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by ishjoh 6y ago
I would like to read more about accidental genius, are there any scientific papers or books you would recommend?
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The problem for offering them back at $0 is that if they try and raise money again that will be a hard discussion to have with a potential investor who would also try and determine what an appropriate price would be for that stock. When yo
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by ishjoh 6y ago
The three things that helped me in order from most to least: 1) Getting 8h of sleep a night. Without 8h of sleep sitting in front of a computer for a few hours would give me a massive headache. 2) Moving my computer from in front of a wind
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by ishjoh 6y ago
Very cool, my wife is learning for the same reason.
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I'm in my 30s (father of 2 young kids) and just started learning to hunt, although at this point it's been just hiking in the mountains with my rifle as I haven't harvested any animals. It's taken me to all kinds of inte
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by ishjoh 6y ago
My one man tech stack. Scala (akka http, slick, Twirl) Postgres AWS EC2 Jquery/Javascript https://www.formgadget.com/ for those curious.
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by ishjoh 6y ago
Who decides what 'bad' is? Is Lockheed Martin 'bad'? Is a Coal Power Plant 'bad'? Is Facebook 'bad'?
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by ishjoh 6y ago
My optimism for carbon capture is because it allows a politics free Arbitrage opportunity. Generating hydro electric power in Canada to capture CO2 is a real opportunity, and yes today it is far too expensive, but as more research is done
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I suspect their shrinking population and high speed rail everywhere helps.
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The New York Fed did a study on exactly this question. They found that there was a correlation: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff... "We find a pass-through effect on tuition
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I have a family, and we live this way. My wife and I both grew up with stretches of financial insecurity and it has really effected how we see things. We're doing well now but we are still hyper aware of how things can change. Our mo
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I left New York to move and be closer to family about 4 years ago. The local market does not pay well for software developers, but I've managed to find steady contracting work and with the lower cost of living have been saving more mo
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My optometrist mentioned that one big problem with being in front of a screen is that the focal depth is close and constant, and that can cause headaches and other issues. She recommended I stare out a window or make a conscious effort to
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by ishjoh 6y ago
years ago on the first ML hype wave I completed the excellent MOOC by Andrew Ng. In that course, he did go through the math and it was helpful to me to understand what was going on under the hood, but even then the value of ML wasn't
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by ishjoh 6y ago
> funny enough the flyover country developers produced code on par or better than what came out of the Valley What would you attribute this to?
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by ishjoh 6y ago
The older you get the more difficult it is to conceive children as well as raise them. Given that most people have a partner that is roughly the same age as them, and that there would be a much smaller percentage chance of pairing with some
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by ishjoh 6y ago
where there are dips in productivity it can also be that they're getting up to speed on an area of the codebase they are not familiar with. Ramp-up time is always difficult to account for but is absolutely something everyone needs whe
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by ishjoh 6y ago
I had a good sweat for half a night followed by a dry cough that lasted about 4 weeks from late February through March. It's gone now but I don't remember the last time I had a cough last that long. Once the antibody tests are mo
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by ishjoh 7y ago
I'm also still holding on to my 6S+. We upgraded my wife to an 11 and I just don't see anything that I have to have. Eventually, I'll upgrade for a better camera but I'll probably keep using the 6S+ until the battery c
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Ask HN: After becoming a parent, what perspectives changed for you?
7 points by ishjoh 7y ago|4 comments
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by ishjoh 7y ago
What works for me is a step I find most people like to skip and that's planning. As a number of other folks have said, if you have small things then you're more likely to get them done. Often though you'll need a bunch of th
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by ishjoh 7y ago
I'm happy that the static type guard rails exist. I mainly work on e-commerce codebases that have been operating for on average more than 5 years, have had a lot of different developers work on them, and are typically large enough (1
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by ishjoh 7y ago
So it's interesting, for both of these the explosion in their popularity actually happened in WW2, although both existed before WW2. During WW2 there was a labour shortage as the wartime economy was booming. President Roosevelt signed
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by ishjoh 7y ago
Sam also does a number of live appearances, and I suspect that a number of free listeners would buy tickets once in a while to see him. It would be interesting to know if this move would decrease the popularity of live appearances as well.
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by ishjoh 7y ago
It's useful for me to think about what I'm trying to accomplish. Am I trying to learn something new? Am I trying to get something out quickly? If you start out with the latter as the goal implement a naive solution with a TODO to
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by ishjoh 7y ago
this was also my experience, so we can now consider it anecdata ;)
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One of my favourite examples of this is from "the today show" on NBC where they're discussing a flood and a reporter in a canoe is describing the events when two public citizens walk through the shot and the water seems to be
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by ishjoh 7y ago
I'm an immigrant to the USA from a different western country and I think the US media is just further along in creating clickbait than most other western countries. Part of that is likely because unlike many western countries the USA d
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by ishjoh 7y ago
Well done Cockroach labs team. This data is very valuable and much appreciated. A small nitpick if you're reading. Fig 19: Sotrage: Azure Write Throughput the y axis has an incorrect label of "1,00" when it should be "
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by ishjoh 7y ago
> Canada has been involved in every war that the US has been in my lifetime Since the US is Canada's largest trading partner, this will always be the case, but there are huge and important differences in the level of involvement. F

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