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by huggah 14y ago
The problem with this is that for questions like "how could I build a cable company?", answers don't help" . If you want to build a cable company, a payments system, a new government, or colonize mars there is no high level answer. There a
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by huggah 14y ago
Those revisions have actually enabled the problem to stay hidden longer; they've reduced the sperm count threshold at which men are considered "normal". You may be referring to technical issues, such as distinguishing live from dead sperm,
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by huggah 14y ago
Too much hyperbole, but I was struck by this, which I hadn't considered before: "We often go to Amazon just to search something - to see what else Amazon recommends. We are quite literally accessing Amazon 'just to see ads'." I haven't seen
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by huggah 14y ago
What precisely is a "literal metric fuckton of advice"?
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by huggah 14y ago
I'm surprised no one has tried NFC for security.
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by huggah 14y ago
Besides the legal and regulatory hurdles Google would have to overcome to make this work, I don't think Google wants to be in the business of making an industry more efficient when that industry doesn't need to exist in the future at all. T
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by huggah 14y ago
If people were selling copies on the street for $2, that suggests that $2 was roughly the right price point (in that area) to maximize profit, and Microsoft couldn't have made more money by selling it for more. That argument ceases to hold
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by huggah 14y ago
I didn't specifically prepare for my interview with Google. A quick poll of my office mates indicates that they didn't either. This might not be typical, but I don't think the OPs degree of interview preparation is necessary. I've interview
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by huggah 14y ago
How is ~12GB ram comical? It's a lot easier for the common consumer to get 16 gigabytes of RAM today that is to get the kind of network speeds we're talking about here.
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by huggah 14y ago
There is no "Google version". Internally, we use the same SSH app that you would use, which works great. It's not a terminal: you can't do anything locally. But it's a perfectly decent developer environment as long as all you tools and ed
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by huggah 14y ago
Self-control need a stall? Gargle artificially-sweetened water, researchers say. Sorry, the article is behind a pay wall. The summary does nothing to impress me.
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by huggah 14y ago
Why are there a negative number of cups of coffee remaining?
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by huggah 14y ago
Limited. Google Docs work fine offline, but you can't code on them. More Chrome apps might expand what you can do later.
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by huggah 14y ago
They're great. For a while, Chrome would take over keys needed to use Emacs and other terminal applications. However, internally a lot of Googlers user Chromebooks + Chromebox as their only window to their dev box. It's what we give interns
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by huggah 14y ago
To say nothing of the people! We've hired three just in my group alone. At least some of their assets haven't lost value...
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by huggah 14y ago
The nice thing about this technique is that it's pretty easy to remember randomly selected words. But even if you think them up yourself, you probably don't substantially shrink the key space an attacker has to search through as long as you
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by huggah 14y ago
It's pretty likely you do. Just take the N most common English words, and retry with a higher N if that doesn't work. That will crack "correct horse battery staple" quickly.
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by huggah 14y ago
You're presenting a false dichotomy: Joel never said "switch to social sites"; in fact, he suggested we all go out and do things. If you feel like you need to "quench your thirst" for current news, maybe traditional outlets work better fo
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by huggah 14y ago
I don't understand your question. Are you asking whether I think choosing to behave ethically is part of my solution to depression? What do you mean by "do what you think is right"?
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by huggah 14y ago
Location also makes a huge difference; in San Francisco (where he lives), median household income is over $65k and the median rental price for a 1 bedroom apartment is over $2k. If Mok makes $3.5K / month, that probably qualifies as underem
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by huggah 14y ago
I don't think Glass (or a similar product) will ever be used for intensive tasks, but I think you're underestimating what you can do with gps, wifi, gyroscopes, accelerometers, 2D touch surface and voice. Writing instant messages? I already
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by huggah 14y ago
What purpose does this serve? In general, I agree with you, because most vulnerabilities can be fixed by the vendor in some reasonable (<6 months) amount of time, and by telling the vendor about the vulnerability beforehand, you help re
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by huggah 14y ago
I am quite confident that mental disorders are not just more diagnosed, but also more common than they used to be. I don't know what all the causes are, but I suspect that it is somewhat akin to the "obesity epidemic" and that it has many f
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by huggah 14y ago
I was initially diagnosed with a Major Depressive Disorder; my first round of SSRIs sent me into a manic episode. That was enough to get me diagnosed with Bipolar II. I question whether that was an accurate diagnosis; my experience with bip
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by huggah 14y ago
Do something! Talk to someone; start with someone you trust (not necessarily a doctor). Catalog your history, list the duration and severity of every time you were depressed enough to impact your school, job, or social life. You're doing th
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by huggah 14y ago
My only hesitation about sharing is that I don't want people to extrapolate from what worked for me to expect it to work on themselves. So don't. With that disclaimer, I'll say that I went on several regimens of drugs for a few years. They
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by huggah 14y ago
luriel, you added considerably to your post since I first replied, and I feel like it now merits a different response. I agree with almost everything you've said, but feel like your criticism is misdirected and may do more harm than good. K
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by huggah 14y ago
True. It took a few years between accepting that I had a problem and finding a solution to it. For many people, it takes a lot longer; some never "solve" their problem at all. But knowing is a necessary first step, and for me, it was the ha
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by huggah 14y ago
We have an incredible capacity for denial and self-deception. For years, I would periodically drop into severe depression; I would stop sleeping, stop eating, stop answering my phone or email. I wouldn't leave my room for weeks on end; on a
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by huggah 14y ago
I feel like I've met a similar number of good communicators and good programmers--despite an enormous bias toward meeting good programmers. Besides, good communication is a core human competency; so I suspect that the number of great commun

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