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by ef4 14y ago
"In the current environment (at least where I am) of well-funded startups with no shortage of benefits and work/life balance, a lot of people will think you're crazy for not taking advantage of it." The reply to those people is: there's no
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by ef4 14y ago
I used a similar setup for quite a while, but the big drawback is that you can't conveniently switch between standing and sitting. Now I have a crank-operated height-adjustable desk that I really like, and it only cost $588. I bought this b
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by ef4 14y ago
It's harder, but also much more lucrative. Trying to sell software to hackers is like trying to sell bread to bakers.
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by ef4 14y ago
In my head, I translate that as "I don't want to think about whether my code actually helps anyone." Because if you do care, you necessary need to (1) learn what someone's problem really is, (2) figure out how to solve it, (3) explain your
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by ef4 14y ago
I've found this line of argument can really help open people's eyes to the opportunities around them. Even if you're an employee (or job seeker), you are running a business. Your product is your skills. Your market is all your potential emp
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by ef4 14y ago
You pull rather than push. The webserver has no credentials for accessing the backup server. Instead the backup server accesses the webserver. This strategy places higher trust on the backup server, but the backup server is easier to defend
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by ef4 14y ago
I can vividly remember making my first code edit ever when I increased the blast radius in gorillas.bas. Nuclear bananas! I've been hooked on software ever since.
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by ef4 14y ago
This whole article is based on the premise of bandwidth scarcity. I don't buy it. I also don't buy the complaint that suburbs are already suffering from too much interference. I live in a dense urban environment, and while I can see a lot o
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by ef4 14y ago
It only looks odd if you assume it was designed to educate children. On the other hand, if you assume it's designed to produce reliable, obedient consumers who won't rock the boat, it all makes perfect sense. You would probably enjoy The Un
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by ef4 14y ago
What's funny is that you hardly have to "pilot" this model, because it used to be the norm all across America (the one-room school house). The evidence is compelling that it works great, and it costs less too. Which of course is why it's a
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by ef4 14y ago
People with expert knowledge in any field will frequently notice "wow, the media does a terrible job of understanding and explaining my field." Too few take the next logical step: the media does a terrible job of understanding and explainin
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by ef4 14y ago
This strategy throws away some of the most powerful features of distributed version control. It only works if you're going to work in a silo and then suddenly share your changes, fully finished, with the world. In any collaborative environm
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by ef4 14y ago
I agree that these were historical arguments for the patent system. But I don't think those arguments were entirely valid then, and they're even more suspect today. The end of trade guild secrecy had far more to do with the advent of mass p
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by ef4 14y ago
The idea that we need patents to foster innovation is a self-serving lie. Most of human progress -- everything that got us to where we are now -- happens faster the more copying everyone does. America industrialized faster than Great Br
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by ef4 14y ago
Everything in this post is consonant with typical music theory. The most popular chords are the good old I, IV, and V, and the next most popular are their relative minors (C -> am, G -> em, F -> dm). The example they give of cho
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by ef4 14y ago
Gee, drivers hate the idea of having to actually pay a market rate for a scarce resource? Who would have guessed.
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by ef4 14y ago
I think it's interesting that reporters are still using the Therac-25 as their go-to example of medical software harming people. I'm pleasantly surprised that we haven't had a bunch of more spectacular examples since then.
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by ef4 14y ago
I think they're failing to appreciate the forces of habit and culture. The longer they wait to offer a legitimate option, the more people will already be habituated to piracy and embedded in communities that exist for piracy. Or to put it a
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by ef4 14y ago
You're missing the point. Chrome does respect your global DNS configuration. The article is about how Chrome cleverly makes DNS requests (to your resolver of choice) as early as possible.
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by ef4 14y ago
> A tornado is a horrible event, but it creates wealth. Classic broken window fallacy. A tornado doesn't create wealth. On net, it leaves the society poorer than before. It may create a windfall for a particular industry, but that's jus
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by ef4 14y ago
It's not just a question of porting it to cocoa. To really do its job, it needs to take control of every other window. So you need to hack Apple's existing window manager. FWIW, you can easily compile and run it on OSX, under X. But of cour
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by ef4 14y ago
It's impossible to get the content to Australia so quickly, which is why the fans are already getting the content to Australia so quickly. Got it.
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by ef4 14y ago
The whole point of showing colored circles with numbers in them like this is to convey a sense of relative scale. But none of these appear to be to scale. So they're completely misleading. May Tufte have mercy on your soul.
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by ef4 14y ago
I don't think this is an approved drug. It's sold as a reagent to laboratories, but not used for anything medical.
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by ef4 14y ago
People win class action suits against big corporations quite frequently. And the pharma industry's own actions show that they know they're vulnerable to torts. That's why they lobbied for laws like the Vaccine Act of 1986, which limits thei
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by ef4 14y ago
You're forgetting a key point. If productivity doubles, living on half your current salary would be no problem, because all that productivity will be driving down the cost of most things.
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by ef4 14y ago
This kind of alarmism is both very old and economically ignorant. We have already experienced this scenario multiple times, and it always leaves us better off. Consider that 200 years ago almost everyone was in farming, and now it employs l
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by ef4 14y ago
I find cubicles hugely motivating. I work my ass off every day to make sure I'll never need to sit in a cubicle again.
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by ef4 14y ago
You're right, I have a difficult time trying to empathize with this guy. Because my own emotional alarm bells would have been going off much, much earlier, back when he was failing to make any serious plan for how he was going to earn a liv
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by ef4 14y ago
Those are both good indicators, and at least some companies get them right. I would add a few more that almost no one gets right: does the culture create meaningful chunks of interruption-free time (Paul Graham's "Maker's Schedule")? Do pro

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