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by undoware 13y ago
Thank you sir. I am going to print this off and put it up on my motivational wall. Being a female founder is difficult, and it's posts like this that give me the strength to keep pushing. Now stop gabbing on HN and go get me a coffee,
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by undoware 13y ago
This is very cool, but could we please stop calling things a tipping point? The tipping point for 'tipping point' was when Groupon stopped being thetippingpoint.com. Since then it's just been shorthand for 'change is hap
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by undoware 13y ago
Yay, a car company is choosing between two closed-source, almost certainly compromised, podunk OSes. It's not that either is particularly bad (even though at least one is); it's that there is a free, as-good-or-better option. It&#
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by undoware 13y ago
Your soul is probably waking up. That's the black lung of coding. You have three, maybe four choices. Visual arts, music, and writing, with performing with an asterisk (it's not for everyone.) Get used to being a lot poorer, but h
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by undoware 13y ago
band name. Called it.
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by undoware 13y ago
This is why I always jog with a cigarette.
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by undoware 13y ago
I usually just put everything in inittab. ;D
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by undoware 13y ago
No, my response is on evaluating the character of people that immediately leap to a technical solution without asking (a) who the solution benefits (apart from some a dodgy mention of an absent, undocumented statistic) (b) whether there is
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by undoware 13y ago
2007: If sub-prime loans were really a problem, why hasn't the market crashed yet? 2008: Oh.
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by undoware 13y ago
Bump this n times. I love it when activists get blamed for doing it wrong, where 'it' basically boils out to 'trying'.
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by undoware 13y ago
The answer is obvious. HN is not a bastion of independent journalism -- it is the 2014 edition of a trade rag. This is not to say HN is evil. Think of all the problems that legitimate news outfits have with conflicts of interest. Now take
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by undoware 13y ago
Oh, and also? The black humour was intentional. It is charming that you took it to be your discovery, but I will leave the obvious speculations on the table. While furiously glancing at them.
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by undoware 13y ago
Is pointing out an ethical blind spot really 'being an asshole'? And yes, I'm playing armchair psychiatrist, because the only alternative is to think less of people. I'd rather understand them than judge. And you? HN wil
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by undoware 13y ago
Yeah, but that just means that those with mental illness -- hi, btw -- probably require more treatment than they've been getting. A story. Up here in Vancouver, the police recently released a study showing that the thing we did in the
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by undoware 13y ago
I find it fascinating that this got downvoted; I'm not taking it personally, but think about this for a second: - Frank: People keep killing themselves. - Larry: Put up a wall. - Frank: Nah, too expensive. What do you really think of
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by undoware 13y ago
...or, you know, we could just fix the underlying social injustices that cause so many people to seek to end their lives that it causes friggin delays in my busy little life. Those jerks.
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by undoware 13y ago
...and yet, had he succeeded, we would be praising him. Google the 'moral luck' paradox, it applies here.
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by undoware 13y ago
This is a beautiful, visionary optimization of something that desperately needs work. Bookmarks are a hilariously shitty way of organizing knowledge, and without them, you only have information. Yet. The problems addressed aren't the p
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by undoware 13y ago
Aside from the incredible usefulness of the data herein -- thanks, backblaze! -- this is also the kind of marketing that I don't mind. Backblaze got egg on its face yesterday on HN when someone's critical report (rightly) got upvo
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by undoware 13y ago
Pause the baby-photo gawking for a moment and consider the argument that's still valid. There's an interesting reason why it is not entirely possible to separate content from presentation: one cannot be abstracted from the other.
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by undoware 13y ago
How did the rapgenius pitch to 'affiliates' go? "That shit will BLOW UP!!!" Here's hoping they're right. Again.
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by undoware 13y ago
No, what OpenBSD needs is a broader FOSS community that doesn't turn every bump in the road into a referendum on bruised feelings from years ago, and recognizes its indebtedness. I type 'ssh' how many times a day? Not that I
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by undoware 13y ago
Simulating a quantum system in a classical mechanical system may be possible in a limited sense, for trivial problems, but certainly not at speed. It's straight up P v NP. You will boil an ocean to watch any nontrivial simulation crawl
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by undoware 13y ago
yes. And yet here, for the first time, is evidence he might have been right. This is where we all look at our shoes and mutter something about burdens of proof. Note that it is still possible to describe consciousness as a computer -- it ju
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by undoware 13y ago
You're right, there's a lot going on, but -- and you are just going to have to believe me on this -- each method gives me something the others don't. As will ori. And honestly, I don't mind the extra moving parts: having
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by undoware 13y ago
I'm already struggling with a diversity of versioning solutions. I'm obviously going to be adding ori to the roster somewhere -- it looks AWESOME -- but I'm also increasingly frustrated with the fact that there is no meta-le
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by undoware 13y ago
Only if we can call ourselves 'Agents of S.H.E.L.L.'.
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by undoware 13y ago
I agree with Dijkstra that Haskell should be taught in undergraduate courses. That's where we boil away most of the really bad, theory-ahead-of-practice CS ideas that academe cultivates. And I say this as a lover of both Haskell and un
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by undoware 13y ago
I'm not sure what the OP 'mergy' intended, but I'd guess that the intended reason had to do with better ecosystem curation. Under the hood, my understanding is that .rpm is marginally inferior to .dpkg, but not remarkabl
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by undoware 13y ago
You're misreading it, it's actually a clever bit of self-deprecation that I'm going to steal the next time people are looking at me enviously.

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