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by koonsolo 3y ago
> Unfortunately, the author has managed to create a catchphrase out of it. Let's hope that doesn't catch on. In you next pull request: "Hey can you push this if up?" :D.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Yeah, but this blinking light is still at another level. I'm glad it works for the OP, but to me this really stood out as pretty absurd. Sounds a bit like: I have a hard time falling asleep, so I have this blinking light next to my bed
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by koonsolo 3y ago
> Get to work regardless if distracted and agitated. Close all apps except what you need to work and BOOM!, let the magic happen Isn't this the part that actually does the heavy lifting to get stuff done?
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I don't agree. I'm from Belgium and I also use a comma, but that doesn't mean I would put hours and minutes as 8.35 or 8,35. No, it's 8:35. Numbers with a dot or comma means it's decimal. Your date reference makes n
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Does google takeout work properly for any of you? Maybe I just have too many files on there, but I can't get Takeout to properly export everyting. Not to file, not to Dropbox.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
People using "PM" is adding to the confusion.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
LinkedIn had this feature, not sure if they still do.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I have an example before this became a thing, and was actually framed as "that's a problem I would love to have". We were developing software for MS PocketPC, and at one point implemented some registration system that a colle
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Master in CS with 20+ years of professional experience chiming in here > because you need to "feel" what these systems are like I've done a lot of job hopping and seen a lot of technologies and companies. There is no way
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by koonsolo 3y ago
For those interested, you can walk and work at the same time! This article was my inspiration and it works great! https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I'll leave you with this link, the top IDE index: https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html Surely you can see that this top list is optimized for features, not for speed. So yeah, people can complain here on HN all they want, i
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by koonsolo 3y ago
There is one paragraph at the start where I thought "yep, the author just answered his own question here": Only in software, it’s fine if a program runs at 1% or even 0.01% of the possible performance. Everybody just seems to be o
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Maybe people outside of HN have a different perspective on this.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I live in Belgium, and employees are very well protected here, and unions very strong. So I definitely get the difference between us and US :). If you're in US and want to move closer to a system as we have in EU, I get that. It just s
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by koonsolo 3y ago
No, help them start their own business or switch to a more lucrative field.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
My daughter now loves Paw Patrol, and so did my other kids. They also love PJ Masks an Miraculous. If they enjoy it, they can watch it. If that show is the biggest problem in your life, you either have a fantastic life or you're focusi
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I'm a developer, and I have way more power than the companies I work for. I can switch companies and basically get same or higher pay. For the company that I leave, they have to invest in hiring and retrain some other developer, that
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by koonsolo 3y ago
A lot of people here forget that the job market is also a market . That means as an employee that you can sell your time to whoever you want. So in the end, you have as much of a say in it as the companies that try to hire and retain peopl
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Hey, I fully agree with your original post and this one, but I wanted to present to you a crazy example I experienced years ago. So we offered a solution to our customers, and then we could customize this by offering our own "consultan
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by koonsolo 3y ago
For those interested in cross platform game development, don't forget https://haxe.org/ ! The usefulness / popularity ratio is very high on this one :).
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by koonsolo 3y ago
"Full Self-Driving" is obviously not full self driving ;).
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Advocates of new technology mostly only mentions the benefits. I always ask what the drawbacks are, and when the answer is "None", I reply "Ah, so you don't know the drawbacks yet?" Everything is a tradeoff. If you
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Next time when you're at the operation table, tell the surgeon and assistants that there's no need to wear masks.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I think there is a lot to learn from studying Arnold's life. You will learn more than reading this book.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I was once at a conference with multiple game developers. My background is that I learned myself programming at a young age. I was also good at school so I completed a Masters degree in CS. Another guy in the group was also a game developer
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I think they already sold them, and people are now waiting on their car.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
> This is because you can remember where the keys are. No I don't remember, it's automated, like riding a bike. (Edit: for example if I need to tell you where a certain key is, I cannot bring it up from memory, I have to virtua
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by koonsolo 3y ago
My memory is a leaking bucket. My typing however, is very fast. Take for example the substring function. I wouldn't know which one it is for JavaScript, Haxe, ActionScript3, C#, Java, Python, C, C++, PHP. I know I used it at one point
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by koonsolo 3y ago
> I also don't like autocomplete You must have a crazy good memory. I switch between multiple languages, and autocomplete lets me easily see what variant of a function this library uses again. You know everything by heart?
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by koonsolo 3y ago
If you can produce the proper output of understanding, why not call it understanding? Can you explain what is the missing component for an LLM to fall into your definition of understanding?

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