RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Definitely free to dispute! It's just my personal view. I get this view because I have never come across any situation throughout history where wealth did not work this way. If you sell fish, and do really well at selling fish, you&#x2
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If you look at the composition of that board, they were actually the same people on both. So I guess blame Microsoft board/blame Nokia board are both accurate as it's one and the same.
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It's shifting to wealthy capitalists in developed countries (well not shifting, they were always wealthy), as well as creating new wealthy capitalists in developing countries. There is some extra wealth for the poor, but you're ri
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Definitely. Just part of globalization. It helps far more people than it hurts, but for those in developed countries, you don't really see the people it is helping because they're across the planet. I'd say it's nice for
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Well there was a period when it looked like the mainstream was going to switch away from Java, but then Android was released. Java is heavily mainstream still. If you're optimizing, it's still a good bet to stick with. But be read
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I guess the real message is: believe whatever the mainstream audience believes at the time. You can't really go wrong with always agreeing with whatever the current thought bubble agrees with - and be quick to change your opinions if t
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The issue here is that going through a professional institution is the difference between being a 'self taught amateur' and a 'well studied professional'. Even if both people are equally capable, the one with the paperwo
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I think you're missing the issue. We have 3 choices: 1) Provide opportunity for street children to survive, and then ban exploitation of those children. 2) Ban exploitation of children, and ignore them as they die. 3) Leave it alone. I
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Steve Jobs had HR policies very very similar to Alex's.
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I'm honestly sorry to tell you this: the experiment didn't work. Turns out when we took away the reason for private interests to be interested in these children, the lives of the children didn't improve. It just means now nob
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Not that easy I'm afraid. There's more of them every year. People living in conditions where they need to fight to survive don't have time to worry about the survival of others, which means those who can't survive on the
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It actually does look like satire because it's so over the top. Are we sure it's not some kind of inside joke? If this is how he actually does treat employees in a serious fashion then I take back everything nice I said about him.
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DirectX? Come on, you're free to hate him, but putting DirectX together - which is the foundation for so much - is just holding a grudge against someone who says things you don't like.
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Spot on! Agree completely. Americans have this strange idea lately that all of their companies are squeaky clean when it's really people like Alex that put America on the map. Most of them hide it behind shell companies and lengthy con
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Definitely not satirical! His own daughter is criticizing him after all. > Was he genuinely advocating squeezing what you can out of people until they burn out and then tossing them aside? I don't see this in the presentation at all
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I don't understand - how does his advice hurt anyone? It seems very benign. He's free to run his business how he wants. 1/ I'm from a 3rd world country. Street children here would give everything they can to get into the
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Seems like the big thing everyone is missing: you can hate Alex all you want, but he's not making conjectures. He's giving his advice based on successful experience in reality. I'll take his word - as politically incorrect as
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Difficult to say, I've seen it go both ways. Depends on how much he likes the wife.
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Woah, I'm not from America, but that seems really wrong. More taxes and bigger government does not create any sort of extra benefit for the poor - the extra taxes will simply go to creating more levels of indirection and inflated price
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Poverty is the reality for most people 100 years ago, and for all of history. It's just in the last few hundred years where we've actually moved people out of poverty that we've come to the idea that people shouldn't be
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Yeah I've tried that too - but you're now spending half your time understanding, and half your time summarizing. The idea of summarizing as a method of learning is also pretty heavily pushed and does seem to work, but for my perso
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An interesting point: our whole economy is based around the idea that each person specializes in one thing. Eg, making torches. Then he sells his torches to a farmer in exchange for some food so that the farmer can work after dark to make m
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by RyanZAG 11y ago
Definitely agree here. After being told to take notes for years, I spent a lot of time trying to make the notes fit. Even still be busy jotting down older notes 10 seconds after the lecturer had moved on. Those 10 seconds of having two trai
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Well you're not going to pick up spec errors with same-developer unit tests, so either you have someone else write those spec tests or you wait until the customer picks them up on initial delivery / QA.
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Do you really believe money launderers will be able to stay afloat for long, even though they have fancy math? Governments will crack down on them as Bitcoin grows. People do the same thing with real money and go to jail.
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Sure, but it's a low paying job vs no job. Minimum wage is stupid - if you need people to get a higher income than the value they can output, you need to supply that additional income through social grants. Forcing them out of work by
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Streaming isn't going to work there anyway. In reality, there are 100+ seeders and if you had a constant supply of streamers who spend half their time seeding (assuming they download the whole movie by the 50% mark), then you have a ve
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The tests are written independently of the original code. If someone has made a logic error or misunderstood some part of the spec, there is a good chance that the independent test implementation is not going to have the identical error. I
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> but it reduces the cognitive load. No. It can reduce the cognitive load if applied in the correct place. It can just as easily increase the cognitive load if applied in the wrong place. Immutability should be used with care, not used
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Yes but from a teenager in Krugersdorp? And South Africa did not have such easy access to the international telephone market. The country was in the middle of economic sanctions at the time - international calls had to be placed through a s

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