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by adriand 9y ago
I can only assume this was a joke. Either way, I laughed.
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by adriand 9y ago
It's a truism and as such it doesn't really say anything meaningful. The limiting factor is "sufficient compute resources". Assuming that a general artificial intelligence is possible and can be coded as a program, the
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by adriand 9y ago
I know HN does not reward these reactions with upvotes, but: ALWP. A lot of laughter. I'm still chuckling. This is amazing. And here I thought that urinals without a divider were awkward.
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by adriand 9y ago
Anecdotally I seem to be seeing them quite a bit too, particularly within the business world, and within that, particularly within larger enterprises. I seem to see fewer iPads. Product placement aside, anecdotally it seems like Microsoft
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by adriand 9y ago
> I suspect the real reason behind the question given in the example was that the teacher was oversimplifying the language of the question for his/her students to the point where all nuance was lost ... which suggests they're m
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by adriand 9y ago
It's become vogue to talk about social media in this manner but the problem is much more generalized. Sensationalist news from mainstream/traditional media outlets does exactly the same thing. And the sensitivity around issues o
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by adriand 9y ago
Ableton Live in conjunction with the Push is a fantastic, very tactile, very musical solution to this. The Push is a very well-designed hardware instrument that, because of its tight integration with Ableton, has much of the flexibility of
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by adriand 9y ago
This is pretty amusing. I can't actually tell if this is satire or not. Was this a parody of startups (and shutdown notices) or a legitimate service?
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by adriand 9y ago
Agreed. I don't mind washing the dishes at all. Another thing that is excruciating in a family: cleaning children's rooms. My god, where do they get all that crap. A robot that would tidy, clean, and purge the unnecessary crap tha
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by adriand 9y ago
Here's a set of way better alternatives: "You did an awesome job today!" "Thank you for helping out today - it means a lot that I can always rely on you." "I really appreciate the energy and positivity you brin
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by adriand 9y ago
I've been an owner of a company for years now and I've always followed a few simple rules with the women who work for our company: - I never, ever comment on their appearance, including new hairstyles, clothing, etc. - I refer to
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by adriand 9y ago
I did this. My neighbour backed into me. And I honked before he hit me but otherwise did nothing. To an observer it may have seemed ridiculous but the reason is simple: I assumed he could see me and it wasn’t until it was too late that I re
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by adriand 9y ago
A big obvious difference between alcohol and other drugs that also makes it popular is that in moderation it is not all that intoxicating or impairing. Unlike marijuana and mushrooms it is easily possible to have a drink or two and function
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Sketching Interfaces(airbnb.design)
158 points by adriand 9y ago|31 comments
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by adriand 9y ago
I totally agree with the anecdotal perceptions around the decrease in insects since childhood. In my case, what I noticed recently was how few times my children have been stung by bees/wasps at their current ages, compared to how many
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by adriand 9y ago
Once again I think Canada has set an example for the world with how to do this properly: permit open and peaceful votes on secession (e.g. of Quebec), treat the issue as something to be resolved politically and not with the use of force, an
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Someone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It(nytimes.com)
40 points by adriand 9y ago|8 comments
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Fixed Price vs. Time and Materials vs. FBSC (Fixed-Budget, Scope-Controlled)(spin.atomicobject.com)
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Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in DNA(nytimes.com)
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by adriand 9y ago
Totally agree. There's something very weird about this post. If I were truly faced with the sudden realization that I was a deeply shitty person, I can't imagine writing a post like this. I'd be off the grid entirely, probabl
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by adriand 9y ago
Heck, even the cost of creating and maintaining documentation for the services has to be enormous. The first time I worked with the AWS IoT services I was extremely impressed by the breadth, depth, and quality of the documentation, and it
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by adriand 9y ago
The fact they're losing money like this doesn't really mean anything because Uber isn't a normal business. It's not some little mom & pop outfit that has bills to pay. This is a company whose investors (e.g. the Sa
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by adriand 10y ago
This is an interesting question. On the one hand, I think that you could argue that there is indeed some limited subset of words that can be used to say everything that can be said in a given language. One way to prove this, perhaps, woul
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by adriand 10y ago
I agree with you and the style is very disjointed and unpolished. To be honest I don't even understand the first line: > The best enemy is the one you own by putting skin in his game and letting him know the exact rules that come w
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by adriand 10y ago
From the NYT article: ---------- On Wednesday, a Justice Department official confirmed that Mr. Sessions had two conversations with Ambassador Kislyak last year, when he was still a senator, despite testifying at his Jan. 10 confirmation he
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by adriand 10y ago
This didn't seem snarky to me. I appreciate the comment. I'm sure it's very hard - and my comment about it was unnecessarily flippant. In fact I know my country has some unjust immigration policies, like skimming the cream
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by adriand 10y ago
Radiolab recently featured ( http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-media-busted... ) some content from another podcast series called "Busted: America’s Poverty Myths", that examines various myths abou
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by adriand 10y ago
The very best at what, though? If they have a family, perhaps they're a dad. If they're the best at social media, they're not the best at being a dad. In fact, they probably suck at being a dad. I think that to be the bes
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by adriand 10y ago
This reminds me of growing up in a really conservative, religious household (think of it as a typical Bible Belt upbringing, except that instead of the south-east part of the US, I grew up in Canada, of Dutch heritage). God created the uni
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by adriand 10y ago
JIRA is awful, although admittedly we were a small team when we were using it for a project, which apparently makes it not the best fit. But I really like the other Atlassian products we use. HipChat works well, it's not quite as pol

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