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by codeisawesome 4y ago
What’s the best book/material on how to build a business like your friend’s? Discovering the niche, and expanding the client base are the main questions.
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
Thanks for the post! I find that other voice assistants (eg. Siri) are not particularly able to detect the activation command when there's any background sound (like music with lyrics). How does your system perform against this? I unde
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
“Chip War” by Chris Miller describes how Silicon Valley first successfully pulled this off, when Robert Noyce spearheaded the selling of chips at or under manufacturing cost in the 60s to wean off dependence on government contracts and get
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
Does this mean Facebook wouldn’t be allowed to list in this index if it tried today?
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
Can you elaborate what those skills are in your view? Meaning no disrespect, your current comment sounds like a hand-wavy opinion with zero actual justification.
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
Bartosz if you’re reading this, please make one about electronic circuits, starting from atoms to CPUs if possible! :)
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
(Parent comment did mention the grain of salt, so my response below is to the spirit of the comment itself and not directed at the person). > And if they start with, "well, I'd build a react app," you can go straight into
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
Always been curious about this. In the movies we see characters printing out a fake passport on official looking paper, then the spy/superhero etc. shows up at a border and goes through. If there’s a DB lookup it shouldn’t be possible
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
TIL… also, an example in that page is also about a set of pigs killing a child, but this time from 15th century Europe!
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
Street dogs run around in PACKS in so many Indian cities and even the beaches in Goa. They will absolutely attack a vulnerable target as well - which for example is you going for your morning walk at dawn, with few / no other people ar
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
Scarier to imagine a bug in the static analysis code :)
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
That seems like an actually valuable, human thing to work on vs the garbage many devs find themselves working on. Mini games can also be super engaging to build and are a showcase for creativity… I’m really not seeing the problem.
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by codeisawesome 4y ago
This comment makes the point in far fewer words and more effectively than TFA.
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
I suppose it’s a callback to HN being written in Arc :)
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
Is it really ‘free clean shelter’ and ‘free hay’ if, in exchange, their flesh is being harvested at some point? I applaud your efforts for humane animal consumption and I’m shamefully nowhere near your commitment. But I just took issue with
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
I see… okay, thank you for educating me a bit further. The claim in TFA indeed sounded hyperbolic, and the plethora of law sites encouraging people to sue, only increased the fear factor. My takeaway will still remain that ensuring comprehe
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
First hit on search - https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/personal-injury/ladder-injury-l... Apparently it is under “premises liability” and I don’t know how the so-called “warn the contractor” system gets to be anything
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
> If someone falls off a ladder while painting your house, they can sue you and take your house. I just checked some online references and this is well within the realm of possibility. New thing learned today: contractor insurance certif
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
Linode IRC folks taught me a bunch of linux many years ago on their channel. I was astounded by their patience towards my complete stupidity. Thank you Linode team & users, owe you a fair bit!
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
Thank you so much for confirming this - I always wondered whether that's all it actually meant beyond the abstraction. TFA doesn't actually explain it despite the title(!)
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
Let’s also not forget the 55 auto-playing video ads that I need to vault over to get to Step 1. Each one determined to hijack my mouse as I scroll/hurry past and cause a click! It’s like the world’s least fun platformer game.
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
I got instantly annoyed by the first few words of this comment, thinking you’d gone off on some tangent about rice… until I saw the last part. Well played!
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
Yeah, we’re going to need a lot of spice melange…
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
Would you believe me if I told you I’d explained this with that exact metaphor to someone relatively recently? I literally mean with those same words in that exact order. This feels matrix-y :)
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
> Is he hungry? Is he bored? Does he want coffee? We haven't had lunch - should I cook? I should tidy. That inner monologue is somehow humorous; but wow, you seem to be such a considerate partner!
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
I have to wonder just what is the justification for Google to not let users decide what sites they never want to see results from? I'm sure it can't be storage or compute limitations. This one feature alone would make so many pe
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
(Not to mention that that internship might be gate-kept for reasons outside of expertise, to boot)
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
Happened to me as well just a month or two ago! A total reset was the only fix…
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
15 years of waiting for a green card. 15 years of being on a visa that can have you kicked out anytime no matter how much you’ve invested into life there. Hats off to the folks who put up with this.
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by codeisawesome 5y ago
Happy holidays!

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