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by tc7 8y ago
I'm not really wanting to not work, as such, but to transition from working for someone else to working on my own projects. So the equation for me is more: Spend a little less time with wife/kids today to improve my future enjoyme
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by tc7 8y ago
For me, there's a conflict between long-term and short-term enjoyment. I have a 'goal' of independence from my 9-5, but after I get home from work and play with my kids a bit, it sounds more immediately _enjoyable_ to watch a
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by tc7 8y ago
It's not obvious to me that democracy is in decline, or authoritarianism on the rise. Over what time-frame? Do you have supporting data you can point me to ("In the past 10 years, more countries have switched from democratic to n
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by tc7 8y ago
Aw man. So much nostalgia. <3
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by tc7 8y ago
> What evidence do you have for such an optimistic assertion? Wouldn't the burden of evidence here be on someone saying the opposite (that technological progress will stop)? Technology has continually progressed across human histo
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by tc7 9y ago
Did you release a product that didn't get customers, or how were you unsuccessful?
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by tc7 9y ago
Wasn't preachy, made sense to me :). Thanks for it, I've had lots of vague thoughts swirling around about this. Perhaps we become who we are through what we pursue. So if we never wade beyond the tide of 'low' goals push
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by tc7 9y ago
Tangential: I was so pleased to see inline links to the actual studies cited. <3 I accept that others can evaluate us on some of these traits better than we can ourselves. Given that, how hard is it to update our mental models to better
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by tc7 9y ago
Yep! But do you really think that the difference in opportunity between the rich and poor in America is larger than anywhere else? For instance, can a poor person get rich in America? If so, is this easier/harder than other places? Onc
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by tc7 9y ago
When I first read it, "perhaps nowhere on earth is the difference bigger" seemed like an incredible and obvious exaggeration. But maybe your point is that in countries with much wider _lifestyle_ disparity (widespread poverty vs.
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by tc7 9y ago
Didn't love it :). Seems like the initial list of complaints he's responding to are chosen to be the most superficial (and easily argued against) ones. And things like this: "these self-assured statements are being made
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by tc7 9y ago
Curious, do you have kids/family in the house? There may be a difference in the mental/physical load of "managing a household" vs "doing housework".
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by tc7 9y ago
What do you think it is? (I'm genuinely curious, certainly open to alternate explanations.)
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by tc7 9y ago
> Anyone is allowed to call you a moron and claim to be doing you a favor. (Which, in point of fact, they would be. One of the big problems with this culture is that everyone's afraid to tell you you're wrong, or they think the
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by tc7 9y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11300840/how-an-irate-dev...
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by tc7 9y ago
Part 1 discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15878823
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Modern Front-End in Rails, Part 2(evilmartians.com)
4 points by tc7 9y ago|1 comments
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by tc7 9y ago
> Google will probably always need a number of people that have memorized every data structure known to humanity, but they would probably be better set up to avoid stagnation and continue in a position of market dominance into the futur
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by tc7 9y ago
For a lot of the people Google needs to hire to write Google-scale code, maybe "can identify things that people want and need and actually implement them"" isn't a particularly useful skillset _to Google_, but the skill
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by tc7 9y ago
Possible points for the defense: - He may be qualified to work at Google, but that's not apparent just because he created Homebrew, right? - Google can afford to be picky enough to miss out on popular open-source project authors who _c
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by tc7 9y ago
Very cool. I've been keeping a plaintext worklog at the day job to help with time-tracking. Logging time in our system as I go is slow and painful, so I just write it down daily and enter it all at end of week (month :|). I have a file
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by tc7 9y ago
So what is it about "Social Media" that's causing this? Article has a passing mention of coveting exotic holidays. (I haven't read the mentioned book.) So is it (just) comparison? "Everyone else's life is amazi
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by tc7 9y ago
Tangential: I just read the wikipedia page on this [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Oregon#Website_failure ]. Is there any more in-depth information available about what went wrong on this project (or others like it
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by tc7 9y ago
The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell. An amazing writer. The best mix of beautifully detailed characters and ambitious scope that I've read.
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by tc7 11y ago
# salads sold + # drinks sold = 209, perhaps?
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by tc7 11y ago
I think when I get one of these from my domain registered through Dreamhost, it says something to the affect of "Log in and check, if it's OK do nothing", which is much nicer than having to log in and take action (like I have
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by tc7 14y ago
Maybe the relative ease and affluence of our lives has diminished our willpower to deny ourselves anything, and exercising our willpower will strengthen it. In other words, maybe the 'limited' part is artificial and can be changed. And mayb
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by tc7 14y ago
Agree with this.. I may be an extreme case, but I never buy games, veryVERY rarely play games at all, and I've bought three of these bundles. Too good of a deal to pass up for even the possibility of future enjoyment :) (I pay like $10 or s
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by tc7 15y ago
How about Unity? http://unity3d.com/ 3D, cross-platform... free...
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Startups: Stress and Depression(spencerfry.com)
5 points by tc7 15y ago|0 comments

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