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by shortoncash 9y ago
Your fears are noted and valid. However, this propaganda hydrogen bomb already happened once to humanity with the advent of mass media. The wealthy were (and are) using mass media to sway the same 5-10% (and likely more) that you're
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by shortoncash 9y ago
This new fear around propaganda bots seems unwarranted. I've gotten mail advertising specific political newsletters or products for as long as I've been an adult. Someone was aggregating information and targeting me long before
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Yeah, I know people who still use it. The last time I used it (~1 year ago) was on a vacation in order to knock off a few dollars from the local attractions. I'd do it again. The only thing I hate is how they are worse than spammers
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by shortoncash 9y ago
It always starts with them before it trickles down to the rest of us. Let's hope they use it and beta test it for us.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
The maintainers of package managers and individual packages probably save humanity so many hours and probably are propelling our entire civilization forward in ways they probably don't even comprehend. The days before widespread packa
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by shortoncash 9y ago
No. Git is better, GitHub is better, most package managers for finding things are better, stack overflow is better, help forums are better, tools are often free, cloud access and compute power is better, instructional videos on youtube are
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Hey OP, thanks for asking this question. I read Ask HN regularly and I thought reading some of these responses was beneficial. Now I just need to figure out how to internalize the behaviors. :-)
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Sorry for your loss, adafruit. I have not developed a single line of code without a cat by my side for 11 years now. While they occasionally walk all over my keyboard, they are more effective than the Apple Watch at getting me to stand up,
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Take all my upvotes and offer a newsletter for subscription please. The lack of digging is a frustration I have with a lot of new guys who join the team. For example, they might create something new and tack on some new, untested piece of
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by shortoncash 9y ago
And cast Eddie Murphy as Sissoko.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
You can make a ton day trading, but the edges don't last long. I've seen several cycles of this, and it's worse than knowing the latest javascript fad. The markets change, approaches change, and techniques change. On a pos
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Reading Denthor's tutorials in a basement, the 90s, learning C++ and assembly. Pure joy getting thingslike a 3d cube and a 3d star field up on the screen.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
The bigger issue is what happens when someone commits terrible code and makes bad architectural decisions. Firing someone is hard, but firing code that is in active use is even harder and in some cases not possible.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and mostly because it usually just works. I use a mac, but there is always an ssh shell open to Ubuntu where "the real work" gets done.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Appreciate the handy tip you tacked on at the end there. Thanks!
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Why did Europe go into the dark ages after several years of incredible advancement and prosperity? We've gotten used to the idea of steady gains and prosperity, but there are cycles that include book burning, knowledge destruction, and
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by shortoncash 9y ago
I'm not saying people need to take Ancient Aliens at face value, but the show is great when it comes to forcing you to think about how the ancient world really might have been. I often think the narrative we get in public school histor
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by shortoncash 9y ago
I'd like a view of the technology keywords on the front page for tech stories. Sort of a buzz metric for things gaining traction and things that are fading away.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Riding a bicycle. You don't think, you just pedal. Then when you are done and have to go back to thinking, you think better.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
I've passed a good few of these interviews. The other advice is good. I just wanted to add that the thing that always gets me is that by the 4th or 5th hour in the on site interview, I start getting tired and start slipping up. You
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Haha, so true. There was one interview with a company I did where they explicitly said not to take more than a few hours but actually gave you a few days to complete it. So I legitimately cranked something out as fast as possible in under
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Data science jobs are tricky when you're coming in from the cold. If you're in one domain, you might use certain approaches and if you're in another domain, well, you'll use different approaches. The thing that gets me
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Thanks for linking such a useful site. It was interesting comparing the Europe to US rates too.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
I'd like to see terminals start to mirror sort of how those interactive programming language environments work, like where data scientists have a notebook or workbook. Output should be collapsible, there should be snippets on the side
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Get a bicycle and just ride it everywhere.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
The nice thing about remote work is that your downside interactions are minimized also. I find it easier to vent in a room alone about some bone-headed reason why a pull request is rejected, as opposed to an office situation where people c
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Perhaps we should consider it an enhanced form of the ios11 driving mode.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Have you done this? The job board advertised rates seem a bit on the low side in relation to the downtime risk. (I'm only asking because I'm curious, not because your advice sounds bad or anything.)
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by shortoncash 9y ago
This is incredibly fun. Nice job.
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by shortoncash 9y ago
Great comment! I worked in a closed, secretive space for a long time. When I left the secretive space, I had no public "street credit" that would've helped me land remote work. I had to rely on referrals. I'm 100% cer

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