hvasilev

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by hvasilev 6y ago
I've spend 4 years mastering vim and I can definitely say I could have spent that time better elsewhere. I'm pretty sure Emacs would be the same waste of my time. These editors have a very steep learning curves and require a lot o
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by hvasilev 6y ago
The issue is that even the venture capitalists and the the managers have own oppressors and there is no external solution to the issue that this person is facing. I remember one time a manager explaining to me how incredibly aggressive and
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Ask HN: Learning the business-side of things as a developer?
211 points by hvasilev 6y ago|48 comments
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by hvasilev 6y ago
Rationality is overvalued for day to day life. It works for certain things like science, where you are lead by the evidence and you constantly adjust some model of understanding of reality to more accurate standards, but it really don'
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by hvasilev 7y ago
Really shows you how complicated things are. I wonder if I'm given enough time if I would be able to do a full solution that I would be willing to use on myself... I don't think I would... I don't think in all honesty any sin
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by hvasilev 7y ago
Software development is a really funny example of this. The meta changes constantly and as a result "the technology is changing all the time". The thing is that the underlying principles and rules have barely changed in the last f
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by hvasilev 7y ago
and even if you are able to momentarily capture the complexity, ideas and requirements in your mind evolves so fast that your solution is immediately obsolete. I'm not sure what this curse is called in the software development industry
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by hvasilev 7y ago
I do the same. I know there exist more powerful tools, but I simply don't care. Software is simply not built to last nowadays and I'll be forced into an app/service/format that that most probably will be obsolete in the
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by hvasilev 7y ago
I use a vim plugin called vimwiki and I export my todos and notes into HTML. Works fine for me.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
Why would that be interesting, they have no market share? Bing has less than 3%, it operates at a loss. Not even MS cares about it and they just keep it around as a part of the technological suite that they have in order to convince the gov
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by hvasilev 7y ago
3.5 billion queries for google daily, 54 mil daily record for DDG. That means that google achieves the daily record for DDG for slightly more than 14 minutes. It is incredibly hard / nearly impossible to compete against a tech monopoly
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by hvasilev 7y ago
Steady revenue stream, financial incentives and unlimited initial ways to monetize your venture beat your entire list, which are definitely not necessary for a successful project, given by the numerous non-FOSS successes in the real world.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
I don't really understand why anyone would do FOSS, beyond the ideological. Most of the problems of this person come from the fact that he has no financial incentive / means to quit his current job and focus on / grow his pro
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Ask HN: What is the value of creating a FOSS as a startup?
2 points by hvasilev 7y ago|0 comments
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by hvasilev 7y ago
I wonder what world would we be living in if people like this fellow were actually focusing on automation and not on making business cards that run Linux. Maybe we wouldn't be living in such a lowly automated reality, using concepts fr
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by hvasilev 7y ago
I don't understand what the web world considers to be rapid technology change. All of the products and frameworks that these developers are using feel like a marginally better side step from the bare bones approach for small ventures.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
It is a zero resistance environment. It gives the opportunity of the small to grow without any costs, but it also doesn't limit how big the big ones can get.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
When did I say I'm not using it? I said I'm not contributing to it.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
That is a hard theory to sell, since it happens only in places where the FOSS has established dominance and (for example) the state of the top contender is horrible. There is simply no economic incentive to pursue a better debugger.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
As a manager of a big tech company you are incentivized to increase profit and minimize cost. Might be slightly more painful to use a FOSS toolchain in your team, but your costs are zero. In comparison look at how much does a commercial IDE
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by hvasilev 7y ago
I'm not contributing to any free / open source projects. I think that that FOSS is fueling the technology monopolies, despite originally aiming at the exact opposite. I think it has driven many software markets in the ground like
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by hvasilev 7y ago
What are some known solutions to climate change? As far as I know it is a purely technological issue and we have zero viable solutions or any real ideas how to tackle the problem.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
I wonder how these people have decided it is possible with a digital computer, given that the brain is analog. I wouldn't be surprised if the first step through AGI is to actually crack the analog computer hardware problem.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
The author does not provide any reason why these skills cannot be learnt outside of an academic environment. It is possible to develop alone your programming skills to an extent where you can get hired as a junior developer. The rest can be
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by hvasilev 7y ago
If I have to choose between mass nuclear to replace fossil fuels or the alternative of global warming .... I choose global warming.
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by hvasilev 7y ago
What is the device that captures solar energy, but does not produce massive amounts of pollution while it is being produced?
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by hvasilev 7y ago
What is the technology that we do have, but we refuse to use in order to solve the problem?
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by hvasilev 9y ago
I don't "know" any language. My goal is to "know" C in the next 5 years. My reach goal is to understand how the "computer works" in the next ~10 years. Not in my wildest dreams can I imagine me "knowi
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by hvasilev 10y ago
C is like a "portable assembly", its goal is to "abstract computers" and that is all. The languages that have attempted to replace it are trying to "abstract problems", which comes at a cost that people are not
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by hvasilev 10y ago
Not really, CS students have usually been exposed to Linux at the university and very few of them still choose it as an operating system.

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