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by payne92 7y ago
It wasn't that long ago that big tech controlled most software....as entirely closed-source. And that's still largely the case: the source for Google's search algorithms, Facebook's core platform, etc. While it's
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by payne92 7y ago
First, I suggest doing this in private/incognito mode. Second, the "survey" misses the most important distinction: investment income vs earned income. Or, more directly: wealth. A family making (say) $300k from only wages
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by payne92 7y ago
The other hack is to “pony express” in stages: use Lyft/Uber to get part way or to a mid point, where you are confident you CAN get a rental, a train/bus, or another Lyft/Uber to keep going. This is especially useful if you
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by payne92 7y ago
Here’s the underlying survey report: https://www.payscale.com/data/biggest-college-regrets
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by payne92 7y ago
I'm not sure this 20yr old editorial from 20yrs ago has aged well. TL;DR: The extreme customization of X (window system) is essential, "one size does not fit all", WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointing) are not the future, a
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by payne92 7y ago
> It would be nice if package managers would not only support 2FA, but make it available via metadata the uploader and whether the uploader used 2FA. How would this work when the package manager can be run by anyone? 2FA is an authentica
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by payne92 7y ago
Correct. BUT, I've found this level of detail is often too much for a 5 to 6th grade level audience. So I usually start with "what if the back rotors go a little faster?": it tips it forward, beginning a series of operation
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by payne92 7y ago
I've done an interactive "do you know how many types of engineers there are?" for this age group that's worked really well. Timeframe: 5-15 minutes "Can anyone name a type of engineer?" and for each shoutout,
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by payne92 8y ago
If any one of those 5 cities decides to regulate more aggressively, it could be an immediate, material negative hit to Uber. Pareto distributions are common in two-sided markets with geographic factors. BUT, when there's a reasonable
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by payne92 8y ago
The blog post desperately needs "...for some people" appended. We are all solving for different things. Some want a shot at changing the world, some want to get rich, some want a job that (mostly) "doesn't come home with
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by payne92 8y ago
A big surprise many run into: the amount of time it takes to find and sign up new work (“sales”). It can be incredibly time-consuming, leads to a bunch of stress and uncertainty, and you can’t really bill for it.
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Big Tech’s Competitor? Government(payne.org)
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by payne92 8y ago
This article inadvertently underscores the huge challenge in getting kids interested in programming today. In 2019, it's very hard to do anything "interesting" with BASIC when kids are surrounded by apps and games with hundre
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by payne92 8y ago
This is a double-edged sword for private companies. On the positive, it's generally good to raise money when you don't need it. You're more likely to get the most favorable terms. (Or, stated diffrently, it's hardest t
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by payne92 8y ago
That would make sense, but in this particular case the fee is for copies of deeds and other public documents that are in bound volumes in the record room. It’s entirely self service.
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by payne92 8y ago
Even crazier: the local courthouse in my home town (in West Virginia) charges $1/page even when you make the copies yourself with your cell phone . Governments are sometimes just like people -- they get addicted to revenue streams an
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by payne92 8y ago
For the US, the National Weather Service has an API: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api Since it’s a government service, it’s entirely free and will likely stay that way. I have noticed occasional
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by payne92 8y ago
I don’t understand why YouTube hasn’t implemented Patreon as a feature. That’s one model that’s clearly working at some scale, and it could be easy expanded to “subscriber only videos“
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by payne92 8y ago
One of the challenges I’ve found with OOP is that’s really easy (encouraged!) to use a lot of “anti-functional” patterns. A functional style is not the only way to write programs, but it’s often much easier to reason about behavior when you
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by payne92 8y ago
I respectfully disagree, having worked in both software and carpentry. While I do feel that folks grossly underestimate the skills that the best carpenters acquire over time, the software ecosystem generally is unique is that it's vas
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by payne92 8y ago
...because the skill gap between “ok”, “good”, and “great” is so much bigger for some jobs (software development) than it is for other jobs (carpentry).
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by payne92 8y ago
This analysis assumes 100% utilization: keeping the machine busy 24/7/265. It also ignores AWS price drops and the value of being able to switch to new AWS GPU instance types as they become available. TL;DR: Proposed machine co
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by payne92 8y ago
The current version (in print) includes a sizeable forward by Snow, which is at least as interesting. And the irony of this entire writeup is that number theory is now beyond "useful", as the underpinning for cryptography and secu
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by payne92 8y ago
TL;DR: this is based on the Ralink processors that are widely used in consumer routers, wifi light switches, etc. RT5350, 360 MHz, MIPS 24K, with 32MB of RAM. CPU datasheet: https://www.mouser.com/ds/2/813/RT
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by payne92 8y ago
One of my most downvoted HN comments was on an article where Zuckerberg struggled to name a Facebook computer. I said: “Facebook‘s biggest competitor is the US government.” I feel that’s even more true now, and the same comment applies to
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by payne92 8y ago
The homepage description dives right into “syntax” without even explaining what the project is....!
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by payne92 8y ago
Ah, you are right. 300 “mips” (peak), 150mhz. The cryo guys had something faster running in the back lab, but I don’t think they got 2x.
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by payne92 8y ago
>The article also ignores what a barn burner Alpha was. Indeed. 300mhz, dual-issue...in ~1991! Of course, that was before low-power was "cool" and the first chips were very nice space heaters. Source: worked on the Alpha tea
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by payne92 8y ago
Pro tip: when posting to HN, include a summary of "what it is"! It's often hard for readers to figure it out from a changelog. From the docs: "Crystal is a programming language with the following goals: Have a syntax s
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by payne92 8y ago
This a tough one, since researchers don't control how their technology is used. And it's very difficult for even the experts to balance the positives against the negatives: facial recognition could be used to find a serial killer

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