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by guscost 8y ago
> Almost like the wealthy who need therapy despite living materially comfortable lives, Americans are fighting with vitriolic rhetoric in seemingly unnecessary ways. The most accurate idea I’ve seen in years.
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by guscost 8y ago
I just picked up an SCPH-1001 (original PS1) on eBay for 25 bucks. With the multi A/V out into a tube stereo, CDs sound fantastic . Not very convenient but a nice option.
843.
by guscost 8y ago
I’m way out of the loop then, I guess. Back in my day you could move code files around your computer’s file system, and even run them with interpreters.
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by guscost 8y ago
What does the user story look like for installing a Chrome app locally? Do you need to go through tons of menus or is it just dev mode + easy/scriptable setup process?
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by guscost 8y ago
Your job should not have to include managing your manager. Your manager’s job includes preventing this situation from happening. If you find yourself spending too much time on this (and you can’t fix it by bringing it up), you should find a
846.
by guscost 8y ago
> There is no way in hell Gitlab is worth anywhere near what MS just paid for Github. On the other hand, Atlassian is worth twice what MS just paid for Github.
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by guscost 8y ago
Aren’t we all?
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by guscost 8y ago
I can't hear the difference between a CD and a phonograph. I can definitely hear the difference between an iTunes stream and a CD (maybe not in a car though).
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by guscost 9y ago
For some great video journalism on this subject, check out Dead Mall Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx...
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by guscost 9y ago
In the case of a form, what’s wrong with composing a whole tree of custom “presentation” components in one render? Does this take up too much space? You don’t always need to pass the prop through each individual component, instead you can r
851.
by guscost 9y ago
Well obviously commercial jets have video screens instead of windows, but surely building an ultralight or using an open cockpit plane is easier than this.
852.
by guscost 9y ago
If you’re going less than 2000 feet up, what’s wrong with an airplane?
853.
by guscost 9y ago
It’s a little more complicated, but you’re basically right. The hydrogen buildup happened when they tried to prevent a meltdown by continually pumping water through the reactors, because the earthquake could have cracked the secondary concr
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by guscost 9y ago
Microsoft also runs the second largest cloud provider in the world.
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by guscost 9y ago
I’ve never liked the notion that folks don’t care about the environment unless they agree with one plan to fix it.
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by guscost 9y ago
Absolutely. The headline and the banal terror in that quote are all I need to see here. Buy some things from Walmart/Jet if you’re really that worried about a new player monopolizing new industries (for very good reasons). In the worst
857.
by guscost 9y ago
Oh no! Start again! Been stuck doing covers/arrangements for a few years myself...
858.
by guscost 9y ago
So Atom then ;)
859.
by guscost 9y ago
There's risk that any of those metrics could be compromised by Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Obvious counterpoint: Money is also a metric susceptible to Goodhart'
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by guscost 9y ago
I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to have my own suspicions, so thanks for speaking up. If you're not trolling, really do consider writing under your real name and naming others involved. If it's too much of a risk to anyo
861.
by guscost 9y ago
This might be the wrong place and time to comment, but last year there were more than 37,000 motor vehicle deaths in the US. That's more than a hundred every day on average. It's reasonable to fear the road a lot more than polic
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by guscost 9y ago
You're describing the Price-Anderson Act: http://www.naic.org/cipr_topics/topic_nuclear_liability_insu...
863.
by guscost 9y ago
Well, I guess you figured out the universe. Not much to do now except wait for the end, eh?
864.
by guscost 9y ago
It could be argued this is a departure from the standard, but on the other hand allowing PUT to have side-effects might be more user-friendly than an extra POST to a special "email invitation" resource. Would you prefer to see thi
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by guscost 9y ago
If the documentation says it is a REST API, you could be justified in expecting all POST requests to be non-idempotent, and all other requests to be idempotent. But it would still be reassuring to see this stated explicitly!
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by guscost 9y ago
I’m still in my twenties (barely) and confident enough to say that I’m not mediocre at a couple skills at least. I have worked in several jobs both supporting “legacy” business needs, and at a couple startups. Two things: First, I think you
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by guscost 9y ago
It's as if when considering a supersonic jet airplane, we were to ask, "When will it be able to power itself by catching fuel in flight?" After all, some birds can do that, so we know it must be possible.
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by guscost 9y ago
The way I've used (and would recommend using) this idea is to spend some time deciding whether any big optimization is premature before implementing. By definition, premature optimizations cause more problems than they're worth, b
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by guscost 9y ago
Teleportation is a fiction and you can just invent the necessary details to decide whatever you want, but I still like this webcomic treatment: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
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by guscost 9y ago
What if you could choose a "support level" or unlock features by donating more resources? I'm thinking out loud here, but I've never heard of customer-donated CPU as a business model and there might be something here.

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