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I was hoping to find Enchanted Scepters in there (I'd guess it would be in the system7 version), but no luck. I tried a few years ago to get it working on a Mac emulator but I wasn't successful, and I have fond memories of that game.

This headline is clickbait.

There's a big difference between being a successful entrepreneur and "founding for the 1-in-1,000 fastest growing new ventures," which is what this article is really about.

There are plenty of folks here on HN running profitable small businesses - aren't they successful entrepreneurs?

At some point, artificially extended life spans may become feasible and common.

It seems to me if/when that happens, a life sentence should be considered cruel and unusual.

My physics isn't great, but why does it matter that these are white dwarfs?

The article says "researchers studied six white dwarfs whose _strong gravitational pull_ had sucked in shredded remnants of planets" and "if they stray near its _immense gravitation field_, they “will be shredded into dust, and that dust will begin to fall onto the star and sink out of sight.”

Isn't it the case that the gravitation field will be as strong as it was before the star died, or even weaker from blowing off its outer layers?

It seems to me that if TextMate 2 hadn't been a complete rewrite, Sublime never would have been able to take over.

So I don't know what the backstory is with the slow release cycle, but at a certain point it became untenable to use TextMate 1 on our large codebase with performance problems and features missing from other tools.

I'm surprised by the negative comments here.

The article isn't about creating a burnout culture, or forcing people to work long hours.

Imo, it's not a bad thing to try to cultivate a workplace where people act with a sense that what they are working on is important and are generally trying to improve themselves.

That doesn't mean that everyone has to have their A game on every day and sprint to their bathroom breaks.

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but I didn't quite follow how this is going to gain a foothold. Solid has the same problem any new social media platform has - before people want to use it, people have to be using it. Facebook and Google certainly have no incentive to promote it.

It's shocking to me that half of the soap for sale at the grocery store is antibacterial. This should be illegal.

I can tell you why I haven't upgraded my iPhone 6S: I like my headphone jack.

If community == accounts with fewer photos, and revenue == people willing to pay for more photos, how does getting their revenue from the people who use Flickr in a way Flickr is trying to pivot from support furthering the goal of community?

I didn't see any mention of deleting photos that were over the limit. Hopefully they do what Flickr used to do, which is make only the last 1000 photos publicly visible.

Has anyone here successfully lobbied their management to get rid of the open office plan?

A good game plan for that seems much more valuable than headphone recommendations.

I get your point, but in particular GPS satellites are not in LEO.

I had this same problem. Too many interests, not enough time in the day!

So I pruned. I actually made a list, and prioritized. There were a few things on there that, after years of diddling around, I'm just no good at. There were a few things that were just too expensive or time consuming.

Now I limit myself to 2-3 things, and I actually make progress on those. It's kind of freeing to admit that you enjoy something, but that it's just not a priority.

Makes sense to me. It's a vicious cycle: feel like you're an imposter, get depressed and anxious, be less effective at your job, feel like you're an imposter.

I have a Flickr account with several thousand curated photos in it. Several years ago I let myself get convinced into turning on automatic photo upload. Before I knew it, my photostream was filled with garbage screenshots and photos of people blinking. It created 100s of tiny albums that cluttered my page and made my Flickr page a mess that I could no longer use, and I mostly abandoned photography.

I spent several days this year deleting all of those photos (because of course there was no batch delete that I could find).

Hopefully Smugmug does something great!

If the chance you'll pick the best option is 37%, what is the chance you'll pick someone in the top 2, or the top 5?

Another way of asking is, does it raise the odds you'll get someone really good, even if they aren't the best?

So what were the results? Are pedestrians jerks? Do other cars cut them off?

I think pairing can be different for different people. I've often heard people saying that "the zone" comes more easily when pairing. Personally, any zone I'm feeling pairing has a different character from one achieved alone. It's easier to focus on the task at hand (because there's peer pressure).

I took that course. I didn't gain much from it. There is some interesting theory about how we learn.

The best (er.. only) trick I remember: rather than re-reading material, reflect on it for a few minutes after you've read it, trying to recall and organize it in your mind.

Exactly what I was thinking... but when will you (and society) be comfortable with a therapy that goes into your brain cells and edits their DNA?

Whoops - there's also a BudgetingRow that needs a very similar hierarchy of support structures!

Clearly, the system needs some refactoring - perhaps there's a pattern that can be extracted. Hopefully, though, my point came across.

I think this article ignores or glosses over the hardest part about naming, which is when you have to start naming things with abstract behavior. Naming things with analogs in the domain is easy, but when you find yourself trying to follow the Single Responsibility principle and breaking pieces off you run into trouble.

My AccountingRow is something the user sees, and there's also a SummaryAccountingRow with similarities; both of these need SQL generated, so there's a AccountingRowSQLGenerator and a AccountingRowSummarySQLGenerator. These generally share some of the same business logic around how to join different tables, so there's a AccountingRowCommonQueries class. We also need to spit this out in JSON, so there's a AccountingRowSerializer and AccountingRowsSerializer and AccountingRowSummarySerializer, AccountingRowSummaryRowsSerializer. An AccountingRow also has an AccountingRowBehavior, and AccountRowAdder, and onward into infinity.

Now you have name soup, and if you are looking at this system for the first time your eyes glaze over.

You may have changed my life.

I'd love to see more on how he manages his "to learn" pile using Evernote. My current strategy is to let things I want to read live in open browser tabs until my browser crashes. Rinse & repeat.

I'm no expert on philosophy, but I feel like consciousness is a subjective experience. So externally there would be no difference, but I'm pretty sure I'm conscious.

Of course, I've also heard of the illusion of consciousness, but that's where my brain explodes.

As creator, are you responsible for the well being of the sentient beings?

Are you morally prohibited from turning them off?

Can you reset to a save point, possibly undoing the creation of some of the sentient beings?

If we're living in a simulation, the question of whether AIs can have consciousness is solved.

Can someone who knows explain why Wells Fargo is inventing a new API rather than using OFX? Is OFX deficient?

I'm thinking from the perspective of "I'm sick of working at your standard SaaS. I'd like to see what else is out there for software developers."