Hokusai

41 ms·

391.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> As the population increasingly moves towards tech jobs, there's now a shortage of coconut harvesters in India. This seems a very bold claim. I can believe that there is a shortage of people willing to do this job, but it is very h
392.
by Hokusai 6y ago
For videogame's industry and technology: https://www.gamasutra.com/
393.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> "What he wrote is the same memo we have seen in multiple industries subsequently," says David Michaels, author of The Triumph of Doubt, which details how the pesticides, plastics and sugar industries have also used these tact
394.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> In the design, the slopes of the drainage pipes and the velocity constraints are selected in a way to have minimum excavation depths, and to have the flow velocity within its design ranges. I guess that the goal is to make it cost effe
395.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> Leonardo da Vinci wrote: “…the more minutely you describe, the more you will confuse the mind of the reader and the more you will remove him from knowledge of the thing described. Therefore it is necessary to make a drawing … as well a
396.
by Hokusai 6y ago
This is a pivoting moment for the world economy. USA, the dominant market in the world, defended free trade over all other considerations. The rise of China seems to be changing that. It would be interesting to see the answer to this from o
397.
by Hokusai 6y ago
Why physical sliding covers are not mandatory? This happens again and again. And, everybody has several cameras at home. A part of that, Facebook still is responsible for their actions.
398.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> Mostly, what we need is more real competition and less focus on monopoly platforms as the only kind of "success" in this market. Platforms are inherently monopolistic. Network effect is key. The most popular platforms have mo
399.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> But it just have very unpleasant experience when it was practiced according to its literal sense. "The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or de
400.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> I'm sick of companies building their products off the backs of the personal/hobbiest/small business market, and then when they get enough recognition and buzz, switch to essentially an "enterprise-only" pricin
401.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> They were negligent in their stated job role This is not how labor laws work. The role description needs to be fair. A employer cannot just shift all the blame to the employee. The employer needs to take the needed actions and provide
402.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> I think the key difference is the backup driver was watching a video on her phone when the accident happened. Blaming the individual would not solve the problem. The question that the parent comment tries to answer is "what do we
403.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> but conversations on whether to impose them or what they might be have not even started. Sorry for the cheap shot, but the current government is not very good at starting conversations, signing agreements or to to keep them.
404.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> high intelligence. Hard work, many hours of trial and error, reading a lot, ... anyone can become an expert with enough hours. Sorry, I have meet too many developers that though that they had "High intelligence" and they were
405.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> Instead, it has stagnated: Amazon holds on to an effective monopoly on the discussion of new books This is the main point. It is the same thing that Oracle purchasing MySQL. What once was a promising raising technology is nowadays stag
406.
by Hokusai 6y ago
Because it is not about fairness or rules. It is about extracting as much values as possible from app developers. That made sense when the Apple store was a small kind of start up enterprise. Nowadays, it should be regulated so all develope
407.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> As people earn more, they consume more in general, and more of environmentally harmful products like meat, cars, and plane trips in particular. That is one part of the problem. But, as we have seen, there is alternatives. Because the p
408.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> you're hurting these poorer communities the most. My point is that redistributing wealth in a better way, we would get less opposition to upgrade our production means and people like that poor farmers and others will get a bigger
409.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> "Doing so will require systemic shifts in how we produce food, create energy, manage our oceans and use materials," This is a hard political problem. The owners of the current means to produce meat/oil/etc. want to
410.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> The current companies are only the "daughters and granddaughters" of massively government funded companies in Silicon Valley Very good point. Many people forgets how much money the state invest, as it should, on technology an
411.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> I could never see that system working here because bureaucracy slows everything down and forces corporations to do things like care for employees and pay taxes. Again, you are getting it the other way around. Taxes to invest in educati
412.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> It feels like the rampant capitalism in the United States, and lack of regulations, fuels the VC economy. Google, Apple, Amazon, ... are not startups, they are behemoths backed up by the USA government. Europe has many very good start
413.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> Maybe when we (re)create our own electronics industry. It works the other way around. We cannot have an European industry meanwhile USA government backed-up companies are competing with our startups. > collection of small countries
414.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> a non-intuitive situation 35 years of usage means it is a sound language. Nothing non-intuitive there.
415.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> What's the value? Business alignment. The engine is optimized for the needs of your company not others. Unreal is optimized for Fornite, as Fornite produces a lot of money for Epic. e.g. If there is bug that affects Fornite and an
416.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> I used to think that novelty the key to making time go slow, I now think there is a limit to this. Yes. Similar experience here. I moved countries at 40. The first few months it feel like being 20 years younger. I wanted to see everyth
417.
by Hokusai 6y ago
> more important issues than public admin software In my experience, there is a correlation between parties that follow the science, invest in education, and create useful software. My critique is towards people that gives up and says th
418.
by Hokusai 6y ago
Interesting as food for though. Completely absurd in reality. It takes me 1 minute to review, all data is already filled in, my yearly income tax (not much ongoing a part from my salary). And, two clicks in my phone approve, sign and send t
419.
by Hokusai 6y ago
Interesting read, even that it is just opinion and little fact beyond the writer experience. My personal opinion, in line with some ideas in the article, is that the school structure is the one that increases the possibility of abuse. >
420.
by Hokusai 6y ago
You are right. I see that some of that features were added much later on. For non null references, I used to work with C++ and I really liked some of its reference/pointer/smart-pointer semantics even that everything can be used a

More ›