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by milesvp 8y ago
I once new a guy who was working really hard to keep a blood % out of his tribe treaty in Washington state. Said it was really hard to get his tribe to realize just how valuable it was to only have to show lineage, and not how much. The US
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You may be heavily discounting the aversion some of us have to change. If I've been using one thing for several years, and have become accustomed to it's quirks, I may be very willing to pay a high premium to get the same thing ag
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This advice is only strictly true for AAA games. From what I've read from the more indie side of the games industry, there seems to be a common thread where the more time spent working on features for a game, the fatter the long tail b
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Upkeep’s a killer. I kept having people tell me to buy in my 20’s, and I couldn’t fathom their logic. I could rent a 4 bedroom house for less than a mortgaged, let alone alone a mortgage plus upkeep. I kept doig the math, and I’d have to ti
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Yeah, I used to go out of my way to follow links to Taleb’s writing, but then I kept running into pieces like this one, where it wasn’t clear if he knew he was fundamentally (if not subtly) wrong. He seems to welcome controversy, and his re
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DS9 was really ahead if it’s time. It tried to do series wide story arcs long before it became standard and almost a decade before the networks tried to ruin Firefly by airing them out of order. It holds up surprisingly well, even if I feel
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by milesvp 8y ago
I once interviewed a very impressive candidate for a product manager/owner role. This guy stood out from all the other candidates, he had a slick binder full of all his accomplishments and could talk about then at great length. I would
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by milesvp 8y ago
For those wondering, there’s a setting to allow all games to use proton, not just white listed games. The wording of the setting is ambiguous, but it seems to choose linux first, and proton only if linux is not supported. With Steam’s gener
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by milesvp 8y ago
Will second this. A friend of mine had to write his own wear leveling software to make use of SD cards in his hardware, sadly bom made anything better way too expensive to be commercially viable.
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From what I understand most of the real costs in terms hazardous disposal for nuclear is that nuclear plants are designed to be dirty. They are designed to create weapons fuel, which means lots more of highly radioactive byproducts that are
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by milesvp 8y ago
It holds up every time I play it too, but it's certainly not going to create any zealots playing it for the first time today. I wrote copious notes while I played that game, something that I tried to do recently with a game, but eventu
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by milesvp 8y ago
Sort of. Maybe. When python was gaining momentum in university settings though, the one main argument I read from a professor more than a decade ago, is that the python implementation was near identical to their pseudocode. So they stopped
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So, while I agree that too many developers don't write sql these days, my experience, is that usually the database is the bottleneck for any application I write on the web. There's a reason that there's been a trend away from
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by milesvp 8y ago
First, there's some pretty good advice already here. I'm not really adding much, but I'm hoping I can simplify some things. Don't freak out. There's nothing to freak out about. You have a windfall, and unless the ta
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by milesvp 8y ago
Ouch. I learned that this was a management anti-pattern when I was younger from fiction of all places. I loved reading Piers Anthony, and I think it was in his Apprentice Adept series, there was a series of tests that a person had to take t
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I was taught that women tended to be better than men at climbing due to the basic physics of their physiology. That pound for pound women have stonger muscles and that women tend to have lower center of gravity due to wider hips (though may
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by milesvp 8y ago
So there's a couple of things going on here. There basic biology, which is that we've evolved to have a really long childhood. We're 24 before myelination has mostly taken over our brain, greatly reducing it's plasticity
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It's a shame no one is really talking about the elephant in the room. At the end of the day, most people are working on side projects... at the end of the day. If you really want to be effective working on something that isn't you
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Try rereading the catch 22 in your 30’s. I laughed at it in college, I wept at it after being an adult for a decade.
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I'm not sure where I found this link, there might be a HN discussion on it though. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjd4w/im-possibl...
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Yup. Python has some really good GIS libraries. So field that needs to deal with map data will often find itself drawn to python. And since it's a pretty newb friendly language you find that people who wouldn't otherwise program w
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I've been playing doom 2016 using steam's wine offering, proton I think it's called. There currently aren't a lot of games the steam client beta supports, but it at least was painless to install and run. Hopefully they&#
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by milesvp 8y ago
There's a simple solution here. You tell me what you think your property is worth. And I can force you to move out today for that price. This might still be a loss for the county tax assessors, but it will at least keep these stores ho
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This article reminded me of a childhood experience of mine. At some point when I was in high school my dad brought home a homeless man to live in our house. At first it seemed weird, but I understood that we were in a position to help so I
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Also, I might argue if you have talent with programming, and already a mechanic, the better trajectory might be specializing in automotive electronics repair. I keep hearing about the parts costs to replace electronics in cars, and that&#x2
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There was an economic study looking at the economic benefits of sleep. 30 minutes may not sound like much, but it has some serious long term repercussions in lifetime earning. I know economic studies can be kind of gross, and should always
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FYI the story writer almost never comes up with the headline in a traditional newspaper story pipeline (which most likely still includes wapo). Usually it’s one of the editors that has final say on the headline (and control of A/B test
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I'm not convinced audio engineers are having that argument anymore (which is more the audience of IEEE). I get the impression from an engineer I know who's specialized in digital signal processing, and who's done a significan
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I’m reluctant to use SO to ask questions based on most of the responses here, and rarely have the opportunity to contribute, but I did have a surprisingly good interaction a couple years ago. I’d googles around for some esoteric solution, a
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When I read the Wealth of Nations I was struck by one of the passages where Smith basically says everyone under the age of 24 is worthless. That it doesn't matter what they do, send them to university, or send them to travel. But that

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