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by oskarth 10y ago
Did you check that the statement is correct? Feels like someone is bound to drop a piece of paper or ten when refilling the printer. You can probably even do it by weight, 1g ~= $10-100.
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by oskarth 10y ago
> Most people vote with their feet (or wallets, or eyeballs, or attention), and they've voted that they love Facebook, regardless of what a minority of people in this thread say or upvote. Plenty of people in the HN demographic also
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28c3: The Science of Insecurity (2011)(youtube.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
> Almost all of the _basic_ needs of a human, i.e. those that we received 50,000 years ago, could be provided for $1-$2k a year Assuming people (a) have the skills and/or (b) are OK being cut off from modern society. The goal with b
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by oskarth 10y ago
This could be the new http://milliondollarhomepage.com of this decade.
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Machine learning and art – Google I/O 2016 [video](youtube.com)
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Jonathan Blow: Ideas about a new programming language for games [video](youtube.com)
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The promise of static typing(labs.ig.com)
32 points by oskarth 10y ago|14 comments
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Collection Pipeline (2015)(martinfowler.com)
40 points by oskarth 10y ago|4 comments
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by oskarth 10y ago
This is the top comment in this thread at the time of this writing, and it's armchair opinionitis at its best. Put your money where your mouth is if you truly believe what you are saying. Until then your "setting in stone and stat
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Spaced repetition and practice(experiments.oskarth.com)
114 points by oskarth 11y ago|24 comments
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You're Doing It Wrong, by phk (2010)(queue.acm.org)
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Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics(cognitivemedium.com)
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Is the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Decision on Assange(ukconstitutionallaw.org)
2 points by oskarth 11y ago|1 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
Do you have some examples of network scripts written in Gawk? Particularly something that you'd prefer to write in Gawk rather than in a more "general-purpose" language. Would be interesting to see.
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by oskarth 11y ago
> While I never got into YC, my (short) life is much better for it. This is tangential to your point, but beware of sour grapes. It's an easy trap to fall into.
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by oskarth 11y ago
Freudian reading: I read OP as What is the best affordable programmer drone?
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by oskarth 11y ago
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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by oskarth 11y ago
Perhaps this is more a function of your social group than anything else. Of the three people I know that got into lifting (including myself, one woman and two men, all in long-terms relationships at the time), none did it to "get girls
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by oskarth 11y ago
I've only used it briefly, but Mathematica: A Problem-Centered Approach ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849962502 ) is a pretty good resource for learning practical (mathematical) Mathematica programming.
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by oskarth 11y ago
While you are right that it's very similar to IRC etc you are completely missing the fundamental reason Slack et al are popular: user experience, especially for non-technical people. Not everyone grew up on IRC with bouncers, irssi on
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by oskarth 11y ago
What would be wrong with that? People do it informally all the time.
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by oskarth 11y ago
That's what I figured. I wish there was some SaaS-ish fund/Kickstarter where multiple small investors could go together for this kind of thing for a nominal fee.
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by oskarth 11y ago
How can a private investor feasibly do a fixed down-side, small-stakes shorting of Magic Leap? Hypothetically speaking.
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by oskarth 11y ago
For what it's worth, I too am European (Swedish). I think whatever works, well, works - If OP is fine doing what they are doing, there's no problem really. However, a lot of people seem to be (a) afraid of quitting jobs they hate
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by oskarth 11y ago
Have you considered saving up enough money to quit and give yourself 3-6 months to find a job you enjoy?
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by oskarth 11y ago
Excellent historical summary!
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by oskarth 11y ago
There's no one lisp; there are many. Here are the top three: Clojure: http://clojure.org/getting_started Racket: http://docs.racket-lang.org/getting-started/ Common Lisp: https://www.qu
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What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)(quora.com)
476 points by oskarth 11y ago|224 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
Glad it was useful and motivating! This one I feel a bit bad about, because I wanted to write a patch and test that hypothesis, but I didn't (yet) make the time for it. I feel like I could after maybe ~30h (really I don't have e

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