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by fergie 8y ago
Its not so much something that "just happens" as something that is learned. Go out for a trip with your local serious bike club (after training hard for 12 months just to be able to keep up) and try "half wheeling", pass
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by fergie 8y ago
I think Google actually does open source a significant part of their reusable libraries. I'm thinking about stuff like Leveldb, Tensorflow and Angular off the top of my head, but I'm sure there is a lot more. Some companies do see
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by fergie 8y ago
I’m surprised that nobody is mentioning plain old Bash. The builtins are pretty powerful, and in many ways Bash is the “standard” cli.
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by fergie 8y ago
Things break after everybody has gone home on a Friday? 3 day disruption.
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by fergie 8y ago
Its definitely coming, and its strange that so many people dont see it.
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by fergie 8y ago
I graduated university really excited that I understood pointers, and that I could implement about 10 data structures from the ground up. However when I got my first job at a large dotcom, I got treated as an unqualified beginner because I
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by fergie 8y ago
Is this satire?
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by fergie 8y ago
Made all the more jarring by the general Harry Potterness of the surrounding city.
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by fergie 8y ago
That was a surprisingly well written article with a well articulated point.
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by fergie 8y ago
https://del.icio.us/ it was a link-sharing site that used to attract great contributions. It was bought by Yahoo who for reasons best known to themselves shut it down just as it was at its zenith, and just before link shari
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by fergie 8y ago
The Spectator also have a great podcast with the author about this book: https://audioboom.com/posts/7040039-churchill-andrew-roberts...
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by fergie 8y ago
Nope- there are many reasons why companies need to be held publicly accountable, and a lot of bad things that happen when they are not.
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by fergie 8y ago
Dundee, Scotland. Very cheap yet charming property (if you avoid the housing schemes). Proximity to several good "Russel Group" universities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, Dundee). Thriving games industry- a lot of AA
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by fergie 8y ago
Its certainly true that open source projects eat into your work time. The real question is: can your employer find a way to turn this to their advantage? If you dig a little to find out how open sourcerers put bread on the table, it soon be
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by fergie 8y ago
As an open source maintainer myself, that seems like a pretty low percentage.
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by fergie 8y ago
In 10 years time these soviet-era monuments are going to be coveted and preserved.
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by fergie 8y ago
There are several European countries with a lower population density than the US, and places like Norway and Finland are _much_ more sparsely populated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
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by fergie 8y ago
Last time Linus took time off from kernel development the world got Git. I wonder what we will get this time?
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by fergie 8y ago
Hub gears still seem like witchcraft.
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by fergie 8y ago
I have a vague memory of reading an article by him shortly after he got the investment from Jeff Bezos when he spoke in terms of being "retired" (sadly ungoogleable now because "david heinmeyer hansson retired" just give
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by fergie 8y ago
Rails really nailed the problems of web development as it was 10 years ago by (rightly) pointing out that 97.2% of web projects were all about making an application server talk nicely to a relational database and then generating a front end
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by fergie 8y ago
What you say is true in the purest sense. Building on this, some economists regard monopolies of exchange as "assets". Baumol (the economist referenced in the article) did a lot of research into "Contestble Markets Theory&quo
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by fergie 8y ago
To put it another way: Tech startups before 2008 generally made money by suddenly providing new and cool stuff. Think Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple. Tech startups now seem to be focussed to a greater degree on rent-seeking business model
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by fergie 8y ago
This article does a pretty poor job of describing what rent-seeking is, and why it is bad, which is a shame. I strongly encourage HNers who haven't already done so to read up on rent-seeking (aka rent-extraction).
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by fergie 8y ago
"But as Norway aims to make all new cars sold in the country battery-powered by 2025—a target it will reach only with lavish subsidies paid for by sales of oil" Comments like this are unnecessary and continue to perpetuate a false
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by fergie 8y ago
Thanks- I missed it all of those times so I am glad it was reposted, and also glad that you have linked to the previous conversations.
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by fergie 8y ago
Hi Oliver It seems like the best self-driving systems are currently struggling with what seem to be fairly fundamental deficiencies (cant react to stationary objects on highways, dont react well to children and cyclists) Is this a valid obs
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by fergie 8y ago
Whilst I personally agree that talks are better when you learn something new, there seem to be whole conferences dedicated to intentionally restating the same things over and over again. Its almost as if some people go to these events to ha
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by fergie 8y ago
Generally, these contracts will be made available through a tender process. If the value of the work is less than a certain amount (in my locale it is $65000) then you can circumvent the tender process and sell directly to the government. I
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by fergie 8y ago
Wow- the thunder animation is pretty cool

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