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by psyc 5y ago
> pledge to not hire ex-Facebookers I agree that Facebook is a plague, but this divisive, realpolitik, tough-guy power-play nastiness really nauseates me.
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by psyc 5y ago
I watch TV/movies almost exclusively on the phone. Not because it’s the best experience, but simply because it’s the only device that is on my person at all times. So it has been years since I thought in terms of going to a screen to
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by psyc 5y ago
That’s definitely the one!
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by psyc 5y ago
I have a clear memory of a similar recipe being laid out in an early 80’s kids’ cartoon, in which a character needs to MacGuyver some gunpowder in the wild. I became obsessed with mimicking the feat, but never figured out how to source the
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by psyc 5y ago
It didn’t used to bother me back when I could assume everyone else understood it was an industry specific title based on a metaphor! I even used to defend the title by saying, “Relax; it’s an industry-specific title, not a kind of engineer
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by psyc 5y ago
I aggressively refuse to call myself an engineer. Programmer is fine. Developer is better, because programming is only a piece of it. Y’all can call yourselves whatever you like, but inside I’m thinking you retconned an industry insider eup
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by psyc 5y ago
Well, I had been a moderate stoner for a few years, and I had no concern about the law. Then, I went through a phase where I had horrible panic attacks every single time I smoked. It seemed purely a chemical thing to me. Now, in middle age,
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by psyc 5y ago
Much too simple for people so conditioned to crafting rule sets to solve problems.
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by psyc 5y ago
I agree with all this. Heck, I even agreed 10 years ago. I’ll only say that those people I knew seemed almost attracted to the abuse, as though they believed it would help make them wealthy. (They did all become millionaires, but you’re ri
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by psyc 5y ago
Eh, not so fast there. Perhaps that talent pool is larger and more diverse than you realize. It’s entirely possible that I’m out of touch now, but when I was at MSFT 10 years ago, there was a steady flow of top talent to Amazon. All the peo
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by psyc 5y ago
Keyhole became Google Earth. Google Maps came from Where 2 Technologies, acquired at about the same time.
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by psyc 5y ago
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, are primarily networks of personal (or corporate) identities. The centerpiece is the user. HN and Reddit are primarily ranked lists of interesting URLs. I don’t know one user from another, apart from a han
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by psyc 5y ago
They say sometimes the cahs what come outta theya, well sometimes them cahs drive ‘emselves.
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by psyc 5y ago
Where do you rate the part of the OS that makes 100,000 types, brands, and models of devices all look about the same to our apps? I always saw hardware compatibility and abstraction as the greatest value proposition, not only for the user b
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by psyc 5y ago
HN is throttling your account because it’s 15 minutes old.
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by psyc 5y ago
I've been assured by many HN commenters that there's actually no problem, but there doesn't seem to be a coherent reason for the ambivalence. 1. It's all in my imagination / they haven't seen it. It's a bo
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by psyc 5y ago
You can just say, “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.” It’s shorter, and less weasely.
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by psyc 5y ago
The word 'dictation' is confusing here. I think you want 'recitation', 'vocalization', 'narration' or just 'reading'. Dictation is speech-to-text, this is text-to-speech.
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by psyc 5y ago
Every time I’ve encountered this opinion about Infinite Jest, I’ve tried to read it. I’m not falling for this again.
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by psyc 5y ago
Well, there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28302725
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by psyc 5y ago
There's a lot going on in the porn world, especially now that it's, er, democratized. Sex workers is very broad. Porn stars is a little fuzzy. Some porn stars are big names, and/or can actually act pretty well. Or excel at cr
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by psyc 5y ago
> The hard problem of consciousness is an impassable obstacle given the set of tools that we have and, arguably, ever can have I've come to the same conclusion, after reading and thinking about it for 20 years. I no longer search
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by psyc 5y ago
We have biographies for that.
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by psyc 5y ago
Everyone always skips Wolfenstein 3D
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by psyc 5y ago
Father of the First Person Shooter and Patron Saint of Low Latency
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by psyc 5y ago
I have no other reply to this essay. I am unmoved by anybody who requires social cues in order to decide how to spend time. When I got heavily into programming, nobody I knew had the faintest idea of what it was or what I was doing. I could
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by psyc 5y ago
Such a missed opportunity. There are so many funnier tropes about HN to mock. Personally, I think of HN as a place for software developers to pontificate and nerd-snipe about constitutional law, public health, economics, and more.
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by psyc 5y ago
I worked on a team that felt 'like a family' once, and it was by far the best period of time in my career. I really don't think you can intentionally create that environment, though. It just happened due to the personalities
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by psyc 5y ago
I don't use social media. If there's a downside for me, I'm blissfully unaware of whatever it is. I do not struggle to keep up with people I care about. I don't classify HN as social media, but neither do I excuse myself
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by psyc 5y ago
This is both how I learned, and the only reason I even wanted to. Heck, sometimes it’s even why I get paid. I agree.

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