mingmecca

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by mingmecca 13y ago
On my cell phone (hi NSA!), so I can't give a full rebuttal, but start with COINTELPRO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
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by mingmecca 14y ago
I agree. Giving empathy generally evokes the empathy of the recipient, forming a positive feedback loop.
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by mingmecca 14y ago
Grumpiness, at least for me, comes from the frustration of dealing with people who don't understand the ramifications of their change-requests. "Can this app run in offline mode?", "Can you make it run in 128k RAM?", "Your software doesn't
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by mingmecca 14y ago
Please explain.
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by mingmecca 14y ago
It's depressing because to a typical cynical programmer (and we're prone to be cynics spending our time looking for bugs) selling anything has a coat of slime on it. Marketing is mostly about deception and half-truths, and promoting a prod
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by mingmecca 14y ago
"You're very clever, young man, very clever, but it's turtles all the way down!"
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by mingmecca 14y ago
This resonates with me. HN has definitely altered how I see the startup culture. I started out in Michigan writing 3D games (by hand, no hardware acceleration!), and after my wife and I took a vacation out to northern California I just had
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by mingmecca 14y ago
I strive for consistent happiness, yet it remains elusive despite my best efforts. I do a number of the things mentioned in the article but they only get me halfway there because I live in an area of the USA that doesn't get enough light m
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by mingmecca 14y ago
I admire this guy's spirit. Yes it's tough, but fortune favors the bold.