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by hpoe 6y ago
So one of the best books I ever read about storytelling is Orson Scot Card's Characters & Viewpoints. He points out that there are 4 types of stories. - Milieu: Stories about a setting. - Character: Stories about a person. - Event:
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by hpoe 6y ago
I know everyone wants to talk about all these fancy economic theories about, market capture, VC funding, exponential growth etc around startups, especially SV and tech startups. I don't buy it, I see everything happening as the classic
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by hpoe 6y ago
You kids are spoiled nowadays with all your fancy graphics that substitute flash for performance, I played Warcraft Orcs and Humans for weeks, in all of it's beautiful pixelated, 8 bit glory. Now get off my lawn, zug zug. mild \s
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I don't care much for graphics quality, I started moving towards the terminal and CLI for most everything in my life about ten years ago, ultimately I feel that graphics falls under unnecessary fluff and eyecandy that distracts from
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by hpoe 6y ago
You're assuming rational actors. If the company is big enough then management won't care. It doesn't come out of middle management's pocket to pay for the extra space and they enjoy the feeling of control they have being
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I have heard about the idea of OOP being about passing messages between objects, rather than just calling functions with parameters but I can't seem to figure it out in a mental model. How does passing a message to an object differ
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by hpoe 6y ago
So my understanding is that the Maledecena conjecture that provide a correspondence between AntiDeSitter Space and CFT was a crucial breakthrough for proving string theory. Does this discovery make an impact on string theory?
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by hpoe 6y ago
I heard about that story, albeit through "The Power of Habit" by Duhigg, which is probably what your referencing. My reservation about just saying "safety is the top priority" is that it can quickly turn into management
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by hpoe 6y ago
They were jealous of how easy to use and beautiful Ruby is.
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I've been wondering a lot about that as well. It seems to me it may be a combination of factors. 1) New York was the area hardest it, it got hit initially, it has incredibly high concentration of people, and since it got hit early we h
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by hpoe 6y ago
The worked out super well in the Soviet Bloc and with section 8 housing.
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Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Currently Experiences Issues with Google? (May 6th 2020)
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by hpoe 6y ago
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. Is the word you are looking for.
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Thank you for your question, as a result we now legally own Pier25 and all affiliated intellectual property. Thank you for your time and service.
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Follow up: Many users of hackernews have expressed their disagreement and disapproval of our TOS. After careful investigation, we realize that our original policy was ill conceived and worded in such a manner that people were aware of the v
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by hpoe 6y ago
Anyone that responds to this thread legally agrees to surrender all intellectual property posted or mentioned by them in any manner on the internet messaging forum hackernews located at news dot ycombinator dot com, hereunder referred to as
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I know a guy that he bought some real estate he owns 3 properties I think. He isn't a millionaire just a software engineer working the 9-5 and the properties exist mostly to help him prepare for retirement. Now he has some money set
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Differences in the Life of a Software Engineer vs. a Civil Engineer(thecodelesscode.com)
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by hpoe 6y ago
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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by hpoe 6y ago
Well under that definition Socialism has never existed because there has never been a state run by the proletariat, although sometimes people masquerade under the banner of the proletariat to increase their own personal power, i.e. Stalin,
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by hpoe 7y ago
I work at a very large IT org (1000+) and the only way I have ever seen anything change substantially and persistently was when the change was introduced and made it far easier to do the right thing. Ultimately if you want people to do the
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by hpoe 7y ago
This is what concerns as many people have acted like the economy only effects rich people, or any move that trades the economy for lives is inherently immoral. Food falls under the economy, the economy isn't just the stock market or th
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by hpoe 7y ago
So I do not understand much about biology but could this effect explain why we seem to have so many people test positive for anti-bodies on COVID-19 tests, compared to other forms of testing?
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As soon as this thing hit this was one of my first thoughts, once things recover there are going to be a lot of companies looking for ways to automate things because robots don't get sick, they don't have to worry about social dis
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by hpoe 7y ago
So I've been interested in learning prolog ever since I found out it was a language used for AI. I am wondering if it is worth picking up now? Does it change the way one things about interacting with a computer or a problem? Is it some
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The Impact of the Upper Middle Class on Regulation(slate.com)
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by hpoe 7y ago
I can relate to this on a personal level. I've got 2 small children at home and as you may have guess the 'Rona has increased the stress levels of everyone in the household have been up. I noticed myself getting more frustrated an
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by hpoe 7y ago
How did Amazon replace you reading a book in your house? It didn't alter the underlying fundamentals but it changed the way we think about it, and again you miss my point, most of us can't figure out things like that, we can'
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by hpoe 7y ago
They already have in several of the things you listed. Online Education? Coursera, Lynda, Pluralsight, Kahn Academy, Youtube for crying out loud. Healthcare? - Healthtech is becoming a big thing, I had the opportunity to interview at a comp
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by hpoe 7y ago
It seems to me this, evolutionary speaking, this would make sense. A sudden change in the rewards can indicate that the environment has changed, and rather than acting as you always have you should act in the way that maximizes the rewards

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