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by thothamon 7y ago
I think Steve Jobs said the only way to be great at what you do is to do what you love. And I would add the only way to really amp up your income is to be as great as you possibly can be at what you do, and always look to be better. I had a
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by thothamon 7y ago
In my career, I've had a handful of occasions where someone mentored me. When they do, you can learn very, very rapidly. But as good and valuable as that is, I think everyone needs the experience of solving multiple, hard problems most
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by thothamon 7y ago
But the specific question is, do you keep a phone in your home? If so, how is that better than having Alexa in your home?
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by thothamon 7y ago
I agree with much of your argument, but what makes you say so confidently that we capture or punish almost all of the people who engage in child exploitation?
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by thothamon 7y ago
d) Constantly changing jobs every time some jerk floats into your circle doesn’t speak well of your character or look good on your resume.
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by thothamon 7y ago
First of all, I would have had no idea that's what "domain join" meant. But second, I love how the option is down there with "terms of use" and other things you're very unlikely to ever read or look at. And thi
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by thothamon 7y ago
If this works as described and there are no tricks (such as Google changing your account password from their servers to a known password and then logging in), then that is a great step in the right direction. A very important next step woul
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by thothamon 7y ago
I appreciate the good things Google does for me; they are many. But I don't think protecting my privacy, much less securing my data even from themselves, is their priority.
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by thothamon 7y ago
Apple has done its best to secure customer privacy not only from bad actors and the government, but even from Apple itself, something that is certainly not true of Google. Apple went to the mat to protect its customers from the FBI. That ea
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by thothamon 7y ago
I have no concerns about having a build pipeline per se. My concern is that it's still way too complex and difficult. I think it could be made to be much simpler for 90 percent of cases, while still maintaining optional complexity for
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by thothamon 7y ago
I could split hairs and suggest that the browser accept the phony CA and simply use a secondary encryption layer on top of it, but that misses your point. A sufficiently clever evil government will see that you're doing something encry
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by thothamon 7y ago
For my money, to be an acceptable Python, you have to be able to use the Python numeric, scientific and machine learning libraries -- or have other libraries that are just as good or better. That is the number one reason I would use Python
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by thothamon 8y ago
So the thing here is Apple would never have announced the product and pumped it the way they have unless someone who at the time was highly respected said with very high confidence that it could be done. Not only that, but a lot of other ex
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by thothamon 8y ago
Ugh, I think you get to pick between "strict purity" and something other than strict purity -- you can't have both. You can't deliberately tolerate something you deem to be devilish without becoming morally soiled by it.
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by thothamon 8y ago
No accounting for taste, but to me those icons are rather unsightly. From a utilitarian point of view, they might be good, but for art (at the time) I would have looked at NeXT icons.
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by thothamon 8y ago
This code reminds me of why ML-like languages with Maybe-style types and case expressions that generate compiler errors for missed alternatives are good. I bet rewriting this in OCaml or Haskell would lead to tighter code and might even une
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by thothamon 8y ago
My sense of the comment was not that he was trying to change your mind, but rather saying it seems unusual to be so fixated on the escape key that nothing else matters. Having said that, yes, Apple should allow individuals to, for example,
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by thothamon 8y ago
All the flaws mentioned are valid enough, but most don't resonate with me as strong negatives, with the exception of iTunes, which is a bloated, slow, nasty mess. That aside, a big deal for me is that Mac laptops max out at 16GB. That&
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by thothamon 8y ago
I guess you're right that Linus was saying that -- after all, he considers the standard to be less important than toilet paper. Regardless, if standards should be questioned, then surely Linus also should be questioned. I think a bette
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by thothamon 9y ago
In theory yes, but back in the PPC days a lot of stuff was not available even though theoretically it could have been.
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by thothamon 9y ago
True, but right now I don't have to do it myself. Things like brew just work. If the proposal is to throw away something that works, and add the burden of doing it myself to my to-do list, that doesn't sound at all appealing.
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by thothamon 9y ago
Well. We'll see what they do, but Apple had better be very careful. If a lot of OSS software won't run on Apple's new chip, then it becomes very hard for a software developer like myself to stick with Apple. And it is develop
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by thothamon 9y ago
I reluctantly agree that in the context of a classroom discussion, a sexualized (even if SFW) image is not ideal, primarily because it's a distraction from the subject. I also recognize the point that technical disciplines have enough
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by thothamon 9y ago
In practice, if something was truly open-source, there'd be nothing to prevent someone who didn't like you from building your app with each new release and putting on a web site for anyone to download for free. You might be the ki
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by thothamon 9y ago
In the US, we are loose about the term "city." The "city" I live in has a population of I 76,000. The neighboring town, Fort Collins, has a population of 164,000. But in 1990, my town, Loveland, only had 40,000 residents
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by thothamon 9y ago
Keyboard Maestro is one of the most underrated apps for power users. I had it for a long time and finally began to realize what amazing power you get with this tool. Others also mentioned BetterTouchTool. With that and Keyboard Maestro, if
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by thothamon 10y ago
Here's one that I think is the most important key. Pick a very small sub-piece of the habit you want to build, and EASY sub-piece. If you want to work out, then this might mean getting your workout clothes on. This is the minimum thing
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by thothamon 10y ago
No one is talking about legal punishments for Trump (even though he threatened to jail Hillary if he won). We're talking about Y Combinator doing business with someone who is substantially and actively supporting a racist.
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by thothamon 10y ago
There are many historical examples of countries with legitimate governments that were taken over by a demagogue or tyrant. You can't imagine a sane person could fear the same outcome in the United States? Democracy has to be re-earned
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by thothamon 10y ago
Exactly. There is no First Amendment protection against _social consequences_ for abhorrent speech. Companies that choose to protect people who threaten the values of democracy are _choosing to do so because they want to_, not because of so

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