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by meken 5y ago
What’s a workaday hacker and what’s UB?
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by meken 5y ago
Yes, it seems like we need some kind of crypto police to enforce that people actually do what they say they will do on the blockchain.
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by meken 5y ago
I don’t know anything about blockchain, but setting up beforehand some kind of auto trigger to buy daisies with the funds would seem to solve that problem. Whether the work actually happens after that point, yes I agree, I don’t see a way f
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by meken 5y ago
I was a UTCS PhD student back in 2013-2016. I was looking forward to taking a graduate class taught by Dr. Cook on programming languages, but the timing didn’t line up. I always considered that to be a bit of a shame, as I knew he was going
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by meken 5y ago
I like hearing dreams because it tells me something about the other person’s psyche, which is interesting.
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by meken 5y ago
Last time I was coding, I used vim+tmux. I found terminal emulation in emacs slow and buggy. I do always have a spacemacs window open, but I only use it for magit.
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by meken 5y ago
I agree with this. I’ve often contemplated that given that the part of me that has a poor work ethic and refuses to get help has generally won out, I would easily be on the streets if I was born into a family of low socioeconomic status, ra
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by meken 5y ago
I am thankful for the recent Ask HN thread where the guy mentioned he feels dumb and lazy. I found it very relatable and it caused good introspection on my part as well.
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by meken 5y ago
As of yesterday, they were only at $5M. To see it jump to $25M today is staggering, and insanely impressive, from a fundraising perspective.
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by meken 5y ago
Anyone else reminded of The Dark Knight Rises?
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by meken 5y ago
Love PE. Back in undergrad, we kept a leaderboard amongst each other to see who could solve the most problems. I had just learned python and thought I was cool. Good times.
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by meken 5y ago
This article was really relatable. Not that I’m an entrepreneur, but thinking that I’m unique in the problems I face. Actually, I still do think that. For my entire software dev career, I’ve mostly felt unmotivated, disconnected, slacking o
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by meken 5y ago
It’s a belief. That everyone else is smarter than you. Opposite of dunning-kruger, where you think you’re smarter than everyone else.
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by meken 5y ago
Anything, in excess. But, it seems that winning in life is figuring out how to get healthy addictions (to work, exercising, good diet, helping other people).
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by meken 5y ago
Yes, I can relate. I realize now that fun conversation is highly illogical, emotion based. I view my desire for control and logic actually gets in the way of emotions, which makes conversations less enjoyable.
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by meken 5y ago
Really enjoyed this article. I've found myself doing the whole "explain assuming they know nothing" many times, heh.
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by meken 5y ago
What? The seat being warm is the best case.
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by meken 5y ago
I think the big 5 personality traits are a good lens to view your question. Of the big 5 personality traits, neuroticism and conscientiousness seem the most relevant here, to manifest these behaviors. I think being high in neuroticism and l
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by meken 5y ago
> Based solely on your own instinct, perceptions, and self-reflection, answer the following questions My gut immediate instinct says yes, for me. It's hard to articulate this stuff. As humans, we're pattern matching machines. T
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by meken 5y ago
Ah, you're right. Turns out he was found guilty. My mistake. I would edit the comment, but it doesn't look like I can now.
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by meken 5y ago
Ah, that might explain my ignorance. I’ve never heard the term “investment club” before today. I just assumed it’s legit.
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by meken 5y ago
Ah, you’re right. My mistake. I was going off the article Snowden put up saying the guy was “named”, so I assumed he wasn’t actually found guilty, just accused.
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by meken 5y ago
I guess I’m missing the part which indicates this is obviously a scam. I don’t know why people are attending this conference, but could anyone actually be getting value out of it? If so, then it just depends whether you find this conference
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by meken 5y ago
This is weird on so many levels. - The article Snowden linked is public. Presumably people already know about it? - I don’t know about the details of the case, but the host wasn’t found guilty. That seems relevant. - Snowden joined the conf
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by meken 6y ago
I'm a bit embarrassed to ask, but what does this do? I assumed by the name it would play a bunch of sounds over each other. Is it just a catalog of streams of different music genres, arranged in a 2d grid? If so, that's cool. I ju
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by meken 6y ago
Amazing video. My only suggestion for improvement for the modeling is in the part where you tried to find the "ideal" letters for the model. Instead of sampling generated random bitmaps and ranking those, you could instead initial
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by meken 6y ago
On a related note, I've been following P90X workout videos for a few months now. They've been really effective for motivating me to workout consistently. I wonder if "workout videos" for other domains would work to motiv
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by meken 6y ago
Really cool to see a "day in the life" of someone in some profession, to get a feel for what it's really like. And it also gives you a sense for what practice looks like, and what's necessary to get good. It's a nic
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by meken 6y ago
An issue with just focusing on problems is that sometimes it’s not clear what the problem is. Say you create a fun little app that a hundred people download, that you just had a good time making. What problem did it solve for them? Boredom?
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by meken 6y ago
Mm just something that you are comfortable in and feels good to be in. I got a 2018 Camry XSE, so it's got nice comfy leather seats. Arguably the best thing is having CarPlay. Such a nice UI for listening to podcasts/audio books,

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