QuantumGravy

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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Having regrettably started from the IT side, it's seemingly impossible to make the jump to a software company proper. Nothing I do day-to-day is flexing any mental muscles an interviewer would find sexy. We're like a permanent und
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
They can take the high road because they currently have money and social status to leverage. If they were easily replaceable and earning an average middle-class income, the first amendment wouldn't mean crap next to their continued emp
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
> 10-fold difference between the best programmers and the worst. He cites this as evidence and still goes on to talk as if the observed 10x-ers were 10x average. Then he tries moving the goalpost, with talk of high-level project decisi
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Per my company policy, if I eat my desk, that time counts toward hours worked, else I have to take a full hour off which doesn't count toward the standard eight hour day. So if I want that extra hour at home with my kid, I'm eatin
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Every few years, there are incidents of miners trapped underground, with herculean efforts to free the survivors. Each time, I ponder whether there have been similar tragedies, in some corrupt society, where the mine is bulldozed over, any
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
I'm inclined to agree that such a mini-brain at this stage is most-likely non-conscious and incapable of suffering, but how would we know? Organisms with far "simpler" brains than ours appear to be capable of suffering. I&#
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Unseen suffering is non-existent suffering. With no capacity for understanding what, if anything, another brain is experiencing, it's easy to rationalize and dismiss. That goes for fully formed humans as much as lab experiments.
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
> A number of people resolved to restart from scratch; they decided to work in pairs to check each other’s work. Everywhere I've studied, that alone would have counted as academic dishonesty. If it wasn't an explicit group proj
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
No no no, you separate out the vegetation, if any, and keep it aside. Microwave any non-vegetable remainder for 15-30 seconds, depending on the mass of the burger: just enough to warm the meat. Transfer from microwave to toaster oven in two
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Nah, I got carried away, sorry. You're right, what the author here is suggesting is not something you would want. He's imagining a magical omniscient fantasy technology, the closest approximation of which would leave you disappoin
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
In the near-term, your camera snaps a low-res image that's sufficient to identify Banksy's work and generate a gigapixel zoom that will allow you to appreciate it as if you were standing in a nearby window. A discerning eye might
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Selfies still work fine, they're stitched together from all those public surveillance cameras we'll have instead.
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Of course it's not going to work miraculously as the author imagined; there are enough responses here already acknowledging that it's self-evidently absurd for replacing cameras as we know them today. My concern is that few here a
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
It's only a bad article in the sense that it proposes synthetic photography as a good thing. The general public, however, might well embrace it one step at a time, accepting what I agree are terrible consequences. Cameras won't
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
I'm skeptical, having heard far more personal anecdotes about circumnavigating the earth as opposed to visiting those so-called "poles" or the "inner ring" as your group hypothesizes. Once you accept the torus, wher
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Not a flat-earther myself, but as an amateur topology enthusiast, it does not follow from your experience that the earth is round. Care to join me in a new splinter group? I figure the Cylindrical Earth Society to be the least-radical optio
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Trade mastery also equates to future money on a scale which may render quibbling over an extra ten grand of current compensation meaningless. Failing that, it at least helps secure future employment, which still translates to money.
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
A fair number of systems created here haven't grokked the behavior of (-), leading to models that don't actually behave as intended. I admit, it took me a few tries to notice, myself. The description given for relationships doesn&
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Yes, it's ageism, and some among us in our profession have decided it's justified.
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Why would you get paid six figures as a tech worker unless you're a workaholic? If you're not putting those hours in at work, surely you're putting in those hours in for both fun and personal growth at home, right? You'r
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Assuming that the average dev receives "cushy offices, offsite retreats, snacks, beer, endless perks, and $100k+ USD/yr salaries" is a distorted worldview unto itself.
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
That is reassuring then. Not convinced their ability to follow simple instructions should even be a factor, though. Kids at that age lack the judgement to know when some rules should be broken.
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
In my experience, no, kids that young do not understand that. Furthermore, if you have the door closed for the length of a conference call with a child that young, I'd expect there to be another adult (or responsible elder sibling) the
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Impressive, but I wish this was applicable to actual teeth.
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
I've had chest pain, shortness of breath, and odd pain in my left arm on and off for most of my life. I've complained about it and have had tests at various stages. Nothing. I'm a little scared, because I don't know what
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
If publishers decided they were only going to publish Shakespeares, I imagine a multitude of authors would squander a great deal of ink over it, and we'd all be worse off for the cumulative waste of talent.
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
In my experience, those -10x people don't even have to be developers.
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Which is hardly as intimidating. If the 10x meme hadn't mutated into a mythical ten times the average developer, it wouldn't be worthy of generating so much clickbait. We'd also be able to hire sanely without freaking out a
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
Has that affected your career in any way, especially when interviewing? It has certainly made interviewing hell for me. "Tell me about yourself," they say. My best attempts at explaining anything I've done sound like I'm
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by QuantumGravy 10y ago
My day job involves extensive web work. I've found plenty I could contribute, but I'm at an oldschool corp. that just isn't going to approve open source contributions on company time, using company resources and source code.

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