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by milesvp 7y ago
I think this article predates a drop in brick quality which happened in the last 5 years. I bought a number of small sets a few years ago and every single one of them had pieces that split up the side after very little use. This may have be
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by milesvp 7y ago
I might agree with you if all you quoted was the low quality part. My experience in software is that it’s typical to only get ~4 good hours out of someone per day. That’s 2or3 1.5-2hr streches. So the 4 hours worth of breaks, just means it
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by milesvp 7y ago
Can confirm. I don't have the luxury of burnout, as the the primary breadwinner for a larger than anticipated family (yay twins!). So I hover just above breaking point, and only occasionally dip my toes in no longer having any F*s to g
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by milesvp 7y ago
Interesting, I'd never thought to look much at other authors output on this topic. There was a post the other day talking about Jules Verne's corpus, and I now wonder what his output was like. I've another thought on the topi
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by milesvp 7y ago
LOC is a terrible measure for productivity, but I like to think about it more as a measure of capacity. LOC/day is useful as an upper bound in the same way pages per day is an upper bound for authors. Stephen King is notorious for bein
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by milesvp 7y ago
There was a great blog post I saw some years ago on HN about someone reminiscing about halloween candy trading as a kid. They remembered fondly about just how organized the trading quickly became. it was all barter, but there emerged quick
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by milesvp 7y ago
I'd tend to agree with this categorizing certain free blogs/web content above paywalled newspaper content. I can't really remember the last time information available from a news organization actually allowed me to change my
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by milesvp 7y ago
My wife used to work with students to help them get through interviews, and one of her pieces of advice when interviewing is to ask near the end of the interview is if they have any concerns about them as a candidate. It gives the interview
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by milesvp 7y ago
To be fair, anything more than ~$250/mo probably requires some kind budget approval which will quickly scare away many underlings, and means now you're in the realm of enterprise sales. Now you should probably be charging closer t
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by milesvp 7y ago
I've been hearing rumors that AMD's current offerings have been starting to avoid even shared cache between processors. It boggles my mind that any CPU designer would think a shared L2 cache is a good idea. Makes me wonder where m
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by milesvp 7y ago
True. I wonder how much event systems by their very nature simply destroy cache locality. Still, it's likely much easier to reason about cache hits, and build event handlers such that they remain local for the duration, as opposed to t
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by milesvp 7y ago
A shame that no one has mentioned cache invalidation as further reason threaded programming is hard. One my biggest takeaways from Martin Thompson’s talk on mechanical sympathy is that the first thing he tries when brought in as a performan
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by milesvp 7y ago
You may have never seen a good ad then. There was a period of time I would actively look at ads on penny-arcade, because the owners of the site only ever allowed ads (mostly for games) that they themselves could at least tangentially endors
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by milesvp 7y ago
So to call ADHD defective is definitely a huge problem. It ignores any and all advantages of having brain differences. I saw a study a few years back that suggest ADD was highly correlated with the ability to focus under intense short term
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by milesvp 7y ago
What’s interesting is there’ve been a couple threads recently on HN talking about this with medium. Bloggers who’ve lost a significant amount of self referral traffic by relying on medium for it’s traffic spikes. Seems to be a common patter
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by milesvp 7y ago
There have been a number of threads here talking about hiring developers off of free lance sites. The basic algorithm seems to be: Attempt to hire ~25 people for a sample project of known difficulty. Of those 25 something 5 will respond and
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by milesvp 7y ago
The good alternative is good matchmaking. My experience, is that cheaters usually aren't actually very good. They tend to use things like wall hacks and aim bots as a crutch. With good match making it doesn't really matter. They&#
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by milesvp 7y ago
You can almost think of fat free milk as juice with protein. both lactose and fructose require the liver to metabolize to glucose. The fat free milk, has some protein to help slow down the absorbtion of the lactose, so it’ll be a slower car
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by milesvp 7y ago
No. So you can be old and crippled and still live. If you are assuming that you will always be able to work, making the wages you make today, then you will have a rude awakening the day that you cannot. Living below your means has been almo
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by milesvp 7y ago
FYI, zig is the language that the most impressive embedded programmer I know is currently interested in to use for his embedded work (he does a lot of real time hard deadline things, like audio processing). I don’t know really anything abou
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by milesvp 7y ago
As always, thanks Dang for your presence. HN is the most civil place I’ve found on the internet in the better part of 30 years. I’m wondering if the mistake was letting things make the front page, when maybe page 2 is acceptable even for pe
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by milesvp 7y ago
Keep in mind this is only true of peasant classes that grow wheat as their primary grain. Rice in stark contrast requires much more labor, and I’ve seen sources suggest 365 days of labor was necessary for peasant the peasant class in south
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by milesvp 7y ago
Have you ever owned a cat? Growing up, my family consistently was adopted by neighborhood cats. It was bad enough that owners would knock on our door and ask us to not be so nice to their pets so they'd come home.
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by milesvp 7y ago
Fyi, cheap iphone adapters cannot work. Apple makes their decryption chips (for anything audio, not sure video) very expensive. If the product is priced low enough, it cannot possibly have the chip, since it’s like $3 in bulk, which adds li
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by milesvp 7y ago
I don’t think I knew enough at the time to remember. Linuxconf sounds familiar though, I’m sure I used it at some point.
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by milesvp 7y ago
I killed a vga monitor ~2000 trying to install redhat on a machine with an old monitor. Made me really paranoid every time I tried to install X for the next few years.
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by milesvp 7y ago
There's been a number of threads on HN throughout the years that pointed out a big difference in estimation responses to the following questions. "how long will this take?" vs "how long did something like this take previ
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by milesvp 7y ago
> fake it til you make it I had a conversation with a friend recently about a mutual acquaintance. She surprised me by calling him a con man. In all the years I knew this man, I’d never thought of him as a con man, but the title could fi
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by milesvp 7y ago
Was my thought as well. I’m pretty sure a stupid AI that was no more than a couple state machines and a lookup table could collect diamonds. I’ve written bots for MMO’s and the hardest part for a task like this is fighting the API the bot h
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by milesvp 7y ago
I got two big take aways from reading naughty dog’s blog about what they learned from the cell. the cell really taught them the trade off between latancy and throughput. That by batching up computations they could do orders of magnitude mor

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