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by gwicks56 9y ago
Read on twitter recently: "Move far enough up in any career, and you are essentially doing sales". Thought that was very true.
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by gwicks56 9y ago
I freaking LOVED that game. Serious time suck though.
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Ask HN: When,if ever, is a “flight tested” booster more valuable than “untested”
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by gwicks56 9y ago
You should read The Three Body Problem series. In the second book, The Dark Forest, it has an extremely plausible answer to the Fermi Paradox: Basically every intelligent civilization is hiding, because Game Theory states if you find aliens
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by gwicks56 9y ago
Maybe. In any case involving TOR, I would not dismiss the possibility of parallel construction.
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by gwicks56 9y ago
Teslas don't have ignitions. And what defines "turned on" for an electric vehicle?
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by gwicks56 9y ago
Bitcoins goal has always been censorship resistance. The fact that Wikileaks still exists despite powerful interests strong arming banks into dropping them is an example of this.
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by gwicks56 9y ago
Thanks for the info. I was not familiar with Userfeeds, it looks interesting. Work is currently offering to pay for any online/university courses I want to take in Machine Learning, which is interesting and probably profitable, but not
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by gwicks56 9y ago
Be interested in what HN thinks of Maidsafe, Storj etc. Basically decentralised versions of the internet or the cloud based around blockchain technology. Storj for example is an order of magnitude cheaper than AWS, uses peoples spare hard d
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Windows 10 fall update will restore (and improve) OneDrive’s best feature(arstechnica.com)
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by gwicks56 9y ago
Yeah I had to basically set up new Ebay and paypal accounts, which is a pain, because you go from having 100's on good reviews as a buyer and seller to having none. It's a hard problem, in some a ways a universal internet ID would
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by gwicks56 9y ago
Managing accounts is a massive problem everywhere. I recently moved from Australia to the USA, and I have been having this problem ad-nauseam. Try switching your Google developer account to a US bank, or your amazon, paypal or god knows how
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by gwicks56 10y ago
If you are not doing Rails work, do people find Linux that much more productive these days than windows? I generally buy Thinkpads because of the keyboard and cost (upgrade myself), and used to use Ubuntu probably 85% of the time. Overtime
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by gwicks56 10y ago
Diffie-Hellman One of those algorithms where you go "Shit so obvious and also so completely genius that I could never have thought of it" Also, the internet as we know it would not work without it
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by gwicks56 10y ago
2005 legacy. I wanted the AWD for going to the snow, and I got it really cheap because the check engine light was on and it had error codes that looked scary but I knew i could fix. Working on a car is therapeutic after coding I find. Does
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by gwicks56 10y ago
OneDrive ( then SkyDrive ) used to be awesome. A folder showing all my files, including the online only ones. Then they ruined it. I still don't understand why.
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by gwicks56 10y ago
I just bought one of those Phillips wake up lights. Only been two weeks, but now I have way more energy in the morning, usually enough to get up and do 30 min of exercise and be finished before i had previously finished dozing. I find I am