shtopointo

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by shtopointo 4y ago
"I take full responsibility" - ok, what's the responsibility you take?
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by shtopointo 4y ago
Soberly and correctly said.
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by shtopointo 4y ago
> Or maybe, just maybe, interviewing based on esoteric computer science problems isn’t the best way to identify high performing builders.. but a great way of identifying people who can hack a process to secure maximal reward. If anything
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by shtopointo 4y ago
Yes – I believe the author took the Design Patterns book and went to town. The classes were small (< 100-200 LOC), they fit together well, and the code was well tested. It was a SyncML parsing library developed in-house in Objective-C. W
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by shtopointo 4y ago
I've managed to do all my meal prepping for years without an app, and I don't think I'll be needing one now. There are recipes I sometimes consult online, but otherwise, I have most of the information in my head.
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by shtopointo 4y ago
And they keep moving the goalposts.
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by shtopointo 4y ago
We don't disagree. A crypto coin can be that too – stock in a company.
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by shtopointo 4y ago
> It relies entirely on someone else coming along later and paying more Yes, just like any part of the economy. Scarcity and/or productivity is why someone pays: either something, or more for it. If it's BTC, the theory is it w
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by shtopointo 4y ago
Two ways to make a name for yourself these days: * crypto * talking sh*t about crypto Crypto is at a low point right now. If you time it right, it's like reporting that investing in the stock market is bad after the '08 recession.
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by shtopointo 4y ago
Land may become cheaper given fewer people – so, farms?
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by shtopointo 4y ago
Also know that there are (silent?) supporters out there, not just haters.
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by shtopointo 4y ago
> Have you actually tried running Windows using Parallels on an M1? I have, and it's hardly worth the effort. Yes, I have. It works very well, what's the problem making it hardly worth the effort? What I mean is that I develop
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by shtopointo 4y ago
This must be a marketing thing, right? (I had to check the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st) The use case is bagels or pizza across the country? If you don't eat those within the hour they're not good anymore. Other than
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by shtopointo 4y ago
Parallels Desktop is able to run Windows on an M1. I work on Electron apps and I've been happy with how it works. Why not use that?
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by shtopointo 4y ago
A team building game for the remote-first world. My managers usually do cringe worthy "get to know your colleagues" events. If there could be a game where me and my teammates could collaborate, work towards a goal (that is not pro
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by shtopointo 4y ago
Are weeded out, or do they weed themselves out?
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by shtopointo 4y ago
Did it also set the record for highest cost per kWh?
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by shtopointo 5y ago
B2B sales are hard.
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by shtopointo 5y ago
Everything is possible of course. Will he, an executive before, have the required patience and humility to start at the bottom rung again, to e.g. step into a company with 20-year olds that know more than he does? 20-year olds that may not
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by shtopointo 5y ago
Gotta hedge your bets, you never know what is going to happen. Also, BTC has been used without a bank since inception – not sure what you mean by "practical".
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by shtopointo 5y ago
As far as breast cancer is concerned – they said that there is an overrepresentation of women in the study: > Debras highlights that 78.5% of the participants included in the analysis were women
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by shtopointo 5y ago
One problem with nutritional studies is that they don't control for all of the other things the patients eat or drink. How can you tell that it was the artificial sweetener that led to cancer? And not one of the other hundred things pe
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by shtopointo 5y ago
Has plenty of purpose when you see people being deplatformed from their banks, inflation at all time highs, and the dollar possibly losing de facto monopoly in world trade.
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by shtopointo 5y ago
> most people [citation needed]
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by shtopointo 5y ago
I don't think this is contrarian at all. I went in expecting a blog post on "Why working long hours is good".
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Show HN: CL and FB reselling app with auto renew and auto price reduction(shto.gumroad.com)
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by shtopointo 5y ago
Yea what is the solution when the west throws sanctions but keeps buying Russian oil and gas? Basically bankrolling this invasion. Like others have said the solution to this crisis might be “drill baby drill” but that’s unfortunately more t
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by shtopointo 5y ago
What’s with all these cancellations of Russian citizens? Surely this is not going to look good at the end of this war, and it’ll just be more propaganda for the Russian gov’t to use - “look, the west doesn’t care about you”. Is this just “c
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by shtopointo 5y ago
Great explanation, thanks...
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by shtopointo 5y ago
Ah I see very interesting, thanks!

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