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by ep103 3y ago
Or solar
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by ep103 3y ago
I think this is true of all places, people just tend not to recognize it where they live. One of my favorite ways to travel is by train or motorcycle over long distances, and just watch how architecture, clothing, styles, layouts, etc chang
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by ep103 3y ago
We did that post-columbine. One of our friends made the map in something like CS or something. Our little friend group thought it was awesome, but it was also tacitly understood that at no point could we tell anyone outside our tiny litt
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by ep103 3y ago
When I first started playing Go, I realized I thought about it like Risk. I was trying to draw Napoleonic battle lines on the board, and push back the opponent. And it kinda worked for very entry-level games, but mostly didn't make s
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by ep103 3y ago
As an outsider, it is rather hilarious that the top two responses to this story right now on HN are: * Our own local council in the South of England, BCP is in the doghouse too. We have extraordinary inequality of taxation at the root of it
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by ep103 3y ago
All of the worldcoin stuff is creepy, and a terrible idea. Potentially profitable though!
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by ep103 3y ago
I'm far outside of these social circles nowadays, but I stumbled across this youtube video of a phd candidate talking about string theory recently ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E ), and it seemed to imply t
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by ep103 3y ago
This is an understandable sentiment, but I do not think it applies in this case. In the case of Ithaca, most single young people live closer to the colleges, and drive or bus to the chain stores. The actual town, I think, survives on the i
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by ep103 3y ago
Ithaca being a college town definitely brings more money into the town. That definitely adds to the vibrancy. But I think my statement still stands independent of that fact :)
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by ep103 3y ago
Aye, I lived in Ithaca, NY for a while, and they had a local law that the only businesses within the town center could not be franchise stores, and had to be independently owned. Chain stores could open, but had to do so down the highway a
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by ep103 3y ago
Behold the power of the free market, and the inability of the government to do anything right! ... Wait a minute
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by ep103 3y ago
And also, to switch back to Firefox
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by ep103 3y ago
The more insulated you are from sales / overhead cost reduction pressure, the calmer things will be. Just make sure you're insulated, not so far that you're seen as a cost center as opposed to a revenue generator
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by ep103 3y ago
You need a truth table. Good code + Good Business = Success. Bad code + Bad Business = Failure. Good code + Bad Business = Failure. Bad Code + Good Business = Success. Successful businesses can paper over bad code with money, because ultima
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by ep103 3y ago
Its bizarre to see the "I have nothing to hide, so why should I care" defense on the top of Hacker News. Post Scriptum: If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which wi
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by ep103 3y ago
Yup, this is what I'm working on right now. 10 microservices to support a 2 page static html webpage. We "needed" microservices for "Scalability", but we will never have more than a few hundred users at a time. We c
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by ep103 3y ago
The enshitification continues
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by ep103 3y ago
> Elon's big start came from the success of X and Paypal Funny you mention this as why he was self-made, where by all accounts he was considered an awful coder in this Paypal position, and was only able to be in the country (illegal
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by ep103 3y ago
IBM lays off 10% of workforce is literally a yearly headline As are IBM sued for age discrimination, and IBM closes product line
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by ep103 3y ago
If the John Deere engineers understand those systems so well, then they could design their products in ways that the farmers could repair the products for common use cases. They are intentionally designing the products to prevent that. Th
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by ep103 3y ago
But I bet you these people sure can leetcode!
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by ep103 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ep103#35582936
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by ep103 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ep103#35582936
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by ep103 3y ago
Absolutely. We're on a forum that is largely composed of engineers, business strategists, and other types of work that encourage and reward thinking deeply about their respective topics. So I wanted to point out that human cognition is
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by ep103 3y ago
The most important philosophical lesson I've learned in life, is that it is important to take a step back once in a while (regularly!) and assess whether what you are doing in life genuinely appears to be good or bad at a very surface,
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by ep103 4y ago
React is still easier to work with than angular, depending on your application, even with these issues. But these are still issues : )
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by ep103 4y ago
Joel on Software - The Pit of Success applies here, yet again
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by ep103 4y ago
You are correct, and this Supreme Court in particular has made large changes to the concept, furthering the degree to which qualified immunity can be applied, and have done so in a time when there is a large, popular pushback to the concept
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by ep103 4y ago
The thing that blew my mind was that they always report this in degrees Celsius. I'm in America, even despite an engineering degree, I think in Fahrenheit. 1.5C sounds like a small number, until you remember that Fahrenheit is ~2x 1C.
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by ep103 4y ago
We shouldn't be, but the majority of this Supreme Court does in fact want this, yes. They have been systematically expanding qualified immunity over the last few years

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