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by hvasilev 6y ago
Started strong, then the anti-capitalist rhetoric was too much for me.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
like every Ponzi scheme
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by hvasilev 6y ago
All technological revolutions require more energy and consumption. Remember that the infinite source of societal wealth is technological progress. If you limit technological progress then economics becomes zero sum. This cannot happen, it i
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by hvasilev 6y ago
I agree. There are maybe 1-2 articles a day that are really worth reading here. I skim the rest.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
In reality you just provide value to many other people, without them ever contributing back (either money or actual work, the big companies are just not structured for such contributions). Also the licensing protection is a myth. If people
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by hvasilev 6y ago
What does this have to do with technology?
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Why are so many videos not available until November 2021?
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by hvasilev 6y ago
How do I downvote a thread in HN, I can just upvote it? Also is there also a way to filter out posts with the word "Rust" in it so I don't see them?
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Really nice!
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by hvasilev 6y ago
I've been trying to understand why robotics doesn't work for quite a while. It seems to me like the next logical field of radical innovation. I understand there are funding issues for startups, the expertise issues, the utility is
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Robotics. In my opinion the cyber-physical is clearly the next frontier. I think people stay away from the field since it is quite interdisciplinary and requires a lot of additional knowledge and effort.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Tools change, fundamentals don't. I disagree that you should modify what you should learn in order to start contributing as fast as possible to a team. I think that the advice that he gave was a bad one.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Wait, I thought that open source was the panacea? Why are they switching away from it? Maybe if they used GPL they would have done better? It is as if people were exploiting their ideological free labor for personal benefits... weird how th
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by hvasilev 6y ago
how is this widely adopted, think in the scale of Linux or Gimp.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
The vast majority of open source software is a clone of a closed-source alternative. I currently having issues with thinking of a widely adopted, consumer-oriented software that has no closed-source alternative. What is your favorite softwa
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by hvasilev 6y ago
I think that Rust is a perfect open source language. For the longest time the open source community has shown that it has an issue with innovation, however is great at recreating existing ideas and products. I think that this strength can b
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by hvasilev 6y ago
noone cares what editor you use, text editors have marginal impact on the product or service that you are developing.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
It is one of these discussions that simple don't matter. Firstly Linux can be an optimal answer to certain problems and also curiosity can give you different perspective. However the issue is that smart people in certain parts of this
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Two weeks ago Rust was the future of embedded systems (it is not) and now it is the future of Game Development (it is not). I'm starting to think that people's opinion shouldn't be taken seriously unless they have like at lea
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by hvasilev 6y ago
I'm pretty convinced at this point that as an individual developer there is no open source / free software license that is your friend. Especially the GPL ones seem like they are pushing a lot of ideology, instead of focusing on t
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by hvasilev 6y ago
I think this profession is hard enough as it is. I don't think you need another daily source of annoyance like reading code with a difficult syntax or fighting meaninglessly with the borrow checker. I understand the motivations for thi
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by hvasilev 6y ago
I'm not using this language because the syntax is really heavy and definitely not my cup of tea. I'm puzzled by the ambitions to market this language for the embedded world. The embedded world is full of electronics engineers that
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Consequently I think a common tasks in software development that contribute to burnout are defined as: "In this very limited time, go into this completely unfamiliar code and try to fix this bug/extend this feature". All task
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by hvasilev 6y ago
When innovation in the world of bits is no longer sufficient and mass innovation in the physical world is required, what is the western world going to do? Knowledge is not something permanent and mass production was centralized in China dec
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by hvasilev 6y ago
That is "modern" C++ is frequently being used as "C with classes and basic safety". I wonder if a better C can be made by just stripping-down the bloated C++ and introducing the "unsafe" keyword for dangerous f
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by hvasilev 6y ago
I used to have it, but it gets easier with time.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Consciousness is about subjective being and experience. From your subjective point of view, you cannot even say if other people are truly conscious or not. It is a really hard problem to figure out if machines can truly be conscious or not.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. That is going to be one hell of a villain.
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Same is with Free Software. On one hand it is nice that you are receiving so much value for free, on the other all business models revolving around it contradict basic sales principles and are wildly unsuccessful. So for example, I use horr
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Twitch stopped being a gaming streaming website and is technically "Amazon's streaming platform". They want to branch out of gaming (which is their core audience) into general streaming market dominance, but it seems to be ve

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