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by wcarss 6y ago
That tweet captures why I began building async audio-chat in a slack-like app last year: https://heysync.chat It's very exciting to see that they finally 'get it' too -- that feeling, that this is something discov
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by wcarss 6y ago
That's a pretty interesting point! I hadn't ever really considered how cost of living or cost of goods differences in different nations would impact a graph like that. I'm a bit skeptical that many military supplies (e.g. the
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by wcarss 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... 4x as many people, roughly 1/3rd of the budget.
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> as Forbes' Erik Kain points out — that state and local governments generally foot the bill when it comes to education spending in America. If you factor those contributions in, the US spent about $880 billion on education in 2011,
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by wcarss 6y ago
I'm not necessarily supportive of the contract or the spending or whatever, but I just want to present a reframing of the costs: imagine it's just 1000 headsets, but they're so useful they cut $1B/year+ in costs (or allo
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by wcarss 6y ago
for anyone else who was confused and about to google it: Night Vision Goggles[1]. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-vision_device
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To your last point, it doesn't sound like algorithmic and practice problems are really OP's issue, as they suggested they can solve almost any problem given but do so in a way they now feel is amateur or hack-ish. In a similar lin
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by wcarss 6y ago
Might have suppressed cannibalism!
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(sorry, this got long) A single party system sounds very scary, because how can you vote them out? But... that's just not how China's system works. I'm not an expert on China at all, and I don't mean to claim to be. I&#x
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> What makes people uncomfortable is that the US is a democracy, and the leaders are chosen by the population. Well, sort of. They're almost always from very wealthy families with very particular educational, social, and occupationa
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I would also love to find a book like that. But, I doubt that it exists -- probably the world was always like this, but, it seems like there is just too much going on, and too much context to try to grasp and consider. One example of just o
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by wcarss 6y ago
I respect the time you put into your response, but I don't agree. I do agree there are bad actors, but I just don't think it's a categorical matter. Doing b2b sales can be difficult, and the lowest price just isn't job o
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> No it isn't. It's a tactic used my sales weasels to gain leads. Thanks for the broad assertion, and your weasel words! :) Your point that it's used by bad people is valid -- I agree with you. There's a lot of bad
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by wcarss 6y ago
I don't want to defend hiding the price too vehemently, but we should be fair here: there is a difference between "I cannot afford that", and "I'm not psychologically ready to agree to pay that" -- at the end t
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by wcarss 6y ago
Conversely, imagine living in a lovely small town that has an active social life and a commercial scene, fuelled by the scores of people moving out there with nothing better to do in the evenings, who want to get out of the house. People wh
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by wcarss 6y ago
As far as Star Trek plot holes go, I've always felt it's a wonder that, upon encountering any seemingly impossible situation, as they often did, Picard didn't ever shout, "Q! Show yourself! We will not play this game f
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by wcarss 6y ago
Yeah, it gets used for a lot of things -- seemingly, anyone who wants a positive or trendy word related to operations uses it to describe whatever they want. Just a few examples I've encountered: - "we have dedicated ops people
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by wcarss 6y ago
What is "the principle of symmetry" with regard to software architecture diagrams? I've never heard of it and the word "symmetry" has so many contexts that googling it didn't turn up anything meaningfully relat
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by wcarss 6y ago
Fascinating , thanks! I had never seen/used `f` to navigate within a line like this -- I'm usually just typing /<string> and hitting enter to scan forward.
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Not applicable to parquet, but I have used zless/zgrep often on tar.gz-compressed logs. (I'm not sure what they're doing is actually that efficient though...)
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by wcarss 6y ago
As a longtime vim user, I don't see how vim makes going to the Nth logical column (for several values of N in different rows) in a large "CSV-like" file much easier. Navigating in general is easier, sure, but... do you have a
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by wcarss 6y ago
Windows at least has AutoHotKey[1] -- it's kind of awful, but also kind of great. It has been a path into programming for more than one person I know and has saved others countless hours of repetition. 1 - https://www.autoho
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by wcarss 6y ago
Thanks! I appreciate that you bothered at all to respond to my many-days-later comment. :) I'm glad you've respectively had good luck in this regard. I should be clear that I'm not speaking in particular about a present or pa
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by wcarss 6y ago
"It's one banana Michael, what could it cost -- ten dollars?"
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I think you're right! And the value of doing it this way is that you cannot re-assign these names within the scope: they are const on each iteration of the loop.
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The secret is that it doesn't matter, because many, many tech businesses aren't business but investment ponzi schemes / "moonshots" on other people's money, who are mostly arm's length idiots. Say you have
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by wcarss 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/ (edit: not to imply you were making fun, your answer was great! But in general: everyone learns things every day. Even every programmer has a day where they learn what fuzzing is)
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by wcarss 6y ago
I'd never heard of the Lindy effect before and it seems very interesting. As I understand it, it suggests "the longer a non-perishable thing is present, the longer it likely will be present." Not trying to razz you here, but
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by wcarss 6y ago
forgive me for pulling such a large quote out, but it just glows: > “Don’t ever underestimate a craftsman,” he emphasizes, “because they’re highly disciplined, highly trained, very determined individuals. I’m a real advocate of tradition
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by wcarss 6y ago
this sounds really neat and I'm going to go read about it! I also wanted to call out that this ~sentence has just... a bunch of things that seem like jargon/names within the community? As an outsider, I have no idea what they mean

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