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by kahawe 15y ago
> my growth Honest question because the "growth" and "waking up" aspect very often comes up: how do you know you have "grown" and not just got lost in meaningless meandering and your drug-induced perception made you think you reached
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by kahawe 15y ago
I wasn't talking about holding on to a bad dev for 5 years... I was talking about the possibility of hiring a "bad" dev and seeing how they do in a real work situation for a couple of months maybe. Typically it should become very clear pret
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by kahawe 15y ago
More importantly: if you place so insanely high value on that ONE new programmer you are hiring and you can obviously abso-frakking-lutely not afford to have picked a single "bad apple" then that says a LOT about the situation of your compa
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by kahawe 15y ago
This effect isn't sooo surprising seeing as it even occurs with dumb mono guitar cab speakers and is very, very, VERY clearly audible there, even just moving your head a few cm in or out of the cones' axis.
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by kahawe 15y ago
> A good sounding catchy tune is something work spending that little bit more time on. But in reality most of your customers want a ton-frakk of compression, loudness and filters on that catchy tune so it ultimately sounds HUGE on the
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by kahawe 15y ago
> The harmonics don't modify the fundamental frequency, they just trick the human hear. But when they're gone, they have no effect whatsoever. This is the part I really do not understand... either my ear CAN pick up those frequencies,
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by kahawe 15y ago
And another way of looking at it is: someone offered you free entertainment and education and you slapped them in the face and ruined the fun for everyone for quite some time. "Hacker" certainly does not include or entitle you to being a di
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by kahawe 15y ago
Thank you for the link, that was interesting - though until the very end I was hoping some tugging on the cable gave it away... :)
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by kahawe 15y ago
I know this is incredibly childish and probably impossible given the elasticity of the cables laid out BUT I would really like to tug on a submarine cable or even just a thread that goes from Euroland over to the USA and have it move and wi
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by kahawe 15y ago
In all fairness, if a few unfairly returned shoes are already almost figuratively putting you in the red, then you just might be in the wrong business or doing it wrong because online retail has clearly become this pond of a few HUGE fish w
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by kahawe 15y ago
Also, amazon offers you free return-shipping and no worries. Typically the 3rd party merchants here in Euroland are literally only a few bucks cheaper on a 3-digit purchase but they take (much) longer to ship, you have to pay for return-shi
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by kahawe 15y ago
Two things I really like about this the most: 1. Providing your employees with healthy, freshly cooked meals on-site! A decent cafeteria that actually provides fresh meals is a heavenly gift and beats ordering and take-away pretty much all
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by kahawe 15y ago
Interesting... I just knew him through "Freakonomics". Well, I think he provided the information and the data used in that one chapter and Levitt/Dubner ultimately wrote it, probably also for lack of better sources. How many scientists hook
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by kahawe 15y ago
I am sorry, the last part was of course meant to say "that's why the pay was so absolutely terrible while the chance of being injured or killed on the job was ten-folds more likely than the most dangerous, "regular" job in the States."
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by kahawe 15y ago
> In their book "Freakonomics" Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt explain, among other things, the odd economic behavior that guides many drug dealers. In one gang they described, the typical street-corner guy made less than minimu
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by kahawe 15y ago
Though once I got a 300% raise instead of a 5% one, would I really want to retire at the living standard I had before or after the 5% raise? So, chances are you are STILL not going to retire anytime soon...
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by kahawe 15y ago
I was talking about whatever contemporarily popular science apps and websites like http://sleepyti.me/ are buying into.
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by kahawe 15y ago
> 4 hour intervals What about those 90 minute cycles that are also commonly cited in popular sleep-advice? Those wouldn't work into a 4hour schedule.
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by kahawe 15y ago
> Who do I look unprofessional to? The IRS? I can live with that. The problem is, the IRS could quickly become suspicious out of sheer bureaucracy and start auditing you closely and then you could be in for another lesson on your obli
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by kahawe 15y ago
The lesson should have been: when you know nothing about taxes, you just don't do them yourself and get professional help instead. It really doesn't cost the world and depending on where you are, you might even save a lot and they can defin
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by kahawe 15y ago
Actually this sounds a lot like what EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) does. As someone who has tried EMDR, it is strange how you cannot re-connect with those painful feelings you had (in my case) 1 or 2 sessions ago and
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by kahawe 15y ago
Never seen this around any of the true hackers I've met or worked with...
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by kahawe 15y ago
> They are mostly very nice guys, as far as I've observed. This right here. An overwhelming majority of hackers, geeks and guys working in IT are so absolutely alright and wonderful to deal and hang out with and I cannot reconcile the
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by kahawe 15y ago
> The funny thing is, if James Bond would do something similar in a movie, everybody would fall in love with the technique. Well, James Bond saves the world and doing something like sneaking into a party is probably a 2/10 on his list
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by kahawe 15y ago
> Most of us come here to laud and admire our fellows that are tenacious and ingenious enough to invent, create, market, sell, or hack their way to success. This fellow has done no different. The overwhelming difference is: the real h
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by kahawe 15y ago
There is nothing substantial or worth mentioning there - these little tricks have been very well known for a very long time...
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by kahawe 15y ago
> HEY. Hey you. Studies show if you don't read NevBlog.com everyday, you might die Really? Excellent! Because after reading that post, I will definitely never ever read that blog again on purpose, it makes me feel like dieing. This so
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by kahawe 15y ago
If this was such a minor little mistake, why does the congress suddenly deal with it? http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/15/congress-weighs-in-on-io...
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by kahawe 15y ago
Just because homebrew wasn't your thing doesn't make macs or OSX "stupid". And I used to do Java development in eclipse/netbeans with db, ide and appserv all running on one machine that had 2GB and I never had any issues... memory hogs hell
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by kahawe 15y ago
> That's great, but please don't overlook all that you can learn from people that may not seem so smart. The really, really important part here is: SEEM not so smart, and accordingly, SEEM oh-so-smart "Smart" is pretty difficult to qu

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