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by gbog 12y ago
Trying once and failing do not mean we should never try again, I thought it was well understood here.
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by gbog 12y ago
> you don't grow fast enough. But what if I do not want to "grow fast enough"? Or, more precisely, what if I question the direction of this growth? For instance, I certainly should learn more and more, discover more intere
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by gbog 12y ago
"all you can do without burning out." If I may, this sounds to me like if you assumed that everyone should be working just one step below burn out limit. And this seems to be shared by so many people. I wonder what is the rational
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by gbog 12y ago
It is weird to not see a single comment calling for the long due death of passwords as authentication. They have so many drawbacks, they are annoying each and every employee that works with a computer on earth, we have weekly massive passwo
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by gbog 12y ago
You mean a big startup creating new projects in many different directions, automated cars, wifi balloons, space elevator, open source os for mobile devices, and smart spectacles?
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by gbog 12y ago
I have never lived in a place with security guards in the night. I think a big part of freedom and privacy is dead when you have to have security guards. Of topic, sorry.
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by gbog 12y ago
Ok, but some are more than others. Facebook is not famous for its outages, as far as I know.
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by gbog 12y ago
But this is not the Onion, this is HN and if we let too many parody comment on the top of the discussion, I fear it will become boring. Downvoted the GGP
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by gbog 12y ago
Ok, but those who just do not want to be assigned a productive task, what would you do with them?
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by gbog 12y ago
> hard work is a necessary [...] condition for big success I think this is not always true, therefore wrong. If you allow me to extend the notion of success to old writers, I can give the example of La Fontaine, whose poems are still rea
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by gbog 12y ago
The people writing and reading these papers for a living must live in a bubble and may not even realize how far and weird it is. Could it be possible for a patent crash to happen? Maybe the way to get rid of this absurdity is to push it to
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by gbog 12y ago
Same here, except that in the end I didn't like the article. Medium is very fit for startup chatter and discussions on the relative merits of ios 8 and android 2.2. But writing about science in Medium, using this style and narrative? N
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by gbog 12y ago
Like the idea and the article, but was astonished by this: > daily things that improve your life in small but beneficial ways, like flossing, meditating, or tracking your weight Ok for meditating, maybe. But flossing? Tracking weight? I&
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by gbog 12y ago
Python's keyword arguments: def f(a, b=1, c=2): pass Now, same call can be written `f(0, 1, 2)` and `f(0, b=2, a=1)`, which makes it much harder to refactor. For instance, suppose you want to add a non-keyword argument
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by gbog 12y ago
When I read go specs or go vs python comparison, nearly every diff is a specific pain point of our big python code base. No keyword argument? to hell with them. Strict formatting? That should be in python interpreter. No unused import: woul
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by gbog 12y ago
Hi. Can I be frank? I find it a bit hard to believe that your "real work" is "fun, time critical, and offers REAL rewards". Are you maybe trying to convince yourself here? It happened to me to believe wrongly that I had
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by gbog 12y ago
Easier to maintain? Well at least you should add that this move from python to ocaml made it much harder to find someone able to maintain this project.
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by gbog 12y ago
Quoting you: > (unless any employee was able to give any talk they wanted without any form of supervision, in which case there's a deeper problem here) I think any employee being able to give any talk they wanted without helicopter
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by gbog 12y ago
Downed you, and I'm not Atlassian employee. Just because you seem to believe each word in each talk of each employee in each company should be scrutinized by thought police and I don't agree.
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by gbog 12y ago
Yes, just go. But you should add that the traveler must be ready to let things go, when traveling in deep China without knowing Chinese. And to be confident. Then serendipity will not be just another trendy word.
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by gbog 12y ago
Not curious at all. In Shenzhen and many parts of east Asia many young guys are really find of computers and hardware, and they are fighting hard for their daily bowl of rice.
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by gbog 12y ago
If the people doing this are listening: I don't think the business model is ok. If this keyboard is to get some traction, it will require us users to use it for real before paying. You can't have a keyboard lite, it's a vital
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by gbog 12y ago
> Pray god that I never have to wipe my hard drive though. You will have to, and sooner than you think. Hard drives do not last forever. That's why instead of hoping to never reinstall an OS again, i decided to embrace OS installati
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by gbog 12y ago
> The article makes it sound horrible Yes, it feels like "look we found something to say about the French abd how they are bad a planning!" I have the same impression when reading my home country's newspapers about UK or U
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by gbog 12y ago
Why not arrow up? That's what I use and it is very natural.
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by gbog 12y ago
I regret I missed the event. It should be noted that rms came to China already quite a few times. I hope his message goes thru and reaches a wide audience here, because keeping full control on ones digital life is as important in China as i
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by gbog 12y ago
Wow, no, sail boat will not cut the path of a super tanker, if I remember correctly (I have navigation permit). And you can't apply your courteous rule for traffic in places with many elder pedestrians like China: other people and vehi
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by gbog 12y ago
Ok, maybe I blurred a bit between the Natural Law and the Law of Nature. If so, thanks for pointing this out. I am not native speaker. Then maybe my point still holds: wishing for a life closer to nature, going back to "good old times&
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by gbog 12y ago
Are you really sure the French helped to start the Iraq War? More seriously, I think it is reasonable to prefer that tech companies stay away from political figures. Suppose Rice was appointed by Google or Facebook instead of Dropbox. Or ma
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by gbog 12y ago
> Even monkeys have evolved forms of altruistic behaviour I'm sorry, but I can't agree with this kind of point. Ok, maybe by looking very closely, one could find traces of altruistic behaviors in monkey societies, but this cann

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