davemp

22 ms·

301.
by davemp 4y ago
>> Does anyone at Google come into work actually thinking about “organizing the world’s information”? This is the poignant question IMO. The texture of the internet has changed drastically since the golden age of "Googling"
302.
by davemp 4y ago
afaik in many climates/older homes heatpumps can't supply enough BTUs to heat a house in peak winter without being massively oversized for the cooling load (which could cause humidity problems).
303.
by davemp 4y ago
In my state roof contractors are required to give the per board price for replacing roof decking in the estimate
304.
by davemp 4y ago
A big contributor to this is humans bending over backwards to fit a creative and dynamic process to rigid tools like JIRA.
305.
by davemp 4y ago
I’ve wondered how much of this comes from the huge amount of game programmers that dive right in with zero CS background. I’m not knocking just jumping in, but a game engine is definitely not going to be feasible with 0 experience/back
306.
by davemp 4y ago
It’s a shitpost, which really doesn’t belong on HN.
307.
by davemp 4y ago
Yeah this rule of thumb was for low fidelity things like hand radio buttons. > We may be slow to react to sudden events, but we are very good at noticing the lag for predictive events (keyboard typing, piano playing, ...). It does make s
308.
by davemp 4y ago
The rule of thumb floating around when I was working on physical input devices last was to keep latency under 50ms so people wouldn't get frustrated. I don't have any sources but it becomes a bit more obvious when you look at it a
309.
by davemp 4y ago
> I mean, we don't need any kind of science or history if we could just be like "this story makes sense to me, so it must be true." We don't have any historical record of people explicitly writing that they started us
310.
by davemp 4y ago
There may not be historical evidence, but first principles tell me that most people prefer cash to trading pelts for groceries every week.
311.
by davemp 4y ago
Isn't that just sunglasses manufacturers simply cheaping out on lens materials and coatings? I don't see what would be stopping VR/AR manufacturers from making quality lenses.
312.
by davemp 4y ago
The majority of durability issues of glasses are the hinges. So as long as you can make that part of the frame repairable, I feel like it could be manageable. Not that there aren’t a bunch of other issues for every day wear. (I wear contact
313.
by davemp 4y ago
I consider Reddit to be a form of web directory in a way.
314.
by davemp 4y ago
That should be a good signal for ranking algorithms as well with the subscription price disincentivizing bots.
315.
by davemp 4y ago
I mean most people don’t realize that as a country we spend $14.5k per student (top 5 globally). With average class sizes at ~20 students, we spend ~$290k per class per year. The average teacher’s salary is $55k that leaving ~$235k. Avg off
316.
by davemp 4y ago
When I started writing tests for my current project, I looked at what was available and decided forgo existing testing frameworks. I haven't been disappointed. Writing code to call a bunch of test functions then generate a report is re
317.
by davemp 4y ago
Coworkers who are pleasant to work with make all the difference to me as well. Smooth communication, trust, and a bit of comradery can make meaningless work go by quickly. Politics, micromanagement, and rivalry can make even logging in a ch
318.
by davemp 4y ago
Land is land. People are people. Nation states are neither. Just because gemstones were mined in a geographic area doesn't mean that they morally belong to whoever currently resides/rules in that area. Once the *people* involved i
319.
by davemp 4y ago
You should hear the folks that gun it a couple streets over with their modded mufflers at 2am in my neighborhood.
320.
by davemp 4y ago
I assume this is major reason why teaching benefits/layoffs in the USA are heavily based on seniority.
321.
by davemp 4y ago
Please don't post insubstantial comments like this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
322.
by davemp 4y ago
The attitude that the public can’t be trusted with certain facts is a catalyst for all the wacked out conspiracy theories that have been cropping up.
323.
by davemp 4y ago
> we also get the most important projects and are paid the most Seems like this would drastically affect motivation and therefore output. Sounds your company may have a self fulfilling prophecy about remote work being less productive.
324.
by davemp 4y ago
The unix philosophy works with appliances as well as software!
325.
by davemp 4y ago
There is historical precedent for those with power forcing leases on the general population (lords and peasants).
326.
by davemp 4y ago
> I wasn't a huge fan of iRobot's data collection, but now that it'll be going to Amazon, ugh. Yup once data is out there, you should assume it will get into the hands of bad actors. 'Having nothing to hide' fro
327.
by davemp 4y ago
What about copying someone else’s design, making minor improvements (often regressions due to incomplete RE), and having a lower cost basis sounds like innovation to you?
328.
by davemp 4y ago
The result is also all of the innovative product ideas that never see the light of day because two weeks after launch there’d be a Chinese knock off on the market for half the price making it impossible to recoup R&D. That’s a big reaso
329.
by davemp 4y ago
These people are likely not maxing out their 401ks and are borrowing their current luxuries from their future selves. Comparing finances to others without actually having all the information isn’t worthwhile.
330.
by davemp 4y ago
> The idea here is that you can make the time jitter depend on things besides the thing being calculated. Yeah I imagine you could add some de-correlated jitter and rotate the noise pattern often enough that attackers can't filter

More ›