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by spfzero 4y ago
When you do something successfully, how do you feel about it? Do you feel like doubling down on the harder stuff? Being fluent in tools is one thing, but the creative rewards are the most important, if you can feel them. If not so much, hey
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by spfzero 4y ago
The article did not say how the bad data was introduced. There is plenty of room for contractor malfeasance or incompetence to be a factor. Working around the safety measures in place, for example. Using an import tool improperly. Directly
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by spfzero 4y ago
Canada and the UK illustrate the downside of single provider, but the US has embraced all of the bad about single provider, but with multiple providers. Anyone can get into the game, but no one tries to make the product better. The patient
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by spfzero 4y ago
If you're in the category of paying more than your fair share of taxes you probably can afford to buy instead of rent. But if you want to keep renting, find a non-scumbag landlord. They exist, I've rented from them.
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by spfzero 4y ago
IIRC the NS prefix was in use long before there were any dealings with Sun. There was software development going on at NeXT before they had the name for the OS ("NeXTStep"). So, NX for NeXT, NS for NeXTStep.
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by spfzero 4y ago
Why? As long as it is not competition to your employer, your off time is your time. How would it be different from a hobby? And as mentioned, the intent is not to make enough money that you leave your current job. You're still a loyal
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by spfzero 4y ago
I wonder whether this particular unit was representative of the production target build. Maybe it was an early prototype? Certainly after 250K revenue (if you believe that number) there was funding for a design rev.
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by spfzero 4y ago
I wanted to say the same thing. Start a small business on the side. Something you enjoy; there's a million ideas. A friend of mine buys and sells classic motorcycles. Someone builds new replacement parts for unsupported industrial equi
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by spfzero 4y ago
There seem to be quite a few parallel messages between Stoicism and teachings of the Buddha (separate from the Buddhist religion, which seems vastly different).
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by spfzero 4y ago
But I would say, continuous refactoring is maintenance. You would not need to do it unless there was technical debt that had not been addressed in a timely manner. And when you are forced to do development because your underlying platform,
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by spfzero 4y ago
I would just say that when the effort of fixing bugs, refactoring, re-platforming, updating docs, and tweaking features, is greater than the effort invested in major changes, you're in maintenance. Most software applications get there.
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by spfzero 4y ago
Both, but I find myself having to learn a new ORM practically every time I switch languages and platforms, or just every 5 years or so because new "better" ones come out. Also, I often do not feel I've every really "lear
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by spfzero 4y ago
You might look into "joint ownership". You and the client(s) both can do whatever you want with it. In the contract, you might want to agree that the clients do not go into the business of selling the software to others, since tha
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by spfzero 4y ago
One idea might be to incorporate and consult under your company's name. You might even do a sole proprietorship. In that case, customers will not necessarily do a background check on you yourself (some still will), because you are not
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by spfzero 4y ago
You might look at something like the median life expectancy of a 65-year-old. That skips over a lot of early deaths that really bias the "average life expectancy". For instance, you might find that in 1980 the median life expectan
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by spfzero 4y ago
Here's another way of looking at it: Many mutations are going to happen in the wild, but only a few will make the virus more viable in some host or hosts. Most of the mutations will be dead ends, or jump to another species and then mut
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by spfzero 4y ago
That precision is fascinating. Other measurements of that age I'd guess were a lot less precise, such as time and distance. It seems like anything you used sqrt(2) for calculating, would be swamped with less-accurate factors and you&#x
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by spfzero 4y ago
That's like saying if we want the benefits of markets, be ready for theft. Society was ready for theft, and so created laws to make it illegal. That way we can have the benefit of a market with a low probability of being robbed on the
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by spfzero 4y ago
As the sibling to yours said, it is closest to forgery or counterfeiting, rather than theft. I don't think that changes it much re. maximally benefiting corporate interests. It might benefit them a little less maximally, but not by muc
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by spfzero 4y ago
They are considered "experts" by the media, for one thing. So if you read an article on nutrition and some "expert" or other is quoted, and you act on its advice, then you might be in that fraction.
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by spfzero 4y ago
The incentives for the reviewers are different. On-line reviewers (often) get caught up in review-counting and status-seeking. They want to be a "Top Reviewer". In a store the person has to go out of their way every time they reco
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by spfzero 4y ago
Manufacturers in the "old days" weren't necessarily more virtuous, but they were more constrained; by material and process choices. There weren't the options for a part that would reliably work... for three years and the
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by spfzero 4y ago
Any molecule that can fool your tastebuds, can also fool some of the other receptors in your body that will then respond similarly than they would when encountering sucrose/fructose. Probably not all, but probably some. The insulin res
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by spfzero 4y ago
We can never know how many people Covid killed in America, because the rubric in the US is to count as a Covid "death" any death where the deceased tested positive for covid. In that group might be someone who would have not died
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by spfzero 4y ago
When you travel to a foreign country you are agreeing to operate under their laws. If you go there without respecting their laws, I can't see having a lot of sympathy. The idea that this notorious arms dealer is going to be completely
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by spfzero 4y ago
Yes someone published a story in the Wall Street Journal, but this thread is talking about Twitter. Twitter is not exonerated because some other outlet did something differently. The point here is that they were specifically responding to g
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by spfzero 4y ago
For people with recent experience building hash tables. What sticks over the years is how you work with them and where they are a good solution to a problem. The more experience you have in using them, the less likely you are to remember
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by spfzero 4y ago
Whenever I read "misinformation" I always wonder whether this is the old "misinformation" that turned out to be actually the correct information mislabeled, or is it some of the old information that is still wrong, or is
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by spfzero 4y ago
Karaoke is the best activity I do with my parents in-law when I visit. They love it. It's kind of fun, actually. The equipment they have is old and they have special CDs with the songs and lyrics, really low quality. Apple Sing through
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by spfzero 4y ago
They're adding it to Apple Music for no extra cost this time though.

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