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by emerongi 5y ago
This is if you optimize for money. If you optimize for happiness, the decision process can be wildly different.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Could just be that since you see a lot of physicians marrying physicians, you also see a lot of physicians divorcing physicians. Without actual data, it's probably very hard to quantify the real divorce rate.
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by emerongi 5y ago
The sad truth is that your girlfriend in the wrong country. It's the same in mine, where many doctors move to nearby countries where they can earn many multiples more.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Language choice does act as a filter, though. If you choose Erlang, do you get smarter developers by default?
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by emerongi 5y ago
As long as the core system is built on solid engineering, this definitely makes sense. From my experience in a deadline-constrained environment, things end up being slapped together until they "just work". Adding new features gets
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by emerongi 5y ago
JavaScript has matured massively over the past 10 years. I'm not a Node developer myself, but JS + TS is a very palatable combination to me. I'd pick it over many other languages. 10 years ago I would not have touched JS unless I
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by emerongi 5y ago
A fun one used to be "Hackable?" It's more about gadgets than big hacks. No new episodes for a while though.
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by emerongi 5y ago
In a few years, tell me how it went. I prefer to work a 9-5 for a single company/product than shuffle between 10 different projects. It's fun for a short period of time, but eventually it tires me out. People are different, of cou
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by emerongi 5y ago
It's good to have multiple options. I lug my laptop around and (rarely) need to connect multiple devices to it and sometimes I run out of ports. At home, I use a dock and the ports are useless, but that doesn't mean that I don&#x2
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by emerongi 5y ago
Redis - it's probably in your stack already and fills all the use-cases.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Kyoto (first demo) was at the end of 1994.
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by emerongi 5y ago
You are still putting trust into the fact that the groups/experimenters are actually independent. Unless you have personally verified every experiment, you are still putting trust into the fact that others have done the work as they cl
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by emerongi 5y ago
Well, at some level you do just need to trust someone's "science", otherwise you can only rely on your own empirical evidence.
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by emerongi 5y ago
It is definitely weird. It might be the fact that the average person today is so far removed from the events and their life just keeps going. Why expend energy on rioting when everyday life is fine? We all have a ton of other stuff to do. O
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by emerongi 5y ago
This is correct, however you will still breathe in smoke "residue", which can be a bit uncomfortable and it will also cling to your body/hair. Even if you wash thoroughly after the sauna, you will notice a smoke smell on your
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by emerongi 5y ago
If a friend were to invite me to an infrared sauna, I would not go.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Doubt it. Many decent poker players have moved into areas where they can make money off of rich guys. From my minimal research many years ago, nobody knew of Dan B.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Aren't they doing the opposite: making the bid on Youtube competitive? They would have to outbid Yahoo, giving the Youtube team a competitive price. Buying a valuable asset does not seem anti-competitive to me at all. Anti-competitive
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by emerongi 5y ago
Right, I understand your point better now and agree. I'm not sure what medical training consists of today, but improvement on this issue should start there.
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by emerongi 5y ago
A lot of it is just science catching up to what is observed in the real world. I agree that many practicing doctors are operating on out-of-date knowledge, so if you happen on one of those and start talking about CFS, you might not get a po
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by emerongi 5y ago
I recently refactored a small set of services to use events instead of depending directly on eachother. I initially had Kafka in mind, but it would've been an absolute overkill. A "simple Kafka" would definitely be nice for t
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by emerongi 5y ago
There's a couple of grocery stores here that are recently trying out selling soap and shampoo this way. You bring your own bottle and fill it up. It makes sense and is not much extra hassle to the consumer, however I'm not sure ho
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by emerongi 5y ago
Yes they do. There is too much software to be written. A person with adequate knowledge of higher abstractions can produce just fine code. Yes, if there is a nasty issue that needs to be debugged, understanding the lower layers is super hel
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by emerongi 5y ago
I work in a small company, we don't have a sysadmin, so mostly we want to use managed services. Let's say we want a simple load balanced setup with 2 nodes. Our options are: - Run our own load balancing machine and manage it (as s
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by emerongi 5y ago
What is the experience like at a hackathon? Are you just sweating behind a computer screen or do you actually get time to socialize? It has never been too appealing to me to work for a couple of days under time crunch, which is what I alway
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by emerongi 5y ago
Copilot doesn't seem like the right word. Maybe first year college student with no previous programming experience? Then it would be clear what level of help you are actually getting. Impressive, for sure. Unclear whether it's a n
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by emerongi 5y ago
It's good to raise that point, but it's clearly just a light joke. If you would have phrased this comment as a PSA (I have hearing loss and it's not great, please take care of your ears everyone!), it would have come better o
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by emerongi 5y ago
Slightly less typing (compared to CSS), pre-defined memorable names, good documentation and a library of examples. It's just convenient, that's it. Ideologically I don't like it; for getting work done, it's nice. Theoret
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by emerongi 5y ago
Even when the internet is down, HN is still up
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I have the T470 (with swappable battery) and the T14 (newest T-line Thinkpad without external battery). Weight difference is minimal, size difference is minimal. Yes, there is a difference, but I don't notice it really. And I'm so

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