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by vonseel 8y ago
Sometimes Dude is also one of the best engineers you know when he can just get some “heads down” time to himself, but when forced to be in an environment with many easy distractions, he acts like a kid on the playground. Or something.
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by vonseel 8y ago
What the heck... this guy just wrote more words on his personal infra than I have probably written in my lifetime. In all seriousness, everything said in the top ranked comment by chubot - ditto here. The article was too long for me to fini
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by vonseel 8y ago
Sources, please. This sounds like bullshit to me.
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by vonseel 8y ago
That sounds like a great app, thanks for the tip
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by vonseel 8y ago
Having just turned 30, this resonates with me too well. Seeing it on paper helps a bit, but it still sucks. Along the lines of what others have said in this thread, I hate. Hate. Hate. Sitting at a desk for my job and staring into a little
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by vonseel 8y ago
Abstractions over abstractions over abstractions. Shaking my damn head. I’ve only been in the industry 7 years or so, but I’ve already begun to prefer sticking with standard operating procedures - like using Dockerfiles for Docker, or using
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by vonseel 8y ago
Hmm, uploaded a few midi files. It showed one building and then no buildings or anything at all below the play (stop) button. What kind of midi data is this expecting?
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by vonseel 8y ago
Well, guess I won’t make it past the first few dozen, then.
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by vonseel 8y ago
I can’t wait. Seriously, of all instruments, things like vocals are one of the most heartbreaking to work on and learn. Born male and want to sound like a female singer? You’ll never be able to do that. Same applies for women who wish they
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by vonseel 8y ago
I think you’re overestimating how independent each instruments section of the frequency spectrum is, even after mixing engineers cutting EQ to make places like you said. The reality is, even instruments like kick drum or bass guitar have si
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by vonseel 8y ago
Makes sense since panning bass would be an odd thing to do.
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by vonseel 8y ago
I’ve always wondered how some people manage to get their engagement rates so high. Like 20-25% of followers liking their posts, some with 50-60k followers. Or sometimes it’s a similar percentage but a normal persons account with 300-1000 fo
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by vonseel 8y ago
> sharing the road with full-size cars, trucks and SUVs. As a Texan, I strongly agree with you. That said, I’m still a proud driver of a regular sedan - no need for a massive truck or anything like that.
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by vonseel 8y ago
Hrm, your example was quite glaring in its flaws, most of the images I saw, on the other hand, looked quite flawless. I actually came here to disagree with someone else who stated the images he saw had alien-like alarming characteristics, o
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Google Forces Saving JPG as WebP?
4 points by vonseel 8y ago|2 comments
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by vonseel 8y ago
This should not have been downvoted (at least the first part of the comment). The commenter before explicitly stated in his ideal world land would be taxed at a fair value instead of people purchasing it and owning forever..
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by vonseel 8y ago
Incredibly accurate. The author sounds like the weakest, laziest man ever except as an illustrator, at which he is actually quite good. Also, how do you not realize that it’s going to be a pain in the ass to carry (possibly dozens) of scoot
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by vonseel 8y ago
We’re about the same age. I agree with most of your statements. Success is not only determined by how much parents spend on education, though. It’s a lot harder to start a Facebook or Apple in 2019 than it was in 1980 or 2004. Or to start a
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by vonseel 8y ago
Software Engineer in San Francisco Bay Area median base salary $120,000/yr Salesperson in Houston, Texas median base salary $29,000/yr Hmm, neither of these make me feel especially good about income potential available currently.
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by vonseel 8y ago
Hmm, I would have guessed differently but I was also an undergrad biology dropout :/ wasn’t concrete enough for me. FWIW I can see where he was coming from.
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by vonseel 8y ago
This has to be one of the strangest replies I’ve ever read on HN. Off to google the term “meatspace” now.
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by vonseel 8y ago
> I was able to average 18% raises for over a decade by switching jobs nearly every year. Hmm. For those curious, assuming I still understand how to do basic math like this and a few relatively low starting salaries for year one: 40k
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by vonseel 8y ago
I do not understand patent laws. SawStop invented a thing. Does that mean nobody else can ever produce a similar thing? Ford created the first mass-production automobile. Did that stop other companies from developing their own cars with the
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by vonseel 8y ago
I've never really understood patents, but none of this seems really "novel" to me. I take it you said that backwards on purpose though as sarcasm? Applying braking technology to a blade doesn't seem like that novel of an
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by vonseel 8y ago
A quick search shows Spotify alone paid $9.8 billion in royalties to artists in 2017. I see that $15B number looks like it's coming from some IFPI reports. I don't know what that org includes but it doesn't sound even close t
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by vonseel 8y ago
Very good point on other taxes. In Texas we don't have state income tax, so I forgot about those, but we do have property taxes and sales tax... I haven't been to a movie in at least 4 years, so I don't really add things like
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by vonseel 8y ago
Those are big big big tours. U2 is #1 by revenue in the 2010s - although that is over a two year period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_conce... Ed Sheeran pulled in $432M in concert revenue la
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by vonseel 8y ago
And third time I’ve heard about this show and first I’ve seen it mentioned on HN in a few days span... that show is blowing up fast. (I have not had Netflix the past few months, Netflix sabbatical but failed experiment since I got hooked on
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by vonseel 8y ago
What defines rich? Private jets and Lamborghinis? I’m not familiar with the SF cost of living, but Nerd Wallet says a 2 bedroom apartment is about $4k per month. I figured $7k is more accurate so I’ll assume $96k in rent per year. $300k is
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by vonseel 8y ago
Is this really where software salaries have gone in the last few (2-4) years?? In the past month I have seen multiple comments or blog posts indicating compensation for senior engineers is nearly 500k.

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