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by psyc 5y ago
It’s pleasantly surprising that Ministry is specifically mentioned here! I haven’t always listened to music while working, but when I did, it was almost all Ministry. Very rhythmically mechanical (even for industrial), and driving. I found
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by psyc 5y ago
I want to reserve the option of thinking well of people in general. That goes for friends, acquaintances, and strangers. Much of what they post deprives me of that option.
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by psyc 5y ago
A broader question in my mind is: can smart people create anything ingenious that escapes being coopted / subsumed by the establishment? Or, can such a thing survive popularity on its own terms? In the case of the Web, the answer clear
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by psyc 5y ago
It is a publicly traded corporation.
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by psyc 5y ago
I can’t change my beliefs. I can seek better information that might cause my beliefs to change. I can apply a filter, like optimism or pessimism, that has the effect of filtering by selective attention more granular beliefs that are neverth
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by psyc 5y ago
So the thesis is “Do it anyway, because your boss or their boss is going to say ‘do it anyway’” Yeah, that is why I do it anyway. This is not insightful.
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by psyc 5y ago
It doesn't need to be "gentle". It does need to not kill, maim, or paralyze the subject.
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by psyc 5y ago
The biggest problem with KF, as I see it, isn’t really what they do and say. Most of what they do is quote people, and most of what they say is snappy, mean quips about the quotes. I’m sure there have been incidents when forum members escal
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by psyc 5y ago
Responding to the post you linked, I notice this all the time with corporate policies. If a property management company adds a new kind of qualification to get an apartment, that didn’t exist 10 years ago, soon every company has it. If an i
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by psyc 5y ago
I have almost never seen so many people so motivated to misrepresent a memo.
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by psyc 5y ago
Is that really a serious question? He wouldn’t be notable if not for those aspects of him that involve being “eccentric” or whatever you want to call it. A lot of software people take a dim view of anti-virus software.
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by psyc 5y ago
Walking around the city and seeing everyone's sins displayed above their heads.
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by psyc 5y ago
I admit I'm always puzzled by this as well, and can't help feeling (perhaps unfairly) that it's like preferring vinyl. Every VR thread I've ever seen has a lot of "VR is dead because of the resolution and it makes p
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by psyc 5y ago
It’s a craft within a craft. Resource constraints can be empowering. Also, in the heyday of those retro machines, I was a kid wishing I could program them, and now I’m an old guy who can.
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by psyc 5y ago
The last time I was heavily into game development, I chose to develop only on a $350 laptop, for exactly that reason. The strategy really does work. The first time I ran it on a gaming machine was after it was done, and it ran like a dream.
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by psyc 5y ago
I didn’t take the AI bit to be about “tik er jurbs” but rather about employers’ attitude towards developers. That would be more in keeping with the theme of the overall rant.
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by psyc 5y ago
What doesn’t scale well is John Carmack (and those of similar devotion). And yes, I’m aware that there are also those with the chops, who are not permitted by their money masters (or alternately by their master, money) to write performant s
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by psyc 5y ago
Have they ever not ? That tagline at the end is standard for all their main campaigns.
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by psyc 5y ago
There’s a long running joke in the gamedev community about 12 year olds showing up and asking how to create their dream MMO. DreamWorld is what would happen if those 12 year olds got into YCombinator and ran a successful Kickstarter. There
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by psyc 5y ago
Mid forties and still evidently more employable than I was last year. I also find as I age it keeps getting easier to land work ever closer to what I really want. I’ve worked with dozens of ICs in their 40’s, many in their 50’s, several in
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by psyc 5y ago
All I want to know when confronted with a headline like this is: FTL info transmission or not? I can’t discern the answer from the article. So I’ll assume as always there’s some gotcha that means it’s a no.
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by psyc 5y ago
You’re in luck. There was a thread about it 5 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229836 My favorite was https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY
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by psyc 5y ago
https://youtu.be/YVVTZgwYwVo?t=59
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by psyc 5y ago
Your wording is misleading. That applies to people who have been court committed (even the majority of hospitalizations are voluntary or tagged 'voluntary' as a courtesy), or deemed 'mentally defective' by a court. That
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by psyc 5y ago
Since my main source of others' opinions is HN, I was under the impression that most people thought America was about writing as many laws as it takes to minmax every aspect of society and the economy.
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by psyc 5y ago
HR is not going to snipe an ex-employee in solidarity with the new employer. As a rule, they only confirm the person worked there when they said they did.
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by psyc 5y ago
That was the first time I've upvoted a comment whose raw message irritated me. You don't see many creative comments here. They seem to be discouraged. But at least we all have impeccable rationality!
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by psyc 5y ago
My parents were born in the 40s, but they’re roughly in the generation you’re talking about. They’re still poor. My mom didn’t work much. My dad didn’t make much. Neither were financially savvy. However, every last one of their 5 siblings i
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by psyc 5y ago
American here. I feel like I’ve heard both ways about equally. I’ve lived all over, so maybe it’s regional.
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by psyc 5y ago
I’ve been working as a dev for 22 years, and have yet to be asked whether I went to college. Which I didn’t.

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