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by thunk 17y ago
"Management on a maker's schedule" is a powerful idea. Imagine the world under that paradigm. So much quieter. Unrelatedly, for some reason I'm leery of terms like 'office hours'. They seem ... infantilising. I guess 'office hours' is a p
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by thunk 17y ago
I find it really helpful to have a duplicate-and-comment-block command, so you can immediately start hacking on an uncommented dup. Used with another command to dump blocks to a junk file, it's like a wee block-level SCM.
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by thunk 17y ago
It affects different people in different ways, but I find it incredibly beneficial when used in moderation and for a purpose. A cup of tea and a glass bowl of dank will often enhance my ability to visualize whatever problem I'm wrestling wi
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by thunk 17y ago
I'm trying to solve, once and for all, the problem of hacking music on a computer, using Lisp and a couple venerable libs. You'll all be the first to know when I release the alpha (very soon).
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by thunk 17y ago
This looks to me like an area that could benefit from some automated infrastructure.
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by thunk 17y ago
Ben Franklin as motivational speaker. Title: Industry! Frugality!
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by thunk 17y ago
Silly fashionable people. They're so fashionable. The kid was cool tho.
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by thunk 17y ago
I'm all for book reviews by HN for HN.
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by thunk 17y ago
A lot of people are just inherently contrarian. When something crosses a certain popularity threshhold, it's disqualified -- that simple. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just that it exists. I find that I'm that way about everything exc
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by thunk 17y ago
A newspaper? Creating an actually functional value-added seed funding firm? Well, I was about to snark a mighty snark, but I guess crazier things have happened.
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by thunk 17y ago
Suddenly Sudoku seems the most natural thing in the world.
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by thunk 17y ago
As far as maintenance of telerobots, in the extreme case it's performed by other telerobots, manned by call centers full of "certified" gamers 10 or 10,000 miles away. Maybe not even call centers. Maybe employees are just perpetually on cal
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by thunk 17y ago
Well, you seem to be dissagreeing, then agreeing with me, which is fine. I don't know where your 30 year deadline came from. Betting against the accuracy, efficiency, scalability and lower cost of our tools hasn't historically been a smart
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by thunk 17y ago
"... fixing bikes has given him 'a place in society,' as well as an 'economically viable' job that won’t evaporate or get moved overseas." At least until telerobotics delocalizes skilled labor. Like it or not, there's no guarantee of job s