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by dbrueck 5y ago
> Why should the creator, or an agent of the creator of that work get that power over me? Well, you have no inherent right to the creator's work at all, so consider it one of the terms of the agreement in which you get access to the
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> That wouldn't obviate the need for DRM Yes and no. In order for the scheme to work, yes, you'd always need something that encourages people to play by the rules, but it would look very, very different from many of the DRM s
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I worked in the online media space for a long time, and the fact of the matter is that DRM enabled the era of networks putting their content online, it enabled Netflix, etc. - DRM was the only way to get past the liability gridlock between
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That's fair. FWIW, many people (including myself) believe that God is both corporeal as well as perceptible, though the latter is on His terms (because, I suspect, He wants it to happen for each person individually).
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> Does it include treating yourself with kindness and compassion? Yes, definitely. I feel it's implicit in the 2nd great commandment ("Love thy neighbor as thyself") that we should treat ourselves with kindness, patience,
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Great question. Briefly, the goal is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, in thoughts, words, and deeds. In practice that generally means looking outwards, not being totally self-absorbed (which is my natural tendency), and treating people wit
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Day starts with prayer and studying scripture by myself for awhile, then briefly as a family before everyone goes their way. Part of the personal prayer time includes seeking direction on who I might help that day. Throughout the day I try
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Yes, the problem with strong static typing in many languages is that you have to make decisions about typing at exactly the worst time (at the beginning), while you almost never know up front exactly what you need. For me the ideal would be
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This opinion gets tossed around a lot, but I've found the opposite to be true, in part because all projects trend towards becoming an unholy mess as they grow large, so being able to accomplish a goal in significantly fewer lines of co
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This is not uncommon. Two things come to mind that might help: 1) Decide if you really care if this migration is on hold for several months. Your stuff presumably works fine still, right? If so, why do you care that the migration is delayed
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It boils down to speed of editing text, especially editing code - I've yet to find anything that comes even remotely close (and for a long time I tried to find something else, haha). Maybe one challenge in grasping it is that if you lo
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I'll see your "are you sure?" and raise you one. :) Are you sure that vi/vim have many people who use them and that those tools are "world wide famous" because of such superficial reasons? Isn't it possibl
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On the hjkl thing, I think it's also good to explain why it was a good idea that the ADM-3A used hjkl, and that's because it allows directional navigation (an extremely common operation) without moving your fingers away from their
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> Is your startup engineering led? Yep. > My experience of a non-engineering-led startup is that there are more meetings than in a big company. Ditto. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it may have something to do with the fact that
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> but the salary gap is too huge Well... if the money is a means to an end, and if that end is highest quality of life, there's a good (but obviously personal and highly subjective) argument that optimizing around salary doesn'
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I'm mid-40's, and at every medium-to-large company I have worked at, each promotion == more meetings, more bureaucracy, and less coding. Developing software is where the fun is, so for me the best route has been working at very sm
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Haha, yes, I definitely wouldn't recommend anyone make life choices based on what some random person posted on HN! :) I have first-hand knowledge that these jobs do exist (and can pay anywhere from well to obscenely well), but I have a
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Couple of areas to consider: - emerging tech - it was lucrative being a mobile app developer when iOS first released its native app SDKs because everybody wanted an app but companies generally didn't have the skills for it internally y
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Yes, the risk is one of the main pitfalls I was alluding to, and the best way I know of it mitigate that are the 2 I mentioned - per-phase and having some hourly rate in there too. A renegotiate-with-zero-consequences provision is unrealist
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$175 is definitely not the ceiling for the US. "HR says they never seen such high rates" is a negotiating tactic - you have to counter. Of course, you also have to be worth it by establishing a track record of being a subject matt
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Too many stupid meetings is the #1 reasons why I left and started something on my own. At my current company we have one official meeting per week, and it's unusual if it lasts more than 20 minutes. It's wonderful.
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Would that it were so simple! For cronjobs, maybe it often is, but DST transitions are a mess to deal with in things like calendaring UIs and other places where you have to convert point-in-time values to the format consumed by normal peopl
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Definitely some subjectivity to this question, but I'm the opposite: to me the curly braces are the anachronism, a relic of a time when the programmer had to do lots of extra stuff to help the language parser/compiler. For awhile
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FWIW I'm not familiar with Anaconda either and it took about 10 minutes to get it and the cadquery editor up and running. To each his own though!
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cadquery is great! I had been a Fusion 360 user for 3D printing, but then Autodesk started getting weird with hobbyist licensing. And Fusion's insistence on being cloud-based was frustrating. Anyway, I went hunting for something else a
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"I wish Americans could get a feeling of how different a society without a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia feels like." And I wish you could better grasp just how big and diverse America is. :) There are parts with terrib
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I think the point was that the rate is low enough that the risk of being murdered is not a concern for most people most of the time - yes, it is abnormally high relative to other countries, but it's also so low that it's extremely
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That link says "symptoms occurred one to two months after vaccination" or am I misreading it?
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Although what Google did is probably not outright illegal, the /optics/ of this are not great and play in Epic's favor - the fact that these agreements were secret until the litigation started adds credence to their claims th
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I misread 'to the' as just 'the' and was very intrigued.

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