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by aogaili 5y ago
I've worked at large companies outside FAANG and I saw great deal of senior devs over 30 with extensive domain experience, and they are still coding and mentoring. They are probably less interested in filling up surveys or showing up a
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Because of climate change? no, because of Schopenhauer. Kidding aside, people don't have kids in developed world because it is costly to create a child that would operate in a competitive urban environment with high home prices, nurser
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Mixing and inventing words for existing well-known concepts add more confusion to an already confusing space, but it surely helps the author to give new TED talks. Beside, the tech amplify what is a human nature, humans manage and keep trac
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by aogaili 5y ago
I personally think that people motives are multi factorial. It is simplistic to project societal values on a group of people, especially the CS professors and PhDs, many of which are introverted and lead a quiet and simple lives. They engag
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"Smart people want money and prestige." I'd question your definition of the word smart in this context.
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Actually yes, you did fail relative to the standards and expectations society and you have placed for yourself. And you have tasted the potential brutality of life and the fragility of ego at an early age, your parents were right. And that
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While this impressive but building software is about the larger understating of the environment and the intent of the users etc. Coding is just translating the solution from the developers head to the machines to execute. This is coding usi
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Those "social" companies won't stop until they monetize, exploit, and destroy every meaningful socializing we have. We can barely enjoy few seconds of someone's attention before they share or consume a "story"
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My personal take on this, is that life is not only meaningless, it is in fact absurd. That is to say, it is beyond reason or logic, not in a supernatural or spiritual way, no, it fails to compute or make any sense when subjected to intense
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by aogaili 5y ago
Agreed,I don't want generalize. But that incident stuck in my head because I expected many answers but not the one she gave! Anyway, it was a light hearted conversation not to be taken seriously.
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Why the downvote? I don't share her opinion, I'm just sharing an encounter I had. I was really surprised by her response, coming from different culture to the west, both of my parents are engineers. I met several great women devel
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When I was studying software engineering, I met a girl who switched major after the first year. I saw her again once in the lab, and I asked her why did you switch, she said, and I quote her exact words: "why would I sit and code all d
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Maybe the burnout is a signal that what you were doing was not actually right and there is deeper lesson/learning in life out there?
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While I never understood the value of most NFTs yet. I'm still not sure if I'm too smart and too stupid. But either way, Donation NFT sounds better than the Fart NFT I read about the other day. But I'm still not sure what the
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by aogaili 5y ago
I get your point. Perhaps not a Ponzi scheme in the traditional sense. In the Ponzi scheme you described, the value of the currency is stable but the account is hidden. In Bitcoin, we have the opposite. The "Ponzi scheme" is enabl
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And he is right. It is very obvious. Failed currency? Yes, that was the envisioned utility and it failed to deliver that for many reasons. Ponzi scheme? it is obvious, current holders make money when someone else buy it at a higher price. A
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by aogaili 6y ago
Yes, agreed. I'm also not sure how those autonomous system are planning to handle scenarios that would require ethical judgements. Say we're driving at the country side, on a beautiful mountain on a sunny day and the sea is beside
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by aogaili 6y ago
Perhaps, but I think most people were looking for full autonomy. But I for one will be happy if it works well in highways, or interstate drive, I think it would be great progress.
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Not sure why I'm getting downvoted...
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The real question is whether full autonomous driving is even feasible with the current "AI" or are we some breakthroughs away, or even completely off the track. The problem here is obvious, if the automatous system is incapable of
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Since neither Flow nor Asana are innovative ideas for a startup, they basically ended up competing in a zero-sum game trying to out spend each other in marketing and features. That is why innovation and finding a niche with loyal users are
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Precisely, because what they fear is loss of control over those underneath them and not the loss of meaning. As it stands in today politic/economical systems (specially in the west) have an inherit artificial scarcity by design to allo
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Yeah, I'm personally not into any of that, but I don't hold myself any better than those who do, I just happen to have better support system and got lucky with some skill/goals that keeps me busy. But I can't help but no
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I also think this is the case. I see many people perfectly happy and keeping themselves very busy with hobbies, socializing, games etc. Also, content and entertainment platforms are growing, so I think most people will have even more to do
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Well, it is conversation. I'm doing entrepreneurship and I run business so I'm capable of articulating some vision for some part of the world. But I'm NOT in a position to articulate a vision for humanity, and what I see&#x2F
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If you have been to university or got some educational somehow and can think for yourself, which you probably are given you are in this forum, by all means go, it is a free market, and share with us your vision and insights. But to assume e
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Most people can't articulate visions for themselves let alone human society. Could anyone point me to an author/thinker who can provide a meaningful vision for society in light of this rapid technological progress? I see Zuckerber
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Then what the point of government, economist, philosophers and entrepreneurs if everyone can do that? I don't think everyone is qualified to come up with a vision, the world is complex and you need certain background to do it.
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I've mixed feeling about this new Boston Dynamics robot. The issue here is that global economical systems are already having lots of capital centralized in the hands of a few (the like of Amazon and their shareholders). Politicians ask
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by aogaili 6y ago
Reminds of Meteor 2.0 https://blog.meteor.com/meteor-2-0-is-here-867b0ab4f8df

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