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by dack 13y ago
What does it mean for something to "matter" anyway? Does interacting with the world mean that your beliefs now matter? What if your brain-in-a-vat was hooked up to a computer that would encode your synapses on paper on the other s
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by dack 13y ago
If it's the case that there are other existing solutions that are simultaneously as {cheap, nutritious, tasty, storable} as Soylent, then the problem is marketing. I don't know about them. If, however, the existing solutions have
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by dack 13y ago
So food is "simple", yet obviously depending on the type and quantity of food eaten, we consume a different assortment and balance of nutrients. I don't think anyone can argue that there isn't a huge percentage of the p
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by dack 13y ago
Even _they_ don't claim that you'd replace every single meal with Soylent. It's supposed to act as the "default", when you're either too lazy, low on time, or just would rather not deal with preparing or going
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by dack 13y ago
Penny Arcade really isn't the same as a "normal company" though. Most of them there are minor celebrities just by proxy of the number of viewers that read the comics and watch the videos. I think it's safe to say there
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by dack 13y ago
My wife and I have been going to bed a 9 and waking up at 5 for a few weeks now. We do all our "project work" in the morning before our day jobs, and are pretty exhausted by night time. If you shift 1hr a day until you get to th
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by dack 13y ago
That might be true - but she should do it only to prove that those kind of investments are worth it, and to gain trust from her boss/team. I think programmers should be paid to not only do the crappy grunt-work, but also for automating
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by dack 13y ago
If you use Guava, you even get Optional<T> for Java. It works pretty well, but is obviously something you have to work into your API and can't easily use after the fact.
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by dack 13y ago
I remember when I was just out of college, I was terrified at how little I could put on my resume. I had a couple internships, sure, but it just felt really sparse. It made me really wrack my brain to come up with as many "skills&quo
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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running A Business(thoughtcatalog.com)
3 points by dack 13y ago|0 comments
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by dack 13y ago
Like many of us, I've been reading hacker news and related sites for years, but it was only after I attempted to actually apply all that knowledge I thought I had that I realized how unprepared I really was. It's natural to read
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by dack 13y ago
The flipside is that a lot of developers don't have enough hobbies to draw from with which to start a business. One thing we can all build is a developer-focused tool, but we are also some of the hardest customers to please, since we w
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by dack 13y ago
You could have a method on a class that uses it's own fields to do some calculation. So, although it does have access to the fields on the class, it takes no arguments and has no side effects. You could certainly argue that a class's fields
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by dack 13y ago
When I joined my most recent company, one of the people on the team was a badass, grey bearded developer who used to work at Sun. He is basically a Tech Lead or Architect now, and is AWESOME. He has tons of experience and taught me quite a
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by dack 14y ago
I guess it's one of the downsides of a global communication medium like the internet. You could replace "Entrepreneur" with dietician, fitness trainer, economist, politician, priest, or judge. You can always find both extremes of an argume
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by dack 14y ago
Man, as much as I like the idea of Android, the SDK trips me up so often!
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by dack 14y ago
Usually, I want to make the name of my interface the cleanest possible name. In that case, my interface would be named "Widget". Then, if it makes sense, I might have a partial implementation that works for many cases - I would probably cal
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by dack 14y ago
I am going to assume you're being serious here, and that you believe the link you provided proves "how wrong" he is. The other option is that you're stating the opposite, but I can't tell. That said, I don't see how that link proves him wr
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by dack 14y ago
I don't think Kurzweil is claiming to create anything close to human intelligence in the next few years. Likely, people will continue to say it's not "really" intelligence for quite some time. I think computers are going to gradually start
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by dack 14y ago
Congrats on the offer! I will be a Xoogler as of about 2pm today, so you could say my opinion is at least fresh. Google is an awesome place, and huge opportunities will open up for you if you do accept the offer. Google is still very highly
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by dack 14y ago
Although I agree with your strategy of hiring, it sounds like what you are saying is "hiring non architect-quality people is an antipattern". Okay, well obviously bad developers make a bad team. Even on a good team, there are more and less
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by dack 14y ago
Why is "skilled engineer" better than "architect"? They are all just names - and it seems that the main reason people avoid the word "architect" is just because it has been abused in the past (and for some companies, the present). Maybe tha
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by dack 14y ago
The way I would test the parser would be to input a string representing a representative line of CSV and then assert on the object that was output. Then you just do the simplest implementation that could work (which would probably look simi
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by dack 14y ago
Since I've just gone through Elon Musk's wikipedia entry following the SpaceX success, I think he's a good nominee. He seems to have been focused on improving humanity since college and actually has the means to do it. I can't even read mos
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by dack 15y ago
+1 Type safe, autocomplete let me write code quickly. -1 Has lots of boilerplate that requires an IDE to stay sane +1 Pretty fast, good JVM -1 encouragement from the Java community to write slow code +1 Easy-to-understand code through inter
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by dack 15y ago
I would like to second jeffool's sentiment. I've gone down this path a bit (without really succeeding), and although it's cool to imagine what it's like to do all that really low level manipulation, it takes a REALLY long time to get anythi