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caente
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Comment #34326231
>The difference is that our younger selves were maybe more optimistic and naive and probably would have just produced a new mess for the next one to scratch his/her head about. Thi…
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Comment #32599188
I haven't read the book, but that paragraph makes me think in all the artists that never did anything interesting, but were artists. It makes me think in all the artists that belie…
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Comment #31595657
I think anecdotal evidence is almost literally what "partly" means.
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Comment #30920323
> It may not make sense right now, but you may spend the next decade or so chasing money to get to a point of contentment only to realize that you’re chasing after money because yo…
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Comment #30481686
>Nothing you point out gets even close, in my mind, to stuff like null pointers or untyped code. So I wonder what languages you have in mind that require less patience. You two are…
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Comment #30456167
most likely Putin and his cronies are too isolated from reality, i.e. the information they receive is filtered/doctored to fit whatever they expect. Not dissimilar to the kings of …
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Comment #29728856
> When The College Board, the company who administers Advanced Placement (AP) courses and the SAT test to thousands of future college applicants each year, began developing the AP …
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Comment #29179567
> I used to be excited by programming language features instead of what problem I was actually trying to solve with programming. I'd spend hours condensing 10 lines of perfectly wo…
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Comment #26414852
He did quit, there should not be shame in quitting, but he did quit. Others have the same difficulties as him, they don't quit, nor they achieved anything, that is the risk. Now he…
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Comment #23821820
> I'm the kind of guy that likes to re-run his code continually to see if it validates to what I expect it to be doing. In Rust, this kind of workflow just doesn't work at all. Int…
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Comment #23531660
Researchers at Columbia Engineering, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Austria's Graz University of Technology have proposed a computational model of the brain based on neur…
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Comment #19584412
> Correctness is not an engineering problem. It's an economics problem It could be argued that all engineering problems _are_ economic problems.
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Comment #12475248
I don't think UBI will fix any current welfare systems. It doesn't fix anything. It changes everything. I believe it can be done gradually. But no one should expect to preserve the…
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Comment #12475071
So what? If the person has no reason to work, then they shouldn't. Humans are entrepreneurial by nature. Everybody has crazy dreams that have long forgotten because they needed to …
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Comment #12225842
Copying my comment from the OP > Analysts and project managers might account for technical debt when discussing slipped deadlines. No they won't, you cannot quantify technical debt…
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Comment #12126152
The OP is talking hard facts, ENSIME _do_ have a low barrier for contributing. I have been witness of the continuous effort to make it more so. He is sharing what has worked for th…
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Ask HN: Similarities between american car industry and current software industry
Is there any paper about similarities/differences/makes no sense to compare, between current software industry and the history of car industry in America?
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Comment #12094299
we absolutely do flee to any country that would have us, there are cubans in almost any corner of the earth