oh-moses

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Watercolor Illusion(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by oh-moses 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are the benefits of requiring devs to be onsite?
2 points by oh-moses 7y ago|1 comments
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by oh-moses 7y ago
> Management is the difference between your work seeming like its a valuable contribution to a bigger picture, or that it's a pointless sisyphean exercise in futility cynically driven by profit or ignorance. Wait, this one is an o
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by oh-moses 7y ago
As a kid I really enjoyed the Winnetou stories by Karl May
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by oh-moses 7y ago
I second That Which Is Seen by Bastiat, nice and short intro to economic way of thinking
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by oh-moses 7y ago
But without mortar, you'd just knock it over with one clumsy stumble, right?
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by oh-moses 7y ago
Who claims that "humans are the most evolved of 'all' animals"? And what do they mean by "most" evolved? Without this information it's hard to answer the question why they're saying that.
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by oh-moses 7y ago
Sounds weird, but someone actually did exactly that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x594yMPSFqk
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by oh-moses 7y ago
I understand that fashion is a pure coordination game, so you would expect every website to look the same, but man, this style of illustration that is absolutely everywhere gets annoying very quickly. (Or is it just me?)
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by oh-moses 8y ago
> Additionally, the bill makes it unlawful for a large employer to ask employees whether or not they qualify for federal benefits. …But then how would the employer's tax department know how much to pay in the proposed tax?
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by oh-moses 8y ago
On the contrary, I think most other industries do this (i.e. hire people based on mostly insane criteria). I think programmers are more reflective and analytical than people from other industries, so programming as an industry gets a lot of
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by oh-moses 8y ago
Awesome, but man, that name really needs some work. It sounds like I'm asking a two-year-old whether he's been on the potty.
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by oh-moses 8y ago
I'm also in the Harry Potter generation; I was 8 years old when the first book came out. I remember my grandma recommending it to me at the time. It sounded like "kid stuff", so I didn't pay much attention to it and went
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by oh-moses 8y ago
I don't read fiction much anymore, but when I was a teenager, I reread both The Hitchhiker's Guide and Youth In Revolt a few times
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by oh-moses 8y ago
If you read one thing and one thing only, it should be this. It's overwhelmingly long, but it's really, really, really worth it.
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by oh-moses 8y ago
Everything has been written about multiple times, don't worry about it. If your blog is the first place where a reader runs into a particular information or insight, they will find it valuable, even if chronologically, someone else wro