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by ryandvm 5y ago
Same boat. I set up a Google domain for family many years ago. It's been somewhat convenient when it comes to sharing Google docs with each other and managing their email accounts for them, but that's about it. Everything else has
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by ryandvm 5y ago
DNS is the literally the only compelling use case for blockchain that I have ever been able to come up with (besides paying for contraband). A distributed database that no single entity owns is a perfect match for name resolution. Kind of a
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I believe you, but would the startup even exist if they had spent 2 or 3 times as long developing the MVP? The reality is that good engineering has higher upfront costs than quick-and-dirty. Sure, it's usually cheaper in the long run,
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I have worked at a number of places that relied heavily on off-shoring and my observation every single time was that while individual developer costs are generally much lower, you incur a lot of other hidden costs due to things like langu
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by ryandvm 5y ago
A person without consciousness would be more strange than a person with consciousness, despite consciousness being something we don't understand.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> once they found out we were vaccinated they stopped showing up, because they think the vaxed can spread proteins that will sterilize them Jesus Christ, Idiocracy was far too charitable
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Honestly, automatically screening people like this out of your life seems like a feature.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Am I the only one that thinks that password managers are a terrible idea? Lets take all of a user's credentials (mixing the critical and the trivial) and put them into a single database and then use Javascript-based browser extensions
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by ryandvm 5y ago
It's not even necessary. The practice is just a testament to the fact that some people find solace and comfort in superficial busywork.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Just wait until the phones are automatically giving people cartoon character eyes...
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> states scrambled to delay and regulate ecigs just enough to figure out how to tax it because they were afraid of losing revenue from cigarette taxes I hear permutations of this theory mentioned a lot, but I'm not sure I buy it. Th
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> Pairing is probably better than two solo devs if both pairers can handle it. Man, am I the only one that absolutely detests pair programming? Not only do I find it socially awkward, it completely kills my productivity. Software devel
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by ryandvm 5y ago
What I always tell people thinking about a software engineering career is that, yes, it's great money but I strongly advise only doing it if you actually like working with computers. Otherwise it's going to be a nightmare. Working
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Moving out of the country is the new American Dream
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Of course it's a gaffe. Biden is visibly affected by senility. How could you think it's anything but a gaffe? Do you really think that if he was aware of systematic voter fraud strategy being developed that he would actually give
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by ryandvm 5y ago
This. For all the economic hoovering Amazon does, it's amazing to me how much the shopping experience sucks. Search results are inundated with sponsored placements, knock-offs abound, countless fake reviews, they're always pushing
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by ryandvm 5y ago
It's Schrödinger's Investment. Theoretically worth billions, but interacting with it would cause its value to collapse.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I would put the Discworld series out there. Not because they will change your life, but just because they're so damn enjoyable to read. A lot of them are also suitable for reading together with children. My daughter (11) and I both lov
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I'm solidly in the "Hacker News is the Craigslist of web forums" camp. It may not be broke, but there is a lot of room for improvement...
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I imagine that if you work at Facebook, then pretty much every Facebook story that comes up on Hacker News is going to offer you some awfully harsh cognitive dissonance if you're not absolutely Machiavellian about your employment.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I think this is a product of the dominant echelon-based corporate culture. People get promoted from above, which typically means they get promoted by making their boss look good. Regardless of how good a job a manager is actually doing, if
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I hate reading about macro-economics on HN because there will be an incredibly informative post like yours that I read and everything kind of makes sense. Then it will be immediately followed up with a response that is equally eloquent expl
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by ryandvm 5y ago
C#/Java are almost as fast, but not for immediate execution environments. If you have one off invocations of the code, Go executables will beat the pants off Java as you wait for the JVM to fire up and for HotSpot to kick in.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
GeoTIFF is an interesting extension of TIFF that seems to serve a niche that other image formats cannot. It doesn't have the compression of say WebP or PNG, but the fact that it can have rich geographical metadata (projection, coordina
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by ryandvm 5y ago
It's more like certified consumption . Unfortunately nobody but people drinking the NFT Kool Aid give a shit about the certification. That must be utterly frustrating.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Totally unrelated, but a fascinating tidbit from that wikipedia link: > Venus has a CO2 atmosphere. Because CO2 is about 50% denser than Earth air, ordinary Earth air could be a lifting gas on Venus. This has led to proposals for a human
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by ryandvm 5y ago
You're the guru?
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I spent the last 5 years doing consulting/contracting in a software development co-op in which I was one of the founding partners. It was a huge boost for my career and ended up increasing my income by around 75%. One upside of contrac
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Agreed. The lack of trust in the 2020 election isn't because the voters have a reason not to trust it, it's because they have a need to not trust it - a psychological need. And they'll follow the flimsiest of evidence to fu
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I think you have it backwards. If you can nail the CS interview, you can be one of Google's 80,000 cogs making 400K/year. Or if you can settle for 150K, you can work for a 20 person startup where you actually have input and are va

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