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by iheartpotatoes 7y ago
If they didn't have to force a kitchen and bathroom into each room they could have a little more space. The boarding house model of the early 20th century was on to something.
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by iheartpotatoes 7y ago
I just bought your book and am excited to read it. I've fantasized about doing exactly this, but in South America. Twice I almost did it, and twice I backed out because I didn't know how to start. You might get me over the third h
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by iheartpotatoes 7y ago
"If I make more money there is not someone else losing." Actually, that's exactly how it works: we can't both own the same dollar. Duh.
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by iheartpotatoes 7y ago
Isn't this a bit like saying you just created an nth-order polynomial regresion for any set of points x/y that someone hands you? They are essentially the same amount of parameters, and both can only approximate one function. So..
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by iheartpotatoes 7y ago
VERY COOL! So many questions: Do you work on the road or take off years at a time? Are you armed, or do you just avoid central conflict areas? I take it no family? (hence the 'solo' bit) or are they undersganding?
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by iheartpotatoes 7y ago
I build boats.
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by iheartpotatoes 7y ago
You are confusing so many things in your comment, that it is hard to decide where to start. I'll pick one. > planned obsolescence It amazes me that people keep using this term -- which was associated with washing machines in the 194
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
I have an iPhone 7 and the Phone app periodically freezes requiring a reboot. Let that sink in: the primary function of the phone does not work. And I switched to Apple after too many Android issues turned me off completely. You think we&#x
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
EXACTLY. I remember us engineers getting 0% raises for years in the mid 2000's when I worked at the Evil-i. Managers had to have meetings to explain to us it was only temporary due to the bubble bursting (options from '97 were und
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
The name tho...
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
As someone who has converted (symmetric) multithreaded apps to embedded, seeing POSIX pthread support excites me.
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Here's an easier answer: eat real food, not to much, mostly vegetables. Happy mr/mrs practically extreme lib? You've just played the no true scotsman on me. Well done! It's a pretty easy choice for me: I literally eat no
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
That's me! Why? So many more titles are on DVD than streaming. Many many more. Try watching anything by Rainer Fassbinder on streaming: does not exist, but are on DVD. But that number is dropping due to licensing issues, just like stre
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
I didn't follow the extension workaround. Won't google block that as well, or are the different rules for extensions? Also, thanks for pushing on them. I've seen numbers posts on HN recently about the opaque walls folks encou
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
A tiny bit misleading: yes it was a teardown, but I was hoping we'd see a discussion of the circuits, like the guy that built the analog video game console a few weeks ago. Still cool tho.
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Right. But there's a difference between drinking a glass of water and glass of bleach. You are claiming they are equivalent. There's something called "context" in reading comprehension, it is when words take on the meani
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
These are very hard businesses to run. Pubs have to deal with liquor licenses, rowdy clients, high staff turnover, and very high rents to be anywhere other than a dive. Bakeries have extremely high turnover, razor thin margins, expensive eq
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Doesn't really make sense to me that "cat <jpg>" should render the bitmap to the screen. 'cat' is a concatenation tool. 'cat'ing two JPEGs together isn't the same as 'cat'ing two text
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
"I can go home and play a space marine with my friends, or build castles, or ride dragons, or be the last one standing in any number of variations on king of the hill." Wow. Just: wow. I am eager to see how a generation that grew
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
I love tech startups: Longitude and lattitude have worked fine for centuries (well, ever since clocks became reliable enough, that is!). So let's... disrupt it? ...with something less intuitive? ...and proprietary? Typical VC mentality
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Please. You are pretending White Supremacy is this totally benign thing because you are ignoring reality in pursuit of egalitarian ideology. You cannot simply ignore context for the sake of argument.
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
I volunteer at STEM after school program at a Northern California suburban public school in a very affluent county. Engineers from the local companies work on projects with hacker kids. It's a pretty dreamy albeit "canned" to
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Right? This feels like a foundational article used to build bullshit credentials somewhere else by planting bogus citations that no one will check because they are >1 level deep. Hell, people don't even check 1-level deep citations.
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Oh man, I know exactly what you are going through. I had the "3am chest squeezes" for a long time, I'd wake up thinking I should be working harding doing SOMETHING to make SOMETHING happen. And realizing that even if I worked
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Literally would crunch ice from a big metal cup ALL DAY LONG (walk to the soda fountain in the break room and refill with ice every hour). I encountered two people like this in my life. It would make me physically ill, like an allergy, but
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
When I got my tech job out of college in the 80's I was embarrassed because most of my friends in non-tech (especially finance) had offices with doors that closed. Sometimes nice wooden doors. It took a lot of getting used to: constant
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
You can't overstate the importance of a specification. It is the most loathed thing to write, like unit tests, but in the end is essential. I think the OP romanticizes a bit: K&R C had a spec, a very very very loose spec. It took A
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
I realize there is a need to stratify engineers based on performance in order compensate accordingly each year during raise time, but having been in the tech ranking system for ~30 years, it turns my stomach. About 40% of the time the peopl
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
"Best practices" is a bit of a red herring. Every company differs considerably, and online blogospher experts throw the term around as sort of a gatekeep-y way to keep the order ("What do you mean you don't know (arbitra
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Caldo de Tomato!!! https://www.amazon.com/Knorr-Granulated-Bouillon-Tomato-Chic... This stuff is essential for good Mexican cooking. Funny that only Chinese food gets a bad rap for MSG when it is far more pervasive.

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