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by insoluble 10y ago
And here I thought I was the only one with a vertical side monitor. Then again, did you mean that both are vertical?
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by insoluble 10y ago
Before the industrial revolution, almost all manufacturing of common goods, including food, was performed by human hands and feet. This limited output capacity to that of human strength and endurance; and it was exhausting for humans, preve
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Ask HN: What in IT shouldn't exist?
2 points by insoluble 10y ago|4 comments
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by insoluble 10y ago
Imagine a search engine that not only gave you search results, it used advanced AI to tell you in brief how each result applied to the problem you are currently trying to solve. Currently, you have to waste time thinking about each result t
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by insoluble 10y ago
Is this a scientifically supported assessment? I say this because I have heard it often, but in thinking about it, I cannot see this necessarily being true. WPF uses XAML, which is similar to HTML or other markup languages in structure. Sur
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by insoluble 10y ago
So they say, but that doesn't mean its support is about to end. If you look at how long MS supports technologies, you can be pretty sure it has plenty of usable life. Plus, UWP is practically the exact same thing from a design and codi
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by insoluble 10y ago
WPF is superior to Windows Forms in many ways, particularly layout responsiveness. I would not recommend anyone entering the Windows Desktop scene to use this old paradigm of UI design springing from Win32 (or older). Moreover, since WPF us
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by insoluble 10y ago
Indeed a product often has value, but an idea without execution is an untested gamble.
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by insoluble 10y ago
The basic idea here is that arguing with reality is counter-productive. To be effective, one should embrace those changes that cannot be avoided.
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by insoluble 10y ago
For many in the field, a bigger issue than commoditisation is probably wage gaps between higher and lower cost regions of the globe. While it should not be expected that the average person can or even could compete with top-notch developers
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Ask HN: Average ratio of lines, Assembly vs. C#.NET
1 points by insoluble 10y ago|0 comments
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by insoluble 10y ago
In theory, a larger organisation would have more communication going on, and having messages that stand out among the noise would definitely set you apart. Moreover, the more people you communicate with, the less you know each person on a p
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by insoluble 10y ago
> I don't really know of a defense other than ... One way is to make sure you (a) provide real value and (b) know how to convey that knowledge effectively in tense situations. If you're not sure you provide real value, then BS
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by insoluble 10y ago
The underlying message here is very important to consider in this discussion. In many ways, the average human may already be outputting intelligent information about as fast as he or she can. If we really could think substantially faster th
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by insoluble 10y ago
We must first consider the purpose of money and the purpose of employment. Money's purpose is to allow distribution of credit based on the amount of value that an individual or other entity has provided to society. Employment's
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by insoluble 11y ago
A game is not fair if the rules are not the same for everyone. At least, I would like to believe that anyone who watches sports would agree with this statement. Moreover, a game played with unfair rules is by its nature an unethical game. T
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by insoluble 11y ago
> people you'd go out of your way to cause harm to It should also be pointed out that there are two different directions here. Is an "enemy" someone you would harm, is an enemy someone who would harm you, or must the desir
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by insoluble 11y ago
>dbo.v_TheFirstTimeIMadeThisView followed by dbo.v_TheFirstTimeIMadeThisView_1 Not to mention multiple versions of stored procedures having slightly different names because they have slightly different sets of parameters -- rather than h
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by insoluble 11y ago
Official App Developer wage statistics, including both mean and percentile, in the US (for 2014) can be found here: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm For generic Programmers, see here: http:/&#x2F
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by insoluble 11y ago
> it will probably help more than any amount of exercise ever will. Unless the issue is solely anxiety-based, exercise would in most cases help a considerable amount. Especially for smaller medical concerns (not sleeping well, aches, mil
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by insoluble 11y ago
> LE becomes a standard service out-of-the-box. This could happen, but I would think some of the cram-all-you-can hosting providers would not want to "waste" CPU power like that. SSL takes slightly more CPU to serve. My guess
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by insoluble 11y ago
> "waste" a few dollars on a streamlined process than spend hours trying to get Let's Encrypt working This is true. It probably took me somewhere around 20 hours to get everything streamlined with Let's Encrypt (I sta
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by insoluble 11y ago
I've thought about getting into this area myself, but I was too afraid there was not enough market for it. This was several years ago. As far as CPU power, today's average PC is easily 5x what's necessary for perfect speech.
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by insoluble 11y ago
> One way to solve this is to create a modular super-app for which developers can write components I am pretty sure they call this an operating system. Moreover, most operating systems do provide built-in or pre-installed functionality,
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by insoluble 11y ago
> It can be hard to tell how much someone actually contributed just by looking at a CV. While this is true, it can also be hard to tell how much of a person's open-source code was actually written by that person. With the abundance
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by insoluble 11y ago
It could be argued that Microsoft is trying to be more forward thinking by continually pushing the level of abstraction while at the same time trying to please everyone at once. One of the downsides to being the biggest (for an extended per
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by insoluble 11y ago
Call me a skeptic, but there is no way there was an algorithm available to humans 10 years ago that reversibly compressed 6GB of unique, already-compressed media files down to 800MB. The only way this could have happened is if there wer
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by insoluble 11y ago
In addition to what else has been said so far, some videos are private, and making those videos interceptable would allow unauthorised access. Moreover, YouTube is not used only for entertainment. Unlike standard television, where the conte
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by insoluble 11y ago
Thanks. I have updated my response to the general case.
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by insoluble 11y ago
Edit: Discussing mistakes and how to avoid them has a very useful place in a wise person's life. I ask everyone to understand that speaking about your recent successes is well and good under an appropriate context. For this particular

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