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by seanhandley 4y ago
I’m from Lancashire in the UK and we have a saying here: > Where there’s muck, there’s brass.
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by seanhandley 4y ago
potato
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Routes to Failure: A Short Story(twitter.com)
1 points by seanhandley 4y ago|0 comments
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by seanhandley 4y ago
I think it's the "go big, or go home" mentality. Companies with this strategy are all desperate to get global market share. It's obviously a gamble, and one that can pay off. I think the writing may be on the wall for Ub
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by seanhandley 4y ago
The exact same text was submitted a month ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357514
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by seanhandley 4y ago
Isn’t bleach just a water molecule with an extra oxygen atom? I’m not a chemist but I didn’t think you could make assumptions about the effect of a substance in the way you describe. Am I missing something?
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by seanhandley 4y ago
If ever I saw a story of the Sunk Cost Fallacy in action, this is it. You have to value your time and energy. 22 years of hearings for such a small amount of money really isn't worth it. There was a time in my life when I would probabl
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by seanhandley 4y ago
I live in rural UK. We have several local taxi companies that reliably turn up within minutes. It's been that way for decades. The only really interesting value add to Uber was app-centric interactions (as opposed to a phone call), giv
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by seanhandley 4y ago
It's all getting more integrated i.e. Grocery chains are using companies like Deliveroo/Uber to fulfil orders.
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by seanhandley 4y ago
Yes… But think about, say, farming. Too much rain (or not enough) at the wrong time of year can devastate crops. Seeing variations on rainfall month by month show how seasonal patterns in the UK are changing. Droughts and floods are the rea
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by seanhandley 5y ago
> It's important to continue to disagree with things No, it isn't.
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by seanhandley 5y ago
One day maybe wireless power.
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by seanhandley 5y ago
No kidding. I'm not saying "money is wrong, make all films for free". When a production team makes a movie, they take a risk. I think the problem is that the people making the artistic decisions are also the ones trying to mi
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by seanhandley 5y ago
I worked for a while with a guy who'd worked at the BBC for many years. His reasoning for why movies are more boring was simple: money. A production team is looking to distribute their movie in as many channels as possible, and with th
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by seanhandley 5y ago
Great book. “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
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by seanhandley 5y ago
Welcome to HN. The home of "Well, technically".
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by seanhandley 5y ago
It requires a stiff upper lip.
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by seanhandley 5y ago
For sure! I'm not saying it has no purpose, but I wish it had a bit more intellectual weight to it.
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by seanhandley 5y ago
The irony for me here is that the author adds no additional intelligence or insight of their own - this is a simple retelling of the story of the Idiocracy film - framed as a prophecy coming true - simply to add eyeballs to the content mach
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Elon Musk rejects claims that his satellites are hogging space(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by seanhandley 5y ago|1 comments
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by seanhandley 5y ago
It is totally sublime.
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by seanhandley 5y ago
Oh, absolutely. I framed it this way intentionally. Without a doubt the most successful Erlang apps are telecoms related.
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by seanhandley 5y ago
I wonder if WhatsApp could be considered the most successful user-facing application with an Erlang backend.
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by seanhandley 5y ago
Re: "You are not noticing when people think you're stupid" and particularly > it's very important that you know that they think that you're stupid and will keep increasing the intensity of their responses until y
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by seanhandley 5y ago
Yes their scheduler is woeful. I have a few suspicions that it's intentionally done this way for balancing demand spikes and that jobs scheduled for the top of hour are worst affected.
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by seanhandley 5y ago
One thing worth considering here is The Peter Principle: > The Peter Principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. ... If the person is competent in the n
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by seanhandley 5y ago
Agreed. It's a false dichotomy that one is better than the other. The only useful way I know to think about it is what my ratio of solo focus time is vs time spent communicating with others. There is a place in the world for people who
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by seanhandley 5y ago
I loved visiting Coober Pedy. It reminded me of The Flintstones - you're in a room carved out of the rock and yet there's a TV in the corner. Also it's a real "prospector town" since the massive mining companies con
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by seanhandley 5y ago
I'm saying an increase in diagnoses recently is in large part due to a historical underdiagnosis rather than an increasing frequency of children born with ASD. However, the paper hints at environmental factors being responsible for a p
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by seanhandley 5y ago
Also, ASD is massively underdiagnosed in girls and women for various reasons to do with societal expectations and a generally accepted better ability to mask autistic traits.

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