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by delegate 10y ago
Strangely how this is not top news on HN - however you put it , I guess everyone understands that this is a turning point in our industry.
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by delegate 10y ago
I've resuscitated an older Windows PC, after years of exclusive OSX.. I've changed the CPU cooler (Intel Q9550), added an SSD drive - and my old PC is back up, with the SSD it has enough juice to do the tasks I need it for - run V
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by delegate 10y ago
> You follow your gut. The problem is that this approach can be prone to favouritism. What's wrong with favouritism ? If a person does his job well and helps you (the manager) do your job better AND you get along well - that's
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by delegate 10y ago
Nice piece of wisdom right there, thank you!
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by delegate 10y ago
Take acid and go to crazy festivals if you want to stay young. No really, do it once at least. You need to bathe in youth from time to time in order to experience it - it's fantastic. Of course you need to keep up to date, try to use y
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by delegate 10y ago
Don't worry, this is good for Amazon and you. If Amazon has the wisdom to hear all this criticism, then the company culture should improve and you will all be happier as employees. If it doesn't, then you'll eventually see it
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by delegate 10y ago
“Clean your desk, please. Your institution [Amazon] has mandated that there cannot be any written material next to you while you take the exam.” To which I would reply "Fuck you and your institution". Run a binary on my machine ?
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by delegate 10y ago
I've closed my LinkedIn account half a year ago and besides less spam from recruiters, my life goes on happily. I don't think LinkedIn brought any value to me or to my career.. I didn't find a better job and frankly I probabl
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by delegate 10y ago
All censorship is done with good intentions. Things are censored because they are somehow against a certain set of values or they threaten the well-being of the establishment. So this move is on thin ice. But I also think that politics and
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by delegate 10y ago
Yes, I think you're right and that's why I think this is bad. Economically it makes more sense to buy cheaper and faster. But this eats into the fabric of society and offers nothing in exchange. And what are all these people suppo
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by delegate 10y ago
Look, I know this might not be a popular view here on HN, but I think this is useless. And bad. I'm not talking about the technology behind it (I think it's an amazing achievement).. I live in Barcelona and I have at least 5 mediu
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by delegate 10y ago
> I want to have a positive, meaningful experience with them. How do I do it? You don't do it, it does you, when the time comes :). Surprisingly many people who've done psychedelics get this metaphor. This is due to the epi
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by delegate 10y ago
> The arrogance of thinking that a small handful of elites should "run things" for the stupid commoners dates back Not sure if you're calling me arrogant or not, by all means I'm all for a new society in which people
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by delegate 10y ago
>I take it you live in a country where people are ok to see other people living off the street because they presumably "failed"? I live in Spain, there's no such thing here. What I propose is for people to have the ability
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by delegate 10y ago
> Your whole scheme is just Bolshevism with the terminology changed. Bolshevism excludes private property and implements the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is a different form of government. What I propose is a system in which no
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by delegate 10y ago
Of course. Taxes are the basis of state, which uses taxes to develop and maintain its capability to threaten you with violence if you dont't pay taxes. It's a recursion which has plagued the world for centuries. The whole system c
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by delegate 10y ago
Just read this article and I think it brings a bit more perspective: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-n... Open source farming hardware is the right way to do it.
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by delegate 10y ago
> That's FB's fault? Since Facebook makes this communication possible (and profits greatly from it), it should also assume the responsibility for the side-effects of such communication. These effects exist and have consequences
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by delegate 10y ago
Note that Facebook operates and has a similar influence in many more countries. Just like in the U.S., elections in many countries are affected by the 'quality' of the information being shared and distributed through Facebook. So
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by delegate 10y ago
This. Work work work. Work is the process of mapping nature into products and (then) waste. If nobody needs the 'fruits' of your work, there's always marketing and advertising which can make people want them. This my friends
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by delegate 10y ago
I enjoyed the talk, thank you. The part about "lifting" a type was an 'aha' moment for me and now I understand!*. I mean, I did this intuitively, but now I know the name of the technique, which is really good. Thank you,
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by delegate 10y ago
It's been a while since I laughed so much.. My wife now laughs while doodling in the other room :) Impressive!
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by delegate 10y ago
> Legalising drug use would only remove one class of product from these marketplaces. They're still going to need to be shut down. Operators who allow these kinds of products on their markets are assholes. 99% of the visitors come f
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by delegate 10y ago
Because the officially supported language for iOS development is Swift (and ObjC) and Xcode is quite good for iOS development. I also like Swift a lot. It's a modern language with lots of powerful features and also very practical. My c
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by delegate 10y ago
This is nice of course, but without C++ support it has very little appeal to me. I don't want to learn C# to write iOS apps. I might learn it just for fun, but I will continue writing the iOS apps with Swift/Objective-C and C++. C
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by delegate 10y ago
Stallman is right on many points. Uber, Airbnb, delivery services and the like are nothing more than glorified communication and payment tools. These services can only be called "sharing" economy if they operate at zero profit and
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by delegate 10y ago
> I have no idea how to fix this. I think this is the responsibility of "the media". They should be the ones looking at the "truth" from all sides and presenting a equidistant picture. It's just that we don'
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by delegate 10y ago
The startup time is of course very low, so that's good. I think you're underselling the tool for beginners like myself - it's not just a ClojureScript REPL, it's actually an executable which can run node.js scripts writt
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by delegate 10y ago
Suicide is a big taboo in the 'western' christian society, but there are (and have been) lots of cultures were suicide is looked at differently - as something honorable, good, etc. Even our culture has different interpretations fo
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by delegate 10y ago
> The danger is in the smoking, not the addictive substance. Actually, that's incorrect. Nicotine acts as a stimulant and constricts blood vessels, which causes all kinds of serious circulatory problems in the long term - high blood

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