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by lvecsey 16y ago
Is the moral of the story that everyone has the same useless role? And that the need to BS is a primitive, corporate instinct where everyone ends up sending globes to each other.
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by lvecsey 16y ago
Relax. Just grow some crops on Farmville and don't worry so much.
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by lvecsey 17y ago
Very impressive how resilient society is, if you combine this article with the current economic recovery. The sheer number of checks and balances keeps it going.
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by lvecsey 17y ago
It's one of those red pill blue pill deals, and perhaps at the heart it drives at the current melt down of society (depending on your vantage point). If you go with what you believe you risk having others say things like "you just haven't a
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by lvecsey 17y ago
For some usage cases isn't Coda a suitable replacement? http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/
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by lvecsey 17y ago
Is there a petition to End the NY Times? You know, to put it out of its misery. I think the only subscribers left are ones that just see it as a duty to keep their subscription as a "donation" of sorts, for fear of it vanishing. It looks to
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by lvecsey 17y ago
You can buy a basket of speculative stocks (small market cap companies) and have a few winners. Having a convenient place like that to play your money changes the scope of a good VC or Angel investing opportunity. They become exceedingly ra
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by lvecsey 17y ago
I'd like to hear more details about this. Is there a certain "drive" towards an outer simplicity, say with interaction design or the appearance of a tool or application, that the CA people have developed a knack for? If that's the case I'd
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by lvecsey 17y ago
The common trend here seems to be a concern over not cannibalizing existing markets. Two examples are the case of flash memory being delayed by a decade or more, and also Microsoft releasing a bloated Vista with the expectation that faster
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by lvecsey 17y ago
tldr; herd mentality will ebb and flow, but there will always be some sheep on the edges with their own moral compass. some good, some bad. but the herd perceives them all the same.
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by lvecsey 17y ago
You have to hand it to Jobs, he knows how to market his stuff. Basically the more pressure he places on developers the easier it is for him to posture with "this has never been done before, iPhone is a first, these apps are a first" and it'
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by lvecsey 17y ago
Did we really need those jobs in the first place? I don't mean whether each individual was benefiting from the income from his or her job. Collectively, were the jobs a net benefit or drag on the rest of us?
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by lvecsey 17y ago
I was struck by how half way through the article, the foreign object is revealed. Shouldn't something like that be kept in check by regular checkups? Maybe an MRI scan?
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by lvecsey 17y ago
even at the right wages there is likely little incentive to continue working in these fields. employers need to do a better job of shielding all the BS out of the system and creating a welcoming environment.
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by lvecsey 17y ago
If you can get away with it, use Gnumeric software http://www.gnumeric.org/ as your spreadsheet ;) Actually I can see a day when MSFT contributes to Wine because as they have stated, they are hoping to preserve all their past API's and ve
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by lvecsey 17y ago
That was my big take away too and my sense was that in another forum, he would have used the term hack. But it's easier to explain it away as a crack to convey that users should observe caution, share it quietly, and also to piggy back on a
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by lvecsey 17y ago
What ever happened to the view that some programmers have a capable productivity that is entire orders of magnitude over others? I think most employers just look at keeping expenses to a minimum. This means ruling out the concept of pair pr
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by lvecsey 17y ago
It seemed like an appropriate amount. The boss was genuinely pissed when Iseri wasn't using the job as a negotiating point.
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by lvecsey 17y ago
The interesting bit is if you read his letter with the attached question and answer session, he talks about how trivial items that could be discovered by a student on their own shouldn't be patented. It's a great point because it seems ther
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by lvecsey 17y ago
I'm always surprised when people suggest "community college", as opposed to an elite university, for the masses to flock to. I don't mind if people take on vocational tasks like welding, and as Mike Rowe of dirty jobs explained at his TED t
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by lvecsey 18y ago
As I expected, it didn't mention the fortitude they had to fend of lawsuits over the copyrighted clips that were prevalent early on. That alone drove a large part of the growth. On the flip side, a more subtle point that held them back a bi
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by lvecsey 18y ago
I think it's wrong to assume that the economy, with the cash transaction at the heart of it, is somehow an immortal or god given / evolutionary design. Imagine if it was replaced with a smart-card where your transaction had a programmable,
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by lvecsey 18y ago
Any packet can be dropped at any time, for TCP or UDP. So the protocol stack or application needs to deal with it and re-send, using a backoff policy. Its worth looking at IM2000 and the pertinent questions that D. J. Bernstein asks about a
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by lvecsey 18y ago
Much of this has probably already been said but here are some of my observations. First, the lessons page was so long that I wonder whether they have really been learned. Had they been learned it would have been stated in a sentence or two.
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by lvecsey 18y ago
All its missing is the concept of a lurker mode. Orange County Choppers has it when they build motorcycles, and so do forums and chat sessions. So the rules just have to be tweaked a bit to make that possible, especially since getting enoug
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by lvecsey 18y ago
Don't forget that hacker news has collected lots of media attention all those numerous time that Y Combinator is mentioned. Paul Graham even pointed out to the community here that the demographic would be changing, and perhaps it has again
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by lvecsey 18y ago
Theres a funny story of a mac laptop owner that set the built in camera to record frames, so that when it was stolen he actually got some pictures taken of the crook flipping it open. Similarly maybe this system should be wifi based, as a s
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by lvecsey 18y ago
They conflate a few different issues here, the first is interleaving which is ok since you don't really suffer a performance loss or mental setback. The other one is a context switch, for example when a manager interrupts you with something
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by lvecsey 18y ago
Keep lots of notes and design info, which you can revise quickly, and program from that. Never the other way around or you'll end of with the dreaded programmers apathy.
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by lvecsey 18y ago
Its too bad each idea can't be taken on its own, however incoherent or badly thought out it is perceived as and actively worked on until until some understanding is reached. One thing I've always wondered about is whether a request can ever

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