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10 years ago
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on: Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food
Way to project, not sure how you extrapolated all that from my comment. My point is that when a bottom line is involved, you will see only a few options come to dominance once the dust settles. And while home grown efforts do bear fruit, they very very seldom become mainstream.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food
Can someone explain the downvotes?
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food
And all those were done in the absence of capitalism, so they're not apt comparisons.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Happy people don’t leave jobs they love
I hate to break it to HN, but we are not the norm. We're here because we long for more, and have the skills to make that yearning reality. So while every anecdote in the comments is true I'm sure for that person, for the vast majority of people, this article is pretty accurate.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Show HN: Angular Starter Kit – Typescript, WebPack, Karma
It's easier to write, test, debug, and maintain. I have apps now that a few dozen files, all <= 100loc replacing systems where the number of files is many more and the file sizes were 2000loc per file.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: When you install un-signed code into your editor, it might as well be malware
If a secure server is compromised, then none of this matters. You have to trust someone at some point.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: I thought all anti-vaxxers were idiots. Then I married one
Um, no, she's an idiot, and you're justifying it her stupidity.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Apple's Tim Cook defends encryption. When will other tech CEOs do so?
This has nothing to do with being vocal about security. Yea, they're helping the technical cause, but if you don't want backdoors in everything, the CEO's need to talk to the public so they're aware, and sending letters and phone calls.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US
Literally, it means testicles, but more colloclially it means bullshit in every English speaking country I know of.
edit: Apparently not. Just messaged my American buddy, and he thought it might be a wig for cows... So, maybe not Americans.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: App Developers on Swift Evolution
It was very divided 4-5 years ago, predominantly when underscore and jQuery were both champing at the bit to be the top utility library. It's shifted towards not monkey patching, but it's not not absolutely decided for many developers.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is the best online resource for Objective-C to Swift?
For the language, first read Apples Language Guide & Reference. It's free.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...
I would recommend the iTunesU - Stanford iOS 8 Tutorial series as well. Been a while since I wrote an iOS app, just watched it this weekend to see what was new, and found it to be great.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science
So science 2.0 will be encumbered by patents... Great.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Show HN: A Werewolf bot for Slack
But that would eat into my Reddit checking time.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: How Being Named the 'Best New Restaurant in America' Hurt My Business
It's almost impossible to open a restaurant for less than 100k, so I don't know what you are going on about. Even if the 50k was free money from daddy, and not a business loan mixed with life savings and a a second mortgage, it's not even in the same realm.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is the logic behind closing comments after certain period
An ad eyeball is an ad eyeball. I'd need to see some very solid metrics showing that eyeballs on old pages aren't as good as new.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014)
I obviously misread your comment. My bad. Not a good day for commenting for me.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014)
Ah, I made the assumption that a vegetable oil based plastic would at worst break down or go rancid. And tiny bits of rancid oil wouldn't be harmful. However, if they're using other chemicals to produce these, then it's entirely possible that they would be unsafe. My bad.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014)
I don't see the issue even if the plastics are invisibly dispersed in the wild. I use styrofoam in my potting soils, for a reason.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (2010)
This is probably illegal (garnishing for mistakes), so check with you local labour laws before doing this. Though I would recommend against this unless you want employees quitting or stealing from you.
pheroden
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10 years ago
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on: Why can't China make a good ballpoint pen?
They don't, and this is the problem. They aren't talking designer.
