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by afrancis 11y ago
I don't know much about Zapier but IFTTT seems to me to be more like the infra-structure for software agents. IFTTT you are still creating recipes. I would like to say that Agent 2.0 would look like the Knowledge Navigator of the Apple
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by afrancis 11y ago
Ten to fifty years is a long time to project into the future .... I think there will not be so much a replacement social media web site to Facebook as 1) fragmentation of the social media space. 2) the waning of social media as the predomin
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by afrancis 11y ago
The select algorithm is described in Robert Pike's "The Implementation of Newsqueak." You may want to take a look at a paper called "Scalable Join Patterns" which is about implementing Join Patterns in C#. Join patt
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by afrancis 11y ago
Great article! As a kid, I would read "Future" Magazine. What was cool was each issue featured a full page colour poster. That is where I discovered Syd Mead.
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by afrancis 11y ago
I took a quick look at your code. Iadmit my C++ is getting rusty. And I haven't programmed Go in a while. I was familiar with Go's channel implement as well has its predecessors in Plan9 and Newsqueak. In part because I have done
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by afrancis 11y ago
I was not aware of an argument against hiring junior developers. It seems to me that companies find it way more desirable to hire recent CS graduates rather than a developer with extensive experience. The problem I see with the article that
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by afrancis 11y ago
I try my best to brush and floss after a meal. Since I eat meals at work, likewise I'll brush and floss.
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by afrancis 11y ago
Interesting article. On overconfidence. A number of years ago, I took a graduate managerial science course. I recall an exercise: 10 questions (i.e, the moon's diameter) were asked with an numerical answer. One has to provide a range
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by afrancis 11y ago
Not necessarily. All other things being equal, a startup can enter a big market that is 1) fragmented 2) the start-up has few or weak competitors. I think what a start-up is looking for are big untapped markets.
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by afrancis 11y ago
Reading this article reminded me of the "Nate Tate" art hoax ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Tate:_An_American_Artist_1... )
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by afrancis 11y ago
As many already suggested, having documentation and a "chaperone" are a great start. On the technical front, found Docker to be a god-send for painlessly giving a new employee their own copy of the production environment.