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by pistle 12y ago
"ambiguous smears of quantum probabilities" Oh phlogiston.
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by pistle 12y ago
Is all the gapping, creases, and folding a feature of the Fiat? A little extra work on tension/tucking would have given a better fit and finish.
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by pistle 12y ago
What? Oh shit... I better start packing... Maybe it's that the explosion in programming careers coincided with a bunch of kids that left school in the run-up to the last tech bubble? They are mostly in that range. Those are the ones wh
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by pistle 12y ago
Ha. I had that experience in the golden years of arcades. I studied up and practiced pac-man to the point where I ended up in some crazy long game at about age 7? This was still when pac-man had some relevance, so it was in a nice, visible
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by pistle 12y ago
Exactly, which is why someone should ask the question, "Why would that represent audio recording?" Is the NSA still fumbling with fishing the tape through the spindles to record all our phone calls? They should have just depicted
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by pistle 12y ago
Is that thing with the two wheels on it some sort of high-density, digital storage device? It looks like a Mickey Mouse robot head. There was one at my local second-hand audio shop in a dusty corner. I bet they didn't know they were si
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by pistle 12y ago
In case you want a better user experience... Playlists on youtube vs. the mass of embedded videos on one page. Naive Bayes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqiIjaqydU&list=SPBv09BD7ez... Decision Tree https:/&#x2F
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by pistle 12y ago
How does one pressurize the cabin in a serious vacuum tube? How long will it take and will there be special requirements to adjust pressures for travelers in such devices? Is this not essentially equivalent to going for a ride in the space
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by pistle 12y ago
I've not seen the residue of these problems get worked out yet. We're still committing sins of architecture with undesirable side-effects of byzantine frameworks which are amazing for Hello, World, but devolve into an exhausting m
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by pistle 12y ago
Their gamble was also time-based. This shift was imminent. No such thing is nearly as critical today. You can be edging into such a play, but having all the stars align - being in the right place with the right amount of capital leverage, a
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by pistle 12y ago
But difficult, if not impossible, to prove and costly to try to attack. The age difference is often not even really a conscious thing. It is expressed in "cultural fit" by most young interviewers. Older devs simply are detached fr
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by pistle 12y ago
Serendipity. For the past 3 years, movement has been coming to a couple recent waves of watershed moments. It has taken a long time for insiders - many related to Scott Gu's organization, but also included numerous (maybe even legions)
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by pistle 12y ago
The free/cheap tier is pretty limiting especially for many modern CMS and unoptimized PHP type things. If your CMS is caching, big memory footprint and some DB thrashing. If you aren't caching, big DB thrashing and some memory con
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by pistle 12y ago
You should see all the non-MS things that shanselman uses and is aware of. But shhhhhhh, Microsoft would have his hide if they found out. If you think there is irony, you haven't been paying attention. It's the point of what'
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by pistle 12y ago
That doesn't seem high at all. What's you're frame of reference? State of Georgia, US (likely a small government state) Population: 9M State employees: 82k Ratio: 109:1 Add in county and city, and it's right in line. You
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by pistle 12y ago
While SQL Server has and will continue to be an excellent technical option, the costs can be a drag. That said, the work various .net-related people have out or are working on have the very real availability or promise to lift that dependen
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by pistle 12y ago
I've watched my loved ones die. I have yet to see any of my dearest die. I know that will happen. I don't know if it's better to understand the slow spiral vs. carrying false hope to the edge of the cliff. We still end up cru
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by pistle 12y ago
See, these great ideas will now come to market, save numerous lives and improve quality of life for people, and you're going to get nothing. I have an idea. We come up with a shitter station for you since this is where your great ideas
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by pistle 12y ago
Tonight, we hunt. Tomorrow we bath in our re-found youth. It's a good time to be past your prime.
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by pistle 12y ago
Hi. Welcome to hacker news. This is not reddit. Stop linking wildly afield questions from stack exchange philosophy beta.
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by pistle 12y ago
Here's my nagging question since TDD-malaise has definitely crept into a broad dev consciousness in no small part to your recent shots across the bow. Have you distilled out broader guidelines for system dev and valuable testing? Your
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by pistle 12y ago
That's great until it breaks down (and it does). You can't get a basic detail, since the supporting products also won't work with it. Once it does start breaking down, you have issues getting basic stuff like soap bubbles to
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by pistle 12y ago
Uncle Bob, dazed, comes out swinging. Struggles to land punches, but DHH definitely has Bob's attention. There are cost/bene's for unit tests. There are cost/bene's for integration, etc. etc. etc. Cargo cult behavio
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by pistle 12y ago
Nature will find a way... until humans kill it. If we can eradicate some species we can eradicate them all - except those little tardigrade things. It's one thing to slowly evolve enhancements to slow pressures/opportunities in th
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by pistle 12y ago
Isn't this guy the main guy in the first picture on ycombinator.com?
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by pistle 12y ago
I don't know why we differentiate art from action. Some people intend for their actions to be consumed by others for a purpose of communicating or commerce, but there are no bounds to how little difference there is, theoretically, betw
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by pistle 12y ago
It would be nice to not see the harassment word prefaced with "gender-based." This parsing, by Tom, without fuller disclosure of what mistakes were made leads to the conclusion that there was some form of harassment, but that it w
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by pistle 12y ago
Have this, enjoyed it. Cut coffee out as my caffeine deliver device, so I could gift one with a pile of filters. Very good. You don't get the creme that you get with a French press, but it's still head and shoulders above drip. I
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by pistle 13y ago
Uber: small capital loss with short disentanglement arc for hosts (cars+drivers) Tesla: orange Airbnb: large capital loss with longer disentanglement arc for hosts (property owners) The places most likely to reinforce the established indust
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by pistle 13y ago
Those people doing that at 30+ are the ones who are knee deep in culling lots of important industry, business, etc. experience. Delaying targeted launch is riskier. Paying your dues is a safe pattern. You don't suddenly become relevant

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