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by throwaway0255 8y ago
The behavior and displays in these ideological flamewars have gotten so much worse over the last year, and the pace of that change seems to be accelerating. There seems to be a demographic shift happening on HN, away from rational and genui
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I'm referring to the kind of vilification that would cause brand damage for Tesla, so consumer-facing vilification. Consumer-facing vilification in US media isn't really about what the person has done or what kind of person they a
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> The rest of the board, and supposedly Musk is being replaced to get a little bit more financial responsibility in Tesla. He’s being replaced as consideration for a settlement agreement with the SEC. It seems likely Tesla chose Denholm
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I always thought distributed systems weren’t necessarily decentralized systems. Is my understanding of the terminology wrong? For example a system that uses distributed algorithms for performance improvements, or a system that is distribute
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Yeah, I’ve always had the same thought. Another musical pet peeve of mine is when, usually during the intro, a song doubles the number of bars for a sequence, basically repeating itself for no good reason. My ear is ready for the song to ki
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Your comment post-edit is pretty much the reason I read HN. This model of geopolitics as an ungoverned society of nations is something I’ve never considered. Then, the natural tendency of people within governed societies to analyze geopolit
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Looks interesting. Can you go into some detail on what your workflow is like? Is your dev environment pure Linux then, able to install everything in aptitude, etc? How does using an IDE like IntelliJ work?
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Ask HN: Has Windows improved for Unix-based workflows?
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I'm not aware of any paid news sources that fit my needs, maybe you can recommend some. I agree that headlines are bad, which is why I discount them almost entirely, as I mentioned in my original comment. I'm not sure why you don&
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
So "advocacy journalism" is basically a form of journalism wherein all the statements are technically factual, but the journalists intentionally and transparently ignore all other ethics and standards of journalism. I understand w
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> At this point it's pretty much impossible to read such articles and figure out whether there is an actual institutional problem. I have a similar feeling about all articles from all sources (that I’m aware of) in journalism. Every
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Everyone I've talked to in the industry views people with a Masters much less favorably than people with a Bachelors or PhD. And from experience I can say there is a shockingly high number of people with Masters in Comp Sci churning th
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Have you considered the possibility that a degree from a top university could influence an interviewer's report of the candidate's technical proficiency? During one interview I had at Google, I stumbled when performing addition on
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
How true is this today?
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
The computer security industry for SMBs is like 95% theater and 5% actual practice. Conducting that test produced something tangible for whoever made the purchasing decision: It clearly illustrated a need for the services rendered, did it i
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> I really hate this idea of the grand visionary. ... I listened to a bit of his Joe Regan interview and when Regan asked him how he has the time to do all of the things he does, there are smoke jokes about him being an alien, but not on
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> Ya you can imagine any scenario you want. I can imagine a scenario where a homeless person's life is better than if he had a home. It's not hard to imagine. But if you had a choice, which would you choose? Homelessness is a f
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
It’s not at all difficult to imagine a scenario where his life is better after turning down Instagram. I wouldn’t even say it’s unlikely. Just name one important relationship he formed in NYC. Done. (Or any of the other infinite ways events
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> I'm sure I was projecting and it was just trying to avoid being eaten, but it seemed way more intelligent than other insects. Really interesting, but I agree it's most likely just a projection. Possibly due to the fact that m
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I love the last sentence of the article: > Adult females are known to eat their mating partners after sex. Just thought they'd throw that one in before signing off! But I do suppose a writer would be remiss not to remind you of that
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I think you may be right, because I had the same exact thought, and I haven’t watched the wat video in a couple years. Great video, especially for anyone new to dynamic typing.
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
What value do marketers add to people’s lives? Can you give me an example? Follow-up question: Do you think the impact of marketers on people’s lives globally is net positive, or net negative?
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> How much did you eat/smoke? Maybe you're especially sensitive to cannabis? (Genuinely curious here, not trying to discredit your story). Yeah of course, no worries. It wasn't with edibles, it was smoking. I was doing a f
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Overdosing on marijuana was probably the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life. Certainly by far the worst experience I've ever had on a recreational drug. People always frame the discussion of drug overdoses around lethali
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
> Maybe junk has lower licensing fees so it increases their margins. It has to be something like this. Licensing fees based on views, or maybe the license terms stipulate that they're not allowed to promote it or something. Often I&
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
The biggest problem with the Netflix content discovery algorithm is that it's in total conflict with Netflix's brand management, and brand management will always win. By far their most prominent platform for brand impressions is w
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I hate the state of tech interviews with a passion but I have to reluctantly agree. When I was involved in hiring I was astonished at how difficult it was to even find a person who was both worth interviewing and willing to interview, and r
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Strong economies prevent people from dying of starvation, disease, and violence. Social issues all start as economic issues, they are a luxury of the wealthy. There are 1.4 billion people in China, and if that economy is "gone in a few
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
Yes. The world’s largest population is relying on an unsustainable economic model, under a political system that is not beholden to or representative of its people, propped up by western nations that aren’t going to need it anymore in a pos
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by throwaway0255 8y ago
I think AWS icons are great and I vastly prefer them over Google Cloud’s icons. Every icon in Google Cloud is a nearly-identical blue hexagon. They might as well not even have icons.

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