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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I think the future will be in "low-code" rather than "no-code". For example, Looker has LookerML which while it isn't full blown programming, it allows for a lot of customisation and far more complex use cases when
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I remember reading about that in Cryptonomicon, I knew it was technically possible but I didn't realise it actually worked.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Because it is there.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Yeah, my SO is a nurse in paediatric oncology and has seen people from poorer countries sell everything they have in order to bring their child to Western hospitals in the futile hope of treatment. It's really sad and seems almost expl
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I've been playing Red Dead 2 on it and never had any latency issues at all. Technically, Stadia is perfect. It's just the poor handling of the launch and the current lack of games that is disappointing. Although tbh by the time I&
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I have Stadia. The input lag is negligible. Especially when using the Chromecast Ultra on the TV (it seems this has better support than the browser-based option on the PC). Honestly, they nailed the 'hard part' - technically the p
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I wonder if having a public invitation tree like lobste.rs [ https://lobste.rs/about#invitations ] would help? That way people would be less likely to give referrals to people they didn't know well - as you are vouchin
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
How many Romans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
It is Latin, no?
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Medium delenda est.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I quite liked Mistborn - only read the trilogy. I'm worried about reading the Stormlight Archive because it's unfinished and ASOIAF and The Kingkiller Chronicle have burned me in that regard. Does it actually look like he'll
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I liked it - I felt it didn't really answer the question it seemed to set out with though. That is - there was a time when it looked like the USSR was genuinely going to catch up with and surpass the USA, how did they manage this and w
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I remember in Red Plenty it describes how the USSR decided to just copy IBM machines rather than build their own at some point. It's a shame as MSU was working on some really interesting stuff including the weird Setun ternary computer
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I prefer Coursera because I'd rather shell out 40 euros and get a high-quality course from say, Roughgarden at Stanford than pay 15 euros and get something worse than just scanning Youtube. Also Coursera has the whole system of problem
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
This is, I believe, the biggest strike against management. If the management decide you get open offices, then that decision binds everyone, whether they wanted an open office or not.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
> that is a huge net benefit to everyone. This isn't necessarily true though. Honestly, the MWC doesn't bother me that much - yeah the metro always goes on strike but that's a problem with the metro unions and the Ayuntami
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I learned Usenet in 2009 as a Uni freshman because the University blocked p2p software and monitored http traffic to stop people downloading loads but for some reason my Usenet usage wasn't detected. I mean that's over a decade ag
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I'm also in BCN and everyone always says that but I'm not sure I buy it. I mean, yeah, some guys benefit from having the MWC for sure but I'm not sure most residents do - I'm not letting out flats or running venues etc.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Also the anti-Chinese practices - my next cellphone would definitely be a Huawei P30 Pro if it wasn't for the fact you can't use Google Play Store etc. with it anymore. I'm not sure who's winning these trade wars, but th
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
But how does this explanation work when you compare Facebook/Amazon etc. devs working in European offices to those working in the USA. They are both working on the same products, but outside the USA the pay is a lot worse.
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Yeah, I'm sure it'll get plenty of citations though and in modern science that's the figure of merit.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Perhaps the gene drive tech will work out: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02087-5
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
He's pining for the fjords!
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History of the two-day weekend offers lessons for today’s calls for a 4-day week(theconversation.com)
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I wonder if the growth of "low-code" will lead to many more well designed domain specific languages. LookML in Looker is one example I can think of - imo it has enabled Looker to solve the self-service data issue much better via a
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I live in Spain and have only ever seen pre-tax numbers discussed. Certainly in professional jobs. By tax, I mean income tax. I've only ever seen "salario bruto" in my contracts, in job adverts etc.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
It's weird because although I'm aware that the US Stock Market has been doing great, at least here in Europe it feels that for most people we still haven't recovered from the 2008 crisis.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Yeah, but I'd probably go back to Plasma Physics research or BCIs or something. Essentially, "what I was thinking about before somebody came along and told me I had to earn a living" to quote Buckminster Fuller.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Do they have a reliable and renewable replacement for baseload generation? Nuclear would be ideal but that has been ruled out for political reasons.
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"Oxford's a complete dump!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKuHYO9TM5A

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