BraveNewCurency

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by BraveNewCurency 10y ago
He didn't say it would be hard, just more fair. Taken to the limit, an AI with an API to the game can take micro-control of every character. His high-level strategy might not even matter, if every character can fight optimally. At the
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by BraveNewCurency 10y ago
I saw the movie "FireFox" when I was growing up. In one scene, he's trying to steal a thought-controlled Russian airplane. "You must think in Russian" his handler tells him. After the movie, we thought that scene wa
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
> Does anyone really care about IE 9 any more, though? Not Microsoft. It's unsupported as of 2 months ago.
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
Same thing happens if they use Windows (esp Win 10). Did you know that when you search Google or Yahoo (using IE), your query is sent to Microsoft and stored? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGze_gjJTos&t=9m50s
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
Hire someone with lots of experience writing drivers!
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
So if I shoot at you and miss, it's all good, right? No harm, no foul!
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
> You said that complying would open the door to doing it for other phones. In that regard, complying with an icloud request also opens the door to complying with future icloud requests. There is one crucial difference. In the iCloud cas
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
It's the worst when ITEM_X is a large TV. I wonder what percentage of TV buyers will impulse-buy a second TV because of "you might also like.." recommendations. Can't they make a list of products compatible with my TV a
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
I think it's because the system DNS can block under some conditions. That's death for nginx, which can't afford to spin up a thread per request.
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
> SECONDS_PER_DAY is constant for human scale activities. Except for Daylight savings time, which adds or subtracts a whole hour to the day.
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
"For garage-dwelling entrepreneurs to crack the 1% wealth threshold in America, [...] for every wealthy start-up founder, there are 100 other entrepreneurs who end up with only a cluttered garage." So you are saying if I become an
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
I don't understand why the article is written as if there was a conclusion. It seems like there are more questions than answers at this point. Maybe the products were just too expensive and those "harbingers" are all just ric
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
> Most AWS services are implementations of open source solutions. This is fundamentally not understanding what AWS is. - You could say "EC2 is just Xen". But next time there is a 0-day exploit, I'll have AWS working all we
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
We are heading there, but very slowly. I've only ever seen one merchant (Target) that requires the chip. Every other store is still using the mag stripe. In fact, while travelling this weekend, I used my card in a dozen new stores. Bu
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
How could it not be luck of the draw? Do you understand how rare IPOs are? > Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone public via IPO? I take issue with your implication: "YC has had no IPOs after funding ~1000 companies&quot
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
Nice write-up. The first step is to get nations to apply these principles to their interactions with each-other. (i.e. agree that torture is bad.)
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
A related idea: Maybe people who do physical work for 40 years fare far worse when they stop "exercising".
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
I might agree about ads, but not IaaS. Let's say a company gets $10M in funding. It's hard to see how it can spend more than $100K/year on IaaS. On the other hand, there are plenty of blue-chip companies spending $millions on
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
Utility is a unit of accounting that works much better than money. It's actually called a "utility function" because the utility varies depending on the inputs, including time, number of units, etc. For example, let's sa
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
I know, I'll do a search on the Internet for Dragons, and if I don't find any, I'll publish a paper on it. That's science, right?
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
Interesting post, I hadn't seen that before. Here is another factor to worry about: If you hire too many mediocre programmers, the good ones will leave. (Trust me, they can get jobs easily.) You'll be stuck with the mediocre ones.
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
I see what you did there.
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
I worry about Joyent as a company. They have very interesting talent, but end up doing some sketchy things. For years, they successfully positioned themselves as a "competitor" to AWS in the press. But at the time, they were a sim
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
> probably only needs to run her script a few times to get results. Agreed that she doesn't need to use Docker. But if she is writing a paper on those results, she might want a way to reproduce her findings years down the road (ev
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
I'm not sure why he complains about his package coming slowly. He chose the cheapest shipping option! In fact, I'll bet he paid Amazon less than what it would actually cost to ship via USPS. And they ain't fast either.
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
Not true. LI is slightly useful for finding a job (at the expense of getting lots of recruiter spam). But it won't get you a job, and won't prevent you from getting a job. If it ever does prevent you from getting a job, trust me
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
> Rationally speaking, the only people who should prefer interviewing to other things are the people that benefit from hiring talented people, which primarily is equity holders of the company. Citation needed. Most people understand that
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
Yes, but I am reminded of what people in 1990 would think of "In 20 years, all your software [1] will be randomly downloaded from the internet and run on your computer. That software will store files on your computer, access the low-le
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
> How much time do you invest in reviewing algorithms that you haven't used in a while? None. I don't want to work at companies that only hire people who memorized Red-Black trees. If you don't remember, just say so. Try
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by BraveNewCurency 11y ago
There is also Snowplow. http://snowplowanalytics.com/ It's more of a toolbox, so it fails on the simple-to-use part. But it does lots of high-end/sophisticated things that other tools can't.

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