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by ido 5y ago
Yeah, I always find it funny when someone who has themselves only been a parent for 3 months feels they can now dispense sage advice. Sorta like someone going through bootcamp giving advice about programming.
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by ido 5y ago
Yeah, ultimately how good the code is (or even how buggy the resulting product) is just a side-effect and not the main goal. Fortnite is making so much money that having to spend 2x as much on engineering because the code is a mess is busin
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by ido 5y ago
c64 famously had its price cut very aggressively multiple time shortly after introduction, as commodore tried to drive texas instruments out of the home computing market (they succeeded, with atari and the rest of the industry becoming coll
904.
by ido 5y ago
Yeah there are a bunch of 1 person (or more useful, less than 5 people) teams who find a good amount of success still. I personally prefer “band-sized” teams (mid single-digit) over solo, I find it a lot easier to stay motivated and easier
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by ido 5y ago
I mean in the sense that people assume they are doing hard stuff compared to your run-of-the-mill Java EE/.net companies servicing "boring" computing needs of industries like insurance/banking/logistics/etc (wh
906.
by ido 5y ago
When I interviewed at Google a decade ago I asked the interviewer that directly and he admitted most of the work will be maintenance & that sort of challenge (he was a former CS professor). This was for natural language processing at se
907.
by ido 5y ago
It would be easier to evaluate if you said something more specific about what these troubling things are?
908.
by ido 5y ago
To be honest isn't that the case at almost every web-focused startup (i.e. almost all tech startups)? We like to tell ourselves we're like NASA rocket scientists but almost all tech challenges the typical software engineers faces
909.
by ido 5y ago
I don't think that's the part OP was speaking against.
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by ido 5y ago
Not every game's goal is to build an immersive world. And polish and scope are related but not the same thing - in fact the argument is often that with a small core you can afford to polish what you have a lot more.
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by ido 5y ago
In Italy you just get free (=public) healthcare. When we visited a few years ago with our then-baby son he developed a fever and we took him to a pediatric hospital & were treated without anyone asking to see any health insurance or tal
912.
by ido 5y ago
When I spent a couple months in northern India about 20 years ago a lot of people smoked what seemed like self-rolled cigarettes (or at least they looked different that the kind of cigarettes that you get in the west). Western cigarette bra
913.
by ido 5y ago
Just gently pointing out that you’re inviting the same heated discussion warned about above you.
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by ido 5y ago
If you excuse piggybacking on your comment - this and other advice is super context/market dependent. Before you try following it try to talk to people in your market segment first to figure out how much it applies to your specific bus
915.
by ido 5y ago
Maybe this is naive - but why is software compatibility so important for servers (that mostly run open source software, like psql)? I assume none of it is written in ARM/x86 assembly language and all of it in higher level languages lik
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by ido 5y ago
I don't disagree with anything you said but I just want to point out that this is very individual. Some people (not me) really can work a lot of hours and be very productive in those hours. I can do it for a short amount of time (coupl
917.
by ido 5y ago
Relationships are not transactional like that, you don't have to have a USP to get a romantic partner. You are probably selling yourself short and there are a lot of people who could love you (and that you could love).
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by ido 5y ago
33 (and 35) is young, please don't think you're over the hill. I'm 38 and I still feel I'm just starting out & there's a lot to look forward to (I'll bet having little kids is a big part of why I feel that
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by ido 5y ago
I wouldn't know, but either way I don't think OP is rich enough to hamper their chances.
920.
by ido 5y ago
I would guess loneliness is a big part of it. You don't have to be "successful" to find a life partner.
921.
by ido 5y ago
Is scratchjr only available on ios/android? Not on pc/mac?
922.
by ido 5y ago
We had NT4 and then W2K and Linux at school but these were definitely not what mass market "home" users were using.
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by ido 5y ago
I don’t buy the CPU argument - NeXT managed that (with what became OS X) on 486-level hardware (68030) in the late 80s. Surely Microsoft and Apple had more resources to spend on software development than NeXT? NT was great but MS only start
924.
by ido 5y ago
I do, the NT line was a massive leap and XP was the first time NT was rolled to the consumer market (NT4 and 2K were great but mostly sold for workstation/server). The switch from 9x to XP was absolutely not an arbitrary line, nor the
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by ido 5y ago
I was using windows 95 since almost the time it was released in the summer of '95 (on a then state of the art Pentium with 16mb RAM - way above the minimum system requirements), it was significantly less stable than the NT line (that X
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by ido 5y ago
I was occasionally using linux since redhat 5.2 (1998), so I know there were options but surely apple and microsoft had more resources to develop operating system and still their mainstream offering weren't on-par in the 90s? I was usi
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Ask HN: Why did it take until 2001 for mainstream OSs to get secure/stable?
1 points by ido 5y ago|14 comments
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by ido 5y ago
Yes! From the very same author as the above article: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
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by ido 5y ago
It’s not because of 5 stories not being enough. I live in Berlin where almost all buildings top out at 5-6 stories and there are restaurants and shops all over the city.
930.
by ido 5y ago
My parents would scream their lungs out at each other and I had the same thought a few times growing up. Interestingly once my father passed away my mother started insisting he was the love of her life & a great husband, and that she wi

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