alharith

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by alharith 7y ago
> sad to see the US thinking about shooting its only real growth industry in the foot. It appears you are not from the US. Can you elaborate more on your perspective on why you think this to be the case? I am genuinely curious. (Just for
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by alharith 7y ago
Unfortunately, as an adult, my fantasy I create for myself will only take the enjoyment so far. I need some things to be based in reality at some point.
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by alharith 7y ago
I can appreciate the algorithm, and have appreciated in the past, if there are artful qualities to it, but in this case it isn't quite apt to say that as we are talking about the output of the algorithm, not the algorithm itself.
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by alharith 7y ago
No, because the art allows me to get to know the person. If an anonymous voice tells me a short story I enjoy, I still get to appreciate the qualities of the person's storytelling (almost a completely lost art these days)
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by alharith 7y ago
Because we are human beings. Art is just as much about connection as much as it is about technique.
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by alharith 7y ago
I get the appeal from a "it's fascinating we can make computers do this" stance. I don't get the appeal as trying to appreciate this as actual art (or music in the case of ai-generated tunes). Art for me is about the con
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by alharith 7y ago
I do not agree there is a material difference in that case. Whether or not the site is under the crosshairs is also irrelevant to the point. Besides, as I mentioned in my comment, direct links to hubs that contain pirated material and direc
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by alharith 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, why? Pirating traditional media, journals, and movies and entertainment is actively encouraged on this site, with popular sites and software for doing so frequently referenced, and it is never flagged. Seems like a do
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by alharith 7y ago
Microsoft didn't buy Github out of the goodness of their heart. They also didn't buy it because of it's significant revenue, a couple hundred million is probably a marketing budget to Microsoft, not something that drives the
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by alharith 7y ago
> but mostly because they are minorities. I don't think this is true for the majority of Americans anymore in regards to sports athletes. My finger on the rather sensitive topic is it has more to do with how different groups perceiv
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by alharith 7y ago
My direct report is humble and most willing to learn. That doesn't mean they aren't at the end of the day still a very green associate developer with 7 months of experience so far. Any talks about reaching senior developer status
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by alharith 7y ago
People who think Chris Bosh was riding anyone's coattails clearly don't know anything about Chris Bosh or basketball. First of all, he already showed he was a superstar in his own regard with the Raptors, where he left being the f
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by alharith 7y ago
I would advise you to not take the position. It would be a disaster in my opinion to attempt to be a tech lead without years of experience at the senior level. Your high level engineers will catch whiff of your lack of experience. Your mid
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by alharith 7y ago
So the right to privacy is a political agenda item now? I don't get what you are saying, can you please clarify?
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by alharith 7y ago
Better yet, donate to Brave who doesn't share the same conflict of interest as Mozilla does with Google, as Google is Mozilla's #1 source of income. Best of all you get a browser just as fast, if not faster than Chrome because it&
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by alharith 7y ago
There's also ReasonML for those looking to scratch the itch sooner. Also, don't be turned off by the sea of comments. Pick one, they are all great. but yes ML language enthusiasts can be a bit overenthusiastic, but I don't fa
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by alharith 7y ago
Just to make this technically correct, people still bunny hop in CS all the time, it just doesn't get you anywhere any faster.
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by alharith 7y ago
Seinfield wasn't a hit in it's first season either. The whole premise of the article is that Netflix is no longer giving shows a chance to come into their own like they once did.
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by alharith 7y ago
With the consolidation of resources into Big Tech, this is quickly becoming the reality across all domains. I imagine that they will always keep cloud computing costs juuuust low enough to have plausible deniability in a court case, but sti
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by alharith 7y ago
What if I drive a pickup truck?
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by alharith 7y ago
OCaml has come many, many, many miles from 20 years ago, and continues to make improvements year to year.
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by alharith 7y ago
Ok well then the people I worked on an engagement with at an enterprise offering of Druid flat out lied to my face then. Good to know.
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by alharith 7y ago
IIRC correctly, MoPub is a white-labeled version of Apache Druid.
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by alharith 7y ago
This makes me not want to learn elixir. Learning one language and becoming masterful at it is hard enough. There's too many "learn this language, but also this other language and platform"'s in my life (JVM-based work,
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by alharith 7y ago
Meds didn't work for me, they just made me feel in overdrive, and I have a high sense of awareness so I always knew in the back of my mind the drugs were just making me high for a short amount of time. It never felt like real progress.
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by alharith 7y ago
My company is also not publicly traded, but rest assured investors and analysts still attach a valuation to it.
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by alharith 7y ago
Google doesn't dare directly monetize data stored in their customer's databases. There's zero doubt in my mind they are piping everything somewhere, completely anonymized, and feeding their models.
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by alharith 7y ago
Let's not forget most of the good JVM tooling, especially early on in Java's history, was and is 3rd party and most cost money. Even today, it's still a sea of confusion, especially if you are new to all of this. For example
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by alharith 7y ago
Obligatory Churchill quotation.
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by alharith 7y ago
My speculation (and this is all speculation at the end of the day to some degree) is I also think the success of other companies impact each other, such as the recent successful SpaceX abort test. For homework one night I will run an analys

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