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by Supreme 14y ago
Why does the brainwave headset appear to include a pair of headphones?
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by Supreme 14y ago
Apologies if I sounded like I was criticising what you do - I'm sure that these made a lot more sense in the context of a presentation. I was questioning why the person who posted this link did so and why it has been upvoted to such an exte
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by Supreme 14y ago
This is a terrible set of slides. The only new thing I gathered from it is "cabal sucks". Then the presentation came to a sudden end which left me thinking "what, that's it?" How does such a low quality link get so many upvotes? takes note
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by Supreme 14y ago
You do realise that you're doing something quite dangerous by turning to dopamine-influencing drugs to motivate you, right? This class of drugs can change brain structure, promote cancer growth and generally make you devoid of emotion. At t
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by Supreme 14y ago
> benzodiazepines generally lower cognitive ability On the subject of a particular drug sometimes being useful and sometimes counter-productive, the missing link is that the brain has several points of neurochemical homeostasis - these
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by Supreme 14y ago
Who wouldathunk that doing LSD could turn someone into a complete asshole with no regard for an open culture and a penchant for superficial things which don't matter in the least (like one button devices)?
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by Supreme 14y ago
So it's essentially a marketing problem. I get the feeling that you were trying to suggest that it's worthy because it's popular. If so, argumentum ad populum is irrational. If not, apologies.
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by Supreme 14y ago
Good to see that PR is on the job of trying to convince people that they don't really want what they really want. It's funny that even verbatim search asks me if I'm sure that I spelt something correctly. I guess our definitions over verbat
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by Supreme 14y ago
Society is shooting itself in the foot with the trend of dumbing everything down. While we sit here being presented with one button devices so that "we don't get confused", the rest of the world is busy educating itself to a high standard a
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by Supreme 14y ago
I'm not running a blog or expecting anyone to take what they read in a comment on some site on the internet seriously. Label me however you want, it's a free internet (for now, anyway). I still find it funny how anyone can start a blog and
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by Supreme 14y ago
facepalm All of the pain points that this supposedly solves have already been solved with tabs. Middle click compose and all of those problems are solved with the added bonus of having an entire screen to write your email in. Google is be
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by Supreme 14y ago
Zynga has (up until now) made a lot of money and they write shit code. Hell, most of the companies I've seen have made money while writing shit code. Making money indicates that a person knows how to make money. Writing good code indicates
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by Supreme 14y ago
I've outlined how we solved this problem in another comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717713 Incidentally, I'm not here to form relationships - personal or otherwise. The primary goal of social media sites is to indulge in pr
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by Supreme 14y ago
Sorry, should have linked to previous evidence of the fact: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-ju...
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by Supreme 14y ago
Data should be backed up to staging nightly anyway . There should also be scripts in place to start this process at an arbitrary point in time and to import the data into the staging server. You do not need to match the hardware if you u
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by Supreme 14y ago
Are you kidding me? If you run big sites like FogBugz then ofcourse you have cross-datacenter redundancy. It's not complicated to host your staging site in another physical location and point the DNS records to it when things go pear-shap
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by Supreme 14y ago
No redundancy what-so-ever? What an amateur operation. I still say Joel is a fraud. EDIT: this site is amazing - divergent opinions seem to be actively discouraged given how many "points" I've lost thanks to stating mine. Is the point of th
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by Supreme 14y ago
> Yeah, except I'm not the guy saying that somebody should just be quiet and move on. You're one of us too: > Why don't you just move on? And yes, I realise the irony of my first comment. I'm just going to take my own advice and mov
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by Supreme 14y ago
> While I sympathize with these arguments, this isn't how the legal system works. The law doesn't work on absolutely provable certainty. It works on reasonable doubt, intent and (hopefully) facts. Hah, you still think that the legal sys
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by Supreme 14y ago
> That's your opinion and you're entitled to it, but it is wrong. Surely an opinion, a wholly subjective point of view, cannot by it's very definition be wrong. Being insulted (or not) is also a fundamentally subjective experience. Any
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by Supreme 14y ago
My first thought was that this is probably a virus.
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by Supreme 14y ago
The agile/lean idea is not to have your users bug test your code! It's a technique for gathering feedback early and often in order to make sure that the requirements are sufficiently addressed. What you are describing is a shoddy work
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by Supreme 14y ago
> That's pretty rude. He's entitled to his opinion and has the right to criticize whatever he wants, however he wants. If you don't like it, why not just move on. Positive feedback is not the only useful type of feedback. If someone sug
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by Supreme 14y ago
It depends on your perspective, no? If the perspective is that everything is disconnected and that you are more important than everyone else then yes, it does. If one can see that all is connected and everything affects everything else then
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by Supreme 14y ago
You might want to read up on the tax avoidance and political lobbying which the Gates foundation is involved in. See: http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critiq...
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by Supreme 14y ago
I just typed out a big post, hit add comment - "link has expired", highlighted the text, forgot to copy, refreshed and lost it. Fix this already, HN! Similar laws also exist in the UK. Unfortunately both our politicians and activist organis
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by Supreme 14y ago
Fair enough, I stand corrected. The problem is in the culture surrounding cloud services, not with the providers themselves. So it seems that the only real benefit to utilising cloud services is to make scaling up easier and save money.
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by Supreme 14y ago
This costs money, GitLab does not. The benefit is obvious.
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by Supreme 14y ago
You find it bizarre that the cloud providers' marketing strategy has worked? I find that bizarre!
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by Supreme 14y ago
I had a knee-jerk reaction to this: >It could be useful in India or African countries with not much access to energy. It's appalling that countries located in regions where the sun tends to beat down most of the time lack energy at all.

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