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by coldcode 5y ago
Thanos snapped his fingers and Zuckerberg vanished with the keys. My (very large) employer had a worldwide outage a few years ago where a single bad DNS update stopped everything in its tracks (at the time many things were still in our own
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by coldcode 5y ago
I only use FB to connect to distant friends and relatives, everything else is turned off or blocked. I am not profitable to FB as best I can do. FB has peaked as a business for sure, unless they become the government somehow.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I remember sitting next to an elderly woman on a plane whose father came west in a covered wagon, and his daughter was flying in a jet.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Instead of quitting I retired this year after 40 years as a programmer. I was much in demand since I could do with fewer people and deliver things no one else could do, yet my team was taken advantage of repeatedly and given no thanks for a
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by coldcode 5y ago
Ever try to ship 1000's of SDKs and new OSs at the same time every year, build new hardware, even chips, keep dev pipelines going for years in advance, and keep it from being plastered all over HN and reddit? It's a miracle anythi
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by coldcode 5y ago
Amazing work, joining history and wood working (yes it's a pun). I wonder how comfortable that would be.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I can see it replacing helo service, presuming it can take off anywhere. As a general replacement for cars, no.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I'm a good cook, but compared to Wolfgang Puck, I make shit on a shingle look brilliant. You could hire 100's of me and not get a decent restaurant. After so many decades as a programmer, there are enormous gaps between programmer
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by coldcode 5y ago
It's a funky version of relativity. From the perspective of the original consciousness life was terminated as soon as the machine started up, from the perspective of the duplicate on the other end, you continued without any issues. Mak
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by coldcode 5y ago
Also no one in their right mind would risk such an expensive airframe on defending mere ground troops. The A-10 does its job incredibly well, and is cheap to build, repair and keeps its pilots alive. Not a big plus from a defense contractor
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by coldcode 5y ago
Why do people post articles you can't actually read? All I get is a paywall.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I remember back in the 80's and early 90's using a shared file system and discipline for my team to build large Mac apps without one (there were none available). Clearly today no one in their right mind would do this.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I spent a 5 years out of 40 working for a consulting firm, and I think it was valuable, as you get thrown in to all sorts of random things, which provides some great experience at dealing with stuff you barely knew existed before the custom
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by coldcode 5y ago
Yet what if the best developer on the team was paid 3x more than everyone else, would you not also feel like shit? Unless everyone is paid exactly the same, then everyone feels like shit, which will motivate everyone to no longer care, and
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by coldcode 5y ago
I wonder if it is really possible to scan all the bits and have software auto assemble at least some of the bits. I'm not sure how far you could get, and if scanning that many tiny fragments would even work.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I usually tried to lead at most 5-6 people building apps from the 80's until this year when I retired. What you said is basically what I did as well, leading is not dictating, but you do need people who can work with the minimally nece
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by coldcode 5y ago
As a user, I have zero desire to use some random payment gateway, using Apple makes my life easier, I can reasonably trust Apple not to let someone steal my money, how am I supposed to trust 50 different gateways? Also if people move away f
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by coldcode 5y ago
It's basically describing using a slab allocator to arrange the entities. How is this new art?
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by coldcode 5y ago
This should be the article discussed. It barely mentions organic farming, other than concerns about the lack of fertilizer.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Some Apple devs still seem to love C and Obj-C (at least the ones my former employer worked with directly) and hate on Swift. Both Swift and Rust can be written to a much higher standard where the language protects you from stupidity, but o
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by coldcode 5y ago
I wonder what the upper limit on weight will be. The article mentioned multiple kilograms being possible in the future.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Nice idea, but I generally was happy if it was only 5 days a week; often I went months with 6 or 7 days. How would you do coding with insane deadlines, insufficient people, terrible management, and constant changes (with no change in dates)
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by coldcode 5y ago
Is being in Y Combinator in the long run make any difference to the median startup, or just really affect the companies that succeed big time, measured once they attain that big time? Is it really fair to measure valuations early on and cal
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by coldcode 5y ago
Such a great story, no one writes like this any more sadly.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Where is that wealth now, I wonder if it's really all that secure. History has shown that ill-gotten wealth can be made transitory, if someone tries hard enough. Seen any Medici lately?
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by coldcode 5y ago
Indulgences were not the big money maker for people at the top, it was selling benefices that made Popes and other church leaders rich, i.e. selling Church offices for huge sums (hey you want your nephew to be a Bishop or Cardinal, sending
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by coldcode 5y ago
Luther did not first nail his thesis to the door, he mailed them first, and had no intention of starting anything. Nailing things to a church door was common practice so that others could read things (no newspapers). Also Luther was only on
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by coldcode 5y ago
Can you turn it off, there are some options in the Develop menu in Safari regarding WebRTC. Not sure its enough though.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Without the missile I am not moved by the price decrease.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I just want a Facebook like place to interact with my friends and family, that I pay something for, and has no ads, news, likes or social manipulation. But no one would invest in such a thing, and if they did, Facebook would just buy out th

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