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by tspike 10y ago
> Can't this be taken to unhealthy extremes? Sure it can. Happiness is orthogonal to ethicality or mental health. The line is not a line but rather a homeostatic balance subject to your own priorities and your culture's definit
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by tspike 10y ago
Care to contribute one you do find appealing?
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by tspike 10y ago
Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind. I conceive a strip-miner to be a model exploiter, and as a model nurturer I take the old-fashioned idea or ideal of a farmer. The exploite
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by tspike 10y ago
What is your objection to mechanically processed meat? Sure, the process doesn't sound appetizing, but it's a way to ensure that all the meat on an animal is used, which IMHO is a good thing. Also, for what it's worth, neithe
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by tspike 10y ago
> liberal art's curriculum Is this the result of independent study? ;) In all seriousness, my linguistics degree was worth every penny. Spending that much time with incredibly bright people with broad perspectives focused solely on
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by tspike 11y ago
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review puts a name to this new neurological phenomenon: Attention Deficit Trait. Basically, the terms ADD and ADHD are falling out of use because effectively the entire population fits the diagnosti
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by tspike 11y ago
I don't envy being their social media person right now.
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by tspike 11y ago
They spent $42.5mm on the station. Other comparable stations in the region cost ~$500k. The title is a little misleading. The Pentagon asserts they cannot provide information on the gas station project because it was part of a discontinued
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by tspike 11y ago
Can you give an example?
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by tspike 11y ago
I'll let you in on a secret: I don't trust any of the code I write. I've been programming for decades, and I still keep making the same stupid mistakes. I'd love to work with this guy. Overconfidence is not a virtue in
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by tspike 11y ago
On the flipside, the phone is what you always have with you, in a given moment, and reaching for a device in your pocket is much faster than going back to the car to dig through your camera bag for your massive SLR. I say this as someone wh
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by tspike 11y ago
They don't disclose revenue. Where are you getting that information?
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by tspike 11y ago
Yeah, I certainly understand the drive to provide the "best X, Y, and Z" for kids, but I'm pretty satisfied with reducing expenses and providing "good enough X, Y, and Z" for my son in exchange for not being stresse
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by tspike 11y ago
It's similar for me. Pretty much every quality contract I've had has come from friends or former colleagues.
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by tspike 11y ago
I can imagine it would be extremely stressful to lose an income stream with high expenses, but we have gone to great lengths to reduce (financial) risk. We live in an apartment on the lower level of our house and AirBnB the upstairs, which
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by tspike 11y ago
FWIW, I do, and I do essentially the same thing as OP. Your comment implies that the two are incompatible: why do you think that is the case?
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by tspike 11y ago
Programmers are in a distinctly privileged position with respect to freeing up time, if that is a priority for you. For us there are only two prerequisites: 1) Be good at what you do. 2) Keep your expenses well below your means. With these
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by tspike 11y ago
I'd wager that most AirBnB stays are one-offs on vacation. Home cleaning is recurring, making it more vulnerable to the "here's my phone number" weakness.
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by tspike 11y ago
This could be amazing as input to a question answering engine.
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by tspike 11y ago
First of all, thanks for the nice writeup. I hate that comments tend to hone in on nitpicking, but so it goes. My apologies in advance. > If you're just starting out with a new web application, it should probably be an SPA. Your rea
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by tspike 11y ago
Nah, the approach is sound. We did this for a Flask app that used celery, redis, etc and we were happy with it. For the software, use a .deb, for the configuration, use a configuration management tool like Ansible.
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by tspike 11y ago
Where do I look for those organizations?
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by tspike 11y ago
The vast majority of the job postings I see are for companies optimizing the way other companies sell stuff to consumers. I don't find any meaning in that. Even the "great" jobs (ones where you can focus purely on a technical
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by tspike 11y ago
If you're accomplishing cohesive, important goals with your sprint, why do you care about thumb twiddling or some refactoring? If those doing the thumb twiddling are important team members who are tangential to this sprint, why not off
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by tspike 11y ago
I have a feeling you didn't even read the article and instead interpreted the headline to mean "we use whatever technology generates lots of blog posts," which was my interpretation too, prior to reading the article which is
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by tspike 11y ago
How do you measure that? My team just took tons of heat because there was a complex performance issue that needed our full attention. We clearly communicated that we would need a large chunk of time to solve it, and while we tried to stay r
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by tspike 12y ago
Yeah, I'd be pretty annoyed if I thought I was going to get a social introduction and a tour around an office and then unexpectedly had to do a full technical interview.
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by tspike 12y ago
> I realized that my work was technically obsolete as hell, and not really of any value. For all of the benefits of the internet, I see this as a tragic side effect. Rather than just trying something and seeing if it works, the first ins
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by tspike 12y ago
The fact that you're an outlier doesn't mean that the findings of the study are invalid. There are lots of people who are genuinely good at their jobs, but who would do something completely different with their lives if a billion
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by tspike 12y ago
Because it's got a big list of n-grams and knows what words are more commonly used than others. It uses a predictive model to generate a list of words from your swipe, and then sorts that according to usage. It also continuously learns

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