drharris

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by drharris 13y ago
Um, no. I (the consumer) pay for my bandwidth. End of story. Anything else is a violation of the pipes that run the internet.
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by drharris 13y ago
Storage is cheap with digital music. Even assuming 10 MB/song, you're looking at 40TB, less than $4k/mo on S3. It's not trivial, but it's probably a drop in the bucket compared to their other costs. Realistically th
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by drharris 13y ago
1000 times yes. Back in 7th grade I'd beaten all the zorks and countless other adventures. Never did manage to figure out HGTTG. It's my white whale.
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by drharris 13y ago
I figured I could either spend the next week fighting script execution on Windows or just spin up a linux VM and be good to go. I wound up installing ubuntu manually on a VirtualBox instance. Had heard of Vagrant, but didn't realize wh
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by drharris 13y ago
Man, no way this is going to run on any sort of Windows environment. Guess I won't get to sneak in CTF time at work this time around.
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by drharris 13y ago
You didn't know that Google has secretly been amassing a huge tank of carbon. There's a big red button that, when pressed, will release that carbon. I thought everybody knew this.
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by drharris 13y ago
But, but... they took college classes. And they have a badge or something.
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by drharris 13y ago
It's all very important and necessary. Only the sheep-like are ok with a government that operates in secret against its own citizens. They have pitted themselves in an information war against their own citizenry. Like corporations amas
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by drharris 13y ago
I think that holds pretty true for many things in life (i.e. the "teen pregnancy" gene), but definitely for money management. I also knew decently smart kids that didn't have a lot that now as adults go out and waste money at
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by drharris 13y ago
Agreed. I got really caught up in the "be your own boss" mentality and career path until I realized that I hated the business side of things, didn't like collecting money from people, and would rather spend time increasing te
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by drharris 13y ago
Your experience mirrors mine to a large degree. I think most intelligent kids know their family's financial situation, and adjust accordingly. I didn't even ask for name brand clothing or toys because 1) I knew we couldn't af
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by drharris 13y ago
And when they're 24 and still at home because "working at the local gas station just isn't what fulfills [their] passion", you might wish differently. An easy environment rarely creates something worthwhile. Steel, and a
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by drharris 13y ago
I find it refreshing. In an age where everyone on the internet is trying to "tell a story" it's nice to just have some plain facts and information presented in plain old text once in awhile. Seriously, how many "why our
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by drharris 13y ago
I think I get what you're saying... mainly that when wealth is so centered in that 0.1% upper crust of power brokers, that it keeps potentially wealthy people off the boat. Combine that with the fact these people are well connected and
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by drharris 13y ago
Yes, wholeheartedly agree here. I was not thinking of having the basic Maslow levels met, as I think that kind of social net should be somewhat guaranteed, and the economic benefit is obvious. Once those needs are met, does a redistribution
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by drharris 13y ago
This is a really salient point. I would go a step further and ask whether or not that $100 is better in the hands of a wealthy person (in the context of this article - a person who would put that money to work in the local/national eco
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by drharris 13y ago
Any plans to take a crack at solving #2, or does your book already do that (we'll assume for now that #1 is an impossible situation)? I understand testing on an intellectual level, and I understand completely how to write tests for a 5
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by drharris 13y ago
He forgot two of the most important reasons people don't test: 1) We inherited this monolithic spaghetti mess of a legacy system with a class hierarchy that does not lend itself to testing without a major rewrite of the codebase. 2) On
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by drharris 13y ago
This is what I came here to post. I think there are use cases for something like this (learning a new language), but it's going to be really difficult to get this into B2B territory for the reasons you mention. I would focus more on th
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by drharris 13y ago
Can we please begin to penalize the phrase "growth hack" on HN?
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by drharris 13y ago
This was described in Cryptonomicon 14 years ago.
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by drharris 13y ago
You can even resell it on Amazon. When I was just out of college, I'd make a point of buying up stuff where it said "only 2 left in stock". Buy them, mark up 20-30% on Amazon/Ebay (or IRL), good to go. Risk is on me, but
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by drharris 13y ago
Also a backer that didn't watch the video. I've always been more swayed by ideas and text than videos anyway. We got our copy, and it's in christmas wrap right now, burning a hole in my floor underneath our tree. I can't
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by drharris 13y ago
I wouldn't go that far. They've adapted over the years, just like our economy/government has gone from Capitalism to Corporatism.
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by drharris 13y ago
> Email that isn’t related to intelligence is rarely viewed, and it’s even less often viewed if it’s from a US citizen I stopped here. The words "rarely" and "less often" should both be "never". If the answe
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by drharris 13y ago
It was a joke. Emacs vs. Vi, FP vs OOP, etc. All members of the set of useless debate topics.
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by drharris 13y ago
My main point was that bad code exists in all paradigms. If there were a perfect language or paradigm, everybody would be using it and there would be no such debate. Immutability is not necessarily good or bad, same for mutability. We shoul
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by drharris 13y ago
I almost wish I needed a mattress! I'm so tired of scammy furniture stores, and think this is definitely a potential growth market. I'd love if you could eventually make a recliner that doesn't suck, and even other furniture
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by drharris 13y ago
>> Immutable state can be a huge pain in the ass. A common mistake FP beginners, and even "experienced" developers, make is the creation of this complex jungle of entangled functions . See what I did there.
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by drharris 13y ago
Ok, well done. :)

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