EdgarVerona

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by EdgarVerona 6mo ago
For me, around age 12 when I started using BBS's in ~1993: 1) I exclusively used it to play door games, mostly LORD, Exitilus, Usurper, and Trade wars 2002. Logged in daily if my parents allowed me. I no longer remember the name of t
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by EdgarVerona 2y ago
Yes, but the situation was much different than the one you have found yourself in. As an "intern" I found myself at a very small company - literally just my boss, his son, and me. I was the only programmer. I loved the autonomy
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by EdgarVerona 2y ago
I'd summarize it as: Hard Work + Market Analysis + (Massive Luck OR Large upfront funding OR Large and relevant network of personal connections) + Luck IRT externalities that can impact your business I wasted my 20's because I
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by EdgarVerona 2y ago
I feel like a large number of software engineer positions interview as if they are looking for computer scientists. The distinction is subtle, but important in terms of what is needed for the role. Most software engineers are going to be as
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by EdgarVerona 3y ago
Agreed with your concerns, though to me it sounds like this guy in the article is also trying to limit his hours spent on learning and side projects outside of work, which is healthy. But I think the case you bring up is more interesting an
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by EdgarVerona 4y ago
Whether this would work depends on the kind of system and the deadlines imposed by external needs of the company. Does your system have a lot of (intentional or unintentional) emergent behavior, like a sandbox-heavy video game? You could e
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by EdgarVerona 4y ago
I have been reading a book that was recommended to me, "From Strength to Strength": and while it is cheesy as fuck, the theory it presents is interesting and has made me think a lot about what has been driving my identity for the
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by EdgarVerona 4y ago
(for context though, I love your site! I just would love tips as someone thinking in this area who ran into what he thought was trouble in this area... I might have just been overly paranoid)
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by EdgarVerona 4y ago
How do you get around the CAN-SPAM act and GDPR for the sending of emails in response to posts, when the people being sent them haven't already signed up on the site? I had to bend over backwards to try and make a workaround for that i
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by EdgarVerona 4y ago
This is great! Coincidentally I've been working on a prototype that is almost the exact same idea. I had very similar motivations and a feeling that "slow social" (I was calling it the same thing even!) is something that c
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
"The company in a court filing said it has between $1 billion and $10 billion of both assets and liabilities." Is it just me, or does this seem like a pretty wide estimate range?
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
I just ate enough thai food for 3 people so I'm pretty sure I am at least
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
I worked there in the old days when I was in high school (late 90's), and one of the most disgusting stories I have about a job is when I went to refill the orange juice dispenser machine, and a giant swarm of flies were all over and i
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
This is the approach I like as well, with the caveat that the stores procedures themselves should be kept as dumb and as late in the process as possible. I have made many mistakes in my career in terms of systems that were either overly com
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
At this point, I will take any and every mix of non-polluting energy we can get. I do worry about the stability-of-nations risk, but I think if we could plan as a global community for such contingencies we could come up with plans for secur
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
You did good, and I am proud of you. We must begin to treat our profession with the care due to it - recognizing the negative impact it can have on human lives, justice, and freedom when it is used with harmful or careless intent. The ACM C
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
Sac State grad here, from 2002-2006! After the turn of the century they started teaching more Java classes, but the most interesting classes were definitely the Assembly and Computer Architecture classes. I never ended up using them in my
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
One is basically a large pine derby racer. Two hopefully will be an electric vehicle, but I won't hold my breath
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
Ultimately, much of this argument feels pedantic. Yes, people are giving oversimplified descriptions of what's going on when they say dopamine is "addictive." That's because it's easier to describe than incentive
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
On a related subject, I do feel like there's been real, tangible moral harm done to our society by reinforcing the idea of debate as a competition in children. When we reinforce certain behavior, we shouldn't be surprised when th
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by EdgarVerona 6y ago
I really enjoyed Turbo Pascal - the IDE, the included libraries, the Pascal language itself. It really felt like the python of its time.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
As a case study: https://abc14news.com/2020/03/14/canadian-couple-make-more-t...
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Yes, exactly: there's a definite distinction between hoarding from fear and hoarding for a desire to profit/exploit disasters. The latter just make the former worse in a disturbing feedback loop that has led to empty shelves.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Jesus. Yeah, it's sick. There's another story along the same lines, to the tune of $70k in disaster profiteering: https://abc14news.com/2020/03/14/canadian-couple-make-more-t...
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
That is a good point, and if that was an outcome of this situation that'd be great, as long as people who otherwise can't afford/can't find toilet paper can get their hands on them. On a personal level I think bidets ar
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Ah, that's a clever workaround.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Just to make sure I understand your ideology: so you're saying the rationing that happened during World War II was a mistake?
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
The problem is also with the industry itself, particularly if it's perishable. If this continues much longer, there's going to be a point (and perhaps it's already there? We don't get numbers about capacity - though I&
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
To bgorman: (apparently I can't reply directly to you, there's some nesting limit in Hacker News [EDIT: apparently not? I see a "reply" button now where it didn't exist before? odd]) >I would much rather be abl
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
I was about to respond to you with the same response I made below - but it turns out we're basically having the same conversation twice. I'll refer to our other conversation below instead of repeating myself.

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