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by projectileboy 3y ago
So happy to see the love for Griffith’s Intro to Electrodynamics. I know it gets dinged for not being sufficiently rigorous, but I’ve never read another math or science textbook that did as good a job of getting a beginner to truly understa
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Respectfully, aside from whether or note the tone of the piece is or is not justifiable, I think your comment misses the point, which is that there is injustice in people (or a system) who unfairly shunt work off to you that they should rig
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Your mileage may definitely vary. In 20+ years, I’ve had four incidents of receiving obviously counterfeit goods; no idea if it has happened more often than that and I was just unaware.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Haha… Amazon, you say? You mean the large money laundering operation, putting third party counterfeit goods in the same warehouse bins as legitimate goods from legitimate suppliers, so that as a consumer you never know if you’re going to ge
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by projectileboy 3y ago
I got bad news for some of the folks in this thread: just about _everyone_ can be replaced with two junior devs and a Keurig.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Indeed. Acquisitions are often great for the founders, sometimes ok for shareholders, and usually a disaster for employees and customers.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Strongly agree. “Why are academic papers always written in such mumbo jumbo?” is the same complaint as “Why are contracts written in such legalese?”, which is a manifestation of “I’m smart and I don’t get this, so the author is dumb for not
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by projectileboy 3y ago
One of the many consequences of global warming is going to be a reckoning of trying to support large cities in areas that fundamentally cannot sustain them. Las Vegas, Phoenix, even Southern California do not really have any business existi
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Go ahead and downvote me all to hell, but the comments in this thread from bike enthusiasts sound like Trump apologists - they are alike in their adamant refusal to acknowledge reality. Do you think any amount or quality of bike infrastruct
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Relevant comment thread from people describing how much worse GPT-4 has gotten lately: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/14ruui2/i_use_chat...
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by projectileboy 3y ago
We don’t have enough long-term research these days. I wish Bret Victor well and am looking forward to future innovations from him and his crew.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
The biggest problem I ran into was that ORBs from different manufacturers just didn’t play nice with one another. And then SOAP and Enterprise Service Bus repeated the whole damn thing.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
It’s not often that someone passes who is legitimately a giant, someone whose impact will be felt generations from now. A sad day.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Ugh, I’m a moron. Thanks, somehow I missed that.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
The average writer made over $1M? Even for TV or cinema that sounds high. What’s the median?
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Interesting, I’ve had somewhat similar experiences. Big one-time events were handled no problem. But chronic illnesses have always been a nightmare - for my daughter to get her meds, she pretty much has to have the same chain of conversatio
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by projectileboy 3y ago
I’m 51 and had this conversation too many times to indulge this. All I can say is that I wish you luck if you or your loved ones ever have a serious medical issue in the US. And you may be lucky. Or you may spend years on telephone calls tr
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by projectileboy 3y ago
At least in the US, I would argue your reply is not totally correct. The US has a long history of not really knowing if it wants prison to be punishment, rehabilitation, or both.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
It’s a good question. I took it as an Extension student working on a degree, but if you made yourself do the assignments, you’d have much the same experience. The only thing you’d miss are sections with a TA, which is valuable, but I think
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by projectileboy 3y ago
If you like this, I strongly encourage you to also check out Harvard’s CS50. Lectures are all on YouTube. https://cs50.harvard.edu
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Alan Kay once pointed out something along the line that when excitement exceeds knowledge you get fashion. For 10 years I’ve been in and around languages that were declared dead by the HN crowd because there wasn’t enough new hype around it
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by projectileboy 4y ago
Context matters. If you’re going to be scaling huge, this advice is silly. If you’re just starting, or planning to rewrite later, or for good reasons never expect huge scale, staying as simple as possible makes sense. Also, tons of devs bui
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by projectileboy 4y ago
It’s incredibly shitty to telegraph to other employers that all the people you’re about to layoff are damaged goods. Completely unnecessary.
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by projectileboy 4y ago
Well… yes. And the spec is perfect, right?
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by projectileboy 4y ago
Exactly. When people say “agile sucks!” I always want to ask “compared to what?” Engineers who say that they meet for a few minutes once a week and then everyone somehow just knows what to do… frankly I call bullshit. That may work at a 5 p
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by projectileboy 4y ago
Acquisitions are great for founders, not so great for anyone else - especially the customers.
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by projectileboy 5y ago
That’s fair. Going character by character was definitely a bit forced, if taken beyond entertainment value.
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by projectileboy 5y ago
Wow, this little subthread… the irony meter of talking about HN culture just folded in on itself.
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by projectileboy 5y ago
I know the book is a bit silly, but I only partially agree with your assessment, because I haven’t ever read anything that better describes existence within most large corporations. Would you be willing to elaborate on what you think it get
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by projectileboy 5y ago
I never understood why I always got so depressed reading LinkedIn, until I read The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao. And then I saw that LinkedIn consists almost entirely of clueless people talking to other clueless people, and exclusive

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