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by magice 8y ago
So, according to this, the assumptions are: 1. NO NEW TAXES!!!!! 2. No safety nets! If you are out of jobs, you are ed. 3. Thou shall work 40hr a week. 4. Governments can only act for/against immigration. All of which are, obvi
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by magice 8y ago
Hmm. Yet another day, yet another bashing of performance review. Very sad. I will readily agree that most common systems unnecessarily bundle multiple high stake issues. For example, most people (me included from time to time) stop listenin
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by magice 8y ago
Man, I disagree with about everything from this opinion. And I hate that I have this urge to write out the point-to-point rebuking: + "Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep." : Really? Are we playing the "let&#x27
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by magice 8y ago
Frankly, are we overthinking this? IMHO, 99% of human emotions have reasons of existence. It just makes evolutionary sense (or, if you prefer, it helps us serve the intelligent maker(s) better). Maybe we SHOULD have impostor syndrome, as we
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by magice 8y ago
I see that you don't understand the problems raised. About accountability: if YOU are compromised, your friends' data are compromised, and vice versa. Are you saying that the median security skill of your friends are higher than F
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by magice 8y ago
I sometimes wonder why Apple would do this. I mean: i) the end-users frankly don't care. Seriously. ii) 90% (if not 99.99%) of dev would not (be able to) care I mean, I doubt if more than perhaps 5% of Apple internal dev can take ad
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by magice 8y ago
How on earth is blockchain going help? Seriously! There is no conceptual situation, in theory or practice, that blockchain will improve upon Facebook situation. Generally speaking, Facebook is bad for about 5 reasons: 1. Privacy: unexpect
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by magice 9y ago
"if you take one of the 6 month programs, you’ll get a similar amount of experience as in an undergrad curriculum." I am sorry, what? Look, I know that people are all about "disrupting" the world. But, for the love of ha
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by magice 9y ago
I completely agree. Microsoft and this article try very hard to fuzz the meaning of "cloud computing" to make their numbers look prettier. If we start counting Office 365, than Gmail should also be counted, as is Amazon Prime rela
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by magice 9y ago
Extra functions of the bones cannot explain fully his question. If it is possible to for the body to synthesize whatever material, it can create a frame for the bones, then wrap that frame in bio-active layers. Basically, a skeleton for the
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by magice 9y ago
As much fun as it is to bash Microsoft and Windows (although, let's face it, Windows has been so much better in the last few releases), I personally think Microsoft, its engineers, as well as its PM deserve (some?) empathy rather than
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by magice 9y ago
This is a thought provoking read. I, too, have been meditating over this matter a lot. Unfortunately, though, it seems to me that people generally adopt one of the 3 camps: * Don't care (that is, most users until their internet slows)
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by magice 9y ago
Independent news sources provide investigations critical to the state, which state run media do not. It's like GNU/Linux or Android to Windows or iOS. They provide excellent value as well as competitive advantages. SnapChat vs Wha
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by magice 9y ago
I think this article completely bypasses the root causes of the issue in order to paint Silicon Valley dominating businesses in the worst light possible. Look, the real issue is simple: all of these "web startups" are not very inn
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by magice 9y ago
>Yes, but they increase delivery time problems and developer time problems. That's purely guesswork. Seriously! My observation is that as the size of the project grows, type system switches from hindrances to actually speed up devel
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by magice 9y ago
The current state of software safety discussion resembles the state of medical safety discussion 2, 3 decades ago (yeah, software is really really behind time). Back then, too, the thoughts on medical safety also were divided into 2 schoo
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by magice 9y ago
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2635922 Just ONE study, so don't take too much heed. That said, apparently: * Strongly type, statically compiled, functional, and managed memory is least buggy * perl is REVERSELY cor
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by magice 9y ago
Hmm, this "article" (let's be charitable and call it that) should probably be named "For Shame: Example of Bad Writings that Make You Want to Hurt the Authors." I still am at loss of what is the message (which someo
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by magice 9y ago
It's an incredible website! But it still does not work completely "right." For example, the back and forth buttons don't navigate to the correct scroll locations. This actually illustrates his points. Which is this: the
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by magice 10y ago
I hate hate hate, bitterly, angrily, and even desperately, those fetishes about a better, nicer, more innocent past. We all heard it; we all partake in the orgy of present-bashing and past-glorying before. However, let's wake up and, s
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by magice 10y ago
I do appreciate the effort to protect everyone's constitutional right. I wish best of luck to the pursuit. However, I feel like there is something very very wrong about method and intention of this type of actions/complains. One t
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by magice 10y ago
Well, this article actually makes me glad to not read Ars Technica for a while, and may actively prevent me from ever reading that thing again. Here is how every single article on this topic of this particular author goes: there is a (quite
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by magice 10y ago
? Why is it redundant? For the love of God, why is HR redundant? Let alone the other answer ("HR" == "other engineers"), which is brilliant, the HR department is the greatest weapon a large firm can deploy. Do you want i
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by magice 10y ago
I weep to see people sharing my viewpoints. Too often, quasi-professional observers of industries would make stupid anecdote examples into attention grabbing but misleading and ultimately stupid stories. To add to your examples (and to brin
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by magice 10y ago
sigh Yet-another-worshipper-of-god-given-creativity. I lost all respect for the article the moment the author drew difference between chess/music/sport and writing/drawing/teaching/"creativity". Frankly,
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by magice 11y ago
Here is my serious question for Hacker News community: who the upvote this piece of ? I mean, seriously, guys, why, in the name of all that is (even if marginally) correct, did you up vote this piece of fantasy? I frankly don'
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by magice 11y ago
Hmm, posts like this make me want to make Lisp mandatory for all programmers. Given that LISPers have argued for "lambda the ultimate kitchen utensil/sinks/cooks" for the last few decades, it's slightly annoying tha
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by magice 11y ago
You know, my feeling for rms is quite bipolar. On one hand, I respect the severity of his commitment. On the other hand, as time passes, he sounds more and more like those extremist whackjobs. Seriously. For example, what is wrong with payi
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by magice 11y ago
You know, farming may be wonderful and all. But it's not silver bullet. Nor does it make programming any less rewarding, provided that one does it right. In fact, it is YOUR OWN DAMNED fault if you fail to sing with your children while
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by magice 12y ago
The root cause of all this is the fantasy of a certain group of people. Those believe, against the evidence and the suffering of their fellow citizens (let alone their fellow human beings), that enthroning money (aka capital, corporation, a

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