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by doktrin 13y ago
Looks interesting. I currently have a GeekDesk, but the market could definitely stand to have some competition at lower price points. That said, Dave Asprey isn't a name that inspires trust. I would be uncomfortable backing a project h
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by doktrin 13y ago
I was being hyperbolical.
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by doktrin 13y ago
Most HN contributors wouldn't have trouble using Windows 8. True and fair. However, the context of the parent comment was recommending an OS for his (presumably less tech savvy) parents. I couldn't agree more in this regard. I rec
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by doktrin 13y ago
> For starters, of the 2042 "leaked" emails, 1153 are unique. Nice observation. I hadn't noticed it at a glance. > combined with the possible but unfounded FBI/Fincen accusations, illustrates that someone is mad
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by doktrin 13y ago
For those of us getting caught up on these events - what evidence are you referring to? So far I've seen : 1) A list of email addresses on pastebin, accompanied by a surreal claim of daily FBI & IRS data transfers and gag orders 2)
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by doktrin 13y ago
The linked article was more important than the actual piece [1]. Although it was interesting, I still disagree with the final conclusion. FB taking over OVR doesn't mean they will "own" the entirety of whatever common VR-acce
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by doktrin 13y ago
> But living in the middle of hundreds of others just teaches us to ignore everyone. This is an important point. For many of us who have worked in startups, "open office plan" really just means "team room". I enjoye
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> To put it another way if Steve thought it was important to have that I suspect he would have found a different mechanism that the one above. Maybe, but that particular mechanism was implemented. It actually received some negative f
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by doktrin 13y ago
I'm going to agree. Until last year, I had worked exclusively in open office plans. Some were good, some were pretty horrible. Not all open office plans are created equal, and this is a critical distinction. In my experience, open offi
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by doktrin 13y ago
The crux of the arguments presented is that there is some undefined point past which the market will not be able to absorb the displaced labor. If or when that comes to pass, it's no longer about whether or not automation benefits soci
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Is there the same level of shift between JS and coffeescript? Opinion : I've never used coffeescript, nor have I really been tempted to. JS isn't a conceptually difficult language, and the wrapper libraries (e.g. jQuery) ma
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by doktrin 13y ago
> It can be done in plain JS, but you end up rewriting a lot of methods to fill in the gaps already filled by jQuery. My conclusion was, it's still easier and more productive to use jQuery. Of course. That's the entire point
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by doktrin 13y ago
> * But would you say just stay with those, and don't worry about SASS/LESS, Angular/JQuery/etc..?* What you use should ultimately be up to you, but I would approach it in the following way : 1. start with what you n
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by doktrin 13y ago
slight tangent : can anyone recommend resources or entry level project ideas for anyone getting started with rendering APIs (OpenGL, WebGL, d3d, etc.)? I'm not opposed to any of the JS wrappers (three.js), but would like to develop som
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Now, the abortion that happened after PARC was the misunderstanding of the user interface that we did for children, which was the overlapping window interface which we made as naive as absolutely we possibly could to the point of not
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by doktrin 13y ago
That doesn't sound convincing. The Xerox PARC GUI is everywhere . The results of their work are about as mainstream as they could possibly be. Likewise, Smalltalk and Mesa were both hugely influential in everything from C, C++, Java a
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by doktrin 13y ago
> That led me from QBASIC -> Visual Basic -> PHP, of which I'm currently most proficient. I wish he had told me "C" or "C++"; my life would've taken a much different route. I started with QBASIC as w
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by doktrin 13y ago
There is nothing to indicate Google & Apple relationships soured before 2007, when Android was unveiled. Prior to that, by all public accounts they enjoyed a relatively amicable partnership. Moreover, simply having a mobile ambition isn
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by doktrin 13y ago
Your comment doesn't apply here. Android was released in 2008 and these emails were written in 2006. This is not correspondence between companies at war. On the contrary, Apple was leveraging their strategic partnership with Google to
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by doktrin 13y ago
> So San Francisco will certainly do much better than Turkey or Haiti, but I don't think it will resist as well as Tokyo. I've lived in both SF and Tokyo, and agree with this statement. Put simply, seismic danger is a Much Bi
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by doktrin 13y ago
I agree with this statement. For all intents and purposes, you could replace "Clojure" with "Brainfuck" in the GP's argument and it would make just as much sense. Sorry, but claiming that a language is "empower
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by doktrin 13y ago
I'm currently reading MoD, and I agree with this analysis. I'm not thrilled about the purchase, but it does make sense given the ambitions of the players involved.
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by doktrin 13y ago
> I'll have the draw of letting them work in the best tools, not making them compromise so it's easier for management to hire less serious programmers. Why are developers who have not worked with Clojure "less serious&qu
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by doktrin 13y ago
You're cherry picking. I addressed the overall demand for lawyers in the salary brackets we're talking about.
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by doktrin 13y ago
This isn't an apples to apples comparison. Law school can require as much as $200k and 3 years of opportunity cost on top of whatever was spent on undergrad. Additionally, it's my understanding that getting a shot [1] at the big
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by doktrin 13y ago
> I move that we do name something after him. I'm going to call it Ahmdal's Condition. Ahmdal is not the OP :/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
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by doktrin 13y ago
This is a classic lecture that only spurs me to learn more about Feynman's work. What struck me last time I watched this, was Feynman citing computer aided medical diagnosis as low-hanging-fruit - a problem just waiting to be tackled
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by doktrin 13y ago
The original statement clearly implied government corruption. After all, those raising the minimum wage don't earn it themselves. Thus, they're not "using the power of the state to boost their salary".
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by doktrin 13y ago
> tech companies agreeing not to cold call, and no other form of not hiring or price fixing, and that as long as this is limited to stopping cold calls it isn't illegal. Yes, it's still illegal.
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by doktrin 13y ago
The crux of your argument is : 1) keeping wages suppressed might be a good thing for the regional economy and long-term health of the tech industry 2) tech workers are already well compensated Those are fair opinions, but the behavior descr

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