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Ask HN: How do people become experts?
55 points by non-entity 6y ago|56 comments
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by non-entity 6y ago
> The latest Office doesn't even install on Windows 7, nor 32-bit hardware. When people talk about Windows backwards compatibility they're mostly referring to running on apps on a new OS, not new apps running an old OS. I bet y
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by non-entity 6y ago
I knew it was too good to be true.
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by non-entity 6y ago
TikTok Enterprise (tm)
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by non-entity 6y ago
Not sure if its the exact same sentiment, but I've started to describe my work as "hard in all the wrong ways".
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by non-entity 6y ago
Sure maybe some people will be able to throw a "working" line of business app together, but if you're giving these tools to people who lack any form an analytical or critical thinking skills its going to be hell. I've ab
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by non-entity 6y ago
> and neither is India. I'd encourage you to actually go to these places. When I went to India I had to stay in a barricaded hotel with bomb checks. I had people requesting to get a picture with me as I was so unusual every time I w
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by non-entity 6y ago
For what's its worth this was my passion and I'd leave the field if I could, for a number of reasons. Just realize though that if you leave theres a high chance of a pay cut.
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Ask HN: Can I temporarily combat the brain fog from lack of sleep?
11 points by non-entity 6y ago|16 comments
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by non-entity 6y ago
Its not the exact same domain (iirc they specialized in niche medical device) but there was an Ask Hn thread thr past week regarding finding customers in the medical industry. Perhaps there's some info in there that might help you? ht
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by non-entity 6y ago
> mostly
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by non-entity 6y ago
As much as I dislike C > There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. This unfortunately seems to mostly hold true.
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by non-entity 6y ago
> Are there any public x.25 networks still operating? Not that I know of. My plan if to use old line simulators and other tools i can find on ebay and telcom equipment reseller sites to create a "fake" private one. This is one
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by non-entity 6y ago
Well for one you wont see Chemists or Civil Engineers from the variety of backgrounds developers come from. It's near impossible to become one without the degree.
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by non-entity 6y ago
As of right now, Firefox, but I might switch back to Chrome on mobile thanks to the last Firefox Android update.
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by non-entity 6y ago
No idea how cats ended up as a "feminine" signal. I've seen cats act as deadly hunters killing snakes, birds, rodents and fighting off animals significantly larger than themselves, standing their ground. If anything I'd
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by non-entity 6y ago
> The downvote here is supposed to mean not that someone disagrees with you, but that you aren’t following the guidelines, seem to be arguing in poor faith, etc. Yeah you would think this, but there was an Ask HN thread maybe a month or
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by non-entity 6y ago
Yeah I've seen similar attitudes particularly in niche corners of software. In fact I read a comment just the other day about how bad contemporary programmers don't learn language the "academic" way (with no expansion
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by non-entity 6y ago
Haha. I've been "working" on an X.25 implementation on a PC and it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what the hell a PAD was ever needed for.
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by non-entity 6y ago
A quote regarding ardunio from tweet I saw from an EE a couple months ago > As an engineer, I feel insulted. I got the impression that it's mainly CS students for which basic circuit theory is beneath them. Not neccesarily endorsing
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by non-entity 6y ago
Heh. Growing up with a rough relationship to some of my family, I was always told that I would eventually not feel the way I did. I found it ironic at the time, as both my father and stepmother were estranged from at least one of their pare
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by non-entity 6y ago
I take it you're unemployed then?
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by non-entity 6y ago
Cool sutff, I wish I had the capital to do something like this. Although given how hard the existing ISPs are fighting against municipal internet here I wonder how I'd fare.
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by non-entity 6y ago
Most of my favorited articles
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by non-entity 6y ago
I've asked a few times how one would go about learning C++ and most of the time the answer I get is you don't
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by non-entity 6y ago
From what I understand there arent any, at least nothing compared to what you think of when you think of computer monitors. there are a few, nut they're very small and rather expensive. Obviously the refresh rate isn't good enough
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by non-entity 6y ago
> We quickly ditched the project when we found out that the old driver made newer kernels panic I'm suprised they ever compiled on a newer kernel.
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by non-entity 6y ago
> but it introduced hero units so powerful the game ceased to be an RTS Interestingly, one of the criticisms of new total war games is similar to this. Sadly that series seems to be going down the drain.
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by non-entity 6y ago
Theres no real "point" to address. The GP simply repeats an expletive several times before they build a strawman they can use to insult the author. This is the textual version of a temper tantrum.
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by non-entity 6y ago
Well they seem to have gotten you very emotional about it so I'd say they succeeded at something.

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