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by doublement 7y ago
I will never buy a Sonos product, and no one else should either.
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by doublement 7y ago
If a person is walking north, about to walk past a parking space, and a car is heading south and signaling left, it's very surprising to see the car pass the person by, then suddenly reverse and try to enter the space. Once the car is
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by doublement 7y ago
Watch out for bikes and pedestrians please. Few people expect a car (especially on the other side of the street/lane) to drift by a space then reverse into it after passing it by.
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by doublement 7y ago
~100,000,000 bytes! That's a lot of "state".
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by doublement 7y ago
You're not working for "less than what someone thinks your worth", you're working for a price set by the market and an assessment of what level of quality your work is. A developer gets paid before the salespeople have a
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by doublement 7y ago
When you hang yourself with C, at least you're hanging yourself with something real. It's more embarrassing to be done in by a misunderstood abstraction in a high-level language than a concrete memory overwrite in C.
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by doublement 7y ago
Being a useful resource doesn't have to be miserable though, especially if your role is more akin to a chainsaw or rocket engine than a stapler.
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by doublement 7y ago
Give it a try! Specifically I was using WebRTC audio in both Firefox and Chrome, with 2-3 tabs open, and Visual Studio Code open separately.
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by doublement 7y ago
I wish it wasn't true, but Firefox seems heavier on low-spec Linux laptops. A while back I was writing code on the road on a $200 HP Stream running Ubuntu, and I needed multiple tabs open with audio to debug. Switching from Firefox t
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by doublement 7y ago
If a more productive team emerged naturally from incentives available to everyone, and that team collected large bonuses as a result of proven success, I think the company and the team would both be better off. If a team is designed from th
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by doublement 7y ago
In the long run, having a company dependent on a handful of highly-paid superstars is an incredible risk. Moreover if one team's hiring practices create a "class system" where there are vast disparities in how engineers are
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by doublement 7y ago
You can put variable length data into a struct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
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by doublement 7y ago
Because when someone builds a hugely popular exotic system in the future, because it is one (1) cent cheaper, you'd end up with code that has to check to see if it's running on such a system.
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by doublement 7y ago
Indeed, that's why I specified putting the members of the C structure on the wire, not the structure as a whole, so it's just basic types in network byte order (i.e. consistent endian-ness) being sent.
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by doublement 7y ago
Yeah I know that pain, there needs to be a consistent header with a version in all the messages.
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by doublement 7y ago
This is a fantastic post, and it looks like this blog is full of fantastic posts. When I have some time I'm definitely going to play around with that code.
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by doublement 7y ago
This is going to sound sarcastic but it's not: Can we get back to just putting the members of C structures into network byte order and sending that over the wire in binary, à la 1995?
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by doublement 7y ago
> Written by a VC trying to get engineers to join the startups he's invested in. Actually for most of the piece he was pretty straightforward about making sure you get equity if you want to get paid upon company success. What has ch
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by doublement 7y ago
> Don’t work at startups to make $200M. Work at startups because you’ll work with people who have risk profiles that are much more likely to generate outsized returns as a group. What's the point of that if those "group return
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by doublement 7y ago
Albuquerque isn't a major destination though. Flying to provincial cities is always expensive. A better comparison with about the same distance in the US is New York to Miami, which can be done nonstop for under $200 on Delta, or $135
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by doublement 7y ago
Touché.
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by doublement 7y ago
It's the definition I start with anyway. Having the general-case "me" matter more is kind-of essential to the article in any case.
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by doublement 7y ago
You're right, I got confused about where I was and what I read! Previous comment over-written.
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by doublement 7y ago
I don't think goal posts are being moved so much as "hobby" means different things to different people.
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by doublement 7y ago
[removed, wasn't actually relevant to article]
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by doublement 7y ago
The clubs you listed all involve strenuous physical activity... and are clubs. People can pursue them as hobbies, of course, but I think for most people a hobby is something personal, and perhaps pointless, outside of the sound mind/s
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by doublement 7y ago
> ...single-aisle monoculture makes flying miserable. What is it that people expect when they say flying is miserable? I expect safety, which is why I'll never get on a 737 MAX. Other than that, I just put sandwiches and snacks in
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by doublement 7y ago
With regard to topic 1, you're saying supply and demand should set the price in a natural way. But regulating the use of land owned by others interferes with the natural operation of supply and demand. Established homeowners create r
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by doublement 7y ago
Why is that the best way, or even a good way? How is allowing current owners to assert control (via regulation) over land they don't own, to serve their own private interests, better than allowing that land to be developed for higher-d
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by doublement 7y ago
It's not a violation of human rights, but it's definitely a symptom of failed policies. A community that copes with growth by forcing its poorest residents out is failing in its basic responsibilities. Society is supposed to pro

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