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by papito 4y ago
Don't plan - have a goal . Just like in war, your plan will have to change as you go along.
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by papito 4y ago
So the companies that actively sucked up all the new graduates because of the glut of cash now have to learn frugality. Poetic, don't you think? It's not even a sign of bad times - the times are totally normal. What was happening
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by papito 4y ago
We are only now beginning to understand the damage to society technology can cause if there is no basic moral and ethical guidance, and no knowledge of philosophy of technology (should be a required college course, IMO).
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by papito 4y ago
In social media, we call this the "bozo mode". If you are bozoed, only you can see your content. A sneaky but very effective moderation technique to keep things civil.
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by papito 4y ago
Potato, combined with milk, gives you all the nutrients required for the human body to function properly. I got a little sick of eating potatoes in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Ukraine, but I learned much later that THE POTATO is a
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by papito 4y ago
If you want your mind blown - "Who really killed Blockbuster Video?" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-really-killed-bloc... It's amazing that Blockbuster had Netflix on the ropes, until one
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by papito 4y ago
Also, do not order a vanity plate that says "NULL" - you are likely to have a very bad time. https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha...
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by papito 4y ago
My Disney+ account suddenly got a few new profiles, some in foreign languages. I had to delete them and change the password. Interestingly, my password never was reset by anyone else.
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by papito 4y ago
I hope that the strikedown of Miranda Rights will not be as much of a shock to people as Roe was. They are going to have to back-edit thousands of episodes of Law and Order.
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by papito 4y ago
The "back links" and curated directories (Yahoo) worked just fine in the early internet. It made discovery actually a lot of fun. There was magic to it that is long gone.
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by papito 4y ago
Go's biggest problem is that no one at Google dares to question design decisions. After all, it's Rob Pike and Ken Thompson! What was the last time they had to write and maintain a modern, large software system? Go is great to foo
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by papito 4y ago
Musk is no different from your average "small government conservative", which basically means being anti-civilization. They won the birth lottery, and the society and the government are stopping them from going from rich to filthy
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by papito 4y ago
Yes, and interestingly, another excellent HULU show about the opioids - Dopesick - also has the whole thing exposed by WSJ.
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by papito 4y ago
To be honest, there is a lot of this on HN. These are intelligent people. It really baffles me. "Yeah, we have a lot of evidence that the US form of government survived this time only due to a chain of extremely fortunate events, and t
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by papito 4y ago
I really miss Virtual Tourist. The site had "Off the beaten path" and "places to avoid". I was so comfortable and prepared in an unknown city on day one that other visitors would come up to me and ask for directions. Tri
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by papito 4y ago
Before this, claiming that Roe was going to be completely rolled back was also "fear mongering nonsense".
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by papito 4y ago
That's point. However, I think this is more of a "verbose vs elegant argument". Yes, DRY should not be a religion - I will write more code, possibly duplicated, if I deem it necessary for the code to be more readable that way
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by papito 4y ago
That's just justification for unnecessarily using microservices, which basically leads to 75% of your code being redundant plumbing. Microservices (correction: distributed systems ) purposefully throw away DRY, small cohesive teams, d
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by papito 4y ago
Yes, absolutely, but it's in the same vein. In the past, to create content you had to go through some things. I still remember being on the phone with Network Solutions for an hour to activate my first domain. They asked for my passwor
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by papito 4y ago
Because the barrier of entry is gone. Some level of difficulty of creating content weeded out the morons. It is now flooded with "content creators" of at best average intelligence. The early web was glorious. A bunch of weirdos an
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by papito 4y ago
That's like saying "commercial air travel is not safe at all because a single-engine prop crashed somewhere once."
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by papito 4y ago
Well, that's it. I have never met anyone who bragged about owning a unique car in GTA. Literally no one cares. Why I would want to pay hundreds of dollars for virtual Nike sneakers is beyond me.
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by papito 4y ago
Have you been to the metaverse? It's atrocious. 3G graphics from 1996, no real interactivity, nothing to do just "walk around". It's a thing that was stitched together by a bunch of people who clearly do not believe in a
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by papito 4y ago
There is no denying that there is some interesting "engineering exhaust" coming from Facebook, side and passion projects developed on company time that are genuinely interesting and in ways industry-changing (React), but that is d
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by papito 4y ago
I wonder how many people at Meta are there specifically for the money. Just learn to game their interview process, get in, and coast. I doubt that there are a lot of engineers working for Zuck for the love of the mission, let alone for mo
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by papito 4y ago
Well, THAT has a Dropout-like HULU miniseries written all over it.
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by papito 4y ago
Hey, the U.S. Secret Service is responsible for enforcing currency counterfeit crime.
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by papito 4y ago
I worked for a company that rented a new expensive floor in the heart of NYC to show "growth" to other investors. We were supposed to spread out for the optics, when potential investors did a walk-through.
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by papito 4y ago
Like Adam Nuemann. You have to be tall and loud. Doesn't matter if you are making sense or not. Sometimes VCs act like gullible women on a date who are enamored by a douchebag, I swear.
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by papito 4y ago
It's like that scene from Silicon Valley (which is almost always accurate). Seriously, when did it become normal in capitalism that you should not prove that your business can make money? That there a customers willing to pay for you

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