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by cryptica 6y ago
Based on this description, it sounds like this workstation solves a small existing problem by creating a bigger new problem. That said, the need for sleep may be considered a problem for some people. So maybe it's actually a two-birds-
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by cryptica 6y ago
Personally I don't think I could get anything done lying down. I would just fall asleep.
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by cryptica 6y ago
This guy just decided to sell his reputation for some quick cash (with his book). Maybe he saw a last opportunity to get in on the Bitcoin craze. His family can blame it on dementia and his reputation may stay intact anyway. We're just
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by cryptica 6y ago
If you have to work on a very complex project, you need to plan the architecture at a high level or else it will be a disaster. I've seen the code-as-you-go approach fail miserably over and over. Try coding a decentralized P2P system w
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by cryptica 6y ago
Yes I also think this is not the best way to use blockchain because sensor data can be faked one way or another. The best way to connect blockchain to the real world is by using human psychology and so I think the best use case is still cry
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by cryptica 6y ago
I think this points depends heavily on the complexity of the project. If the project is very complex (e.g. P2P, blockchain, distributed messaging, machine learning, ...) then you actually want engineers to think really hard about every line
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by cryptica 6y ago
I disagree with the 'most' premise as well. Totally a false signal. In my view, the opposite is true. The top performers tend to commit less. People who are genuinely passionate about coding don't tend to put that much effort
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by cryptica 6y ago
Wow, the premise of this article is very wrong; it's deeply concerning that people are falling for this. Those who make a lot of commits are not top performers, they are mostly engineers who are overly concerned with their 'optics
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by cryptica 6y ago
The economy is a scam. All the newly printed money which has gone into tech over the past decade is a scam. The only thing that mattered at all was your social connections; doesn't matter what the project was. Is it a coincidence that
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's not about ROI anymore. It's mostly about which asset can capture most of the newly printed fiat money now and in the future. New fiat currency is constantly being created and all assets are competing for the biggest possible
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by cryptica 6y ago
Well I understand what's happening at a high level (in the economy, society, politics) but the typical HN reader will not like to hear it so I'm just going to keep it to myself.
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by cryptica 6y ago
This doesn't prove anything. One can always cherry-pick and refute certain peripheral points but that doesn't address the core premise of the argument. The only way to disprove such argument wold be exhaustively and that is simply
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> Absent regulation, how do you expect consumers to know about chemicals used in the product? The internet. If corporations were not hoarding up all the money and media and censoring critics, we would have many competing services whi
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by cryptica 6y ago
I disagree with the premise that regulations are necessary. They're bandage patch solutions. Artificially restricting the number of people who can go to medical schools by imposing ridiculous requirements is not going to make better su
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by cryptica 6y ago
I think the biggest problem we have today is that people have become so out of touch with themselves and their own intrinsic needs that they ended up resorting to simply wanting what other people want. We can blame advertising. Successful a
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by cryptica 6y ago
Over the past decade, our economic system has been rewarding zero-sum capital concentration at the expense of productive innovation and this has rewarded conventional thinkers at the expense of independent thinkers. Conventional thinkers ar
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by cryptica 6y ago
Probably just another scheme for rich daddies to launder money to their spoiled kids without paying tax. Making money these days is all about having a rich daddy, rich mommy, sugar daddy or sugar mommy. Gold diggers are the closest we have
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by cryptica 6y ago
Reading articles like this makes me want to avoid Haskell. It seems like the language is so over-complicated that it requires developers to invent an entire religion to be able to effectively apply it to real world use cases. From the persp
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by cryptica 6y ago
The government can never increase freedom. It can only reduce freedom. The only way to increase freedom is by reducing the government.
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by cryptica 6y ago
This article hits the nail on the head. The financial system is not working. Also there are VC-funded zombie companies everywhere. Just look at Snapchat or Uber. Never made a profit in a decade but they have ridiculously high market cap. Wh
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by cryptica 6y ago
Exactly, the number of startups which have failed or never even got a chance to start because they had to compete with an unprofitable VC-backed unicorn is unfathomably greater.
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by cryptica 6y ago
In some sectors of the economy, we haven't had capitalism for decades. The economy is highly artificial. It turned into a giant ponzi scheme and it constantly needs to use media to brainwash its participants in order to give legitimacy
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by cryptica 6y ago
The software industry messed me up big time. Often, I wish I had chosen a simpler career. It must feel amazing to spend most of your time thinking only about real, simple tangible things. I imagine that having a simple practical mind as an
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by cryptica 6y ago
Most tech companies which have a monopoly don't care about the usefulness of a person's skills. They only care about arbitrary puzzle-solving abilities and other random abilities which have nothing to do with productivity. When ap
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by cryptica 6y ago
Nobody wants 10x developers these days. All companies are looking for 1/x developers because then they can brag about their head count to get acquired or to raise more money from investors or banks.
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by cryptica 6y ago
Maybe you also misunderstood my initial comment. I can say for sure that of all the programming trends, there has been almost no discussion around interface complexity. There has been plenty of discussions around FP, dependency injection, t
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by cryptica 6y ago
I enjoy working from home. I never liked office small talk. We mostly just talked about our bosses' incompetence anyway... Was getting tiring and leading nowhere.
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by cryptica 6y ago
Expansionary monetary policy has been fueling a controlled economic decline by concentrating wealth and disguising it as growth. This has led to extreme inconsistencies in the perceived value of money which has become completely detached fr
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by cryptica 6y ago
I need to use the '.ts' extension because my boss demands it. TypeScript needs a feature to allow me to fool my boss into thinking that I'm using TypeScript while actually using JavaScript.
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by cryptica 6y ago
Thanks but I already took matters into my own hands and quit my last company which forced me to use TypeScript for several years. Can you tell all the companies to stop obsessing about TypeScript and to allow developers to use JavaScript to

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