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by xondono 6y ago
>You could've earned +10% ROI in 2020 by holding AUD instead of USD. And that would put you under the SP500 and the NASDAQ. Bitcoin in the same span did +286%. > You most likely utilize a credit card or bank card for your day-to-
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by xondono 6y ago
Yeah, until you realize that in a lot of places Bitcoin is far more profitable than any other activity, meaning that any use other than Bitcoin mining would be priced out of the market.
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by xondono 6y ago
Just because it’s a website problem , it doesn’t stop being a problem. Usability is important if you want adoption outside of the HN crowd.
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by xondono 6y ago
The datasheets in question are from parts like 555 and logic, parts that are functionally generic. No one has a doubt about how it works, but details like timmings specification and other small print parameters have had a lot of changes,
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by xondono 6y ago
I’m going to post the unpopular opinion here and say that this is OK in my book. This archive is distributing out of date documentation without making it clear that it’s out of date. This could cause a major problem for someone that uses it
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by xondono 6y ago
These seem to work, but I don’t have anything close to the number needed for statistical significance: - At least 2 years experience. - Having built projects on your own is always good, but I’ve seen that having built “weird” stuff is bet
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by xondono 6y ago
Yes, that was my point, having experience people to break out from that pattern is hard.
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by xondono 6y ago
> The very few times I've got in trouble with this there's been some hidden objective or constraint I wasn't made aware of, and the discussion I have afterwards is that is not compatible with my way of working. I’ve had th
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by xondono 6y ago
> There's something about software workplaces that discourages thinking out loud and exploring ideas. I actually encourage it (or at least try). I just prefer it to be 1 on 1 (not necessarily with me), because we can’t really afford
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by xondono 6y ago
This. I think this is the most common problem in the tech world, and it’s source it’s on hiring. When I hire someone to do a job, I don’t want to tell them how to do it. I want them to figure it out, and ask for help if they need it. Fo
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by xondono 6y ago
It’s always kind of weird to see other people make a mistake I did for years, like charting the trend in life expectancy increases and project it to the future. Life expectancy increases are mostly a statistical fluke of reducing child mort
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by xondono 6y ago
The way most people and HN audience make decisions is definitely not the same
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by xondono 6y ago
Because what the EU countries need to do is to get out of the way.
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by xondono 6y ago
What? Where? Most sane people write FSM as switches inside an infinite loop
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by xondono 6y ago
The general issue is that FSM require a lot of naming, since you want to give every state a significant name, and naming is hard. When the states are clear enough, modifying FSMs is very nice.
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by xondono 6y ago
Bugs are frequent, but most of them have limited scope, bugs that break everything from computers to smart toasters are rare. As a C programmer myself I’m well aware of how big the mine field is, and I’m a big proponent for validation in th
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by xondono 6y ago
Except this only reinforces the current environment. Anyone with experience in teaching environments knows girls are way worse at ostracizing successful students. It’s very interesting to me the claim that boys are quitting because there’
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by xondono 6y ago
This is not a cause, but a consequence. Attitudes and norms around how school have changed a lot, and the modern school severely penalizes boys. For instance it was typical for schools to encourage competition between students, but this i
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by xondono 6y ago
You mean to say me that there’s no such thing as “superior programming practices”./s I’d take a heavily used and tested system over one programmed “with superior practices”, like obsoleting rarely used code, any day of the week. Yes, h
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by xondono 6y ago
I don’t care for the default as long as the choice is there. Facebook wants to take that choice from users.
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by xondono 6y ago
I’m guessing that iOS has a way higher market share than macs ever had, and still, flash died.
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by xondono 6y ago
I might be inclined to believe you if that meant Google is the only choice. The first thing I recommend anyone with an iDevice is to switch to ddg.
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by xondono 6y ago
That’s why you never say “you are looking for $100/hour”, you say “I’m making $100/hour but conditions here are nice”.
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by xondono 6y ago
You’d be surprised. Specially in small/medium companies, a lot of the times businesses don’t know what they are looking for. I know of a place that was looking for a “hardware engineer with 10y experience”. The average salary for this
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by xondono 6y ago
That’s the plan once I upgrade. For now I’m still using my 2015 mbp, so it’s displayport from my desktop and HDMI from the laptop. Finding a cheap switch capable of doing both is not that easy
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by xondono 6y ago
I do something similar, but I got a $20 usb3.1 switch on Amazon and taped that to the back of my monitor. When I want to switch, I just change the input on the monitor and press the button behind it. It’s not the 1-click solution that I wan
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by xondono 6y ago
Congratulations! According to the Buzzword Bingo, you’re on the path to funding!
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by xondono 6y ago
> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. This quote always rubs me wrong, because the problem is that we’ve changed definition of what a computer is. If you come to think
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by xondono 6y ago
If the podcast stopped posting new episodes, a lot of people will miss a new one.
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by xondono 6y ago
It’s a question of what “actually work” means, because if your purpose is getting your hands clean, you’ll be doing a very bad job.

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