Olreich

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by Olreich 6y ago
Externalizing costs might be good for business, but it’s pretty clearly not good for customers here.
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by Olreich 6y ago
Children are learning machines. They do it faster than adults, and they could be retaining everything. The reason no one retains things from school is because there’s no effort put into long-term retention. There’s no effort put into much o
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by Olreich 6y ago
Your last point is made explicitly in the article when it calls school a babysitting service. If you take out the explicit goal of education away from school, you get tax-funded babysitting. In many schools, the funding is low enough that t
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by Olreich 6y ago
Memorizing ten phone numbers isn’t hard, and those are perfect size! Give these fake phone numbers to 10 fake friends starting with A through J and you’re golden.
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by Olreich 6y ago
The going back in time question is actually really good. What are the fundamental concepts you need to kickstart stuff? Those fundamental insights are still going to be relevant today, which is why they sparked revolutions and major changes
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by Olreich 6y ago
I find document stores shine when you have known access patterns and can line your data up to meet those patterns. I find relational stores shine when you have unknown access patterns.
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by Olreich 6y ago
Adobe produced Flash and the authoring tools. They mostly gave up when Flash's runtime was deemed bad. Turns out, they have an authoring tool for HTML5 that looks a lot like flash: https://www.adobe.com/products/an
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by Olreich 6y ago
Another reason for single-file distribution is the ease of installation and running. If you can run from a single executable with all resources embedded in it, then users have a very easy time of things, they just download the program, then
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by Olreich 6y ago
Those same email services blocked SWF files too because they were dangerous. This is no different. As for size, browsers really should allow gzip encoding for html files from your desktop. Would pack all the inlined crap down to a reasonabl
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by Olreich 6y ago
I just tracked my time for doing that Advent of Code day 1. It took 10 minutes from start to finish. Across the two parts of the question, I spent approximately 2 minutes building the scripts, 1 minute determining an algorithm, and 7 minute
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by Olreich 6y ago
Considering how much the world relies on internet, maybe it’s a good thing that current ISPs get out-competed by non-profit, community owned ones.
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by Olreich 6y ago
I personally completed the main game in about 20 hours, but there’s lots of optional stuff if you want to keep going.
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by Olreich 6y ago
People aren’t dumb because they got the stupid gene (barring deformity that does real brain damage). They’re dumb because they were taught to be. The are large social circles that being smart is a bad trait. There are social circles where t
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by Olreich 6y ago
Via what mechanism are we testing? Did we send some kids through a good upbringing and some to a bad one in a randomized controlled way, or did we just take a survey and assume intelligence was passed down through genealogy instead of upbri
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by Olreich 6y ago
Facebook can tune the algorithm to stop polarizing viewpoints. YouTube can better vet the video content that gets posted, (they find porn with eerie accuracy, but can’t identify anything else that might not be good to spread?). Instagram ca
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by Olreich 6y ago
I don’t understand this line of reasoning at all. There’s only so many tricks available in these interviews. I’m sure I’m biased, but if you know how to program, programming interviews are pretty easy. I think if you are becoming a Professi
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by Olreich 6y ago
I think it’s a fetish and a quickly readable way to indicate raw and unbridled strength. They are so strong and quick they don’t need armor, realistic weaponry or anything else, they’ll kill you anyway. I think it’s also supposed to indicat
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by Olreich 6y ago
That sounds pretty common for good data scientists in America too. Software engineering is much more likely to solve business problems, so the work available and definition of what the customer wants is generally less amorphous from my expe
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by Olreich 6y ago
Why don’t you preach the same thing to both genders? If kettle bells work for women and deadlifts work for men, why not preach both to both genders based on current capacity?
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by Olreich 6y ago
I’d be wary of applying causation based on that correlation. When you are the expert, people come to you for things. You communicate more, but that’s not what made you the expert. I’d posit that attention and communication are both secondar
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by Olreich 6y ago
Sucks to be ruled by a majority. Would be much better if you could have everything you wanted in spite of all those people asking for something different.
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by Olreich 6y ago
I think IDEs and REPLs never went out of style. They just got forgotten about for awhile while the cycle between making updates to code and seeing the results was super fast. There's no need for live components on a simple non-webpacke
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by Olreich 6y ago
The throttling was battery related. They could either have the phone shut off or just throttle down, they chose the latter. The fault is assign there is not communicating what the problem was and how to remediate it. They will still swap ou
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by Olreich 6y ago
I don’t think it’s luck. Look at the Andy Griffith show for a glimpse of how children used to be treated close to a century ago. Look at small villages in many parts of the world. Children are basically given free reign to go and do what th
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by Olreich 6y ago
All of them. Craftsmanship of most forms (think all the disciplines that intersect with you from mechanics to electrical to woodworking to concrete to have) directly impact your ability to think broadly about a project and have lots to teac
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by Olreich 6y ago
Support at home is even more important. Students of all ages really just need as much information as you can feed them. Ever met a four year old? They are all questions and sponge up information. There’s no reason they have to stop at some
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by Olreich 6y ago
If I receive poor direction from leadership, I have two options: say forget it and blame them for my lack of action, or determine my own course to handle the situation. I agree that ultimately, the federal government is to blame. But the fa
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by Olreich 6y ago
I’ve very successfully transferred watercooler conversations that “just happen” psychically to a better system of watercooler channels on chat programs. It’s better than just the 2-3 people you share a office with, as you can get ten people
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by Olreich 6y ago
If we're going to assume that inertia is hard to fight, and that everyone is going to work 9-5 (not even a majority of people work these hours in the US): Set it up so that winter equinox has sunset at 7pm. This has the sun coming up a
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by Olreich 6y ago
> Second, no other material will glisten like gold Isn’t there a famous phrase for this? All that glitters isn’t gold? What are the specific glistening properties that only gold has?

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