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by kweinber 9y ago
“most socially apt people should have Facebook accounts” This is like saying that most people who know a lot about food should regularly visit McDonalds since it is the most eaten-at restaurant. I would venture the opposite, people who are
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Timeless Tips from Reinertsen(reinertsenassociates.com)
1 points by kweinber 9y ago|0 comments
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by kweinber 9y ago
An MVP is actually released to production and is not a PoC It was popularized by Eric Ries in his book _The Lean Startup_.
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by kweinber 9y ago
Is there a legal, accepted MDMA assisted treatment path or something you fashioned yourself? Any references you could share?
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by kweinber 9y ago
People are sensitive in every field. Even if they weren't, there is very little to be gained by needlessly insulting them. Working hard to build great stuff and arguing/fighting for what is right can be forceful without being deb
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by kweinber 9y ago
This is also an important example of how limiting an anti-social attitude can be when trying to collaborate and have a large affect on the world. As brilliant as Jon is, he wasted an inordinate amount of time making up for constantly insul
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by kweinber 9y ago
$100 bills also have very little inherent value or worth. They are only useful because people are willing to trade them for goods and services, there is a regulated source of them, and it is clearly defined how to transact with them. Crypt
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by kweinber 9y ago
Perhaps you should be interested in the mechanism ntp is syncing you to then.... atomic clocks are fascinating too.
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by kweinber 9y ago
There's a great new slogan for the grape industry in there somewhere. . .
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by kweinber 10y ago
In my dreamlife, Apple decides to support the LibreOffice format and uses that as the default for the Pages, Keynote, and Numbers formats. For features that they need added to support features, they propose them to the standards body. That
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by kweinber 10y ago
If we don't try, then we'll have a lot of poor, sick, and unhappy geniuses walking around. I wonder which types of crime they'll optimize?
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by kweinber 10y ago
After the death of Python, Oracle and Delphi go really well together... give it a shot if you want to see the future. Edit: this is a historical reference... search for "Oracle Delphi Python"
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by kweinber 10y ago
Commas-first give you an obvious visual clue when you forget a comma and let the reader immediately know that the current line is a continuation and not a new expression.
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by kweinber 10y ago
This is a test. . .but not necessarily an intentional one by the recruiter. It is a test of your maturity and perseverance. People make mistakes, schedules don't always line up, and sometimes people are overwhelmed or aren't good
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by kweinber 10y ago
Tldr: New Zealand is corrupt and Peter Thiel bought citizenship without ever living there. There is no mention of his helping revive the Trump campaign and how you should think "Peter Thiel" and his investments every time an execu
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by kweinber 10y ago
The GPL uses lawful means to encourage sharing and discourages restricting information. Richard Stallman and the FSF would encourage you to not engage in restricted media if you don't believe in it. . .not disregard the laws that keep
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by kweinber 10y ago
This is because those people are choosing more access for themselves in both cases. They rather have more "stuff" at little or no expense and they dismiss their moral or legal obligations when it becomes inconvenient. If someone
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by kweinber 10y ago
There were patches to machines, cables, memory modules, dresses, etc etc before punch cards. They are all better metaphors than that picture because they offer functionality and aren't just binarily subtractive like the picture.
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Ask HN: Does Google Chrome make Google ads extra clickable?
1 points by kweinber 10y ago|0 comments
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by kweinber 10y ago
A great reason to have cross-experience at the management level is to understand the different motivations of the two roles: * devs are incented (paid) to introduce changes to the system...mostly in the form of new features. * sysadmins are
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by kweinber 10y ago
With that device it would run faster than an ARMchair.
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by kweinber 10y ago
What do folks think of internetisms that the author uses like "Because Mor Better Ideas™."? I see a number of engineers use broken phrasing like that in posts and presentations and it comes off really badly to others not in on the
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by kweinber 10y ago
It is a little sad that Brooks calls W.C. Fields a misanthrope because of his comment. He was clearly making a joke. . . which he was known to do because he was one of the most famous comedians of all time. His schtick was acting like a m
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by kweinber 10y ago
It was a festival to fight a blight called "wheat rust" and it is an OS that promotes the use of Rust.
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by kweinber 10y ago
It seemed that way to me at first too.... But they are answering a cry for help from your customers AND they are saving a potential customer for your company. . They are often misunderstood and dont get much credit. . It makes a lot of sens
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by kweinber 10y ago
There are other ways of meta programming that are still performant.... that is why many Ruby devs see Elixir/beam and Clojure/jvm as good language/platform alternatives.
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by kweinber 10y ago
Don't count on Ruby getting 10x faster anytime soon. The meta-object model and method-missing reliance of many of the libraries make performance optimizations of JITs a very limited enterprise.
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by kweinber 10y ago
Sounds like a great case for a supervisor macro at your shop. I doubt your defaults would be common enough to be part of the library though. . . Ordering and naming tend to matter.
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by kweinber 10y ago
Important to note that the opioid addiction epidemic is actually exacerbated by flaws in the US healthcare system, so adoption of standards from France or elsewhere could help with that too.
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by kweinber 10y ago
Manual shifting is neither possible nor even relevant in electric cars or cvt (continuous variable transmission) cars. Their rise will be the true end of the stick shift.

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