idoby

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by idoby 6y ago
"In Judaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in Bereshit (parashah), known in the Christian tradition as the first chapters of Genesis, the paragraph about this day contains the phrase "i
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by idoby 6y ago
How is this a tangent, or flamebait? I'm just pointing out that he's literally whining about a job I'd love to have and not seeing how lucky he is.
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by idoby 6y ago
So he gets to take other people's money, invest it and take a cut without actually, like, having to do any actual work, but he's getting ignored at parties? Damn it, where the hell do I sign up?
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by idoby 6y ago
There are some artists like that, sure, but plenty? I doubt it...
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by idoby 6y ago
Then you were motivated by curiosity, which is great, but what if you weren't curious about the perfect espresso and knew that nobody would drink it. In this case, why make an espresso? You'd probably prefer to spend your time doi
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by idoby 6y ago
I find that internal motivation is mostly a myth, that is, the part where people expect to just have infinite drive out of nowhere. The cooking analogy is good but here's an IMO better one - would you make a movie if you knew for certa
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by idoby 6y ago
I'm very curious to know this objective reality and how to discover it.
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by idoby 6y ago
I don't see you complaining about, for example, brokerages, dealers and exchanges providing liquidity by fulfilling your orders even though the market won't at a given point in time. This can prevent a security from falling or ris
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by idoby 6y ago
You don't know it to be worthless. Hertz proved that, because their stock went up (hence not worthless).
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by idoby 6y ago
Less-than-ethical according to who? If you're buying indices then you have explicitly given up control of a portion of your portfolio to them, and they can lose money as well as gain. Sounds to me like you're just complaining beca
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by idoby 6y ago
Can't see why they shouldn't be allowed to raise funds by selling stock. People are free to buy or not to buy, at their discretion. Govt/courts shouldn't be picking winners and they shouldn't be picking losers eithe
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by idoby 6y ago
"Bad" and "good" are meaningless judgements in this context. You're about to graduate, so you wouldn't be expected to have any real experience, but you do have experience building and running an actual product.
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by idoby 6y ago
At this rate, looks like I'm about to be pursuing a Replica of Science degree...
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by idoby 6y ago
Hard to separate "true nature" from the way I view things, so I can't really tell. Another person might view things differently and write a completely different story. Do you think people would read this though? Maybe in blog
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by idoby 6y ago
Not sure I consider "huh" to be an actual word . If so, I'm pretty sure blowing raspberry also exists in all human languages, and some non-human.
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by idoby 6y ago
It sure does, but even if you choose not to take advantage of container tech, it's still a very easy way to deploy stuff on a single machine. Not sure why the downvotes.
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by idoby 6y ago
For all its flaws, Docker does solve a lot of the pain the author mentions. Deploying postgres, for example, with a config file and keeping it running is really very easy with Docker Compose. Not affiliated with Docker except for using it,
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by idoby 6y ago
I agree, but that's still a form of estimation though, you're just estimating that you'd be able to deliver on your list of features in the time you have. You could be wrong, and then end up with less features, or be forced t
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by idoby 6y ago
TFA uses a lot of words to say very little. I don't care if your estimate is drawn from the hip or projected using a state of the art Monte Carlo or machine learning model. It's still an estimate. Still, any number of things that
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by idoby 6y ago
Looks very cool, thanks
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by idoby 6y ago
Literally all of these ideas are ones I've had for years in the education space. I'm glad someone is actually doing them.
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by idoby 6y ago
Maybe not at the dorm room phase but pretty early on after that
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by idoby 6y ago
That's right. We need to start thinking decentralized. Instead of using DNS to find a server and HTTP to get the content from it, we should switch to a decentralized lookup of the data itself, sourced from wherever the network can serv
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by idoby 6y ago
So much drama. If a manager in your org can fire good-standing employees on a whim without scrutiny from the rest of the org, quit now. In any other org, go ahead and joke with your buddies, people need the icebreakers. Just maybe not more
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by idoby 6y ago
I imagine a future where a project like wikipedia is replicated endlessly by willing users on an IPFS-like network, where people can donate CPU, storage and bandwidth instead of money to pay for a centralized server, simply by running somet
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by idoby 6y ago
They're not in the tech industry, but they are tech companies . Tech companies are companies who believe that in tech innovation is not only possible, but necessary to drive exceptional business success. Those are indeed few and far
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by idoby 6y ago
It's not either/or. Good luck building the next FB/Google/MS/Amazon/Apple without exceptional tech and exceptional tech people. All of those companies had breakthrough tech combined with breakthrough business i
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by idoby 6y ago
What's W2?
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by idoby 6y ago
Shit, are you me? You're just being over 30, welcome. Those documentaries you watched on your old CRT TV while growing up were showing you fiction. The tech industry is an ad mill. Academia is about innovation killing fiefdoms. What yo
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by idoby 6y ago
If something works in your Android dev environment, it is absolutely not guaranteed to work everywhere, or work the same everywhere. Differences exist between vendors, and every between different models by the same vendor.

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