MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I teach several technical courses every year - usually to Fortune 50's but occasionally a public class too. And I routinely have people who have been laid-off - often people over 45. They may have skills (java/web/database),
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I want to see this done with a swarm of drones unloading a self-driving truck which was loaded by a robotic fork lift. Maybe they could also tile my bathroom and put a wood floor in my living room while they're there.
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This is basically more public money being used to supply the multibillionaire multi-national farmers of California with more free groundwater to extract and use for their profit (and yes, there are studies showing that most water is used by
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Looks like more propaganda from the "Austrian Economists" (you know, those people who eschew data and prefer philosophy as an economic model.) This report decides to classify all spending which is "incentivized" by the t
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
This is half of a great idea. After working for Steve Jobs I came to realize that almost all our innovative technology was developed at various Universities, and we just hired the guys (for peanuts) to continue developing it for integration
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Obviously, his work was very secret. He shared some of the techniques with some of his students - and there are more steps involved than normal hypnosis. You can believe it or not. As for "anxiety" - well, have you looked around a
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His work was secret - even from other hypnotists. So I don't think anyone would be able to confirm anything. But I will say that I had reason to trust what he was describing - especially given his expertise.
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Wow. This article is the definition of tl:dr. But it did remind me of a professor I had in College - he described himself as one of the two most expert hypnotists in the world - and described how the CIA kept asking for his help. He had dis
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
If it had a trackpoint I would order it in a second...in fact, I would order two just to have a spare. I already have a "happy hacker" and a Filco Minila - so I know that the small form factor works (though I do sometimes miss the
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Somebody should tell this guy to read some actual research into corporate culture. He can start with Edgar Schein's books.
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I read a summary of some recent research at Stanford - concluding that wind was more than competitive with oil. That article mentioned that there were hidden subsidies to many energy sources, including oil and gas, and that most analysis di
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I remember the point in my career when I started having to routinely sign non-disclosure agreements, put "proprietary" labels on my writing, and meet with attorneys regarding agreements and contracts. I gradually realized that all
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
You know, my entire life I've been trying to figure out why high interest rates and low inflation are always desired by the rich who control the United States. This is the first credible article I've read to explain it.
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I hope nobody takes this article seriously. Having worked at a lot of companies and been involved with too many firing decisions, I can safely say that this fellow has no idea about all the situations and consequences of his suggestions. At
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Anyone who has encountered a bug should know that software can have emergent behaviors. And when you consider the possible emergent behaviors of armed robots using distributed AI and real-time data...well, the guy who wrote this article is
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I mostly agree...but when I was a junior technical person I liked having a very technical manager. But once I'd learned my skills it was much easier to work with people who would let me do the things that I do well. So I'm glad to
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I'm all for better education - but this compulsion for everyone to excel is a problem. Not everyone wants to excel academically - and they shouldn't need to. I think the problem is that we have set up an economic system with winne
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I remember those days, and I remember Steve saying many of those things. Steve didn't have any deep understanding of what he was saying, and he spent a lot of time working on the wording of those sentences - practicing them over and ov
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Steve didn't understand OO at the time. Not in the least. Steve was completely non-technical, and he knew that UNIX was standard and didn't want us putting something new and untested in it. I can't tell you how many times I t
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I used Display PostScript back in the early days at NeXT. It had a very fundamental performance problem. Since PS was designed as an interpreter and could first be fully processed before rendering a page, DPS had essentially the same design
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I was part of the original UNIX porting team at NeXT, and we were just trying to get the most popular non-proprietary operating system (UNIX) modernized (by using Avie's CMU Mach) as the modern core to a standard OS. We didn't eve
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I read that to join the workforce in Denmark you sign up for one of the Unions - so everybody in society gets someone on their side. And they also have employees on corporate boards by law. So they are trying to improve things for everybody
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And by that logic we should be giving WalMart and McDonalds tax breaks for their recent wage increases. The rich don't need more money. They need to be stopped from destroying our society.
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I'm not saying you're completely wrong...but it is worth noticing that the middle class had growing prosperity until the mid 1970's - and since then has either stagnated or slid down. The GDP during that time was rising - but
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Democratic Socialist parties have been in power in many Scandinavian countries for decades. The current systems evolved from Socialism - and Democratic Socialism really defines the modern, functioning form of Socialism -- a type of Socialis
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Am I supposed to take the article seriously? A rich guy suggesting that the first thing to do to solve the 1% having 50% of our wealth is "Government can provide tax incentives to business". It made me think of the quote from Joh
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I worked for a company helping WalMart get facial recognition working in their stores - with Big Data to cross reference their identity with other data. So when I read about the new WalMart stores with "smart carts" to personally
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I think there needs to be some middle ground. What is completely ignored by such an "all or nothing" law is the trade-offs required in order to create a high quality of life for individuals while also thinking of our society overa
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I've been working with open source software since before the term existed (it used to be called "free" before licensing was understood.) At this point, I think it is mostly a bad idea. First, the big users of most open source
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I started reading his blog about 8 years ago - thinking he was a flake. But over and over again he correctly predicted things that disagreed with everything I was seeing in the papers, and using a reasoning that everyone else was ignoring.

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