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by jcbrand 8y ago
> There are also people who keep doing something completely unrewarding for years, because they like the process, or because they think they can't learn anything else. They are seen as crazy. If they keep on doing it, then there mu
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by jcbrand 8y ago
> I agree, and Chrome did that in one simple way: marketing and monopoly power. When Chrome came out, it was much faster than Firefox. IIRC, it was also an evergreen browser from the start and you could install plugins without restarting
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by jcbrand 8y ago
Someone with a phd in math have shown themselves to be a smart in a particular way. That doesn't mean that they have good judgement, wisdom, empathy or all kinds of other traits which might be considered "smart".
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by jcbrand 8y ago
Actually, Microsoft's insistence that IE or Edge only run on Windows has been the main reason why I don't test either. You can get free virtual machines for testing, but it's still a slow, annoying and irritating experience t
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by jcbrand 8y ago
"Life imitates art" is the famous quote.
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by jcbrand 8y ago
> Just because your code is not open source does not mean you're not allowed to use it. Depends on the license of the OSS and wether you're distributing or hosting the code that relies on it.
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As a foreigner living in Germany, this was one of the first things that I noticed and was a bit of a culture shock. Germans love to complain and seem to think that this is how you improve things. I believe there's some truth to that, a
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by jcbrand 8y ago
There's no way it can be just as valuable. For one, if you're not using their site, they can't show you ads there.
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by jcbrand 8y ago
Ubuntu's pronunciation isn't exactly clear to English speakers either. People needed to be told that it's Ooboontoo and not You-ban-too (or whatever else people came up with).
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Ask HN: What do you look for in a professional support contract for OSS?
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Converse 4 released(opkode.com)
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by jcbrand 8y ago
Yes, the Mac buttons really seem unnecessary and a subtle advert and bias towards Macs.
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I don't mean "printed" literally, I'm talking about quantitative easing.
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Nowhere in the article is it explained WHY the supply of capital is so high. Here's a hint. Trillions of dollars were printed (and are still being printed) by central banks.
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by jcbrand 8y ago
> Summers made the comments after a presentation at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on the persistence of low interest rates in global economies, a phenomenon which he explained as excess savings pursuing a shortage of investments. So
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by jcbrand 8y ago
> If only there were unit tests for real-life bureaucracy... Or for legacy code.
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by jcbrand 8y ago
I'm glad to have read your comment. I almost thought of buying the book. I read "So good they can't ignore you" from the same author and was really underwhelmed by it. It came across as repetitive and formulaic (i.e. hav
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by jcbrand 8y ago
So not really for everyone.
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This doesn't take into consideration how much studying and preparation the person who produced a solution quickly did compared to the person who took longer. If that person studied much more, then they weren't really "quicker
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by jcbrand 8y ago
Brute-force, not brood-force. Do you work for Blizzard? ;)
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by jcbrand 8y ago
> The returns are worse than a bad year on the stock market holding ETFs. In 2008 the stock market fell 50%. The last 10 years we've not had any bad years in the stock market, largely due to trillions of dollars of money printed by
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by jcbrand 8y ago
Having names are useful to force them to have some skin in the game.
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by jcbrand 8y ago
> Agenda > > Spouse > > Connect- listen to each other’s day for 5 minutes each I had to laugh at this. Setting aside only 5-10 minutes a day for your closest confidant and life-partner? Good luck with that marriage. One of th
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by jcbrand 8y ago
According to its documentation, its been created by one of the maintainers, not the author. Read "a disclaimer" here: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/why.html
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by jcbrand 8y ago
There is a class of people who make obscene amounts of money while introducing systemic risks into the economy. When the inevitable blowup happens (like in 2008), then these people keep their bonuses of tens or hundreds of millions of dolla
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by jcbrand 8y ago
(Let me preface by saying that of course there are world-class Indian devs, and ones who contribute to FOSS and who answer questions on all kinds of forums. What follows is obviously a generalization based on my limited and flawed perceptio
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> pick up new tech and tools very quickly And then they go on StackOverflow and Github issue trackers, begging anyone and everyone to help them and appearing completely out of their depth.
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Doesn't really matter that much, AFAIK all (most?) western countries sell to Saudi Arabia for instance.
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by jcbrand 8y ago
The OP is pedentically referring to the original Roman use of the word, which mean to kill/remove a tenth. Nobody uses the word in that way anymore, but some people want to show how clever they are, so they bring it up.
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by jcbrand 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Cologne/Düsseldorf, Germany I'm a full-stack developer with 11 years experience. Backend development: Most experience working with Python frameworks and CMS's: Zope, Plone, grok, Pyramid, Flask and Twis

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