karma_vaccum123

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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
We do but they are awful and flawed...Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk etc...we revere the rich as if they were gods. I would not be surprised if John Gruber has prayed to Steve at least once.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
They mention their existing solar capacity in the article. Presumably this will also grow over time. Doing anything at sea would surely be 10x as complicated and expensive...Texas has wind and open space and roads.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
These landmines show that the Go language compatibility guarantee was made too early.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
I love the idea of a "read only" map (or any other type), but it seems it is just a side-effect landmine in this case. Yuck...almost strikes me as a bug as described in the article
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
If only one could go back in time and fix the weird overloading of nil for pointers and interfaces...it is the one breaking change to the Go1 language guarantee that seems worth it.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Last I checked the average corporate lifespan in the US is 25 years, so these numbers don't seem abnormal to me. Indeed it is amazing that IBM is even still around. I find it more peculiar that people think companies "must" (
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Anyone can call themselves a unicorn
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Speaking as an "old" (46), most of my colleagues have truly rotted out. The typical HN reader will be given to self-improvement and curiosity...but outside of this bubble many others have to be dragged kicking and screaming.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
I'm 46 now and holding out until I get to 50, at which point I fully intend to promote myself to employers as a token they can put in their diversity promotional material they promote as an antidote to criticisms.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You don't necessarily sacrifice those when choosing a third party. We all apparently work in related industries...do you and your colleagues sit around and dream up ways to exploit customers? I don't, nor do those I work with.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You are always partially in someone else's hands unless you happen to own a private, dedicated connection to your client.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Agreed. OpenStack is a total dumpster fire, yet still companies like RedHat push it. I narrowly avoided a long term (career-derailing) OpenStack assignment...four days in...oh, this is all based on OpenStack?... transfer approved
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
So what. 95% of the poseurs doing "angel" investing are in it for the scene, the cachet, the parties, the "networking", the name-dropping etc etc. Rothenberg gave people what they wanted....a very exclusive club with rid
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
> university is a place where people should go to learn about things that interest them and inspire them in the company of other like-minded people whilst simultaneously growing as an individual As long as we continue to believe this, no
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Not only that, but "tradespeople" start earning right after high school. That four-five year head start is more meaningful than people realize. You could be making a down payment on owning your residence while your friends are sti
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
It really requires a rethinking of the need for college, how college should work, and how it should be paid for. Most undergraduates have no real need to obtain a gold-plated degree. Undergraduate education in nearly all fields is well-unde
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Its nice that you earned your black-belt in self-discipline, but it doesn't benefit society much for you to become a miser to pay for a piece of paper. We are in a consumption economy...we need you spending money on things that create
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
This will impact every other aspect of our consumption economy...home sales and even car sales will be impacted as working adults have to dedicate more and more earning potential to paying off student loans...far in excess of any real econo
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
My least favorite FreeBSD default: permissions for CD/DVD burning. I get the high-minded position FreeBSD takes here, but it is also a total PITA and it seems pretty clear that if you are putting a CD/DVD in a host's tray, yo
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Problem is...North Korea is a legitimate existential threat to a key US ally (South Korea) and a meaningful threat to others (Japan). We have fun laughing at North Korea but they are armed to the teeth and are indeed capable of turning Seou
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Why not just tell users that Facebook does not endorse or condone any specific user content? No one blames Verizon if someone uses a racist insult on the phone...there is precedent for users grasping how a common carrier works. Of course th
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Lacking a "public" internet, users are always going to have their expression beholden to the standards of some private entity. Even if you self-host, your ISP reserves the right to define their own idea of "abuse". Whe
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
It is racist and hurtful in the same way calling US Southerners before the Civil War a bunch of slavers...intended to wound, but also based in fact. Look at what was "Saudi Arabia" prior to the discovery of oil. These people were
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You are correct and this comments section (and it modding) demonstrates a fantastically shallow understanding of the Middle East that is easily addressed by airport bookstores. Surely some of you know someone who has served in the US arme
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Please. At the time of the US invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11, it wasn't even a nation state in the modern sense, it was a crater that was periodically claimed by one faction or another. The US entry was as strategically useful
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Not necessarily true. The United States was indeed involved, orchestrated in part by the grandson of a former US President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You're mistaking token affection and photo-ops for a real change in foreign policy. Honestly your comment just seems naive.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
People buying an electric car are already in a mindset for experimenting, so they are good candidates for design departures. BMW and Mercedes have lost their edge in styling, any experimentation is a good thing.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Embrace contrived progress meters. I put every trivial to-do related to a repo into a github issue. I commit routinely, even for small changes, with a short message. These stink of make-work, but they expose my progress to my other remote c
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Do you know what it takes to admit that you are late to the game? Courage.

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