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by nlh 6y ago
This is great and fascinating. Thank you for both sharing and working on this. I only object to one line of your README: > Like most everyone, I spend a lot of time thinking... I think you have a higher opinion of “most everyone” than
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by nlh 6y ago
So - I know you're being mostly facetious (it does feel like an old-school word harking back to the 80s/90s era of Cyberpunk). But in certain tech circles - Israeli tech in particular - "Cyber" has a very specific meanin
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by nlh 6y ago
That’s great! Thanks for the link. I’ll give it a shot at home today :)
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by nlh 6y ago
Here's a trick that works for me that's totally impractical, but is a hint/roadmap to finding a repeatable system: I've been doing a lot of travel to Europe lately, and the return flight has become my greatest deep work
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by nlh 6y ago
This is a great perspective. Thanks. And in fact this happens a lot with a lot of situations - people forget (including me!) that very little “happens to us” without our input. (Obviously some things are totally out of our control, but I’d
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by nlh 6y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this a related topic lately -- how much of our lives and the things we find ourselves doing are tasks that are imposed upon us by others. I'm trying to come up with strategies to minimize this, whic
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by nlh 6y ago
Great quote from the press release: "One defendant went as far as to brag the company incorporated in a jurisdiction outside the U.S. because bribing regulators in that jurisdiction cost just ‘a coconut.’ Thanks to the diligent work o
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by nlh 6y ago
Not OP, but for me, consulting has vastly outpaced pay for non-consulting roles. I’m not planning to go back to W2 again.
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TIL concrete and cement are not the same thing. The words are often used interchangeably, but that's apparently incorrect: https://www.cement.org/cement-concrete-applications/cement-a...
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I agree - I (and at least one friend) feel the same way. There’s some great stuff being made for nerds like us and IG/FB ads have been a fun way to discover. That being said - why doesn’t someone just cut out all the BS and just desig
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by nlh 6y ago
I read this story just now and I found it incredibly frustrating -- it reads like a gossip column. Lots of details about who wants to do what and when and who objects, but incredibly light on actual details. What laws are they going to cla
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by nlh 6y ago
Great story and a great read! I googled the characters afterwards, and there are some interesting addendums & updates: Looks like Ahmad Abouammo (Twitter’s former head of Middle East partnerships) was arrested in Seattle in Nov 2019, b
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by nlh 6y ago
Not OP, but I'm in the same boat. Agreed Google Maps' data is better. Their routing is sometimes better. But I still prefer Apple Maps in most cases. For me, it comes down to a few UX things: * iPhone + Apple Watch combo is am
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by nlh 6y ago
I love this. And it adds a whole new dimension (ha ha) to the thinking. And you're right - it starts to get really wild when you remove the linear constraint. Or even the singular universe constraint. Think about a multiverse, where
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by nlh 6y ago
A collection of philosophical thoughts that I should probably put into an essay at some point, but in the meantime... Some have likened the experience of death to what it's like when you black out (true loss of consciousness) or, to a
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I've had that same experience - both with anesthesia and when I briefly blacked out from g-forces at the bottom of a huuuuuuge roller coaster drop. I found the experience strangely comforting - basically the closest approximation to wh
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Thank you! That’s helpful. I had a hunch this was focused on theory / academia, and if that’s the case, that makes more sense.
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Ok, I'll bite: Can someone ELI5 what this is about, why it's interesting, and why someone would want to learn or use this language? (I'm coming from the perspective of someone who builds user-facing web & mobile applicati
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by nlh 6y ago
I really like this approach (and I tend to do this myself), but lots of people get really upset. PG wrote an essay recently in which he talks about “aggressive conformists” and “aggressive non-conformists”. You’re right in that being an agg
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by nlh 6y ago
Nice post as always Greg. To those who aren't familiar, gk1 is a regular HN commenter / contributor and excellent consultant who knows his stuff. This piece is also a gold mine of info for those looking to grow their consulting pr
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by nlh 6y ago
Second this. I used C for the first few exercises of the 2019 Advent of Code and it was SUPER fun. Granted, things that could been a single line of Ruby or Crystal took a few hours for me to cobble together in C, but my level and depth of
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by nlh 6y ago
Genuine question for people: When I read about things like gesture guard, head bubble, virtual backgrounds, etc., I cant help but wonder why they’re so important. Is it really a problem if you sneeze or cough during an online meeting? Are
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by nlh 6y ago
Totally agree with that. [spoilers] What I found fascinating: The conceptual model of a complete universe simulation, however computationally complex, with software that allows camera placement anywhere for "peeking" into the sim
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Devs (2020, FX/Hulu). Not a movie, but movie-like (8-part series). I’m not religious and I don’t believe in the traditional religious god. But Devs presents a fascinating framework for what that could look like that passes the nerd&#x
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You can't just compare it by saying "$50/mo gets you the full Adobe Suite" -- there's a hidden cost there. Yes, you get access to the full Adobe Suite of software, but there's a huge learning curve that comes
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Sorry I should have clarified -- according to Wikipedia, they had $1.5 billion in actual net revenue by processing $23 billion in transaction volume (aka GMV).
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For some context about CWT (I was curious about these figures) -- via Wikipedia[1]: * US$1.5 billion in revenue * 18k employees For a firm like this, the payment probably amounts to a small uptick in a small portion of their IT budget and w
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There’s something ironic about a site hosting intentionally tiny snippets of code that’s crashed / sluggish under the social media hug of death... BUT - the few that I’ve managed to see are super cool, so when it comes back to life it’
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I found this line from the article particularly interesting: “The court concluded that the 20 years served are sufficient for meeting the goals of incapacitation, deterrence, retribution, and rehabilitation.” Deterrence and rehabilitation (
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I beg to differ with your assertion that "building the next Kafka and the next React" is the interesting work. I, and I'm sure many, would prefer to build (hack?) an end-to-end application that actually solves a business pro

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