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by kevstev 6y ago
As a smart but not necessarily brilliant teenager getting on the web in mid-late 90s- Maybe Christmas 1996 I- well my family really- got a computer that could get on the internet, search engines were mediocre at best. I did have a family fr
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by kevstev 6y ago
I think you are leaving out a really important aspect of the early internet- content discovery was really hard for users. If you were looking for something about Pets until google became dominant, you were just as likely, if not more likely
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by kevstev 6y ago
Yeah, I think what a lot of people going on TV failed to really express is that there was so much unknown about this new virus, that this is the best information we have to go on RIGHT NOW. And then when that changed, they didn't make
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by kevstev 6y ago
Hey neighbor, I disagree, though switching my VPN gateway to our DR one in NJ vs our primary in Chicago cleared things up. For about an hour and a half though, remote desktop was struggling, even though my speed tests were fine. I'm on
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by kevstev 6y ago
I am still using a SandyBridge core i7 laptop from 2011, and my only real gripe with it is its comically large bezel around the monitor by today's standards. I can't game with it, but general usage and development is not an issue.
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by kevstev 6y ago
Where are you located? In the northeast US, I keep seeing panel prices come down each year, to the point where they are a fairly small portion of the system cost these days- labor now dominates the price.
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by kevstev 6y ago
Interestingly, I have something of an inside view on this- my wife was one of the early enthusiasts, and I guess you could accuse her of being one of the "cliques" discussed- I have been to an instructor's house, a friend of
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by kevstev 6y ago
I said that exact same thing, and passed on an offer from them- 4 years ago. I am not exactly kicking myself- at the time I was not an exercise bike enthusiast, and my few trips to Soul Cycle with my wife really turned me off- and regardles
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by kevstev 6y ago
I don't see what "sides" have to do with this. You have a policy of what is acceptable content or not and apply it uniformly. If one "side" is breaking rules about promoting violence, and the other is not, they are
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by kevstev 6y ago
I mean its tricky to do an analogy between the digital and physical worlds- but I do find it interesting that I mean there is a whole range of possibilities here, at what point do you stop blaming the victim? 1- The front door was left wide
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by kevstev 6y ago
Yeah that was a bit of a head scratcher to me as well- I consider myself to be quite "green" in my political views, and I could not really grasp why this was picked up as an issue to champion for environmental rights- and why it e
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by kevstev 6y ago
I bought a house last year and long story short ended up not selling my condo, meaning to close I needed to not sell a chunk of my investments. Problem is, many had significant capital gains. I ended up just taking a margin loan for a blend
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by kevstev 6y ago
You may not be wrong about C# or Go, I haven't used C# in any capacity in probably 15 years now, and have only dabbled lightly in Go, but Java at least I find is still pretty heavy- awhile back I wrote about my experience trying node h
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by kevstev 6y ago
I am not sure why you think that- I went from doing low level C++ in algo trading for ~10 years to node.js, and programming was never so much fun! No more fighting with the build system, getting a basic app up and running took less than an
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by kevstev 6y ago
What has burned me the most is that I actually did pay about $10 way back when for Scrabble and thought I was good to go for the forseeable future. They eventually phased this app out though I believe under the guise of incompatibility with
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by kevstev 6y ago
Interestingly I bought my house from a fairly high up (they have a "head of" title) person that defected to LA to work for Quibi. At the time my wife, who is in media, thought that it was a great move that was pretty much guarante
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by kevstev 6y ago
This rings so hollow to me. You have tons of people who are all of a sudden working from home and are still doing lunches, or have lots of free time in general in an age where shorter form content is more prevalent. Yes, that was their targ
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by kevstev 6y ago
This already largely exists though. When I had the trial for the nest aware subscription service, it would tell me who was at my door. I forget if I had to manually set up the face recognition, or it did it automagically, but in a crime sit
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by kevstev 6y ago
Indeed- I only used 2000 as its now the last year for any patents to have been around. But all-in-ones, network printing, duplex, color-laser, were all around in 2000 and any fundamental patents on them should have expired. Wifi integration
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by kevstev 6y ago
What kind of patents? I had tank of an HP laserjet 3 in the 90s, and patent life is 20 years. For the basic functionality, they should all be expired at this point, and the limiting factor at the time was the high cost of memory and compute
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by kevstev 6y ago
I am shocked that the nfl hasn't started a "my life depends on it" type of project to develop safety gear that will protect players better or test out major changes in rules that will make players less prone to injury. When I
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by kevstev 6y ago
These aren't the only options though. At least not in a "all in or all out" kind of way over a large area and length of time. You can aggressively test and trace and separate just those that test positive. You can quarantine
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by kevstev 6y ago
Yeah I mean I used to drive a Mustang and got unsolicited compliments all the time. It was a fun car to drive. I have an Accord now. Its fine. its reliable. Its lacking a 1000 watt stereo and wont push me back into the seats, and while I do
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by kevstev 6y ago
I hear you. Google nerfed my Nest Hello last year without explanation, while letting my other Nest products pretty much die on the vine, even if I want to pay $X/month to enable my multiple $150+ cameras to be useful. There is just so
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by kevstev 6y ago
>I'm pretty sure if I showed up to a performance engineering job and said "I wrote the book on performance," as though that was what mattered most, I'd be shown the door. In my opinion it would be horrendously arrogan
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by kevstev 6y ago
He kind of touches upon it, but there is a lot of value in being able to go into an interview and literally being able to say about a topic "I wrote the book on it." It's a tremendous signal to have overcome the hurdles of ge
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by kevstev 6y ago
A lot of this seems like a policy issue though- Why do trains only top out around 60mph? There is no technical limitation that I know of that would prevent them from going faster in most places. Giving them a leg up on cars would induce dem
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by kevstev 6y ago
I have not had much volatility when working at a hedge fund, or even finance more generally. It might be different in a pure front office role where your bonus pool is directly tied to the profit you generate, but being in a tech role, you
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by kevstev 6y ago
I tend to disagree. I won an Occulus Go at a meetup and almost gave it away- I didn't realize what I had won and just assumed it was some kind of upgraded google cardboard. I was really surprised and delighted at how cool it was. It fe
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by kevstev 6y ago
I have actually wondered if this is where a big chunk of our parents perceived security came from- if I buy a house, but in 4 years I am making 20-30% more, and in 20 years I am making twice what I paid for the house, life feels pretty comf

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