jamesmehaffey

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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I feel lucky that I haven’t been crammed into a small apartment with roommates or whatever. It’s so much easier to have a routine without having to bump into a bunch of other people. I don’t know if I could have survived without my outdoor
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Ask HN: Where can I find grant funding?
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I have usually had at least fifteen stupid little problems by lunch time every day, so just try to be cognizant of the irritating things that you regularly come across. The chances are pretty good that someone is already selling some cool w
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. I really cannot summarize the plot, but it is such a good read. My favorite author.
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
Even though I have begged the cable company to address the underlying issue, I have gone through several dozen modem/DVR boxes due to lightning strikes. I can only assume that the equipment is super inexpensive, otherwise they would ha
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I have always been advised that it is prudent not to use any browser-based wallet generators, especially while you are online. There are quite a few app-based wallets that will allow you to generate an address before wiping it from your pho
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I listened to a lecture not too long ago about the perception of coincidence in the context of large, seemingly random environments, for example repeatedly seeing the same person in a busy city shopping district or encountering unexpected t
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I suppose the transparency and the basic uniformity is what really separates chess from other mental activities. That is to say, there is no hidden information or any advantage that isn’t equally available to everyone. there are not too man
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
Yeah, that’s not really the point. People are going to avoid using these types of services, whether it’s Robinhood or some other startup, if they think they are going to get scammed. It is bad form, and the thing is that they knew that peop
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
It is a shame that these types of tech companies are always churning up such bad publicity... they literally cannot afford to be making these sorts of unforced errors. It just makes it that much more difficult for all the innovative and hon
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
When I was in the UK I lived in a terraced house from the 1880’s with thick exterior walls. It wasn’t all that bad, but I wouldn’t say that it was very well insulated either. It was OK if you just wanted to heat one room, though I did have
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I am trying to learn more about analytics in order to inform decisions about developments in my own project. Do you have any advice about a good place to start? I think most of the information will be small strings of text coming from datab
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
If I really get into a flow I will forget to eat and my dog becomes annoyed with me. That’s when I get irritated by stupid phone calls and turn off all of my messaging alerts. I used to do that sort of thing well over fifteen or sixteen hou
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
No one ever said that programmers were poets. It seems like they were just trying to get their point across while saving keystrokes, but it seems funny that something so simple and obvious occupied so much of their attention.
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I do not remember Which language I was first introduced to as a kid, but I do remember being very on excited because it did not seem related to anything I was interested in. I agree that something like JavaScript/XML is a good place to
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I have never bothered to classify the personality traits of the people I enjoy spending time with, but there is nothing more exciting and interesting than being around a group of nerds who are trying to solve a problem or whatever. people w
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I think quite a lot of people are going through a similar funk right now, and it could be the case that your lack of interest in programming is a symptom of all of this social distancing business. Even people who were not very social before
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I am not even sure I understand the premise... I mean, how do you not test? Maybe I have just done a bad job of being lazy all this time.
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I suppose the salaries are somewhat comparable if perhaps a little lower, however the cost of living is much less in general compared to SF. The most important thing is that the beer is inexpensive, and the fact that you can spend every wee
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
Weather aside, I really enjoyed living in Amsterdam. It is a crowded and rather small city, but it is a big center for banking and tech. Europe doesn’t really do the sprawling mega cities like the US does, though everything is very well con
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
Not at all. I suppose that I am just trying to point out that every asset has its pros and cons depending on the situation. The Euros at the bottom of my travel case are just as useful to me as my gold coins at the moment, and the pennies u
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I had a .com domain lapse while I was in hospital a couple of years ago, and The hijackers wanted $20,000 to sell it back to me. I don’t know what planet they were from, but it is a name that would be useful to literally only five or ten pe
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I agree with you that the fees for some of the cryptocurrency’s make them impractical, and this certainly will hinder mainstream adoption. I do not think that I will try to pay for coffee with some of my antique gold coins any time soon, bu
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
I couldn’t help thinking about a lot of the kids I knew at University while reading that. Some of them were enrolled in classes, and some of them were only tangentially associated with the school. Many of them were poor or occasionally home
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
Bitcoin is probably not the best case study for this aspect of the conversation, but I suppose you have a fair enough point. Although to be clear, I am thinking of the assets more like commodities than speculative stocks or equities. I do n
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
It really just comes down to the idea that blockchain networks are cheaper, more secure, more reliable and more scalable than traditional server arrangements. That’s not just my opinion; most of the top tech companies are ploughing huge amo
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
If you are using blockchain tokens to run an application, then you are essentially paying A large network of computer operators for their combined processing capacity. This means their electricity, maintenance cost, etc. instead of investin
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
This is fairly uncomplicated... there are always going to be growing pains as society progresses and changes, and so understanding and dealing with that fact is always going to be part of the process. That does not mean that anyone is neces
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
Is it still too early to estimate new application costs and performance improvements? Has anyone seen any statistics or comparisons yet? it will be interesting to see how this affects the efficiency of the platform and what this means for t
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by jamesmehaffey 6y ago
Seriously, What a bunch of backward Luddites. They would do just as well to check IDs at vending machines and laundry mats. And I love these bank officials who say we should not use cryptocurrency because it is only used for fraud... that’s

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