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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Why don't they give the map in high resolution? Really irritating.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Well I think it's hypothetically possible for an economy to always improve, but nobody understands what policies to enforce to allow that. Even if you have good policies, nobody knows how to completely mitigate stock bubbles, housing b
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
> The economy isn't supposed to always go up That's not true. If managed correctly, it would always go up at least in line with population increases.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I don't agree. Good advice is to optimize for a high salary to save for and support your eventual family.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Doesn't seem unfathomable to me. $36B is just a square grid of 190 x 190 San Francisco houses.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I think if books were more useful, people would have a better attention span for them. Reading a book won't automatically improve your life. Usually it's just another form of time-wasting.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Star Trek
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
OK Go needs good videos to compensate for the music quality.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
This used to happen all the time when I worked at Cisco... and yes most emails were of the variety "please remove me from this list".
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Someone now please make a list of applications built with PHP and Ruby on Rails.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
So you think it should be legal for Facebook to decide to shut down, for example? Why does what the investors want matter more than what the users want?
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Congress should make it illegal for a public company to shut down apps that see this much usage, unless the employees are quitting. Some users have 12 million followers.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
IIRC, they changed their policies and APIs to being much more restrictive against 3rd party apps. Something to do with rate limits maybe.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
So everyone's pet bird that lives in a cage and animals in zoos would be better off dead? Or does your logic only apply to humans and not other species?
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Just don't make complex declarations in C, it's almost never useful and won't help anyone out. It'll confuse people and make your code write-only. Just put in a couple extra lines of code somewhere if you have to. It won
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
It was easier for me to be nice to everyone once I realized that they and their loved ones are all going to die one day. Puts things in perspective.
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The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code(joelonsoftware.com)
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
The Nobel Peace Prize lost all credibility when it was given to Obama in 2009.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
128,000 is not 2^7
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Maybe it has to do with the language? If you read code in an easy language like Java, it's usually self-explanatory.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Generally you should only comment if your manager really wants you to, otherwise just write clear code and don't comment.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Wow, I used your product when I worked at Cisco! We used it for testing AAA with enterprise routers that were in development.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I don't like writing long posts on HN but there are a ton of reasons why it is very dangerous to walk around Indian cities at night due to risk of being hit by vehicles.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
A lot of people are also walking around war zones such as in Aleppo. It doesn't make it safe, or something you'd want to do to relax.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
> Take a long walk, just for the sake of walking. That's very location-specific. Many cities are very pedestrian unfriendly, for example every city in India.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
The transportation industry is just a fad, everyone.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
> Rolling through a stop sign is a serious offense for us, and outright dangerous, and can only happen out of negligence. This is not true. It depends on the location, traffic conditions, and your knowledge of the area.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I'm sure :-) has been independently invented a million times.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Never ask for a raise, unless you're willing to quit your job. Just look for positions at other companies.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
The project didn't drive the revenue though. The customer demand did.

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