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by hgs3 3y ago
H-1B's undercut supply and demand: if a company can't find workers (low supply) and they need them (high demand) then they're supposed to raise wages to compete for them. Artifactually increasing the supply of workers suppres
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> Many of the indie darlings from that era would be lost in the noise now. This isn't specific to games. I doubt many dot-com millionaires would have the same success with the web if they were born today.
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> I get pretty dismissive when I hear someone is designing a custom engine for their game. Teardown [1] was developed by one guy, custom engine, and sold over a million copies. The technology is so unique that it wouldn't be possibl
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Do you refer to the human using your software as a "user" or "player?" The term "multiplayer" is correct if you refer to them as a "player" but if instead you refer to them as a "user" then
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The world wide web is inherently a tool for distribution. Being upset at Facebook is nonsensical when distribution is the purpose of the web. Technology is an amplifier for human behavior. If some humans use technology for nefarious rather
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I assume it's cheaper to hire new employees at base pay than pay to retrain the seasoned employees.
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> Giving them use of a platform makes Facebook complicit. I don't understand this perspective. Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press, shouldn't be responsible for what folks print. Neither should Sir Tim Berners-Le
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No mention of Carbon? I was under the impression Google was designing Carbon to be their C++ successor?
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I don't disagree or agree, but it often seems like the economy is 1% actual innovation and 99% phony innovation. For instance, most business apps are all the same app under the hood (e.g. a CRUD app) with the only difference being the
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Kids in general are neglected because having a stay at home parent has become a financial luxury. Kids used to grow up with a parent present, now they grow up watching TikTok until their parents come home. This is a real problem that no one
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Because many programmers who open sourced their code intended it to be read by humans, not AI. They don't want some centralized super computer owned by a mega-corporation reading their code. At the very least, if the models were Free a
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by hgs3 3y ago
You're right, that part is not the same, but the 2nd paragraph of the article is: "[...] adults who choose to live a minimalist lifestyle and reject the pressures of society. Lying flatists refuse to participate in consumerist lif
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I live minimalistically and have a nest egg from working as a software engineer for Big Corp. Hopefully my income will resume when I launch what I've been building commercially in the next few months.
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If you have doubts, depending upon how you feel, you could consider speaking with your employer about working part time. Part time means more free time while still earning an income. Also consider how you might negotiate it: half-days five
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> It’s not cool, or admirable to wallow in mediocrity. I never heard the term "lying flat" before this article, but I live that lifestyle and I'm not "wallowing in mediocrity." I code, make artwork, compose music
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by hgs3 3y ago
The Internet became corporatized and web surfing died. Search engines stopped promoting novel content, website design became homogenized, and everything became commercialized. Ironically, Hacker News with its lack of ads, niche audience, an
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Sure, but you can't always use the stack. It has a limited amount of memory and doesn't handle dynamic data structures well, e.g. for a growable undirected graph you need auxiliary data structures for managing its nodes.
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All references in Rust must have an explicit owner. It's common to create additional structures whose entire purpose is to manage the lifetime of your actual data structures. This means more memory consumption and potentially extra ind
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The OSI once applied to the USPTO for a trademark on "open source" and was denied [1]. [1] https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...
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> You need to duplicate your process, then pay the price of memory usage ... I believe the implementation of the Python multiprocessing package uses fork() on *nix systems which means memory should be copy-on-write. Processes do have the
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by hgs3 3y ago
If you're a non-profit then you don't need a recommendation engine or an ad engine. You also don't need to self host video and images, at least initially. Reddit, for the longest time, relied on Imgur and embedded video playe
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The simple solution to the "censorship" problem is to not have a landing page that aggregates the highest voted content: the only content users should see should be from the subreddits they are subscribed to. In this scenario, the
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> The bills need to be paid. Could Reddit not have gone the 501(c)(3) route like the Wikimedia Foundation? Wikipedia has an immense amount of content, moderation, high traffic, open API, and they manage to keep the lights on.
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> Create debugging utilities for data structures very early on. Yes, this isn't encouraged enough. I often serialize my data structures as either JSON or Graphviz DOT files for visualization. It helps save an immense amount of time.
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I've often wondered how effective a capitalist economy would be if it limited for-profit companies to no more than N employees or forced a revenue cap. The idea being that hard cutoffs would promote more competition.
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> It's being done because it benefits the largest service providers by restricting their users' ability to move elsewhere. I agree which is why it will take a 501(c)(3) non-profit to drive the change.
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> with anti-spam measures making it almost impossible to self-host, and privileged delivery mechanisms like push notifications that require closed APIs to use. There are anti-spam measures that don't require locking down protocols.
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The beauty of open protocols is they don't preclude for-profit enterprise hosting large instances on their own server farm. This is already the case with email: I can host my own email server or signup with a small (or large) or free (
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> If that wasn't so immensely difficult and expensive, everyone would be doing it. While not a message board, the Wikimedia Foundation does well financially, hosts lots of content, receives massive traffic, and has an open API. >
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'switch' is good, but for VM's computed goto is better.

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