Novashi

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by Novashi 8y ago
>It's also much harder to be a successful VC than it is to be a successful founder How? Investing in 10 companies where 1 wins seems much easier than building 10 companies where 1 wins.
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by Novashi 8y ago
>It's a mixture of incompetence, laziness, and poor management. Don't forget the constant, unrelenting pressure to keep up with trends or you'll get summarily banned from ever having a developer job again. SPAs got trendy,
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by Novashi 8y ago
Or the O2 alarms just don't work and the hospital was negligent.
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by Novashi 8y ago
I hope it doesn't turn south and they figure out how easy it is to use technology to exploit people and get money and then decide to go do that for a job.
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by Novashi 8y ago
Infosec Twitter does share valuable information and job opportunities. It also has its share of drama and memes though.
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Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks(github.com)
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by Novashi 8y ago
We don't have to keep current cryptocurrencies around just because there was a CS breakthrough in its first implementation. Should keep all of these shitcoins and ICO scams around because 1/100 might be legit while 99/100 of
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by Novashi 8y ago
I thought there were varying amounts of trust with certificate stores? Local dev certs should go into a personal store or something that is less trusted than something like VeriSign. You shouldn't be able to mint a legit-looking Google
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by Novashi 8y ago
>Even if you do that, you are still exposed to a serious security threat: if a bad actor gets hold of your certificate file, they can pose as a legitimate website and steal sensitive data. This security flaw is present with all other scr
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by Novashi 8y ago
I think Wall Street would just tell you that you shouldn't have gone public. There's not going to be a breaking of vice-grips -- sudden and monumental actions -- because the banks would tank the economy just to get political lever
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by Novashi 8y ago
Right/wrong for immigration is decided by the political landscape anyway, so they're a bit dim and AI is a bad tool for the job.
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by Novashi 8y ago
I think we just really started to see the value of high resolution internet browsing and media consumption in your pocket. If the cell carriers did something crazy like not letting us browse the internet through their network (or charged us
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by Novashi 8y ago
>It's all the same thing: a technique that is applicable some of the time but not all of the time that ends up getting a bad rap because the people promoting them tend to come from the theoretical side of the street, and they see th
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by Novashi 8y ago
>Is this your definition of "walking all over you"? How much of a bubble is silicon valley? Yeah it is, but I don't live in the valley. I mean, your example fits my definition too. I just have a much lower threshold that I
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by Novashi 8y ago
>Would you take up the job if the salary was reduced on day one? I'd certainly tell people on as many public forums as possible instead of just letting someone walk all over me and also see if I could get anyone with influence to re
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by Novashi 8y ago
Bait and switch, where they try to convince you to take a lowball offer because you'll work on prestigious projects like Chrome, then turn around and put you on G+ is most definitely a punch. Just because it happens (regularly) doesn&#
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by Novashi 8y ago
>The writer seems unbalanced That doesn't mean anything, and if you're trying to give it meaning, you're probably not qualified to diagnose someone over a twitter thread. Everything, all-caps profanities and all, would be
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by Novashi 8y ago
He wouldn't be the first designer to pick apart everyday things and question them. But you have to remember that he was told he'd get to work on Chrome but was then assigned to G+. You have to be extremely laid-back and financiall
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by Novashi 8y ago
I'm inclined to believe a lot of this is for money laundering or parking cash in other countries as a store of value (and I'm admittedly biased after the NYT article about Trump's work). Maybe even buying a place for a rich s
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by Novashi 8y ago
Seems like it's a pretty good opportunity to get funding and try out a lifestyle business.
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by Novashi 8y ago
>Why not? It has to be better than humans. That requires the rare genius to fix the problem, or we have to accidentally invent something better than ourselves. This is a common defense of autopilot systems in cars: it's not perfect,
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by Novashi 8y ago
I think there's also a subtle point here that an AI figured out that Amazon hiring was biased more quickly than Amazon itself. I wouldn't go so far to say that running your history through an AI is necessarily proof of anything th
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by Novashi 8y ago
Has anyone moved from a pure software/hardware technical career to wealth management? Do you find your skills useful there?
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by Novashi 8y ago
I still don't get it. How are you getting a successful request and a page render for the 3rd party site, but not able to query the 3rd party DOM? If you phished someone, there's probably better things you can do to lead to a fulle
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by Novashi 8y ago
Seems better if you don't want people planting roots, building infrastructure, and getting a local government/police/fire force in place. Amazon can shut the place down and won't have tons of people trapped in a dying to
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by Novashi 8y ago
>We constantly get resumes from "senior engineers" working for no-name tiny companies and startups. They are often our worst candidates, especially when it comes to hard skills like coding. That's funny because I remember
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by Novashi 8y ago
That's correct, my fault
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by Novashi 8y ago
A financial company is going to extend 10x as much credit as established institutions ( without collateral) to random startup execs? And two other selling points being that they're writing a financial platform from scratch and you&#x2
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by Novashi 8y ago
>Art as an investment vehicle, something to preen yourself with, show others you are elite. And something to launder money with.
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by Novashi 8y ago
Yeah, we really don't need the bandwidth until media can be sent/received/interpreted directly into the brain. Hooking up a portable BCI to a raspberry pi-equivalent as an intermediary should be all we need to really start co

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