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by papito 4y ago
They did do it 20 years ago. Actually, 25 years ago. GM's EV1 was a car well ahead of its time, even with a decent range, but then it mysteriously disappeared. This is covered in the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car&quot
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by papito 4y ago
> it’s crazy to see how much effort is duplicated and coordination needed even in cases where there’s no public api necessary. Probably because they decided to use microservices (read: distributed systems) for no God-loving reason.
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by papito 4y ago
United States citizens are the only ones who still have to SIGN their credit card receipts, including when they travel. We are behind the times even with our own "hack" invention. Remarkable.
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by papito 4y ago
My friend is in the military (information technology side). We are both 40-ish. I am only beginning to feel like a senior, and he has the option to retire.
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Meme Stonks, Doge Coins, and Elon Musk Joke Investments Are Mooning Again(nymag.com)
1 points by papito 4y ago|2 comments
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by papito 4y ago
LOL, nothing matters!
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by papito 4y ago
It's pretty faithful to the book - Billion Dollar Loser. The phrase is "unique leadership style", which is a euphemism for "that guy has no idea what he is doing".
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by papito 4y ago
Sir, this is Wendy's.
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by papito 4y ago
Because a kibbutz in a highly individualistic society like the United States is a great idea. These people need to get off the sauce.
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by papito 4y ago
WeWork is not a unicorn. It's just an office space real estate company. It always has been. It's a profitable space, for sure, but there is going to be no "40x" nonsense.
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by papito 4y ago
You just described a pyramid scheme, but for the ultra-rich.
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by papito 4y ago
They have generally been wrong, as they have been overly optimistic.
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by papito 4y ago
I was reading it at first and thought this was a joke.
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by papito 4y ago
I think the employees in their 20s are valued because they have the time and the energy to "power through". They work hard and party harder. But this powering through results in things that, yes, work, but are engineer-hostile and
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by papito 4y ago
That is almost never used correctly. I have not seen it, for one. If it's crazy math calculations, file processing, image processing - sure, but that's not how microservices are used in 99% of the cases. It's basically an ant
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by papito 4y ago
Speed nowadays is almost an anti-goal. People choose the "fastest" language or framework, then add a bunch of lazy ORM queries without really knowing how to properly leverage a performant database, stitch together a bunch of &quot
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by papito 4y ago
You can't just list big events and compare them with what is happening today. Having grown up in the USSR, it is rather different for me when I watch the United States democracy coming to an end. It is absolutely not the same. But then
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by papito 4y ago
Imagine if I told you there was an asteroid coming for Earth, and it's large enough that nothing can be done about it. Go back to your life. Relax. Don't think about it. One morning you will wake up and see a giant fireball in the
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by papito 4y ago
What is the opposite side?
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by papito 4y ago
Not to get political, but I was working heads down on my project back in 2015, for hours in the morning at once. Then MAGA came to D.C., and I knew I had only a couple of months left of true, serene, focused work - while the adults were sti
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by papito 4y ago
Indeed. But you also need the discipline to walk away. If you are going to do startup/work back to back, you must also be able to take a true break on the weekends, or else it's burnout city. You can go a long way on pure passion
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by papito 4y ago
No, but you can limit the conversation to only the people you follow or mention. That reduces the discussion blast radius. Interestingly, I mostly see this sort of limiting or disabling of discussion when the information in a tweet is clear
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by papito 4y ago
I look back, and I realize I wasted a lot of time on brute force, instead of just reading the docs, in many cases. What you are describing in the opposite of wisdom - that's just perseverance.
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by papito 4y ago
That used to work for me when I was younger. Just power through it. Make all the mistakes yourself. Now I am older, and I prefer learning from the mistakes of others. I ain't got time for brute force.
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The Secret to Being Lucky(wired.com)
4 points by papito 4y ago|3 comments
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by papito 4y ago
Probably a more adorable, non-scientific piece on the concept of luck. The truth is in the middle. Hard work makes it more likely that you will succeed, but it does not guarantee it. Which birth canal you come out of absolutely matters -
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by papito 4y ago
Having done a fair share of substance abuse, I can tell you that screen and social media addiction is exactly like any other addiction. The brain mechanics behind it are the same. "Just another hit and then I am done". The Power
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by papito 4y ago
I always assume I am buying single-player features. Who would want to commit to maintaining multiplayer for an ancient game?
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by papito 4y ago
Go and Rust - these are just languages. They do not fundamentally change the world in any way. Free email and chat - come on. Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, ICQ, we had all that - without feeling violated from all the aggressive data collection, wh
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by papito 4y ago
But the US did find something the Soviets lost - a whole sub. Project Azorian, which involved none other than Howard Hughes. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/18/549535352/...

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