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by freehunter 6y ago
The difference being you can buy VR and AR devices and use them right now. Maybe they’re not very good but it’s on the market right now, which is better than what fusion power has given.
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by freehunter 6y ago
Lots of recent scientific studies coming out over the past few weeks regarding vitamin d.
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by freehunter 6y ago
It’s more like you have one Lambda instance that is always running (sure think of it like one server) that can serve the first page instantly while the other ten thousands Lambdas take half a second to warm up. That first Lambda responds in
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by freehunter 6y ago
I spent all day on my MacBook SSH’d into a remote Linux machine, does that mean the MacBook isn’t a general purpose computer? Does the ability to SSH into another machine mean your computer is not “general purpose”? Because he also used a l
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by freehunter 6y ago
> flexible jobs that you could engage with at any point in time didn't really exist either Sure they did, we called them “cottage industries”. You’ve always been able to buy from a farmer’s market or small general stores (who source
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by freehunter 6y ago
Factorio is one of a handful of games I really wish I could play more but 1) I don’t spend enough time at my desktop to actually play it and 2) Could work very well on a tablet so it could be played anywher. Fortunately a lot of games on th
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by freehunter 6y ago
Not listening to this advice is 100% the reason why people don’t trust a lot of public apologies: too many people/companies “apologizing” by saying “I’m sorry you got mad” or “I’m sorry you found out about this”. If you apologize, mean
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by freehunter 6y ago
Why aren’t they? Because they can’t be, or because you think they aren’t used in that way? I’ve been using an iPad for nearly 100% of my work over the past two years (until this summer, just a regular 9.7” iPad), and I know of developer
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by freehunter 6y ago
I’ve been down that road and combining ADHD with an infinite amount of buttons to press and dials to turn is a recipe for disaster. I just can’t help but push all the buttons and turn all the dials until something breaks, and then I have t
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by freehunter 6y ago
At that point it’s not even worth differentiating between the two. Some people use laptops for work, some people use them for entertainment, many people use them for both. Some people use tablets for work, some people use them for entertain
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by freehunter 6y ago
> Note that Apple's official position disagrees with you I don’t think it’s quite that simple, as Apple has at least two different “official positions”. The first being that the iPad is more computer than you need (see their marketi
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by freehunter 6y ago
This is exactly the reason I picked up an iPad Pro earlier this year. I have ADHD that flares up pretty bad when I’m wading through the boring parts of a project and flipping through open windows, the Dock flashing at me, update notificatio
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by freehunter 6y ago
virtualenv always feels like a hack to me. Too many times I’ve forgotten to activate the virtualenv halfway through a project and now I’m troubleshooting all the problems I just caused with some packages installed in the virtualenv and some
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by freehunter 6y ago
I’m actually looking forward to the opposite: better iPad apps now that developers can expect them to work on Mac too. Maybe we can get iPad apps that actually work with a mouse and keyboard.
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by freehunter 6y ago
If you’re planning on creating something that you can build a business around, yes. If you’re learning from scratch and want a business as quickly as possible, Rails is your best bet. If you want a job working at companies where they use Ru
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by freehunter 6y ago
I’m not sure where you read in my comment that I “genuinely believe” that he “caused” the “recent” unrest when I feel like I went to major lengths to paint the situation as a hypothetical scenario that may possibly take place in a hypotheti
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by freehunter 6y ago
Could be some back to back commands: git add . git commit -m “update” git push Although if you’re doing it that often I’d want to set up .bashrc to condense it to a single command.
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by freehunter 6y ago
Physics simulators like this is something I find really fun to play with, but there’s one thing I’ve been searching for but can’t find any: fluid and erosion simulation. I’ve been playing Cities: Skylines since it came out and I love the fl
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by freehunter 6y ago
When a billionaire makes a move like this (getting citizenship in another country) it’s often criticized as an “escape plan”, or somewhere to run if any number of bad things happen to or in the USA. It’s viewed a little differently from mos
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by freehunter 6y ago
In other links here it looks like they just give you housing for 90 days until you’ve bought your own house/apartment. Which, at the average cost of an apartment in Helsinki, would save you about $3000-$7000. It helps a bit, but not su
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by freehunter 6y ago
There used to be a company and a team of engineers. Recently they laid off everyone and it’s down to just a one-person show now.
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by freehunter 6y ago
>fully locked into AWS with years of work needed to go anywhere else That’s the thing that I don’t understand... unless you’re treating cloud vendors like a traditional on-premise data center, you’ve already got lock in. And if you do tr
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by freehunter 6y ago
Because their conference is happening right now so these are all new and relevant stories that people are excited to talk about.
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Is it really a push, or is it just that Next.js Conf is happening right now so there is a lot of news coming out at once? You see the same thing during Apple/Google/Microsoft/Amazon conferences, the frontpage of HN is filled
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by freehunter 6y ago
Or anything that‘s a multiple of 12. If the lease was signed in Q2 of any year, it will be up for renewal in Q2.
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One reason monopolies are considered bad is because they set the barriers to entry too high for competitors. I hear the “but Google is just better” argument a lot and sure they are. Google search is better because they pay other companies t
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by freehunter 6y ago
It’s interesting to me that the US views Iran more harshly than Israel does.
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But X.org isn’t a hardware vendor. It’s not owned by any hardware vendor. It’s not even owned by an OS vendor, or by an OS at all. Apple is a multi-trillion dollar company. Microsoft and Google are close behind. Of course they can give away
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If they signed a 12 month lease in Q2, then yes.
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Car dealers have to pay upfront for all the cars on their lot. They're not going to stock vehicles that don't sell. So naturally there aren't a lot of small cars on the lots because those cars just sit there losing money and

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