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by hawkice 12y ago
To respond to this and the sibling comment: That was meant to be 40 years split in a first-COBOL-then-C++ type of way. I wasn't attempting to draw any technical equivalency per se, merely a quazi-cultural one.
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by hawkice 12y ago
My advice is to play up the experience, but play down some details of that experience. For instance, 40 years of COBOL and C++ has some signalling issues (not completely unreasonably, what with carpenters blaming shoddy tools). I'd pro
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by hawkice 12y ago
Chris Sacca seems like a good person and straight-shooter, but I am having a hard time reading any more reasoning out of this than "I think he's hard working and he's really good at Wii Tennis". It could have been any ga
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by hawkice 12y ago
> Quantum mechanics is correct. Always, always, always use Quantum mechanics!!! Newtonian mechanics is obsolete! Okay, so when we talk about use we are talking about tools. A lot of the tools we got from Newtonian mechanics are pretty re
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by hawkice 12y ago
I think you're blaming capitalism for a bad incentive structure internal to companies. Yes, many decisions are made to further the interests of the stakeholders of the business, and many of these things damage the business itself. But
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by hawkice 12y ago
Almost all applications are "security applications", in the sense they are security sensitive, these days. If I pull data over the internet, my first person shooter now can't allow buffer overruns. Bad Things may happen in al
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by hawkice 12y ago
If I have a key or picture of a key, yes. If I have access to just the lock, I can't figure out how to do this without some odd equipment. And if the 3d printer + just the lock can't do something new, then how do 3d printers make
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by hawkice 12y ago
I lost my apartment keys and picked my way into my apartment for about 7 months. I don't see 3D printing having a lot to do with that. Even if I had a printer I'd need some fancy scanning equipment to figure out how to make the ke
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by hawkice 12y ago
I have spoken to some professional writers who didn't know what TK was. What a fantastico way to keep the pace in fiction! I'm also quite delighted by the use of wordpress as a popular fiction platform. New chapter releases for Wo
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by hawkice 12y ago
Great piece. More B2B companies should offer customers promotion in exchange for stories of how useful their product is. Major win-win. And of course 'patio11 is doing odd and clever things with twilio aside from his business. :) Minor
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by hawkice 12y ago
I used this to think about a business deal I have in process, and was a sincerely useful tool to structure my thinking. To those interested, I refined my view that attempts to very actively edge people out of a few percent of the gross deal
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by hawkice 12y ago
If there's a staff-made course for it on Memrise, I'd recommend that. I'm using the Chinese one, and it's perfect for small chunks and avoiding being overloaded. The charity aspect is probably better dealt with by simply
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by hawkice 12y ago
I'm using Chromium, says it only supports Chrome. Can we shave some characters off the regex here?
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by hawkice 12y ago
Nice. I like ambition, I like building first and "strategizing" later. Basic tech gets a lot of play, but if HN slowly transformed into a much more active Show HN, I would not be disappointed at all.
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by hawkice 12y ago
Bingo. In my apartment building none of the units had numbers. I could point you to my unit, which was one of two doors on my floor, the other leading to a unit directly above me. So even GPS + Floor wouldn't quite me enough, although
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by hawkice 12y ago
A falsehood only distantly alluded to: That people have addresses at all, or can describe their residence in an unambiguous or clear way (even using GPS coordinates). I used to live in a place I couldn't even remotely give directions t
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by hawkice 12y ago
> Elon Musk likes to make fun of the competition quite publicly when they have an issue, while ignoring his project's own failures. This seems pretty harsh. It's not like he went home, curled up in a blanket with a hot cocoa an
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by hawkice 12y ago
A less pathological phrasing: Congress says states can boss around cities and force them not to build municipal networks, and the FCC can't do anything about that.
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by hawkice 12y ago
The ability to encrypt torrent traffic (requiring encryption is tremendously easy to do through the guis I use, and might even be the default in many clients) combined with the American reflexive response to government censorship leads me t
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by hawkice 12y ago
This attitude isn't even really a problem (why hire anyone who can't run a surplus in their personal life, if you want them to run a surplus for your business?), the problem is, "let's try to trick this person down a gar
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by hawkice 12y ago
It actually leaves you with more money, due to churn being reduced to 0 for that customer for a year. Assuming a somewhat idealized 5% churn, you'll get numbers floating in this ballpark: No Yearly Discount Offer: Month 1: $2,000 Mont
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by hawkice 12y ago
Worth thinking about: This is precisely the type of thing that extremely advanced civilizations may produce after some time. Far-flung radio transmissions aren't the only waste byproduct we'd expect of those who build big things.
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by hawkice 12y ago
I strongly recommend interviewing with as many companies as possible. You are under no obligation to disclose that you are interviewing to anyone.
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by hawkice 12y ago
Interestingly, the feature they said that about (async rewriting in catch/finally blocks) is almost exactly the feature that has been floating around the clojure-sphere as an example of something tremendously complex that was made easi
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by hawkice 12y ago
This may be wrong for complex reasons. Similar minds making the same decision for the same reasons do not _causally_ influence each other, but that doesn't change the outcome, nor does it make it any less bad. For a fairly deep view in
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by hawkice 12y ago
For any WPEngine employees reading: I now trust you almost completely on the subject of website speed. This is the perfect opposite of e.g. the A/B testing company that will show a statistically significant improvement from no change a
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by hawkice 12y ago
I was once offered a job where I got to choose my own title, so I chose Sales Engineer. My response, when the contract said "Senior Engineer" was predictable enough, met with "you were serious about that? Titles don't ma
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by hawkice 12y ago
Fox News seems to be the Fox News of journalism. As much as it may fail, there isn't much doubt that journalism is the thing they are failing at.
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by hawkice 12y ago
A fearful number of startups seem to be premised on the idea that we will enter a big brother-esque dystopia in exchange for an infographic / collage. I'm not saying they're incorrect, mind you.
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by hawkice 12y ago
For context: 100RMB is about $16, so you better really be enjoying those meals you're eating 3 times a day, because wowzers that's upscale.

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