jimmyvalmer

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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
You should have children. Kills any desire for nice things.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
tldr; Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. Office Space (1999)
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Programming, like writing, is deliberating over several rabbit holes. If you don't write down why you did or didn't do something, you're doomed to repeat the deliberation a week from now. Also worth recording are throwaway c
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Absent among the steps was *that* step, which for guys my age is easily the most time-consuming one.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Try to move up in management at a coal or oil company.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Until something fundamental changes about human nature, people will continue to find me unfunny, and gratis and libre will remain theoretically distinct but practically equivalent.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
If Android is what I get for $800, I'd hate to see what I get for free.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I can tell from your parallel ongoing thread you're having trouble differentiating between the public and private aspects of a politician's life, and how the two can often be at odds. I find myself spending way too much time tryin
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
And I'll assume you also believe LBJ didn't harbor a racist thought when he passed landmark civil rights legislation as a senator and as president. We don't believe our politicians' words match their thoughts even when t
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Pretty much every Founder thought that slavery was a huge political shit-sandwich Who knows what they thought? Chernow was lambasted by historians for embellishing Hamilton's story by making him out to be a hater of slavery. Written
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I echo oramit's message above or below me, and will add Haiti as another datapoint to highlight the European and American difference. France agreed to sever ties with its colonial possession but at an extraordinary cost to the Haitians
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
My reading of McPherson suggested Lee's victories during the Seven Days Battles led to Lincoln's resolve to free the slaves. Up until that point, the North was hoping to quickly force the South into submission with their institut
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
The outrage over China's edit is unwarranted, or at least inconsistent, given how Fincher's adaptation took generous license with Palahniuk’s ending. If there's some greater lesson to be drawn from Fight Club, then consider m
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
For the same reason everyone thinks they're above-average drivers. For my own part, I suck at politics so I knew I couldn't climb the ladder. Joke's on me because politics is even more important in starting your own thing.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
When Netflix first started out, it was an aggregator of movies This dates you favorably. Readers who were fully-formed adults when Netflix started out remember it as a clever hack around video rental stores.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
There's a ton of expertise being bandied about here. It's sad any of it is being directed towards sophistic, quasi-religious debate.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
how many people have died because they could not access it. It's only in the last hundred years that one's health couldn't be discussed in a transactional quid pro quo. Both humankind (300,000 years) and evolving life (3.5
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Yes, if the right you're defending is as arcane and hard to explain as libre software.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
the FSF maintains officially-sanctioned precompiled ports of software like GIMP for nonfree operating systems like Windows and macOS - because apparently it's okay to endorse those nonfree operating systems, because reasons. I'v
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
We include support for some proprietary systems in GNU Emacs in the hope that running Emacs on them will give users a taste of freedom The weakness of this sauce is staggering. I understand GNU Emacs wanting to preserve forty years of ha
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
FLOSS supporters are severely underserved I'd say the invisible hand is getting it right here. FLOSS advocates are the worst kind of customer -- both frugal and sententious.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
As someone living directly below a flight path, I want one of two things: to make enough money to move out, or lobby the FAA to spread the pain more widely. At some point, the so-called NextGen technology enabled the FAA to channel all air
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
tldr; intuition qua pattern recognition is often better than analysis but isn't as amenable to explanation. Even if this were true, and it's certainly not in the context of fundamental investing, it's what asset managers ca
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
A weak argument made more compelling by melodrama, but I really enjoyed the film. To the extent my dog-washing app makes more money than bricklaying, it's more reponsible for homebuilding by dint of the fungibility of money.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
People who work 8 hours a day ... how do you cope without wanting to off yourself? I only work 8 hours a day. That leaves plenty of time for the boozing and buggering that a 40-hour work-week can buy.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
What comes around goes around? When you're young and needy, F/OSS is a godsend. You repay that debt when you transition to the sell side.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
> I don't know how I could charge someone else for software without feeling like a big poser. This is how every doctor, lawyer, banker, consultant, carpenter, mechanic, etc. feels about what they're billing for. I suggest you
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
that's if the tech is not total garbage, which most of it is, imo. It's a cruel world indeed that imposes such garbage on your mother, and tasked you to force feed it to her.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I'm not even sure what statistics has to do with the OP's question Well, that was obvious. What's more likely? That OP is failing math because it's beneath him, or because he's got more in common with the *prior
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
We both know this argument wasn't referring to point estimates, but I am happy to engage in the pedantry of oneupsmanship. That's a big part of HN.

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