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by sqeaky 9y ago
I wonder how much of the "requirements" in jobs notices are required. I have gotten several contracts while missing some of the key items they wanted. I have also seen ridiculous things like when DHH, the inventor of rails, couldn
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Anything that Amazon can move from an area of lesser scarcity.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Making a game, is hard to fit the market??? Most people who are super excited to make games are gamers themselves, and it seems to me that most gamers are pretty open minded. In my own research it seems to me that most indie titles that &qu
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by sqeaky 9y ago
We could "fix" that.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
If it just then 4% of revenue fine could well be 0 for startups. I presume they have some provision to prevent 0 euro fines, does anyone know about that provision?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Moore's law has already ended like 15 times. I will wait to use that in my predictions of the future only have AMD and others have tried and failed.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
"It wouldn't scale up" is common conservative response to progressive or liberal comparisons that involve suggestions of doing it (anything) some other way. So while the EU plugs away making incremental improvements each year
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think game dev is the way it is because so many romanticize game development. A ton of grads fresh out of college want to get in and are competing for a the limited (but large) amount of work it takes to make a game. The big a-hole studio
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by sqeaky 9y ago
It gets worse when you think about how often those "screwed" people that make 5x the median income of an area, make software that replaces 10,000 jobs. This software often comes in an app store and is given away for free with an a
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I am a consultant that writes software, does that mean I am not a programmer. If wasn't supporting a whole raft of people who aren't my kids I could get by on 10 hours a week. Most of these people will be self sufficient in the fa
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by sqeaky 9y ago
There is a competitive advantage in having real loyalty from employees. Treating people well makes them want to be loyal. Even Walmart has started realizing this. It turns out that when you hire unmotivated people, pay them as little as pos
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I am well aware of the quote and its use in stopping analysis for a further reason, because it is the reason. I don't see why there is a threshold between moonshot and mars colonization, it seems arbitrary to me. Could you explain to m
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Every group of people was self sufficient (or dead) at some point. We just want to keep improving our quality of life at rate that demands more division of labor. Scale that back a bit, of course colonists with have a lower quality of life,
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Perhaps not all people are poor because of bad decisions, but perhaps at least some are.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think whatever is on your disk is less valuable than humanity as a species. I think the amount of backup you can "afford" should be relative to the value of the thing being backed up. Backing up is also not the strongest reason
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Curiosity is also a unique tool of science. A business could approach this differently. A business doing this would drop several hundred of the same machine on mars. If they were semi-autonomous like Curiosity and controlled from earth each
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Doesn't matter if Vegas does it or not the Casino I set up on Mars will!
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Colonists don't take round trips, otherwise they would be visitors.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Why does it being "easier" matter?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
The condescending things about your post were your implicit assumptions that the other poster was incapable of basic math, the presumption that as soon as he saw the basic the math he would turn to your way of thinking, the presumption that
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by sqeaky 9y ago
This sounds like an argument against backup plans in principal. The idea of backups is to have another, "just in case". You can't always know, so have as many backups as you can afford. But here are some concrete examples of
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by sqeaky 9y ago
"Rational" is overrated, I think a better goal is something like "avoid stupidity". There are plenty of things that seem irrational because people don't calibrate their risk/reward calculations correctly. Anyth
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I mostly agree that Intel has a two pronged problem. Will CPUs become a commodity when GPUs are where the real competition is at? What does Intel look like in that world? Could Nvidia make a "good enough" CPU?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I agree with you. It is hard to get a computer to perform well many different skillets. Currently, I can only get a really good omellete and pancakes when the skillet dimensions are precisely known. EDIT - Jokes of this calibre deserve down
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Do you have an example that doesn't involve children at all? I am not touching one with them because of the other needless complications they introduce.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Intel's pants seemed to be glued to their for pretty much the whole run of the Pentium 4. AMD invented the 64 bti x86 and crushed Itanium during this time. Then Intel sorted their problems out and we saw Core 2. They haven't let u
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Plenty of countries don't have large banks of conventionally armed cruise missiles, like Riper used. Pretty much just the US, Russia and Maybe China could assemble something like that quickly. Aircraft carriers are still useful, they j
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think he was talking about hypothetical slackers that work as FTEs. If not for their fuck ups, The spaghetti code wouldn't exist and neither would the job of cleaning it up.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I find that I reach for metaprogramming for two reasons. First reason: I have been programmed into a corner. This needs to be tomorrow and a rewrite is out of the question and normally refactorings simply can't get the job done. I need
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Can you come up with another example that doesn't sound like Child Exploitation? We should stick to one form of abuse at a time.

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