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by dcposch 8y ago
Two kinds of minimalism Me - https://dcpos.ch Paul Shen - https://bypaulshen.com
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Nobody's saying the systems we've inherited are optimal. What we (all four--me, the comment I'm replying to, the Tyranny of Structureless essay, and the article about Valve) -- what we're saying is that "no system&q
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The Middlebrow Dismissal is my least favorite pattern on HN, especially when the comment author has not read the article. The article disclaims, right after the first paragraph, that it's describing classic architectural principles tha
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Furthermore... the author describes how lack of structure is not even a partial solution, in that it simply fails to solve the problem it's reacting to. An org with no formal organization can still have the same unhealthy power dynamic
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PG is absolutely correct in my experience. The best founders are Chaotic Good on the alignment chart. > Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. Holmes does not match that description
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Our justice system is just not well-designed to hold police to account. There's no neutral, separate prosecutor to bring charges against the police. Instead, it's on District Attorneys and regular prosecutors--the same offices tha
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Tesla Autopilot makes it to HN pretty much every week now, almost never in a good way. Every time, we have a big discussion about autopilot safety, AI ethics, etc. What about lack of focus ? Tesla has already reinvented the car in a big wa
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Pokemon Go was two years ago
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This is a really important issue that I’ve never seen addressed well... We measure numbers that are easy to measure, like GDP or GDP PPP according to some basket, or unemployment rate. But how much of it is real ? We have a ~18t GDP, but h
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by dcposch 9y ago
Oh hi! Hope things are well! Not hating on the Gradle setup at all — it made sense at the time. I also like the tree approach, it feels clean. Plus the hash cache to avoid rebuilding things when nothing’s changed—faster and more robust than
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I’m surprised nobody has mentioned buck or bazel in this thread. At Addepar a few years ago, I transitioned a several-100-k LOC Java codebase from Gradle to buck. It was a fairly complex build including Jooq code gen. Build times became muc
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That just means we should treat low level criminals humanely. Four years is plenty. The thing where decade plus sentences are fairly common is unique in the first world: only in America. It’s barbaric and embarrassing. The science is pretty
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by dcposch 9y ago
Hiring a diverse team can be great in lots of ways. Especially for a global product, like many of the ones Google provides, you want a product team that can understand the lived experiences of a rich and varied user base. Diversity means ma
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Quite easy: select * from unitType where info->>'$.maxSqft' > ? If you want it to be indexed for production use, that's also pretty easy: alter table unitType add column maxSqft float as info->>&#x27
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by dcposch 9y ago
Well, sort of. Java and Javascript use 2-byte strings in memory, yet both can represent an emoji just fine. (They do so via a hack that uses multiple indices in a String to represent a single character. If you want to go down the rabbit hol
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by dcposch 9y ago
Yes, exactly. (Though you can always add them as optional, fill them in with some combination of scripting and human entry, then make them required once that's done.)
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FYI, MySQL has a fresh new JSON data type now. It has some great properties. It lets you mix data with a strict schema and data without a strict schema, getting some of the benefits of both worlds. The JSON datatype avoids many of the annoy
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by dcposch 9y ago
True, and maybe it is just a case of the grass being greener. The closest analogue to Trump/Oprah in modern western history is probably Silvio Berlusconi. That fiasco wasn’t even a swift dramatic thing—just a grinding two decades and c
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by dcposch 9y ago
Oprah v Trump would be straight-up two cable television stars running for “leader of the free world”. (A phrase that already sounds even more ridiculous than it did a few years ago.) One popularized the racist Birther / “born in Kenya”
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In the scenario I'm describing, the attacker profits when the value of bitcoin tanks. Two new developments: - Vast investment in mining hardware due to the bubble. - Liquid BTC markets, including futures and shorting. Say that the wo
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Dynasty | Engineer | LA / Venice, CA | ONSITE We are making bots. Our business is exploding and we really need 1-2 more engineers to help expand our bot’s capabilities, consolidate, simplify, and scale. We are very early stage; there a
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> The moment the transaction fees and block rewards go down, the very expensive Prof of Work mechanism will weaken and future transactions are unprotected. Exactly. One critical, related vulnerability that I haven't seen people disc
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HN comments are full of terribad startup ideas, but this has to be a new record It's an extremely niche saas business. You have to build billing and banking integrations. You have to make a bunch of enterprise sales. And all your poten
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Dynasty | Engineer | Venice, CA | ONSITE We are making bots. Our business is exploding and we really need 1-2 more engineers to help expand our bot’s capabilities, consolidate, simplify, and scale. We are very early stage; there are five of
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by dcposch 9y ago
Counterpoint: some of those are sexy problems. The design of cities is a really interesting and deep challenge. For example, check out @nkoren's startup, Podaris: https://podaris.com/ -- Conversely, there's actu
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What the Nazis of ‘Wolfenstein’ tell us about the futurists of Silicon Valley(mic.com)
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I think the article falls into a pattern of web developers demanding too much control. Fine grained control belongs to the users. The browser is a User Agent, after all. Users may have their computer configured to display text bigger or sma
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The web has already solved this. HiDPI screens just get a multiplication factor, where a 1px by 1px <div> shows up as 2x2 or even 3x3 physical pixels. So the CSS px unit is a bit of a hack, but ultimately works well. Stuff sized in px
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Fun fact: in the opening scene in The Matrix, this is the book from which Neo produces the hidden memory card. The Wachowski brothers loved Baudrillard and he was part of their inspiration for their story about a whole society trapped in si
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by dcposch 9y ago
Check out Preact. It's an API compatible, lightweight React alternative that is actual free software. As a bonus, it's a lot smaller, just 3kb minified https://preactjs.com/

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