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by staunch 6y ago
This is a bit silly. You never developed an addiction to cigarettes so you were able to easily quit smoking them. Well, yeah, of course. The hard part is quitting something when you want to but cannot make yourself i.e. addictions are what
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by staunch 6y ago
Some are lamenting that PG's work on Bel doesn't seem meaningful in terms of the practical programming world of building things, like many of us do in our jobs. But I think Bel is best viewed as PG painting with code. He lost inte
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by staunch 6y ago
If you're locked down at home, so not sharing air with strangers, then fomites are basically the only risk of exposure. There's no good reason not reduce it to near zero with basic sanitation procedures.
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by staunch 6y ago
1. Was just a flat out lie by various public health officials that they justified for the greater good. It was probably the biggest and easiest-to-prevent mistake of the pandemic, and it certainly cost many lives. 2. It still makes sense to
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by staunch 6y ago
Cloud services like Amazon's AWS, Google's GCP, and Microsoft Azure are the proprietary operating systems of the modern day. Today, they're doing many of the bad-for-the-world things that Microsoft did with Windows in the 90s
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by staunch 6y ago
> The next time someone claims that starting startups is for rich kids, remind them that Airbnb happened because its founders literally could not pay their rent. Starting startups is not just for rich kids. But it is dominated by ric
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by staunch 6y ago
The blame for what he was forced to do belongs with the officials that were violating the constitution. They should be exiled for failing to uphold their oaths. Instead, Snowden is in exile. Snowden was just the first honorable American to
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by staunch 6y ago
It would be hard to define how large hella bytes is but I know it when I see it.
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by staunch 6y ago
Yeah, this is such a cool thing. The kind of thing I remember talking with people about before smartphones made it actually possible. Lots of stuff like that is happening and it's exciting!
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by staunch 6y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/ They don't say that and that doc doesn't even mention traction. And, amusingly, it points to Dropbox's application as example of how to apply. When in reality it w
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by staunch 6y ago
Congrats on the startup success and (more importantly) I hope your daughter is well. There's a really valuable lesson here for would-be YC founders: > We had high hopes about getting into YC for the winter batch, but were rejected
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by staunch 6y ago
thatsthejoke.gif :P
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by staunch 6y ago
You must not have seen https://godoc.org/?q=tailetc
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by staunch 6y ago
> I guess Go package discovery remains an unsolved problem. Or did you just not really search, like most of us excited to DIY? :-D Godoc is pretty good, the package shows up for the searches I'd probably do in a similar situation.
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by staunch 6y ago
Even smart good people have to fire people. Dropbox clearly overextended itself, which was a mistake and is entirely the CEO's fault. But the severance package is the best way to judge their ethics in these cases. It looks like they&#x
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by staunch 6y ago
Every private company in the U.S. is compelled by law to offer goods and services regardless of race, religion, etc. Adding political affiliation to the list of protected classes probably makes sense. It seems odd that it's not on the
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by staunch 6y ago
I'd rather it be an "open letter" in this case. No action was taken to un-silence abusively flagged threads, as far as I can see. This is as close to HN moderation "transparency" as we get.
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by staunch 6y ago
@dang there is some clearly abusive use of flagging to silence opposing views in this thread. A sign of just how intolerant so many people have become. Please do something about it, like removing flag permissions from these users or making
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by staunch 6y ago
Okay, okay, fine HN. I'll go exercise. I was just about to!
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by staunch 6y ago
No
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by staunch 6y ago
Yes, of course, safe to say everyone on HN knows this. Twitter banning Trump isn't such a big deal. He can get a web site and email service from AWS or other cloud providers. But what if the cloud providers ban his web site and email?
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by staunch 6y ago
Whatever you think about Trump, he has First Amendment rights under the U.S. constitution. If violating the law, he should be punished, but it is not up to private companies to revoke constitutional rights. Trump still has the right to spea
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by staunch 6y ago
I'm genuinely curious what Gumroad Creators are selling. Is it 95% porn revenue, with a veneer of ebooks and videos? Or is there actually a sizable market for other digital goods?
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by staunch 6y ago
And beyond environment, it's likely (but not certain) that your child's genetics predispose them to enjoy programming, if you do. From John Carmack Twitter's feed, it sounds like his kid is well on his way to being a great pr
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by staunch 6y ago
The 7 yo's interest here were the games though, not so much the programming, right? PC games have been the gateway drug for a huge number of programmers. I think it works in at least a few ways: 1. You discover the amazing power and va
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by staunch 6y ago
I meant the latter but the former is probably true as well. It does seem telling that elite military units don't operate much like the bulk of the military does.
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by staunch 6y ago
The hierarchical org structure in software companies is so broken. It has all the problems of a monolithic/centralized design and very few benefits. It's copied from people that were copying military organization which makes no se
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by staunch 6y ago
I saw this in one of your other posts and it seems super interesting to me. 1. Improve the web site slightly (add a contact method and pricing info) and make it clear that it's a company offering an enterprise software tool. Programmer
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by staunch 6y ago
So, you're in favor of maintaining slave labor as long as possible? Got it!
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by staunch 6y ago
Yeah 4 GB is definitely not required if you're just routing on your router. In my case, my router also runs various services. Thanks for those links!

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