supermw

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by supermw 8y ago
What year were you born? Because it's pretty clear there must be a generation of programmers who never grew up with the whole hacker mythos of the 90s or early 2000s. Some people's only experience with the word "hacker"
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by supermw 8y ago
Having cloned organs ready for transplant won't extend life as much as you think. A lot of this doesn't mean much if you can't replace a faulty circulatory system, which will inevitably cause organs to fail even if they are b
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by supermw 8y ago
I'm not thinking of crackers. Hackers do create things. Sometimes malicious things and sometimes things that offer no real benefit to society, but things all the same. In this definition you have to take the good with the bad.
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by supermw 8y ago
This is Hacker news, as in whites, blacks, and gray hats. Some people here make money through cool silicon valley startups that make for great success porn but don't forget that some people here also make money doing shady or even d
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by supermw 8y ago
Wouldn't it be very diluted, to the point it is no more harmful than whatever else may be in that river water?
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by supermw 8y ago
If that's true then why do people go nuts if you shit in a river while camping?
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by supermw 8y ago
Maybe there's a machine learning solution. If we could have devices that could somehow probe the temperature of the water on an X,Y graph and detect when the ambient temperature around an individual has changed we can sound an alarm to
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by supermw 8y ago
My mother still has old uranium glassware in her home. Not really sure if it's dangerous or not but it's pretty cool to see in person.
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by supermw 8y ago
Too big to be interesting. As the cohorts grow in size, the returns begin to mirror the returns of the entire startup market. It's the difference between having a large index fund, and having a portfolio of 5-10 good companies. Basical
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by supermw 8y ago
The age of prestigious incubators and accelerators is coming to an end IMO. As we wrap up the 2010s, I feel that a lot of the entrepreneurial wave in this decade was catalyzed by the founding of mobile app stores, the network effects of exp
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by supermw 8y ago
One good application of this tech is old movies with poor frame rates. The WW1 documentary They Shall Not Grow Old uses a technique like this.
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by supermw 8y ago
Interesting: In some Christian SciFi stories the missing mass has been attributed to the mass of heaven and hell.
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by supermw 8y ago
What if another state gave the concessions, and then it worked out spectacularly for them, completely reviving a city and building up a new ecosystem that funnels in new wealth and new money. Would NY be kicking itself then?
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by supermw 8y ago
Kids are tiny adults in progress, not your personal maker project. They should be afforded as much autonomy as possible, where your only role is to keep them safe and healthy until they can reach an age where they can do so themselves. If a
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by supermw 8y ago
I want to believe, but I'm skeptical. Without any actual metric to measure how amazing the lights look, you have to rely on people's subjective opinions. One person's "amazing" light show could just be faint wisps t
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by supermw 8y ago
Capture the File.
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by supermw 8y ago
You're right. It's like when people lump IT and Software Engineers together. I should have said UI.
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by supermw 8y ago
How about neither?
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by supermw 8y ago
The United States has the greatest reward for those who fight in its military: You are an American hero, a soldier of the greatest most powerful country in the world, and not just because we say so.
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by supermw 8y ago
> Dazzling green and red light displays regularly dance across the night sky- OK I'm going to stop this right here. The Northern Lights do not dazzle you with the incredible green light displays you see in pictures. In real life
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by supermw 8y ago
I see this all the time. It is a symptom of blowhard UX designers who don't understand there's a difference between mass consumer and enterprise app design. They look at a shitty looking enterprise interface and snort "I can
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by supermw 8y ago
Relax. The United States could easily pay off its debt if it should be necessary. Inflation makes it cheaper to delay paying it off for as long as possible. There are still debts out there from the 1600s being paid off. In the 2400s, we wil
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by supermw 8y ago
Instead of offering dumb 1-way trips to Mars why not create round trips to the Moon and back? You can see Earth from the surface of the moon, see the lunar lander, drive a lunar rover, bounce around for a bit then hop in your module and hea
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by supermw 8y ago
You would probably earn more if you marketed as a consultant or agency.
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by supermw 8y ago
With context api and hooks you don't need redux or mobx. Not that either one was really all that necessary in the first place anyway.
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by supermw 8y ago
Why do people insist on comparing the initial frontload of a SPA to the page load of every page in their SSR web app? Once a SPA is loaded you can send tiny crumbs of data faster than any significant SSR.
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by supermw 8y ago
He's not a freelancer, he's a consultant. Freelancers are hungry and pressed for money. They are commodities competing for jobs around the world which go to the lowest bidder. They are the opposite of free, they are always on the
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by supermw 8y ago
Not so certainly. Climate change could ravage the world hard and natural resources could dwindle to almost nothing, putting the race in a crude survivalist mindset where there is no time to improve modern medicine or even learn it. Generati
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by supermw 8y ago
I used to own Macs as well and then I got a Thinkpad, which has long been hailed as the ultimate hacker's laptop. If you are looking for something that is of the quality of a Macbook this is what you want. Personally I've also wan
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by supermw 8y ago
They should have said $178,000,000 in transactions.

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