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by CodeMage 10y ago
It's a case of different expectations. You expect an "intelligent machine" to get it right and you're exasperated when it gets it wrong. It's kind of like saying that using a rotary phone UI on your smartphone would
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by CodeMage 10y ago
It's crappy UX. 1. You tell Alexa to let you know when the oven is preheated. 2. She hears the washing machine beep and tells you the oven is preheated. 3. You come back, find that the oven is still not ready. 4. You conclude it's
573.
by CodeMage 10y ago
They just need to wait until Brexit is implemented and then it becomes a moot point, right?
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by CodeMage 10y ago
And also the difficulties in distinguishing an appliance beep from what only sounds like an appliance beep, such as a truck reversing in front of your home.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
So, it sounds like the only real change is that we don't call QA people "testers" anymore and have a fancier name for them? Kind of like it's gauche to call yourself a programmer nowadays and we're software developm
576.
by CodeMage 10y ago
I was reading the "bad stuff" section and I stumbled upon what he said about the Joel Test: The Joel Test is now considered to be obsolete because it awards points for things like "Do you have testers?" and "Do you
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Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news(arstechnica.com)
31 points by CodeMage 10y ago|8 comments
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by CodeMage 10y ago
There's a reason most people don't like hearing that: it's not a solution. I could try to explain, but Moxie Marlinspike did it a lot better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I agree, there are busybodies everywhere and they have always existed. What's new to me, who have lived in two very different countries before coming here to the US, is how often and how easily those busybodies recur to authorities. Un
580.
by CodeMage 10y ago
Nannying is just one aspect of a more pervasive underlying cultural problem: a lot of people here seem to feel entitled to impose their opinions and judgment on others. Not just share them, but actually impose them.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I wouldn't have left my son alone at home when he was 2 years old. That doesn't mean all kids and all homes are the same. The core problem is that people tend to judge these things on reflex, instead of on reflection. And then, to
582.
by CodeMage 10y ago
Others have already tried to explain this, but I'll give it another try from a different angle. Your judgment of morality should not be allowed to impact your judgment of the risk to a child, because that impact is based on your own as
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Maybe I'm bitter for my age, but I feel that the culture has already gone through the crossroads. I do get what you're trying to say, though, but I believe that it's the industry that finds it self at the crossroads, not the
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I know I can look those quotes up, but that endeavor will most likely end up ramifying into a lot more procrastination than I can afford right now. Could you post those quotes?
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Of course there's no followup discussion. The fact that software engineering is "destroying jobs" is the wrong problem to focus on, but any discussion that approaches the right problem -- capitalism -- is practically taboo in
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Zavisi. Ako si mi rekao da mogu da koristim bilo koji jezik, onda je na tebi da pronađeš prevod ;)
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by CodeMage 11y ago
> it's hard to dislike something you actually got to know, because knowing requires some sort of empathy. I can't say that I agree. I don't see why dislike has to be irrational. > You can list all the problems with s
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by CodeMage 11y ago
"The plural of anecdote is not data" is usually a shorthand for "Not every set of anecdotes is useful data."
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by CodeMage 11y ago
Naive question: can't EFF help?
590.
by CodeMage 11y ago
Which is why GP said: "And if I manage to get somebody else's private key (which happens so often these days, it's not even funny), I can ruin someone else's career while I push my spam." Also, the biggest problem w
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by CodeMage 11y ago
So it just hasn't been done right yet ...? That's right. You know how scientists had this theory that there is a particle they haven't observed yet, but should exist? They called it Higgs boson and constructed a lot of expe
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by CodeMage 11y ago
> The first is a founder pledge that they will do everything in their power to let common holders sell into secondary markets above a certain valuation And that is where any company, big or small, would lose me. I've been burned t
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by CodeMage 11y ago
I haven't read Reamde, yet. I've read lots of complaints about it on Goodreads, so I'm kind of on the fence about getting it. In your opinion, how was Reamde compared to works like Anathem, Snow Crash, Diamond Age and Crypton
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by CodeMage 11y ago
A bit of warning about Seveneves: treat it as a duology. A lot of readers complain about the pacing problems caused by that 5000-year jump the article mentions. Basically, the pace slows down to a crawl again at that point and starts slowly
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by CodeMage 11y ago
I haven't touched JavaScript in years, so I'm curious about one detail: why does the second snippet need you to alias "this" to "my" and the first doesn't? If it wasn't for that, it would look like me
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by CodeMage 11y ago
Plenty of times. Heck, I used to be a lot closer to that end of the spectrum than I am now. That's how I know that there are plenty of words to describe that, because I've been called a number of them ;)
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by CodeMage 11y ago
Why are we so keen on redefining words? I'm genuinely curious about this. Is it political correctness? If not, what is it? "Stupid" is pretty much defined as the opposite of "smart". You might be thinking of "u
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by CodeMage 11y ago
Your team will still be producing 20 days of development a month. The whole idea behind a manifesto like this one is to introduce a new kind of task into your pipeline. What does "20 days of development" really mean? Does it exclu
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by CodeMage 12y ago
edit: shit you guys, can't you go with the reading my comment charitably or will you hit that downvote button again, thereby showing your hypocrisy? I think you misunderstood the new guideline. My takeaway was that people should try
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by CodeMage 12y ago
Unless you're at work, where you usually don't get the luxury of having a sink inside the stall.

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