ohyes

79 ms·

751.
by ohyes 15y ago
Aside from that, arguing that he is ignoring the basics of economics also sucks.... 'the basics of economics' are not an end in and of themselves. (However something like the 'greater good' or 'the right thing to do', which is what the op s
752.
by ohyes 15y ago
That is too technical for a lot of users. What is an 'icon'? Where is the 'desktop'? How do I 'double click'? I usually include screen shots with red-circles for where to click when trying to communicate stuff like that. I'd do something li
753.
by ohyes 15y ago
"If you work in a technical field, there is an automatic stigma about you: You are incapable of communicating technical concepts to the lay person." Wait what? I've always defined my level of expertise in an area in relation to how easily I
754.
by ohyes 15y ago
In CT it is a line on your tax form. It is only on certain goods and I just do an estimate, but yes, I paid it.
755.
How to add a second layer of encryption to Dropbox(lifehacker.com)
13 points by ohyes 15y ago|12 comments
756.
by ohyes 15y ago
I use any online service with the assumption that the things I put up there could likely become public, no longer anonymous, or what have you. I don't think this is overly paranoid, given how difficult computer security is. To me; it would
757.
by ohyes 15y ago
Those who took out loans and spent them on macbooks.
758.
by ohyes 15y ago
Except those people are all buried in debt from student loans and their extravagant spending. You kind of dodged a bullet there.
759.
by ohyes 15y ago
Not programming outside of work is an indicator rather than a cause of 'bad programmer'. Programming outside of work indicates that you like programming. If you are bad at programming you will not like programming, as it will be frustrating
760.
by ohyes 15y ago
Yes, just replace the brainstem with an ever increasing amount of hardware. Of course, it will be problematic when you accidentally leave the wireless on your smartphone turned on and kill the battery.
761.
by ohyes 15y ago
Don't hire any employees, just use contractors. You get the added benefit of not having to pay for their healthcare/dental/other benefits.
762.
by ohyes 15y ago
nice, looking forward to it.
763.
by ohyes 15y ago
Just briefly looking at the topics index list, I don't see anything about macros (or even meta-programming). Was this done on purpose? Should we expect a sequel if this does well?
764.
by ohyes 15y ago
> I highly doubt it. Can you quote me some example of these really excellent insights which came from people with irrelevant background? You might be interested in Paul Feyerabend's 'Against Method,' it is a similar topic to this and a
765.
by ohyes 15y ago
> More often than not, insights originate from relevant background. The really excellent insights come from people with seemingly irrelevant background who are making a connection that people with only the typical backgrounds wouldn't.
766.
by ohyes 15y ago
Also its more difficult to defraud people (or you know, legal entities with all of the same rights as people) who can afford expensive lawyers.
767.
by ohyes 15y ago
I don't think its really a single global 'namespace'. It seems that instead of using actual names for the key in the k/v database, you would use something closer to an ip-address. give the function a unique id, and then make it have a reall
768.
by ohyes 15y ago
Totally agree with you on how difficult this is to read. Author is speaking some form of high academic CS (and it isn't obviously used correctly). "Common Lisp augments the interpreter with other automata on the same substrate which make co
769.
by ohyes 15y ago
I would like to see some evidence of this decline. Here is my alternate theory: It isn't obvious that 'the decline' is really anything other than selective memory. The good posts are memorable because they are good. The crappy posts are uni
770.
by ohyes 15y ago
What compounds this is that 'healthy' is a particularly ill-defined catchall term. If you are, for example, morbidly obese or horribly malnourished, you probably do need to change your diet. If you get winded going up a flight of stairs, or
771.
by ohyes 15y ago
Using the wifi/unlicensed spectrum is also a lot more efficient use of the spectrum. You can broadcast shorter distances and therefore squeeze more users onto the spectrum. It would be logical to see major cell companies doing something sim
772.
by ohyes 15y ago
I'm not sure how this is relevant? All programs have an infinite number of possible inputs. You check the ones that you expect. Is that somehow non-obvious?
773.
by ohyes 15y ago
"Someone who could write large programs that have a high probability of being correct" No one can do that. I can write a number of small programs that are correct, however. This is easy, because I can check all of the inputs and outputs. Wh
774.
by ohyes 15y ago
I've never done any sort of drug. I was skeptical that this would do anything. Having just cancelled my cable (because, you know, fuck TV and its rot...) -- I decided to test this out. My procedure was to turn off all of the lights in my ap
775.
by ohyes 15y ago
Only when I own the patents!
776.
by ohyes 15y ago
As a percentage of GDP, it is only about 5%, granted everyone else is around 2.5%, but if you look at the numbers for example, in world war 2, we were spending about 40% of the GDP. In actuality we could spend like this perfectly easily and
777.
by ohyes 15y ago
A list structure is already a 'dictionary tree', except it has lousy performance in access. (only really visible on large data sets). * (second (assoc 5 '((1 2) (3 4) (5 6)))) > 6 The lousy performance doesn't matter, most of the time,
778.
by ohyes 15y ago
The answer to all questions related to 'should I work for free,' is 'no.' The point of work is to get paid, or to at least, get something valuable for the work. An internship might be an example of not getting paid but getting something of
779.
by ohyes 15y ago
If he is going to have such a tough time replacing you, he should pay you more and/or give you significant equity. It doesn't make sense that he should take advantage of you for over a year, and then act all upset when you finally get a clu
780.
by ohyes 16y ago
The plus isn't quite centered it is closer to the $.

More ›