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by irishloop 3y ago
I... don't know what I expected
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by irishloop 3y ago
I don't agree with the notion that time spent dreaming is wasted. There is more to life than being productive and focused. There's no prize at the end of life. There is a balance, of course. We can't just laze around all day
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by irishloop 3y ago
> Credit Karma is thrilled to invite all Minters to continue their financial journey on Credit Karma, where they will have access to Credit Karma’s suite of features, products, tools and services, including some of Mint’s most popular fe
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by irishloop 3y ago
It is a bit funny to me that reading this, I can only guess that Jellyfin is a... Plex clone? I guess the writer assumes I already know about/want to improve the product which IS its intended audience, but coming from HN I'm just
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by irishloop 3y ago
Precisely right. Standards work cause everyone understands them. I know a PUT request is almost certainly an update of some kind. I know a POST makes something. For most shit you wanna do, its view, edit, delete, its really not that complic
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by irishloop 3y ago
Who decides what's nothing or what isn't? Shall the bully be the arbiter of what is pain or what counts? Can people just say anything and if you don't like it its your problem?
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by irishloop 3y ago
I do wonder how much stickiness Twitter has for professional niche communities. Don't they also enjoy shitposting? Isn't what makes it kinda work -- the interconnectedness of the platform?
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by irishloop 3y ago
I don't see any evidence Musk understands what made Twitter great, either. At this point, someone just needs to stand up a Twitter clone that can handle the traffic because I think most regular Twitter users are having a much worse exp
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by irishloop 3y ago
But Twitter is just so much objectively worse than it used to be, the user experience is mostly a nightmare for the very people who made Twitter so fun to begin with. The posters have to go somewhere. Its not that anybody likes Zuck, but th
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by irishloop 3y ago
React?
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Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?
224 points by irishloop 3y ago|56 comments
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by irishloop 3y ago
Is he kind of a bullshit artist? Sure. Can I think of a thousand worse ways that people make money every day? I sure can.
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by irishloop 3y ago
But if we never celebrate altruism or philanthropy, are we not, perhaps, discouraging it? Don't we want to instill these cultural values of giving? It seems to me that keeping quiet is a kind of purity ritual that perhaps does more har
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by irishloop 3y ago
I think there is probably a non trivial gap in terms of how comfortable it is to wear a VR helmet vs a pair of glasses
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by irishloop 3y ago
What does that mean? They actually produce specific Quest glasses?
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by irishloop 3y ago
I had an English professor who turned me into Camus and it changed my life. It put a word (Absurdism; at the time, Existentialism) to my own worldview. Before that, I was just an atheist. I knew God wasn't real (imho). But I didn'
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by irishloop 3y ago
I am not really sure why the advancement of science really changes the equation. You will surely die as the next human. The advancement of science does not spare you this suffering.
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by irishloop 3y ago
I am not sure thats true. vim does give you extra utility in its availability on a wide variety of server-type platforms, but I suspect most vim users are using it actively for development on their local (or docker etc) boxes
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by irishloop 3y ago
> The world always makes sense. But it can be confusing. I just don't agree with this at all. I think its folly to assume the world will always make sense. As humans we seek to make sense of things, but not everything fits into our
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by irishloop 4y ago
Honestly think this is quite common at the CEO level. I swear it's like a requirement, founders have to be a little bit deluded into thinking they're changing the world and not just... starting a business.
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by irishloop 4y ago
I think some of it is simply that PKD was prolific, and created a lot of ideas pretty quickly. There are other huge authors in sci fi but I feel like a great many of them stuck to a single universe or at least thematically kind of stuck aro
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by irishloop 4y ago
It is literally their job
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by irishloop 4y ago
Am I the only one who thinks its pretty fucked up of the business owner to be like, "oh, Hunter Biden left his laptop here? Might as well... give it to the New York Post" Like wtf?
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by irishloop 4y ago
Exactly. Most of us write software for non-programmers. Pipeable software is great for developers and computer scientists. But for laypeople, they need a UI. They don't understand -- and don't want to understand -- the machination
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by irishloop 4y ago
Occam's razor
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by irishloop 4y ago
That's why you spread your questions out, so no one person knows everything you don't know
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by irishloop 4y ago
I do think the example is interesting because it gives us a person who, at the time, seemed so very important -- and no longer was. It gives us that metaphor of false importance. That being said, I would agree that this post perhaps not qui
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by irishloop 4y ago
I live in a city where ShotSpotter is often used to detect gun violence and it seems, at least from local reporting, that it's often accurate in detecting gunfire and often finds victim(s) on the scene, often uncooperative with police.
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by irishloop 4y ago
I see a lot of discussion here about Wirecutter and/or Consumer Reports being untrustworthy. But I am not sure "reviews" are a solvable problem, really. The human element of perception is inherent to reviewing products. I mig
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by irishloop 5y ago
I find both sides of the "remote vs in-person" argument rather exhausting and ridiculous. Of course, both formats have issues. Personally, I like a hybrid remote/local work life. I thought I wanted fully remote, but it was si

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