chris_mc

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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   >They went from being an anti-profit, anti-market country of near absolute poverty There's a lot more history to China than 1980-now. What I see every day on HN (and elsewhere) are new startups which are simply rent-seeking enterpri
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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   That is a great idea that not only makes you cash--at a very fair price--but also helps people connect in a genuine fashion.
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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   I'm so depressed that humans won't ever achieve this. We'll fight and continue to hedonistically chase profit until we destroy ourselves.
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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   Not software, but I supervised QC inspectors at a medical manufacturer. R&D engineers would constantly try to steal their time to inspect some pre-production part, when we were trying to supply the $250k+ per day manufacturing floor wit
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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   So, someone forgot to input this certificate into their Outlook Calendar, Slack /remind, or whatever, and as a result 150mm people are at risk for identity theft. Awesome. I'm so glad I have no option to prevent my data going to
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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   >then in 1983 they began selling a premade, shelf-stable bottle of it I was born in '83 and I still remember my mom mixing ranch dressing by hand in a special ranch dressing mixing bottle [0] that they sold. I always wondered why sh
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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   Nim: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/3046 You can do almost anything with Nim, for function calls! I personally like UFCS (Uniform Function Call Syntax), aka: let something: int = item.function(arg2, arg3,...).funct
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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   I think you're correct.
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   by chris_mc 8y ago

   Qt, or whatever, isn't pretty enough for the designers.
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    I was going to say a similar thing: Almost looks like the foundations/pilings sunk on the one side, causing the concrete to fracture at the support points since it was being "bent" and then the slabs to fall off of the suppor
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    Darknet markets had a huge boom around that time, too, which could also correlate. I think it's more likely the cause than Snowden, as I think more people care about drugs than privacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    For the lazy folks who (initially) thought this was a 120x extension to the 5 second rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Minute_Rule
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    >What's it like for [remote] tech work? Hawaii probably isn't the best place for most HN'ers, culturally. Also, tech work locally in Hawaii is pretty much non-existent unless for the military, NSA, or associated government
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    Effectiveness is not "good leadership". He may have been very effective, but he fucked people over, probably gave people PTSD, treated others with disdain, etc. I know some people see the Elon Musks and Steve Jobs' of the wor
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    >If you are not an expert at something, then don't reduce what they can see and do, to only what you can see and do, and declare that they are doing nothing interesting. Perfect, this is what I was thinking for years but couldn&#x27
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    >Steve Jobs said it well Steve Jobs was a class-A asshole who people who are trained in leadership agree was a poor leader of humans, even if he had great success in business. I'm not sure I'd take his leadership musings withou
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    It's so fascinating to read these sorts of retrospectives to give myself a grounding to realize it takes time and lots of missteps to make great software. Thanks to the author, if he passes through here.
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    Most people do want that, though. They literally want Google to sync everything for them. Makes sense to me, I don't see your POV to be super common, honestly, except maybe amongst the die hard tech people of hn and such.
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    Thanks
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    Can you imagine listening to your doctor and loved ones discussing taking you off life support and you're just not able to move? Then a lot of times, they just starve the patient to death, thinking they're basically not feeling an
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    >This is inaccurate How so? I'm curious, as I don't know much about corporate law.
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    I think of Mindfulness as setting a 'watchdog process' on your own brain: you think about how you're thinking, actively, so that you can control thoughts that might be unwanted at the time, like anger or fear. It takes you fr
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    So what you are saying is: you would gladly pay a mandatory fee, thereby gating folks who cannot afford this fee from the content, rather than pay a donation of any amount you wish and still allowing those who can't afford to pay to re
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    I mean, there is a f'n drawing of it lowering coffee with a string . That's clearly satire.
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    List of things I've done in my first ~9 months at my company: - Messed up the Software Engineering dept. Jira when I tried to customize my dept. Jira too much. Took hours to fix, during which time Software Engineering dept. couldn&#x27
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    It's not that they have to give information, like name, age, SSN, address, etc., it's that they have to answer very private questions about their lives, like who they are dating, how often they have sex, do they use condoms, do th
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    If I were the CEO of IBM, I'd wonder what jagoff spent 10 grand (average patent cost, with lawyers and other services) to make a coffee drone joke.
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    > For women on real life , appearing single has become a minefield FTFY, women have had it hard forever when trying to be normal people with normal lives, but some men don't seem to get that they aren't just a sex object to ex
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    by chris_mc 8y ago

    Every month, I drop all of my Google files into my OneDrive using "Google takeout". I don't have to use my own bandwidth, just select all of the data I want (everything), choose to have it sent into my OneDrive, then once it&