wilsonnb2

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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
This opinion piece (like the vast majority of opinion pieces) is not worth the time to read. The author doesn't even have a position. They're just summarizing a book that someone else wrote. It's not even a book review. There
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I feel the same way. I've been getting better, though, and I don't mean getting better by reading more technical literature, listening to more podcasts, and doing more programming in my free time. Instead I mean accepting the fact
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Interesting. I've heard that the culture at Amazon is generally considered to be worse than at Apple, Netflix, or Google. Not sure about Facebook.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Personal growth doesn't pay the bills and at the end of the day, paying the bills is why I work in tech.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Why is this kind of vague advice popular? Just because the author is famous? If someone else had written this would anyone care? Personally, I got tired of hearing famous people tell me I should read more, work on things I love, be an exper
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Of course it sounds true if you only list the data points that fit the position.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
To be honest you're not missing out on many good stories by not playing video games. Video games are generally a terrible way to tell a story.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Why can't you just say "you will possibly regret it" or even "you will probably regret it"? It's not inevitable that people will regret going with Discord, Slack, or Skype. Most people won't.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
You should differentiate between active noise cancelling and passive noise cancelling. Active noise cancelling is what fancy Bose and Sony and (simply put) it involves cancelling outside sound out by playing the opposite sound. This should
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Seeing as "turning the internet into shit" is a highly subjective statement, I wouldn't go around claiming that it's a fact.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> It's just spiteful and angry leftist politics 24/7. Unless you're specifically visiting r/politics, r/latestagecapitalism, r/socialism, or similar subreddits, this just isn't true.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
There has been a resurgence in analog and analog-style synths since the 80's but overall I think synth UX has gotten even worse with the rise of software synths. Turning a virtual knob with a mouse pointer is a terrible UX. Mapping par
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
People have really turned up the Facebook hate in recent months. I find it laughable that the author considers Zuck to be a more powerful person than the US president, who can effectively end life as we know it with the push of a big red bu
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
No, there aren't many. There are some living off of donations, but it's a very small number. Not something that I would consider a viable career option because it requires too much luck.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I like the project itself but the emojis seem like an odd choice. Including them in a document that's intended to get people to pay you money seems unprofessional to me. I could be totally wrong about that though, I don't use Patr
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> Economics can’t be a science yet. It is a branch of sociology Sociology is a science, and so branches of it are also science. There are differences between the hard/soft or natural/social sciences but that doesn't mean t
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
It looks like the newest of these was written around 1940 - is there anything more modern on the subject? Has the field of economics really progressed so little in the past 80 years that these writings are still the best available?
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> Progress, outside of technology (which is accumulative), is a myth. I'm really not sure what definition of progress you're using here but calling it a myth isn't very meaningful unless you give a good definition first.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
That's just not true. Plenty of creativity is available in immutable environments. Working around limitations is a key factor of creativity in my opinion.
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Or maybe different people have different keyboard preferences.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Eh touchscreens are just barely better than using a mouse cursor for knobs and sliders in my opinion. I still have to look at the touchscreen know what I'm doing, which kills the creative process for me.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
The Korg MS-20 mini sells for $450, the Moog Mother-32 sells for $600, and the new Behringer Neutron will sell for $300 when it comes out. Semi modular synths are pretty cheap these days even though they aren't quite as cheap or popula
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
They should use a light system, stop sign, or yield sign, just like everywhere else that a car driving straight on a road is expected to yield the right of way.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
It's always made perfect sense to me that vehicles should have right of way on roads. They're intended for vehicles. Giving pedestrians the right of way on the road makes about as much sense as giving cars the right of way on th
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Because drugs have side effects, which may have contributed to why she put herself in the position to be hit by a car that she probably should have seen.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Well, for starters, Nintendo has a lot of money at the moment. It was reported in 2017 that they were sitting on 946 Billion Yen in cash reserves [1], which is about 8.5 Billion dollars. Assuming that money is earning no interest and ther
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Well, if you don't want to use those aggregate numbers, then you are going to need numbers of your own. What percentage of CS students have paid internships? What's the average pay of those internships? That sort of thing.
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You can't just acknowledge that your evidence is anecdotal and then still use it for the basis of your argument. Your anecdotes are not data and they prove nothing.
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According to this site, 71% of graduates in 2012 had some kind of student loan debt [1]. I think it's probably more accurate to assume that the number of CS students is pretty close to that number, instead of assuming that your anecd
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I think the real reason Sony is so hesitant to implement crossplay is not that they are so far ahead of Microsoft in console sales, but because they are actually quite close in certain markets. If you look at the global sales, then yes, the

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