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by gerbilly 7y ago
When they started to build the Linux kernel, they had a few great reference implementations of UNIX to base their design on: BSD and SysV UNIX. Both were available as source, and both had technical books describing their system architecture
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Main main criticism of the 'worse' development approach, rush out a simple MVP then iterate, is that it only works for simple problems. Not all problems can be solved by incremental refinement.
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When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road”(newyorker.com)
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In the computer world, the worst thing often ends up winning. The reason? Market forces are more powerful than technical features. This means that if you rush a bad implementation out the door and it gets adopted by the masses, the networ
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Probably not possible. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
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I don't see that we'd be gods. I mean classical mechanics is well understood¹ but it's not like it allows people to move mountains and fly out the window at will etc... 1: Aside from the problem of turbulence.
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> It seems unfair to accuse WeWork of winning simply by undercutting its rivals so as to starve them of oxygen. I think it's a great jumping off point for criticism actually. Those other companies that they are trying to asphyxiate
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Peloton accidentally built a fitness cult: a business is more complicated(thecut.com)
5 points by gerbilly 7y ago|1 comments
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Yup all my Apple ][ floppies are still readable. I formatted them between 1985-1990. Most of the CDROMs I burned in the 2000s are bad, no matter how much I spent on the blanks.
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> [...] I think there is a strong conflict of interest, in any corporation being allow to sell, advertise, and market any highly addictive substance. Just ban advertising of drugs then. In Canada, cigarette ads are banned for example.
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Does anyone know whether or not the language of the king James bible was typical of early 17th century English? I heard that the translators use archaic expressions no longer commonly used in 1604 for stylistic reasons.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
My grandmother used to run a general store out in a small rural village where I grew up. She had the only store in town, and she sold everything from groceries, to gas, barbed wire by the spool, salt licks for cows, nails by the pound, you
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The everse network effect driven by: 1) Ambition for kids to get into the right preschool so they can get into Harvard or whatever, causing more parents to put their kids in 'enriching' scheduled activities. 2) Unreasonable fear f
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> just as soon as my government decides an economy functions better when the people who make it up aren't living on scraps. The economy is functioning exactly as intended, I'm afraid.
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I think you are right about everything but the timescale: the current generation of kids already grew up under constant surveillance...by their parents. When I grew up, during evenings weekends and holidays, kids ran around in the neighborh
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Meredith MacNeill from the Baroness Von Sketch show does a lot of physical comedy: https://www.facebook.com/cbc/videos/healthy-eating-is-simple...
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Why Is CBD Everywhere?(nytimes.com)
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How peptides made me feel like I was 25 again(medium.com)
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Israeli Scientists Claim They're on the Path to a Cure for Cancer(forbes.com)
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I had been a freelance consultant for about ten years, working through headhunters and by word of mouth. Around April 2002 my contract was not renewed and I spent four months unable to find one. The freelance contract market seemed to dry
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Hi, I'm an end user who refuses to pay for software. Why should I when all the tools I need are online for free?
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Not trying to convert you back to Buddhism, but if that's you only objection, I have to tell you Karma does not require rebirth. In fact the Buddha refused to respond one way or another when asked what happens to us after death.¹ Karma
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The entire practise of Buddhism requires free will. Without free will, it would be impossible to follow the eightfold path. You may be thinking that karma predetermines all our behaviour. This is a false view that the Buddha specifically d
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The author is probably more qualified to discuss these matters than me, but it still seems to me like he is getting trapped by his too rigid categorizations. Just because we're not good at explaining our behaviour after the fact, doesn
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Banning out-of-hours email 'could harm employee wellbeing'(bbc.com)
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On long flights, I wish they would give me a job to do while on the plane, helping the stewards pick up trash, cleaning the toilets ... anything, just so I could move like a normal human being is supposed to. There should be a program where
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Good excerpt below on interplanetary travel: FC: What do you think of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pursuing interplanetary travel and Mars and moon colonies because they don’t seem to believe that we can save our home planet? YC: [Laughs] I thi
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> It is of course extremely convenient for them that being so ethical is also what makes their business so lucrative. I also find it convenient that they will repair their gear, often for free. That means my $300 surfing wetsuit will pro
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I agree, I especially notice it when forced to trudge up the stairs to exit the subway. When the stairs are crowded the pace is set by the slowest person on the staircase. On the rare occasions where I find the stairs empty, and I can run u
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No way, maintenance of a system , especially a critical system, is much much harder than building from scratch.

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