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pgtruesdell

164 karma · joined March 21, 2013

Always hacking and working on things.
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pgtruesdell··on Will minimum wage hikes lead to a huge boost in automation? Only if we're lucky
Collusion to suppress wages is already illegal. All you're saying is that you don't have any faith in the government to prevent collusion. Which is a whole separate issue.
pgtruesdell··on This should never happen
As usual, these submissions from Github searches like this are just sad.
pgtruesdell··on Atlantis-style myths that turned out to be true
Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock have been on the Joe Rogan Experience a few times over the years, together and separately, and have explained their well documented theory about Atlantis.

The short of it would be, before the Younger Dryas period when the massive ice sheets over North America melted, the ocean levels were approximately 300 ft lower than they are today. When you look at the mid-atlantic ridge, the lower sea levels would expose an area now called the Azores Plateau. This would be a large habitable island off the coast of Europe. This becomes especially interesting when you take into account the timeline of Plato's account which exactly lines up with the beginning of the Younger Dryas meltdown.

I apologize if my interpretation of their discussions is inaccurate in any way, I am now just digging into this theory and it's truly fascinating.

The most recent episode with both Randall and Graham was especially intriguing, since they both brought their unique studies together into a more unified theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDejwCGdUV8

pgtruesdell··on Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order
Rule #1 of hugely anticipated release testing: Make sure you over-provision servers.
pgtruesdell··on A First Look at Metal Performance on the iPhone 6s
This is really impressive, much more work went into the CPU & GPU on this "s" generation than previous years. I can't wait to see what people, smarter than I, do with it.
pgtruesdell··on Was Rasputin murdered by MI6? (2014)
If true, this would give some extra clarity of the days before the fall of the Russian Autocracy.
pgtruesdell··on Apple to build huge €850m 'data centre' in Ireland's fields of Athenry
Apple chief executive Tim Cooke?
pgtruesdell··on Ask HN: Any good audio podcasts?
ITM Brother.

+1 For No Agenda. The best podcast in the universe!

pgtruesdell··on Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients
This is a clever idea, makes it simple to get ideas for things you already have in your cupboard. Although its in a simple form currently, you could do so much with this concept.
pgtruesdell··on Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
I think this could be an interesting move for Twitter. Especially for podcasting, since Twitter started out as Odeo, and pivoted due to lackluster interest in the medium.
pgtruesdell··on Python 3 is killing Python
I completely agree. Since the release of Python 3, I've attempted to get familiar with Python and I always have this dilemma.

Which version do I learn first?

On a first, ignorant, glance learning Python 3 makes sense because it's the way of the future. Although, the more you learn, you slowly figure out that they're not that different; but, they're communities and supporting libraries are in two separate camps. It's like there's a cold war mentality of people who can't or won't port/migrate to 3 and the Python 3 crowd that looks upon the former with disgust and disdain. There's clearly a huge divide and it's uncomfortable and confusing for new folks to learn and get involved.

Now we're about 6 years since the first Python 3 release and I've never gotten involved with Python beyond a few days of tinkering. I've moved on, and based on my experience, people who are newcomers to programming are walking right by without a second thought. This coupled with the developers that are jumping ship, isn't good news for Python. They need a course change, and they need to make it quickly.

Just my $0.02.

pgtruesdell··on IPv6 adoption rate above 3% even on Mondays now
I think it's important to note that in the US it's up to 7.34%. Quite impressive considering the lack of urgency by ISPs.
pgtruesdell··on Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up
Stripe is going to convert it to the merchant's local currency in "real time" to prevent the problems in fluctuations of BTC value. This is shaping up to be very nice.

http://recode.net/2014/03/27/stripe-merchants-will-soon-be-a...

pgtruesdell··on Facebook acquires Oculus VR
Yeah, this one is definitely tough to swallow. Really disappointing.

I wonder how this affects the viability of VR going forward. Especially as everyone starts to associate it with FB.

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