hitchhiker999

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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Well, don't know about homogeneity - as we're not 'mass market', and it's a semi-specialised field, people on HN seem to be above the average 'smart' (not going to say IQ) 1 - Smart people tend to have dif
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Thank you for your reply! Another random thought: A lot of parents are intimidated by their 'smart' kids, there's absolutely no reason for that. Even the smartest child can learn a wealth of wisdom from the most 'ordinar
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Yep. At least as far as being compatible with the rest of humanity. Or you could be the 'lucky' one who gets carted around as some genius for 'all to see' ie: Unless you want to sit in a cave and wire yourself to a compu
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Like quite a few on this site, I'm one of those kids. I have a kid now, he's not going to be sent to a regular school. I wasted about 30 years trying to work out what/how other people were thinking. School wasn't a chall
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
The poster clearly hasn't really watched the show, without a doubt spouting off something that sounded 'edgy' for the sake of it. Nice rebuttal by the way!
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
You've never seen the show have you?
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
I believe there's an afterlife, because the system we live in is insanely complex. I won't discount that we may be simply living a temporary instance of a 'experience'. I won't discount that I may be completely wron
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Drop the definitions of 'good vs evil' - decide on your own. What is your best guess as to the nature of the universe, how it works. Your best guess is as equally right/wrong as everyone else's, but it will be something
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Honestly this is where so much stuff falls flat on its face. People claiming they 'know' on either end of the nuts/pragmatic/scientifc spectrum. 'I think therefore I am' - cliche ofc. Only thing I can prove. BU
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
That's a great point, however you must take into account the crowd-innovation aspect. Decentralisation allows for a great deal more creativity to 'eventually' bubble to the surface (in a perfect world ;))
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
So you're trying to argue that because human beings are behind everything, it's basically the same? Are you suggesting an open-source backed community developing a project works the same way as Facebook does? While I've got
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
"Decentralized infrastructure is needed. " There is absolutely nothing I can think of more important than this. There's room for companies, there's room for restricted centralised services - but in my humble opinion the
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Depending on who you ask: - Most major governments are ineffective, if not corrupt. - We put almost no resources into educating our children. - It's pretty clear we've broken the planet (or are breaking it fast) - The masses are c
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
They have taken an environment of sharing, and turned it into a paranoid world of fear-based strategies. It's not all their fault - people are responsible too, crappy marketing works - so it has to be stripped out. They way they did it
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
I came here to say this, also have 25+ years experience. I've noticed that a lot of us with extreme experience feel the same way. In this last year, yet again, I look back at last year's code in horror. Every year it's been t
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
.. according to this (understandably simplistic) poll it seems they may not be out.. but certainly being 'handed their hat.'
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
With all due respect, and thank you for the reply - I feel compelled to say this: I used to think like that, however after many years of observing the complicit abuse corporations like these preside over - I can no longer hold that opinio
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
My best idea for the future? First one that comes to mind: Decentralisation of key services. Perhaps you don't find that palatable - others may. While I truly like 'Page', he seems like an interesting chap; It's a stretc
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
No, it's fine - as a person who's been surrounded by coding and logic since I was 6 years old (32 years ago). I'll choose the 'arbitrary' (from your perspective) choice. In my somewhat silly opinion -> All choice
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Perhaps a few people don't understand why OP takes this so seriously. This is the 'long game', the game for the betterment of human existence. (Cliche? yes, true enough? - probably) If you still feel these huge corporations h
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
I stopped reading that article when: "Proposals that are supported up and down the income spectrum have a better chance of being enacted than policies that do not have such support. To that extent, democracy is working." Refactore
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
'hacker school' - I'm probably too old, this sounds so entirely lame.
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
It would have to be to operate in this 'infinite' physical environment. A place where we can only theorise about the concept of 'beginning' or 'end' or 'smallest' or 'largest'. We are litera
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
This is very exciting. I know some don't like hearing this, but it's possible that we don't understand how we're mechanically connected to this world, or the physical experience, or what the physical experience actually
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
How can anyone in 2014 seriously not think that's a slightly suspicious vibe? Regardless of whether you think these people are war criminals or not, or what their role was within in former administrations. It is clear she is connected
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
Hi not paul, And is the site profitable? I started it in 2002. It's part of my full time engagement. It's paid my way since 2006. There has never been any business model. Adsense only, yes it's profitable - we pay the 3 of
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
Thanks!! re: alexa reference: we had hit 5,000-ish on alexa a while back (then google had some fun with Q&A sites) - at that level we were getting around 180,000 uniques a day. 40k was the difference between 7000 and 5000 on alexa, it&#
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
That all makes sense, I would disagree on one point: "topics on Quora are limitless" The thing (only based on my experience) is that when you grow/diversify too much on a Q&A site, quality tends to dilute, and the audienc
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
Lol, cheers! OFC The last person you want teaching English is a coder. I have many thousands of volunteers to help with that ;) For the first 3 months of our site (before help came) 'grammar' was spelt wrong on the header.
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by hitchhiker999 13y ago
I do like their simple form and layout, they have indeed got an elegant site. Nice piece of UX engineering without a doubt. There can't (in my v. humble opinion) be any realistic way of recouping 80 million from a Q&A site. They wo

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