn when the l-train shuts down this year. Commute times will double and overcrowding will be a nightmare. NYC public transportation is great, but its incredibly expensive and falling apart. (NJTransit + Amt
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In that case it would be better to inform future customers so they don't buy the faulty lock, rather than throwing together an in-depth tutorial on how to take advantage of the lock. Especially since, unlike a lock, software can be upd
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That doesn't mean hackers knew about it. It's like finding out my neighbor doesn't lock his front door at night and announcing it on twitter. I didn't create the vulnerability but I'm helping criminals take advantag
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This happened to some financial companies on 9/11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_Fitzgerald#9/11_attacks
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I think the OP might've just meant playing the devils advocate which is often a good way of encouraging discussion.
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Although ultimately I do want generics in Go I am afraid they will make the language more difficult to use and understand. Generics in c++, c#, scala, java, etc all tend toward being very complex and change the way programs are written. The
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
Citizens in Switzerland are permitted to own guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Switzerland
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
FWIW GOPATH has not been required since 1.8. It now defaults to $HOME/go if not set. Go is pretty easy to get up and running in Windows. There's an installer for the compiler and you can install vscode and the Go extension pretty
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
A bad commute in NYC can be pretty awful. Recently the first snow storm of the year led to catastrophic delays for NJ residents who had to drive. (I know someone who had to sit in their car for 13 hours for a normally 15 minute drive) Many
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Go modules are available in go 1.11 today. If you're envisioning another new pkg management solution besides that, I don't think that's going to happen.
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A gun is more effective and practical than a knife or an RPG. It is easy to use, relatively safe and reliable, affordable and easy to carry. In a very rural area not every threat is a person, for example a bear, and guns aren't exactly
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
It wasn't all that long ago that Google shut down Google Code. They said: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google... > After profiling non-abusive activity on Google Code, it has beco
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
The fact that so many jobs require a college degree is a travesty. We should get teenagers into the workforce sooner and provide more relevant and on-the-job training.
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Show HN: RTCTunnel, build network tunnels over WebRTC(github.com)
89 points by cdoxsey 8y ago|8 comments
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RTCTunnel: Building a WebRTC Proxy with Go [video](doxsey.net)
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Because political questions don't have scientific solutions. Pro-life supporters aren't co-opting science when they claim a fetus is a human being, they are undermining a possible objection: obviously everyone recognizes that kill
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Yeah AWS, though mostly just EC2. I think the challenge is that there are multiple competing needs which are in tension. Data isn't uniform, a large write load that's almost never queried, recent data is accessed way more often th
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Granted its an exceptional case, but the query loads we saw at Datadog were poorly served by off-the-shelf solutions. Maybe things are different now, but I doubt it. You can spend a fortune to get good performance, or you can deal with slow
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
Do the people downvoting this live in NYC? It has massive infrastructure problems. I took njtransit every day for the last 3 years. It has massive delays, cancellations, derailments, manpower shortages, etc, all the time. Probably at least
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
Regardless of their intended purpose, in a world of costly cell phone data plans, the widespread availability of public wifi has been fantastic when you need it. Would be a real bummer to lose that if nothing takes its place.
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Typing is a skill that can be painful to learn, and so students take shortcuts, like looking at the keys instead of the screen. Just like with sports, a typing "coach" can be very helpful to correct these errors, particularly with
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by cdoxsey 8y ago
Just to reiterate the point... this is an instance with terabytes of near-memory-speed storage. If persistent memory pans out as a technology it will completely upend the way we think about building software and the cost tradeoffs of hardwa

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