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by joaomacp 8y ago
Yes. And then if it breaks and users want a replacement, they'll move to a fork
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I don't know where you're from, but in the driving school I went to in Portugal most people failed their first exams. They asked for a lot of parking manouvres and were harsh on every error. The purpose was to force you into buyin
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I am amazed by this. I've also read if a parent gives some home treatment (e.g. a warm cup of milk) to a kid and caringly says that it'll cure his cold, the immunity of the kid actually increases, effectively curing the cold with
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Working conditions aside, this is ironic: AI development would supposedly get rid of boring jobs, instead it's creating exactly that.
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by joaomacp 8y ago
As a VR skeptic, I think his expertise is being wasted in that space.
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by joaomacp 8y ago
That is the main way I interact with hackernews. Before using it, I was checking the website more frequently, fearing I might lose some popular post. Much like other social apps make you do - facebook, twitter, reddit... But with the '
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by joaomacp 8y ago
The buyers might look at it another way: "his works attack materialism, but now I own his work and can profit from it: I win, and materialism still stands."
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Yes, this is the answer: the feeling that you're not good enough comes from individualism: focusing on yourself. If instead you find a community and act altruistically for its greater good, you'll find ways to help and feel achiev
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I agree with earlier comments about this coming off sexist: if genders were turned, would you say a husband was the 'real hero' behind his wife's business success? By the way, he had more support - started the game in 2011, p
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I think in this case we should praise Amazon: this should really help for certain use cases (running Minecraft at a decent frame-rate comes to mind).
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by joaomacp 8y ago
This effect is currently happening on Alzheimer's research: people, including veteran experts, are rejecting the viral theory because it's so crazy. Maybe in a few years we'll lament that...
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by joaomacp 8y ago
> they worked to live out their other activities, instead of living to work. I'm from Europe, and I agree. Not everyone, but most people look at a job as just a means to a salary, regardless of what they do. But I'm actually cr
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I was so mad when I wanted to make a simple filter on Jira tickets and I had to use "JQL"...
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Social media addiction will start to decrease just as tobacco addiction is decreasing on younger demographics. The youth have always been good at realizing how stupid some adult's habits are, and refusing to adopt them.
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by joaomacp 8y ago
The two best results I got (both were 'easy' for the AI, but I was still surprised): Supa Hot Fire + Linkin Park: https://rave.dj/Kph8bLPfCCmsaw A known bass drop + Sia - Chandelier: https://rave.dj&#x2
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Kim Jong-un went to school in Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un#Early_life
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by joaomacp 8y ago
This is a problem we have in Europe as well (at least southern EU where I'm from): colleges are almost free (1000€/yr here, so affordable), even the best ones. But who can get to the best ones? People from poorer environments unfo
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by joaomacp 8y ago
If I had $500M the least fun thing I could do is start a bank.
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I live in Portugal, right next to a school from 5th to 9th grade (10-15 year old kids). In the morning, you can see parents and grandparents outside the school fences watching the inside like it was some zoo! It's painful to watch. I w
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by joaomacp 8y ago
You're suggesting people should be robots, with the only purpose of serving their company and the capitalist system, and restrain from showing or debating any personal issues they find important. I think this approximates dictatorship
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by joaomacp 8y ago
What's the difference between that and a book? Lots of people reading books on the subway, oblivious to almost everything around them...
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by joaomacp 8y ago
EC2 has a lot of options indeed. I just searched YouTube for "EC2 free tier setup" and clicked what the guy clicked (t2.micro, no more than 30GB block storage, and you can get an Elastic IP* for free, as long as you immediately at
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Alternatively, when I hear about food information that might affect me, I try to investigate the mentioned studies (at least read the abstract and the results), and also other studies about the issue, to see if there's any reasonable c
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Yeah, I think 'ageism' exists both ways: if you're 20 you're considered too young, but at 45 you're already too old for certain things. You can create complex things while young, but also you can pick up skateboardi
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by joaomacp 8y ago
The pessimistic view is that people become so apathetic that the dictator thing (blindly letting other people lead you) starts happening in government as well, instead of harmless restaurant choices.
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Then what isn't luck? Everyone reading this thread is lucky, since they have access to the internet, and were lucky enough not to be hit by a car and killed before in their lives. You can still improve your chances substantially.
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I think this is good, genetically. Nowadays, because of media, everyone knows how the ideal human looks like, and if you're not on par with that, then you'll think of yourself as pathetic. Actually, I've realized this myself:
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by joaomacp 9y ago
Nothing is guaranteed when we are born into this world. Nature is out to get us, and it's survival of the fittest. People who are born into wealth have it way easier, but they can still lose it all and go broke. Then they'll adapt
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by joaomacp 9y ago
> I recently had to create a cross-platform desktop app, and I'm still not aware of a better option then the JVM. What GUI library(ies) did you use? Just Swing? Java-FX as well? I'm curious about this - I've developed the
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by joaomacp 9y ago
They go down. But so do the odds of him being disappointed by failure.

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