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by richardw 4y ago
Not to take anything away from the page. It was nice to see some great names in there. And honestly the list is a testament to massive value given to the community. I’ve learned so much. However, I love seeing tech hard-hitters throw in a m
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by richardw 4y ago
Or used for profiling each person in a way Google and Facebook consider too intrusive. When the CCP calls, you give them what they want. “Responds to videos of X stereotypes 30ms faster than the median, which corresponds to these following
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by richardw 4y ago
Sooner or later we have to price carbon externalities correctly, and fund development of offsets. It’ll be later of course, but it’s the rational course. Restating your math slightly, how can 3.5 of these be funded by a carbon fee from ~365
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by richardw 4y ago
Contact lenses. No matter how much I cleaned my hands, put oil on, butter...next morning putting my contact lenses in were 10 second of bleakness.
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by richardw 4y ago
Interesting. I think differently but seems there are multiple interpretations. Of course we feel most people would agree with our version ;) https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55920/is-most-eq...
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by richardw 4y ago
They’re meant to be the same in what we value about eating them but not the same in how they’re produced. Same taste, no death. For a long time the taste couldn’t compare for any product. The fact that the pressure is building to keep the d
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by richardw 4y ago
Also an old timer. I’ve gone from mostly complex app and no DB logic to mostly heavily optimised DB and lots of procs. They protect the DB, make carefully crafted interfaces available and allow changes to the implementation. Except for eg i
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by richardw 4y ago
I have one but she has a Suunto. Can’t believe someone else hasn’t created a real competitor to the shuffle.
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by richardw 4y ago
Yeah, my wife just wants a shuffle. No not some other thing that needs you to be connected to Spotify. Just music to run with.
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by richardw 4y ago
Without meaning to disparage the OP, enterprises don’t put you on HN when their feature isn’t supported. They pay enough to focus the mind on important features. Enterprises are an 80/20 play. Keep your top clients happy and you’ll be
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by richardw 4y ago
Happened in my wife’s company of around 40k people. Mail to all, replies to stop replying, many hours to stop the firestorm. Then next timezone 8 hours out started replying. I don’t know why they didn’t just kill permissions to the mailing
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by richardw 4y ago
House prices in areas people would rather live have all gone up. Those houses also play the role of offices 3-5 times a week. I’m not sure if it makes up for the loss in commercial real estate though, but I’d say some destruction of value a
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by richardw 4y ago
Similarly: "Science progresses one funeral at a time". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
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by richardw 4y ago
HN community represents a very attractive economic segment. If we switched, advertisers and web designers would pay attention. Firefox would instantly be getting paid for our searches by Google.
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by richardw 4y ago
Ah, thank you!
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by richardw 4y ago
It’s nowhere near perfect information because we’re limited. We have no idea what an early decision will mean later in the game. If anything it’s a game where the truth emerges slowly as options reduce to those that fit in our brain. Howeve
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by richardw 5y ago
Some students have terrible teachers and an excellent online supplement can’t hurt. Living in South Africa, we have a huge difference between the best private schools and the worst public schools. It would be nice to know that every child i
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by richardw 5y ago
I get this stuff from US politicians and I don’t live in the US. Random drive by mails with hysterical instructions to save us from the Dems/Republicans. I thought it was all incredibly targeted by now, but there’s obviously some terri
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by richardw 5y ago
Why would you go through all that effort for a lower grade civ that had zero chance of attacking you and you couldn’t get (and probably don’t need) the resources. Next question: Are all distant civilisations friendly because there’s no reas
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by richardw 5y ago
I’m just a user but totally happy with all our Atlassian apps. Confluence is a huge win across our multi-thousand person company and the best teams use it very well. I like the integration between Jira and Bitbucket. We don’t over complicat
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by richardw 5y ago
But then you could run some open source server that does it, just not typically from your home. It’s the home part that won’t work, just as most people don’t serve their web apps from home. And non tech people can still outsource and move b
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by richardw 5y ago
Why? Honest question. I fully appreciate owning your own data and hosting it somewhere, but no idea why we need to host anywhere but hyper-connected data centers. I’d like to own my social graph, my profile, my permissions for who can conta
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by richardw 5y ago
I bought a new golf 7 1.4 built in Germany and had to later spend $3k redoing the engine for what seems to be a known fault but never got a recall here. It cost me more than all the fuel savings I got from driving it. Just an anecdote but I
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by richardw 5y ago
Work at a bank. Microservices have allowed replacement as tech preferences or performance requirements have changed. I haven’t always liked the changes but they were enabled by the architecture. Can shift one service at a time, run both, le
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by richardw 5y ago
He could ban it from while White House but not from your house. It’s not control like where you go to jail, it’s minor influence over very few selected places. Every elite seems to want to cement their power and we have to combat it, always
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by richardw 5y ago
> Right. And who do you think controls the media in other democracies? Nobody “controls” the media. Any clown can start a media company and many do, across the full spectrum of opinion. Media also has far less share of communications now
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by richardw 5y ago
> How is a skeptic population going to help with any of these? Brain drain. If smart people have a harder time living in a country that ignores them, they move to a place that suits their sensibilities and desire for a better future. Nob
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by richardw 5y ago
I doubt it because half the value is signalling. If the signal is “if you win we stop” then putin will make sure he wins faster in future. And China too.
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by richardw 5y ago
I’d love this. Been wanting something better forever. A bit related: I want to click on a project name and it should set up my environment ideally for that project. Filter the files, include/exclude the apps I see, filter bookmarks. Ju
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by richardw 5y ago
Sure, for running she doesn’t need a lot of storage or a screen. Run and listen, that’s it. There are copies, there are people looking for them. Just nothing really good (it seems).

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