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by rabidrat 10y ago
In the past, I have followed through with what seemed like good decisions at the time. As the years went on, I started to have doubts that they were not-so-great decisions, but I continued to follow through anyway, because of my awesome wi
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by rabidrat 10y ago
And then some of us look back over two decades of half-finished projects, and think, "Wow, many of these Xes were really cool, I wish I had just sucked it up and finished a few of the Xes, even though at the time all I wanted to do is
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by rabidrat 10y ago
> easily What we are currently doing on Mars remotely is absolutely incredible and at the upper limit of our present capabilities. Don't think for a second that having "today's technology" does not still require a he
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I think he was saying the opposite. (Your reply seemed pretty pedantic to me).
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I've struck out on my own twice now. I worked my butt off both times, and made no money either time. The first time, I burnt out after my business partner left, and the second time, we tried to make/sell a video plagiarism detec
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Maybe it will become cheaper for small board game companies to produce their games domestically, once shipping insurance is factored in.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
It doesn't have to be for long periods of time. 30-60 minutes a day of quiet sitting (sometimes called 'meditation') is sufficient to get your mind on an unconscious self-development track for the rest of your day. If you ha
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by rabidrat 10y ago
The overhead is nearly constant with respect to the number of dollars. But the cost goes up linearly with the number of shareholders (as each one needs at least a modicum of attention over time, to update records reflecting changes of disp
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I've thought about this extensively, and it's actually not that easy to set one up yourself. For one thing, the overhead required to administer a trust is non-zero, and would be prohibitively expensive (non-sustainable) for a sma
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by rabidrat 10y ago
> Does this include network-layer personnel? Yes. I used to work at a major networking company in Seattle, and Oracle has recruited many good people from there, and is paying them nose-ruining salaries. I think their cloud may have many
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Same here. Small footnote: I was the one who made the transcription of 1997's Spirit of Xmas (soxmas) which was going around our university at the time. A classmate digitized the videotape we had gotten.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
It turns out that a bunch of tacit knowledge is required to build working nuclear weapons. The designs are not sufficient at all, and it does make sense that you might be able to deter development by subtly leading developers down known de
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by rabidrat 10y ago
> We could simply define jobs for people, and stop importing products in those categories. Need more jobs? Restrict more product importation and offshoring. It's becoming more common to advocate for scaling back globalization as a s
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Reducing the workweek by 20% will create jobs, for those jobs in which output is a result of hours worked.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
You mean, like this guy? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386978/The-Japanese...
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I don't mind the quibbling, as I've been trying to figure this out myself. From what I see, S3 is $.09/GB to the Internet, and Cloudfront is $.085/GB to NA/Europe...and $.14/GB for Asia. How is this cheaper?
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Having never heard of Atom before this, I appreciate the notice that it is not a suitable replacement for a general-purpose editor like vim. Saved me who-knows-how-many hours of frustration.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
We have had laws against both suicide and abortion.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
There are people who excel at software design, but they don't excel at teaching others how to design software. So the best you get is, you can hire them.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Not all of us want to live again in some unknown future without any sense of continuity or surviving relationships. Death is ultimately inevitable, even if a miracle like cryonics could postpone it the first time. The author's entire
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Also because it was finished since then.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Having realized that you're not bad, you overcorrect and start thinking you're good. But when you think you're good, you're not as good as you think you are. And if you really are that good, it's best not to think
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I think you're splitting hairs. The parent and OP are saying there is a qualitative difference, and by saying "just X and better X" you're trying to say that the difference is merely quantitative. In my experience, whe
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by rabidrat 10y ago
> The money part of the plan worked though we’re now both full time on Anymailfinder It's no longer a side-business, and $1500/mo is not enough to sustain two partners.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
You definitely consider your words and characters more carefully.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
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by rabidrat 10y ago
And "not an asshole".
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by rabidrat 10y ago
This is how the system treats most human beings, as labor commodities to be consumed and discarded. This is one of the dangers of capitalism, compounded by 7.5 billion people who are increasingly unable to find a productive role within the
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Seriously, there's no way I would use Google APIs for anything production at this point.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
That's a great ideal. But often the code has to be substantially rearchitected to allow for automated testing like this (especially for those difficult bugs, as you mention), and when the fix only requires changing a couple lines of c

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