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by ljw1001 9y ago
The first rule of gun culture is don’t talk about gun culture
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The hardest part will be getting people to take you seriously if you want to switch companies
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cultural predispositions are difficult to change in the short term. Human psychology, otoh, is _extremely_ difficult to change. This, of course, is why people employ these tactics.
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This is a largely valid point, but it has traditionally been much easier to see the fruits of your labor (often literally, as most people produced food, but if not, then in a small shop, a small manufacture of some kind, a small legal offic
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True, but.... A company can (does) decide how much time, energy and money to put into protecting its executives. There is a strong trend that all business decisions are made because execs desire for self preservation makes them prioritize l
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My only experience with it was after giving a Java 8 jar to someone who ran in on a Java 9 jvm and it crashed immediately. This is the first time that has happened to me in nearly 20 years of using java.
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This is what I want. My goto editors are Pages on the mac for heavy formatting, and Google Docs for everything else. I'd love to use Markdown more, but writing your text in one window and viewing it in another is very 1982. It just isn
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by ljw1001 9y ago
Kidder's book is awesome. This article reminded me of Steven Levy's iPod book: It's also very good, not a classic but still worth a read: https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Thing-Shuffles-Commerce-Cooln...
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I'm thinking it can't go much below 0%, but I'm not an economist.
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Seneca's Letters on Ethics is wonderful, also. Such an extraordinary writer, and such a lovely edition. https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Ethics-Lucilius-Complete-Anna...
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i don't think so, but it might have been Harvey Mudd. Olin I know well from recruiting there.
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Ask HN: Missed Connection – HN Story that got away
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> The normal pipeline is HS-> College -> Entry level corporate job -> change jobs -> slightly better corporate job -> change job -> ... -> senior programmer in a corporate setting....I'm at the end of this pipel
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The most important thing is not mentioned by the author or by the deep maths thinking he critiques. It is understanding when and how to apply a model, how to evaluate your results for robustness, how to interpret what it's saying. Thes
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I also do large doses of caffeine to get through the day. I have long-term severe insomnia, and have just been prescribed modafinil, which in theory does not affect sleep. And definitely go see your doctor, if you are anxious about it, doin
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by ljw1001 9y ago
Assuming you wake with an alarm, the biggest impact on how you feel when you first wake is where you were in your sleep cycle. In deep or REM sleep you will feel lousy.
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It's probably me, but as an experienced programmer, I found the first edition to be numbingly boring. I couldn't stay with it and eventually gave it away.
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Want to start a $1 startup? Start finding problems instead of ideas. Works at any scale
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I think "failing hard" is reasonable considering how much worse it is than the workhorse v3 that it replaces. I don't find it anything like "mediocre". It is the buggiest software I use regularly and has made doing
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Charles W. Bachman, Business Software Innovator, Dies(nytimes.com)
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Having been both a manager and engineer for a number of years in a number of organizations, I can say with some confidence that an excess of refactoring is NOT the problem.
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Ask HN: What countries (besides France) encourage entrepreneurs to immigrate?
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The iphone can be seen as a cheap portable computer as well as as a fancy phone. Viewed in that way, it fits the logic of the Innovator's Dilemma. It's also clear, I think, that the disruption to the computer industry was greater
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by ljw1001 9y ago
This is a very practical and insightful post. Thanks.
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Could you please explain what that expression is intended to accomplish so I can be sure that I understand the example?
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I think that's a reasonable "ask".
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Could you provide a link to Mode? I'm not familiar with it and the name is epically un-googleable.
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Very nice job. I've looked for mac plotting libraries and couldn't find much. Hence the question
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If you don't mind sharing, Im curious what library you used for the charts?
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This is really a wonderful book. Nystrom's writing is clear and entertaining. I look forward to every new chapter.

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