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541.
by vacri 9y ago
If his company was a competitor, why would he say that he used Slack for internal communication?
542.
by vacri 9y ago
Slack's success comes from their buttery-smooth onboarding process, not the technical capabilities of their product. It's just so easy for a non-techie to set up an account with them.
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by vacri 9y ago
You're making the same mistake in reverse. The p-value is not a marker of correctness, but of confidence. If something doesn't reach the p-value cutoff, that doesn't mean that the effect doesn't exist, just that it didn&
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by vacri 9y ago
One of my favourite comments from a lecturer in my applied science degree: "In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is". We encountered so many times when theory said one thing but it d
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by vacri 9y ago
I'm a software engineer with a degree in neurophysiology (partial phd), though no degree in physics (just an interest). Would you care to actually back up your appeal-to-authority there with some actual commentary? Or are we just going
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by vacri 9y ago
It was just a simple example that AWS is more than compute cores and disk space.
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by vacri 9y ago
I'm just tired of seeing Yet Another AWS Debunking on HN that is solely concerned with hardware specifications and ignores the myriad of other reasons someone might go for AWS. Particularly someone who doesn't have access to 10+ y
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by vacri 9y ago
Hrm. I remember looking up the minimum salaries about a decade or so ago and was surprised to see that they were so low. Maybe my source was out of date.
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by vacri 9y ago
Programming is a craft, and is much closer to photoshop than physics.
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by vacri 9y ago
Ah, that nasty AWS vendor lockin. Guess I'll just run my own CDN then, shouldn't be hard (can't use other vendors, because lock-in). L'il ol me running edge nodes all over the five continents where we have clients. I&#x2
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by vacri 9y ago
How do you flip a volume on the fly? I thought you had to do the "snapshot > make new volume > reattach" route edit: thanks for the info, znep (hit my comment limit, hence the edit... )
552.
by vacri 9y ago
... not sure why 'video game development' is in Science and Technology rather than Digital Art. Good on 'em though, hope it flourishes.
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by vacri 9y ago
> 'MY LIFE IS BETTER THAN YOURS'. At that moment I realized what Facebook is about I don't do the facebook thing myself, but close friends do, and they use it as a social organiser, not an arena for braggadocio. Want to
554.
by vacri 9y ago
Minimum salary increased relatively recently. About a decade ago you could find NFL benchwarmers on not much more than 50k.
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by vacri 9y ago
Religious people tend to keep their heads down in STEM communities anyway, because if they make too much noise, they'll be asked to provide evidence, which is antithetical to the very premise of religions. It's a STEM-community th
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by vacri 9y ago
When every side project is wildly different and requires learning considerable new skills, there's clearly something else going on besides unenjoyable work just to bootstrap a business.
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by vacri 9y ago
> I’ve learned a lot, but what’s the point without application? An entertaining hobby? People who do archery for a hobby don't bemoan that they've spent another Saturday shooting arrows at targets without making a cent, and t
558.
by vacri 9y ago
Similarly, humans are getting more long-lived and taller at the same time.
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by vacri 9y ago
When I was growing up, there was a definite fear of Mutually Assured Destruction, which disappeared with the fall of the Soviet Union. On a more local scale, in the 80s in Australia there was a huge fear of European Wasps - you could even b
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by vacri 9y ago
> HN is the same way when it relates to political news (i.e. liberal, one-sided, pretty much echo-chamber) HN is one of those places where everyone thinks that there are plenty of "the other side" here. There are plenty of fi
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by vacri 9y ago
It's bizarre that every intro to Esperanto seems to find it important to note that it was created by an oculist.
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by vacri 9y ago
Move to linux and use Shutter :) Shutter is great for screenshots, both taking and annotating/editing.
563.
by vacri 9y ago
GIMP is the only one I'm familiar with, and it doesn't "just work". There is a definite and steep learning curve, including why you can't 'just save an image' like you save any other document.
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by vacri 9y ago
The ipad sounded like a menstrual product for about a year, then it lost that connotation...
565.
by vacri 9y ago
> Try to raise 2 kids and you fall into poverty status. When was this never the case? Kids have always been costly, and families in poverty have always had kids.
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by vacri 9y ago
That's the problem of being a maintainer. You point at something and say "that's still working", and no-one knows if it's because nothing has happened anyway, or because you ended up fixing some fatal error in it. N
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by vacri 9y ago
So you're saying that NYC's infrastructure (the city in the article's opening paragraph) is crumbling because there's no economic activity bringing money into the city?
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by vacri 9y ago
I should say to take my comments with a grain of salt - that's how I heard her English parts. I really have no idea if there were just as many negative comments in her Thai. Just a bit of curious anecdata, please salt well.
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by vacri 9y ago
In order to make 100 babies in 1 year, you need a minimum of 1 man and 100 women. Men actually are more disposable in terms of propagation of the species. However, our societies are considerably more complex than that one fact; it's a
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by vacri 9y ago
I dunno about you, but I don't want a 16yo designing the bridges that I drive over.

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