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by honkdaddy 4y ago
This is crazy. Every single one I looked at was like this. Are these even real people playing guitar? If it were piano I’d say it’s 100% just MIDI arrangements. I’m gonna look into this more. I have friends trying to break into the industry
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I tend to agree. I expect that kind of prose will not age, imagine reading a piece from 2009 which opens with - "Two words to describe the WH response to the financial crisis: EPIC FAIL." Sure, in the 2020s answering 'yes&#x2
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I had to go check - $40/mo for a digital newspaper?! Surely this is aimed at a different demographic than mine, because I can’t imagine anyone I know paying that for news.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
You're absolutely right! And I'd be similarly dismissive of a blogpost where someone tried to debunk string theory on their own intuition alone without referencing any of the existing research or literature.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I don't think this is really worth the read. If you're going to write a piece specifically as a takedown of a viewpoint, in this case, the view that AI risk is real and should be taken seriously, it's worth at mentioning your
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Wow - first Show HN I've seen in ages which I've been earnestly excited to try! Love the name as well, .fm is such a great TLD. "Your listening habits have gotten less diverse over time. You've been listening to 95 genre
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
As a hypothetical, what would that case actually look like? I'm suing you because I have a strong belief that part of the codebase of your personal project was assembled from code I wrote and didn't license permissively, so now I&
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
The people we call rich pay the majority of taxes. >In 2019, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid $612 billion in income taxes while
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I spent a couple months grinding LC before I got my FAANG offers and honestly it was completely worth it, I’m sort of surprised when people feel the opposite. At the end of the day it’s a couple hundred hours of effort in exchange for years
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
This looks cool. An unsolicited anecdote from a former huge delicious/stumbleupon guy, what made these sites awesome for me was the backfill of amazing content that other people had already cataloged. I didn’t share much, I just enjoye
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
If you want to look at that way, sure. The point I'm making is that it's not a particularly interesting or descriptive way to look at society.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I'm not American.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I think it's difficult for someone to have much perspective on how much their own lifestyle is subsidized when the same can be said for the vast majority of people who enjoy benefits from the government, regardless of where they choose
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Short answer, eyeballs. Most engineering blogs are ultimately just a small part of their talent pipeline.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
In this specific case sure, most Indians probably wouldn't be offended by being associated with those qualities because they're almost universally positive. It very quickly gets murky though, since most racial or geographical ster
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Not all of those blogs are about being healthy. Some of them are just about reaching and maintaining the popular societal understanding of appearing "fit". I mean damn, one of the blogs is literally called Look Great Naked! I tota
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
The poorest towns in America don’t have the highest crime and the richest towns don’t have the lowest. Attributing violent crime to poverty alone does a disservice to the people living in places with violent crime.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I’ll bite - I only care because I think it’s important for others to see what your intentions are here. Now that I’ve answered your question, can you answer mine? :) If I wanted to, I’m sure I could Google some of your online identities an
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Anecdotal, but I can personally say much less so in Serbia than in Canada, USA, or UK.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Can you please be more clear with what you're trying to say then? You obviously feel very strongly about pontifier and his past, given the amount of time you spent digging into his background, what is the point you are actually trying
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
If I were a lonely, single man, I'd probably feel as if the author was making a bit of a cruel joke at my expense when they chose a picture of a tall, fit, and handsome white dude as their idea of what a lonely and single man probably
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Love this idea. I’ve been sending screencasts to PMs for years now, something like this would have saved me dozens of hours over the years. Since I’m mostly an Apple dev, when do you see yourselves supporting iOS as well? I’ve seen other co
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
There’s a bizarre fantasy I see a lot of self-hating westerners reference which is that their hygiene and bathing practices were learned from other societies, which from what I’ve read from and what this article shows, is clearly a complete
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Wait, you people bring a toothbrush and roll of toothpaste around with you everywhere? Do you only ever eat at your house or office?
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Why would I want to take the time to upload to your service a recipe I already know?
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
As kindly as possible - if your anecdote about your teenager misbehaving is scratching the countertop, you may just have an unusually well behaved teenager. What would your response be if he drove drunk and crashed your car? Or if he you go
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Yeah, similar story for me. "Senior engineer" at failed startup into Founder/CTO at other failed startup. Then L3 at Snap into L4 at G. No hard feelings whatsoever. We're all moving pixels and pushing buttons for money,
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Well said as usual, PragP. My experience working in big tech is that the bar for actually getting an interview for the junior positions is actually relatively low, and your standardized interview performance matters 10x more than the conten
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
As someone who grew up in the country and now lives in NYC, this is about as out of touch as the takes I used to hear back home about how city people must live. Growing up, my Dad couldn’t have been more proud of his F-150, not because of w
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
You're right, neither of us can say for sure. I'd also love to hear an Iranian HN users' perspective on the accuracy of the article.

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