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by Suncho 13y ago
The biggest problem with this whole situation is that we, as a society, are forcing people to work when our economy doesn't need them to. If we needed people to work, then the jobs would create themselves. There would be no talk of j
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by Suncho 13y ago
I honestly don't care about the NSA stuff. There are real issues in society that I actually get fired up about (poverty, education, intellectual property, and the like). Government surveillance isn't one of them. Privacy isn&#x
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by Suncho 13y ago
They said they'd automatically renew it on their end. It was marketed to me as a service that I'd only have to pay for once and never have to worry about for the rest of my life. Obviously, the opposite has been true. =/
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by Suncho 13y ago
Ugh. Network Solutions is terrible. In 2003, I registered my domain for 100 years at $9.99 per year for a total of $999. Then ten years later (2013), I received a notice that they were having a problem charging my credit card for the dom
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by Suncho 13y ago
I know this is sarcasm, but law seems like a great candidate for automation. The law is literally a set of rules. And in the process of automating legal stuff, we might be forced to clean up some existing instances of ambiguity and vaguen
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by Suncho 13y ago
As other folks have mentioned, unique_ptr, make_unique, and all their happy friends are there if you need them. But your variables/objects should go on the stack unless you have a reason not to put them there. As the slide suggests,
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by Suncho 13y ago
Most of the C stuff here is pretty good, but some of the C++ information is a little questionable. Even the "good programmer" exhibits a few common misconceptions about inheritance and virtual destructors. Here's the text f
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by Suncho 13y ago
Most of the low-skilled jobs out there can be automated. And there are already more workers than there are jobs. A decrease in the size of the available labor pool sounds like just what the doctor ordered. The jobs of tomorrow are less
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by Suncho 13y ago
A guaranteed basic income can ensure that security is no longer a motivating factor for accumulating wealth. Wealth should be about power, and not about freedom. Everyone should have freedom. I doubt it's either possible or desirabl
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by Suncho 13y ago
Competence at what though? How many Leonardo Da Vincis are being forced to try to be competent at flipping burgers? How many Albert Einsteins and Mozarts are pumping gas?
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by Suncho 13y ago
I wish we could be better at separating the notions of "income inequality" and "not enough income." The first is necessary for a functioning economy and the second is... bad.
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by Suncho 13y ago
Paul Graham misses the mark here. I agree with him that it doesn't make sense to try to get rid of income inequality and that income inequality can actually be a positive driving force in the economy. However, it's possible to t
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How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?(futuretech.ox.ac.uk)
2 points by Suncho 13y ago|0 comments
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It's Excellent That Renewable Energy Doesn't Create Many Green Jobs(forbes.com)
2 points by Suncho 13y ago|0 comments
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by Suncho 14y ago
I'm now starting to understand why what I consider to be obscenely large text has been proliferating through the web in recent years. My assumption has been that websites should use 12pt sans-serif fonts for standard content. Maybe my ass
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C++ Grandmaster Certification Programming Assignment 1(cppgm.org)
29 points by Suncho 14y ago|27 comments
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by Suncho 14y ago
Oh, that's very cool! Do you have any recommendations for where I should read about Shakespeare's financial situation and his various motivations for writing his plays? In my mind, because my mind wants Shakespeare to be awesome in every
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by Suncho 14y ago
Because if they were paid anywhere close to the same amount, who would choose to be a lawyer? Being a software engineers is way more fun! =) Regardless, I wouldn't worry about it because software engineers will be automating away lawyers
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by Suncho 14y ago
I'm surprised. The trend in education seems to be MOOCs. Charging tuition feels like a step backwards. There are plenty of bright people in the world who wouldn't be able to afford to pay $500 let alone half of a typical Ivy League tuiti
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by Suncho 14y ago
Exactly . Instead of spending energy trying to increase the number of chairs, we need to find a place for the people not playing the game to sit. My hope is that society realizes this before we go through too much pain and suffering. Reg
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by Suncho 14y ago
Excellent points. But it's important to remember that as the number of chairs keeps decreasing, your advice becomes less appropriate for any given young person. Personally, even today, I would advise most individuals who got accepted by Y
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by Suncho 14y ago
Yes. There will be growing pains as we adjust to this new kind of economy. When talking about socialism, it's important to distinguish between goods and services that have a level of scarcity and those that don't. We have the resources to
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by Suncho 14y ago
I don't want them to die off. I do want them to depend on welfare. Whether they layabout is up to them. Historically, if you go way back, everyone grew/hunted their own food and built their own houses etc. This was a very brittle/brutal
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by Suncho 14y ago
Yes. That is what I'm suggesting. And I am not kidding. Do you disagree?
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by Suncho 14y ago
While I think he's made some important observations and I agree with some of his advice, I don't agree with his conclusion that young people are screwed. Here's an important insight that I definitely agree with: "But won’t a college degree
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by Suncho 14y ago
I'm not anti-trade secrets. In your scenario, the source code to Half-Life 3 is a trade secret that the Valve employee is obligated to keep. However, if the code is ever made publicly available to read, it's no longer a secret and no mone
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by Suncho 14y ago
I disagree that there should be protections to stop people from "ripping off your stuff" and selling it without paying you for it. Instead, there should be protections to stop people from copying your idea without you getting credit for it
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by Suncho 14y ago
It's interesting that he discusses due dates as a motivator and as a way keeping everyone synced up. This is something that Udacity later dropped. I wonder why they dropped them and whether the change is having the effect they want.
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by Suncho 14y ago
It's so much fun to explore why certain instances of undefined behavior do what they do. I never thought of this as being a possible effect of using uninitialized variables. Logically, you're doing two things. You're negating the bool and
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by Suncho 14y ago
The usage of "new" in Java is consistent according to the rules of Java and the usage of "new" in C++ is consistent according to the rules in C++. I don't think you can say that one is more consistent than the other. To a C++ programmer,

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