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by dlevine 8y ago
I think that the most important line in this article is "Changing these decisions would not have made Spectrum a better product by itself." Assuming that you make somewhat reasonable choices in the first place, technology likely w
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by dlevine 8y ago
There was an episode of "Adam Ruins Everything" about this. Basically, during prohibition, restaurants couldn't sell alcohol (which was their biggest profit center), so in order to stay afloat, they cut staff wages and introd
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by dlevine 8y ago
My mom's last cat made it to 20 (he just died last year). But that is about the max for a cat (a few make it into their mid-20s).
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by dlevine 8y ago
I game a bit, but play mostly indie games that are a few GB or less.
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by dlevine 8y ago
I know that big disks are useful for a lot of people/applications. However, I topped out at 500GB about 10 years ago. That gives me plenty of headroom. Since then, I have gone from a 500GB HDD to a SSD, but my space usage hasn't r
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by dlevine 8y ago
I'm typing this on an M0110 (keyboard from the original 1984 Macintosh) that I rewired to a Teensy ( https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8q4o4n... ). I won't say that it's my fa
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by dlevine 8y ago
Start learning how to figure out what your customers want. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how pretty or scalable your code is if it doesn't solve real problems. I'm not saying that you shouldn't learn how to be
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by dlevine 8y ago
I had a friend from college who became an actuary (he was a business major in college). It sounds like, once you finish the first several actuarial exams, you are pretty much set. You don't even need a degree in actuarial science, but
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by dlevine 8y ago
There is some pretty solid advice on this thread, but will add a few things that I haven't seen elsewhere. When I was freelancing, I had good luck going to meetups and talking to people. A lot of companies are willing to hire freelance
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by dlevine 8y ago
You can use this: ( https://www.amazon.com/Akitio-Node-Thunderbolt3-Windows-Comp... ) It costs $250 + GPU.
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by dlevine 8y ago
And, in the end, everyone starts writing Java again...
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by dlevine 8y ago
If you are interested in this kind of stuff, I would recommend reading "Doing Good Better." https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OYXWL4W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
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by dlevine 8y ago
I had an SE/30 in college that I got for free somewhere (this was in the early 2000s). It worked fine, but I didn't have a network adapter that would get it on the network, so it was of limited use to me. I think it was still sitt
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by dlevine 8y ago
I assume this was a strategic move - Square seems to be buying businesses in adjacent markets that are more profitable than credit card processing and that are complementary to their offering. I'm guessing that small local businesses t
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by dlevine 9y ago
Much of that has to do with cost. By the early 2000s, floppy disks were much cheaper than they were in the 80s and 90s, and I'm guessing that was because manufacturers were optimizing for cost. Those AOL disks that you could get for fr
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by dlevine 9y ago
Agreed. I think that the advantage of a good tech lead is that they: 1) Make sure that the people working for them are happy and challenged and 2) Remove any roadblocks required for developers to solve the problems that they are working on
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by dlevine 9y ago
As a man in his 30's who has dealt with loneliness and mild depression on a fairly Two things that I have found to be extremely helpful are: 1) See a therapist (when needed). Therapists have helped me to get out of some of my roughest
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by dlevine 9y ago
Amplitude | San Francisco | Full-Time | On-Site Amplitude builds analytics tools that enable product teams to understand user behavior and use that to improve their products. We're a Series C company with significant revenue, but our e
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by dlevine 9y ago
It worked in the short term since elephants weren't expecting to be fooled. But it is possible that if they hear the sound of buzzing enough times without seeing any bees, they will start to disregard it. Fear of bees is clearly a lear
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by dlevine 9y ago
I would suggest meeting up with real people rather than doing video chat. There is something much more satisfying about meeting in person. When I used to work alone, I had to schedule regular social interactions to keep from getting lonely
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by dlevine 9y ago
It seems like we're getting to the level that people talked about in Science Fiction not that long ago. Even when Google was started in 1998, I'm not sure that people would believe you if you said that in 20 years Google would be
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by dlevine 9y ago
I've been wearing a Garmin or Polar watch for the past several years (run 30+ miles a week), and just recently got an Apple Watch. For a serious runner, the Garmin watches are a lot better, but the truth is that I'm not really a &
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by dlevine 9y ago
Appian was the first company I worked for out of college. It's good to see that they have done well, but it has been a long road for them. After starting as a technical consulting firm and growing quickly for the first few years (they
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by dlevine 9y ago
+1 million I've done a lot of dating over the years, and have discovered that the most important thing is finding someone who likes me for who I am. At various points I went on so many dates that I worried that the right person wasn&#x
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by dlevine 9y ago
I originally ran Commander Keen 4 on a 286 using a 5.25" floppy I got from some kiosk that was selling shareware disks.
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by dlevine 9y ago
I used to play this game years ago (2010 or 2011). Glad to see that it's still there.
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by dlevine 9y ago
I second this. I've seen both therapists and coaches of various types a number of times over the years, and have found it to be tremendously helpful in getting me through a number of rough/challenging patches. It's really nic
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by dlevine 9y ago
Wow. This brings back quite a few memories. A number of years ago (15 to be exact), I spent a good portion of my final semester senior year at MIT in a lab (6.115) programming the 8051 in assembler and wiring interesting things up to my ner
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by dlevine 9y ago
Yeah. I remember playing through all the FF games (and a bunch of other RPGs) that hadn't been translated into English when I was in college in the late 90's. It's great that most of them have been remade since, but there is
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by dlevine 9y ago
I'm curious as to why Airpods have 98% satisfaction rate? I don't have a pair, but it seems like a lot of people I know who have them feel similarly. Is it because the battery life is good and they connect super easily and stay co

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