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by katzgrau 9y ago
Yep, as long as you're remote enough you can get a truly fascinating view. Last summer I camped in Zion National Park and it was the first time I've seen the night sky with such clarity. I couldn't look away - I laid outside
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I read through the comments knowing someone would have already said what wanted to, and better than I would have. Fully agreed. Sometimes what could have been an intelligent answer is diminished by overconfidence and well, what I might even
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I can relate - commuted 2 hours from NJ into Brooklyn for a while. At some point you have to ask yourself if that's the quality of life you really wanted for yourself. I never saw myself as a rat making a grueling trip into NYC for che
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by katzgrau 9y ago
One minor upside to the rapid change is that I can sit out an entire stack and hop back into relevancy with some totally new stack a year later.
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I think your reply relies too heavily on our context as humans on earth. If humans are actually a very clever form of AI crafted by some thing unknown to us, whatever it may be, are we in-fact "artificial?" What if it goes further
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by katzgrau 9y ago
At such a scale, how do you define what is and isn't AI?
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I've done both equal and non-equal, but I've yet to have or observe a business where both the risk, contribution, and effort put in by the founders is actually equal. Sometimes it's just a conversation founders want to avoid
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by katzgrau 9y ago
VCs want to avoid the possibility of deadlocks when it comes to control - it's an easy box to check off when it comes to protecting the investment. But realistically, even at 51/49 or 60/40, if the disagreements are serious e
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I spent a few years as a full time contractor and kind of had a chuckle at this. I worked on a truly awful mess of a codebase. It was the kind of codebase through which many devs had passed, and many generations of best practices. One part
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by katzgrau 9y ago
Happiness and hardship are only relatively quantifiable. You can't draw the conclusion that he had less of a struggle simply because he has money. I'll probably get downvoted for this, but somebody needs to say it: you're an
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by katzgrau 10y ago
"Fired" usually implies discipline/performance issues with the employee - it's on them. "Laid off" usually means it was out of the employee's hands. People sometimes use them interchangeably, but it's
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by katzgrau 10y ago
I sympathize with the author, but I'm guessing the stints of unemployment have more to do with the potential for flight risk giving the sporadic employment history. IMO, a mediocre but reliable developer is more ideal than an all star
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by katzgrau 10y ago
Totally agree, and I'm glad you wrote it so that I didn't have to.
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by katzgrau 10y ago
Nice work, going to give this a try soon. It'll be a big improvement over my mixture of aliases and bash history searches
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by katzgrau 10y ago
For more in depth JavaScript exercises, I built this for some hour of code sessions at some pretty big high schools. It's basically a UI for writing/sharing/leading code exercises. It should obviously be using a database and
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by katzgrau 10y ago
I prefer to view it in reverse (and word it differently) - the body is an organ of the mind. But I would agree - the mind and body are powerfully complimentary.
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by katzgrau 10y ago
The article at first suggests that more intelligent versions of AI led to greed and sabotage. But I do wonder if an even more intelligent AI (perhaps in a more complex environment) would take the long view instead and find a reason to co-ha
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by katzgrau 10y ago
Sure, just two different ways of looking at the same thing. I personally view all employment as fundamental exploitation. Obviously you only hire employees with the intention to extract more value than what you give back in compensation. So
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by katzgrau 10y ago
I'd probably make the argument that it's an overemphasis on the principles of supply and demand (capitalism) that make one potentially worthless. If there are enough geographers with graduate degrees applying for the gig even at m
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by katzgrau 10y ago
Dude, I'm in bed right now (9:30pm). After I'm done typing this out I'll read my book for a bit and go to sleep. I'll prob get up around 6am with 7.5 - 8 hours of sleep, work out, and be at my desk by 9. I bootstrapped m
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by katzgrau 10y ago
That, and the recognition that search was a powerful conduit for ad revenue is the reason that Google is what they are today. Jerry Yang and Yahoo did not appreciate this and missed their oppurtunity to acquire Google early on. That said, Y
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by katzgrau 10y ago
A very mathematical but insightful way of stating it. My usual way of putting it is that happiness is relative. You can only be happy if you came from a state of lesser happiness.
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by katzgrau 10y ago
I'm both a fan of Taleb and Buffett. That said, Buffett's success is due to his strategy of evaluating companies based on a number of characteristics - value investing. It actually aligns very nicely with Taleb's personal inv
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by katzgrau 10y ago
He just said that. Way to rub it in, bud.
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by katzgrau 10y ago
"The 'you' of today needs to protect the 'you' of tomorrow." Amen. Don't ever be afraid of looking out for your own financial interests. If you aren't, you are at a disadvantage. Anyone who makes you
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by katzgrau 10y ago
As I'm making my first hires this month, I've been thinking very heavily about future org structure - and oddly enough I've called it the "machine" too. My machine has custom components that perform different functi
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by katzgrau 10y ago
If you put in 5-10 years bootstrapping and made a living, then: 1. You clearly built something of value and should have an exit coming (or already had one) 2. If you were the victim of some unfortunate circumstance that put you out of busin
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by katzgrau 10y ago
This is absolutely not true. There are plenty of entrepreneurs we'll never hear about who built their company to 1-2 million/yr (I know a handful). Some of them are app/sass developers, some of them are basic Wordpress consul
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by katzgrau 10y ago
If you're in it for the big windfall, consider bootstrapping your own company. It's hard, it's depressing, it's exciting, it's terrifying, and it's rewarding. Learn to set goals and execute, sell a product, dea
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by katzgrau 10y ago
I'd agree, and this is what I was hinting at in my comment as well. Plain-text readability is paramount. But additionally, we need to be careful as to how visualizations are implemented. The visual characteristics of the final HTML do

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