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Ask HN: What annoys you?
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#242Slow people in New York annoy me. It's like everyone is on vacation, even the people who live here.
Probably just enjoying life.
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#243Large Corporations/Associations ect.
Every time I have a problem with a large corporation it never gets resolved until it is convenient for them, and follows their screwed up procedure.
They deter innovation and could care less about their customers. Take a look at the cable, internet, automobiles, music industries. Anything new happen lately? Nope.
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I would be interested in reading your book, as well as a summary if you have one somewhere.
He's still writing it. The huge numbers of blog posts it is a synthesis of are available at http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
And for a less conventional overview, see Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...
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#245Phone screens are too small to do useful work on, and laptops are too inconvenient to carry around.
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#246I am annoyed at how much the hacker/startup scene sucks here in India. All the cool people and projects are in the USA and the people who don't emigrate end up working on the outsourced Java/RoR enterprise program from hell simply because there aren't any technically interesting jobs. Beng teh greta outsourcing destination for crap legacy code creates an ecosystem of substandard "programmers" who all get certified in J2Ee (or whatever the latest crap is) and then move on to become "managers" asap.
I've found my niche in Machine Learning, and have escaped this fate somewhat, but damn, it is a small and lonely niche. It would be great to go out and have a beer with engineers working on technically challenging projects, like you can in San Fransisco. (I'd love to hang out with the Data Drinking group for e.g.). The amount of talent wasted on legacy enterpriseware maintenance is unimaginable.
I've lived in the USA and I love the place, but I don't want to choose between doing good work and living "at home".
Meanwhile, HN keeps me sane. I don't have great engineers to talk to and learn from in the Real World, but online is a different matter.
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I recently switched to 1Password. Now I realize that I'm basically unable to use any sites that require login with my phone, since I don't know my own passwords.
1Password has an application for the iPhone
and an "export to html" option that exports all of your passwords into a single encrypted javascript/html file that you can put on a server. it acts as a self-contained web application that lets you browse and search through your passwords on-demand. i've been using such an exported file for months after i migrated away from mac os and frequently access the file from my android phone and other browsers.
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I have the opposite complaint. My school's dining hall meal plan works out to $8+/meal and it's infuriating. I now spend almost half as much by shopping at Trader Joe's and cooking. What do you count as good food? I find that it doesn't take me that much longer to make something good and healthy (maybe not gourmet delicious) than it would to wait in line at a cafeteria.
Good food: Salad, main course and dessert for around £4. Lots of vegetables and other (healthy) perishable ingredients. The thing with perishable food at home is you either have to constantly buy in small quantities, which is time consuming, or buy more, plan your meals up-front, and hope you can use it up before it rots. This is also assuming it makes sense to travel home for dinner most evenings and cook, which is…
I've always wanted somewhere that would serve a decent salad reliably for £5. I've yet to find that place. If they existed, they'd have me as a customer at least 3 times a week.
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Personally, I'm offended by the popularity of "Classic Rock" and the fact that marketing channels have broken down to the point where there's no connection between great music being made today and many listeners. I grew up listening to "Classic Rock" in the 1980s, and it took years for me to realize that this had deprived me of the authentic music of my youth... It was the music of somebody else's youth, which makes…
I'd recommend streaming 89.3 The Current from Minnesota Public Radio. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/ It's fully independent music radio station that's publicly funded. They don't play commercials, and they play a wide variety of known and unknown music. I first discovered it when I moved up here (the Twin Cities) away from the Clear Channel dominated airwaves and I haven't turned back si…
Couldn't agree more. I discovered 89.3 when going to school in the cities. Now, even though I no longer live in the area, I stream them online almost every day.
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This mythical "programmer that can't program" myth has disrupted the hiring process... It's not a myth.
I'll admit it's pure speculation on my part. I have a hard time believing that ninety-some-odd percent of applicants believe they can blatantly lie their way into a position they are clearly not qualified for. How embarrassing is it to be caught in such a lie? Not every needs to be keenly self-aware to at least have an intuition about the limits and potential of their own capabilities... Maybe I'm just not cynical en…
It's not embarrassing at all typically. Failing at applying to a single position does not instantly cause the depths of your ignorance in programming fundamentals to be broadcast to the world.
From my experience and observation it's generally very lucky if you get anything better than a 50:1 ratio from initial phone screen down to a hiring offer.