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by jes5199 10y ago
I'm thinking in a hundred years it will be "How We Realized Putting Microprocessors in Everything Was Not the Answer"
842.
by jes5199 10y ago
expecting perl not to use silly names for things is like expecting clowns not to wear big shoes
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by jes5199 10y ago
this is interesting- where can I read more?
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by jes5199 10y ago
Tesla has such a head start on car production, I don't see how Apple can catch up.
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by jes5199 10y ago
maybe so but this is the age of Netflix so remotes don't matter
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by jes5199 10y ago
in my experience, non-coders read the other work queues, and might try to interfere with the list, even though it's completely outside their domain
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by jes5199 10y ago
Internet advertising is a bubble - it delivers so little value but so much money is flowing through it. It has to pop sometime.
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by jes5199 10y ago
sure entrepreneurs work hard, but they produce very little of lasting cultural value. If you want a legacy, you have to be more creative.
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by jes5199 10y ago
> City centers simply get voided of average earning people and replaced by high earning ones. As soon as they are the average earners, even more wealthy people move okay but how do you run a city like San Francisco once all of the servic
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by jes5199 10y ago
I don't know about VSCode, but in Atom you'd just write one line of CSS
851.
by jes5199 10y ago
but growth of AI usefulness hasn't been faster than Moore's Law, has it? so it doesn't seem to have a feedback loop
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by jes5199 10y ago
well, sea ice is measurably smaller: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iq...
853.
by jes5199 10y ago
but you're on HN. Is it really that much better?
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by jes5199 10y ago
Implement Haskell in Rust and then implement Rust on top of that
855.
by jes5199 10y ago
That's exactly backwards - the MapReduce paper was intentionally released as vaporware to make the rest of the industry spin its gears trying to replicate an imaginary result. And that's why we have Hadoop.
856.
by jes5199 10y ago
the dining habits of the wealthy are bewildering to me
857.
by jes5199 10y ago
is the market still apps? I don't work on mobile, so I guess I wouldn't know, but my feeling was that people install way fewer apps than they used to
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by jes5199 10y ago
are you going to pay employees in bitcoin?
859.
by jes5199 10y ago
software engineer
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by jes5199 10y ago
well, I developed a kind of generalized anxiety - I think it came from the long hours in a fairly large and crowded open-floorplan office - it was just way more constant social contact than I'm comfortable with. I guess if it was stres
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by jes5199 10y ago
I walked away from a unicorn, a few years ago. If I had stayed - and somehow survived the effects it was having on my mental health - I might actually be a millionaire now. Instead, I bought a fee thousand dollars worth of shares - only wha
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by jes5199 10y ago
I have literally, personally, gotten an offer that that included options denominated in the current share price in dollars, and it was a little over $100k.
863.
by jes5199 10y ago
There is good reason to be cautious with meditation while depressed. Meditation helps people get some distance from their emotional reactions - but depressed people are often already _unhealthily_ dissociated from their emotional state, and
864.
by jes5199 10y ago
unlike 20 years ago, we're producing cheap solar panels faster than we can install them
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by jes5199 10y ago
I bought Mario Run, but, subjectively, it doesn't feel like a success. This article captures the nebulous subjective experience fairly well. We don't need a thinkpiece to cover the sales numbers - those are obvious.
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by jes5199 10y ago
I dunno, I can often code faster if I'm writing unit tests along with my feature, I spend less time being confused about whether things are doing what I expect
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by jes5199 10y ago
verizon's new plans give you your data in canada for no additional charge.
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by jes5199 10y ago
One might make that it was a moment of refreshing dark humor in a world where most companies put a giant fake smile rictus and saccharine optimism on everything
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by jes5199 10y ago
I also got a Coin 1.0, but by the time it arrived I couldn't remember why I wanted it. I literally never tried it.
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by jes5199 10y ago
I would love to see some good numbers about how much it costs to do grid-scale storage and how those costs are changing over time

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