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by patkai 3mo ago
Behind many, but I sincerely hope not "every". A trivial counterexample is Warren Buffet: he simply saved and invested. Or consider inventors with patents.
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by patkai 7mo ago
Same here. As a teenager I dreamt about working for SUN. Oxide comes close in a way.
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by patkai 4y ago
I admit that I am a skeptic, but my first try [1] gave an intriguing response, so I will continue playing with it. [1] https://galactica.org/?prompt=what+is+the+relationship+betwe...
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by patkai 4y ago
Some say it's a symbiosis
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by patkai 4y ago
Where would you advertise for ex-Meta or ex-Twitter developers?
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by patkai 4y ago
I've just finished his autobiography "Homage to Gaia". I've read dozens of scientists' biographies, but this stands out. Funny, unusual, very warm and humane with a lot of good thoughts about work, freelancing, scie
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by patkai 4y ago
Yes, by far! The Gervais Principle is brilliant and after reading it a lot falls into place. It also corroborates with Slava's experience https://www.spakhm.com/p/how-to-get-promoted
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by patkai 4y ago
I thought that the emotional life-history pattern of cancer patients is quite well researched and linking trauma, anxiety and stress to cancer is not his hypothesis, he is just popularizing it.
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by patkai 4y ago
Correct! Worth checking the work of Gabor Mate on this. He claims that trauma is the key.
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by patkai 4y ago
> it's often the CTO This is interesting. Do others have the same experience? (I don't have a large enough sample to tell.)
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by patkai 4y ago
> Eric Schmidt was running the show at Google Was he really? I always thought he was more of a coach to the founders.
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by patkai 4y ago
that part can be outsourced to eg. Hetzner
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by patkai 5y ago
"it's not something where you throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks and just assume that programming languages, browsers, and operating systems are made of magical dust" Actually, it is - and he just described evolution
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by patkai 5y ago
The Metaverse is not bullshit. It is a brilliant tool to replace reality, control it and tax it. And it _will_ happen, the only question is who will implement it.
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by patkai 5y ago
Sad that we are not paying for software nowadays. Look at the consequences!
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by patkai 5y ago
I agree with you. Also, the Gervais principle should be required reading for everybody on HN. Half of the discussions would be so much simpler. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/ To put it simple: it wou
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by patkai 5y ago
Am surprised that in such a long thread nobody mentions RethinkDB.
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by patkai 5y ago
Everybody should take responsibility, parents first and also Zuckerberg.
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by patkai 6y ago
May be unrelated, but the question is killing me: what caption would you give to the photo at the top of the article?
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by patkai 6y ago
Please, everyone, do this more often! So simple and so powerful.
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by patkai 6y ago
Maybe a tablet maker will one day add a second, e-ink screen to the back of the tablet and run the Kindle app on it.
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by patkai 6y ago
This is one of the best titles I've seen this year. Reminds me of G.G.Márquez, who told how much he sweated over the first sentence. I haven't read the post yet, but I feel the discussion has already started.
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Guide for Remote Teams(teamsuccess.io)
2 points by patkai 7y ago|0 comments
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by patkai 7y ago
No way I am judging the company, meaning Joyent. But Samsung Electronics owns them, so what I expect is they realise they sit on a goldmine of talent, and if Joyent products are not doing well then they reinvest that talent in something els
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by patkai 7y ago
It is the sign of terrible incompetence to downsize people like him. If you ever get hold of people with this much competence then find a clever project for them, or create a new subsidiary.
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by patkai 7y ago
How about DHH? He is the closest to this I know.
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Futurespective: What is it and how do you conduct one?(teamsuccess.io)
2 points by patkai 7y ago|0 comments
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by patkai 7y ago
Related: while reading this thread I got an email with a job advertisement for COBOL programmers. It starts with "SIXT is an IT company with a very large car pool". Big words for a car rental firm, but I do hope they will be a tec
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by patkai 7y ago
Somehow these comments reminded me of a rant by John von Neumann. In an essay he says something like "mathematics is actually very shabby, just have a look at the extremum principles. Extrema? So we can't even tell if it's a
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by patkai 7y ago
It took a moment to google what Unison is. Apparently a new programming language: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison

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