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by blihp 8y ago
You expected anything less from Knuth?
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by blihp 8y ago
It's a 6 month engagement that renews in perpetuity. Mainly as a way to avoid having employer obligations.
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by blihp 8y ago
But likely few people, if anyone, in the organization have any serious incentives (i.e. bonus/promotion) to proactively prioritize that. On the other hand, they almost certainly have at least bonuses on the line to add X users to serv
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by blihp 8y ago
My guess would be that the studios view the agents more as talent aggregators[1] and are probably very difficult to deal with unless one has one. Similar to how in tech as a contractor you can't deal with many companies without going
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by blihp 8y ago
It was a very, very, very well covered story at the time: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/24/edward-... (if you don't like USA Today, which was just the top news source
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by blihp 8y ago
Not sure if my experience is typical or not but that hasn't helped me one bit. When I tried the various signals you listed, that just seemed to encourage YouTube to show me even more videos/channels similar to the ones I wasn&#
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by blihp 8y ago
That's obviously your choice. Just be aware you're prioritizing (hopefully) getting more widespread adoption most likely at the cost of the business. The people likely to make money on it will be someone other than you. That&#x2
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by blihp 8y ago
Go vertical rather than horizontal with your solution. Google, and the other large players, need broad swaths of customers/users to get to a viable total addressable market at their scale. That is your advantage over them: you can su
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by blihp 8y ago
I'd read the 'by default' as it being turned on system-wide and up to the user to override on a per case basis. Of course Apple's ideal model is that they want everything going through them. They're going to ena
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by blihp 8y ago
He knows his target audience. One generally becomes a billionaire by focusing on self-interest, not altruism.
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by blihp 8y ago
At least part of the DRAM issue is related to Intel's CPU supply issues being a drag on new PC sales.[1] But overall for DRAM and NAND, it's probably a case of market saturation in many sectors. [1] As well as AMD has been doing
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by blihp 8y ago
And even if they do provide strategies, they would likely be obsolete/unprofitable ones as examples of how to use the system.
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by blihp 8y ago
You just explained the issue: they're really not into it. They're often going through the motions because they see there's money there or the mythical 'good job' their parents keep telling them to get as far as com
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by blihp 8y ago
Customers/users/developers don't care what the reasons are, only that it continues to happen. What is especially irksome to many is that they are shutting down products/services that found an audience... just not one la
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by blihp 8y ago
Probably not terribly bloated, just old. The language (C), features (probably K&R C), libraries (pitiful compared to today), and portability concerns (nethack was ported to many platforms, DF comparatively few) it originally had to c
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by blihp 8y ago
I don't see a problem: any given author / contributor has their own reasons for providing something... and you and I are most likely not one of them. We can choose to tag along for the ride or not. If it is of value and we have
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by blihp 8y ago
Who said that they were necessarily creating great products elsewhere? I only argued that they were likely going elsewhere. What happens when they get there is a function of management/environment/etc. Most companies don't
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by blihp 8y ago
I'm not sure that this is anything new. Apple has been known for decades as a company unwilling to pay top dollar but rather count on their mystique / sense of mission to attract talent. However, with the mystique fading and no
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by blihp 8y ago
Just use it as another ballpark reference of what trade-offs are being made when going with one language or another. Not really any different than any other language benchmark/shootout comparison. Unless you have very large numbers of
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by blihp 8y ago
By optionally emitting generic structural markup which you could then use to format via colorization (or whatever other means you wanted) in a terminal, a GUI, a web page, etc. That would have been more consistent with the 'one tool,
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by blihp 8y ago
That's romanticizing it a bit... there's been a ton of feature creep[1] and a fair amount of technical debt. It's just more manageable because they've contained the scope of most of the core utilities and packages bette
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by blihp 8y ago
Of course not. But the reason that tenure ostensibly exists is to allow people who are considered in the top of their field academically to say and do things that might be unpopular (with administrators, politicians or the public at large)
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by blihp 8y ago
Unless you are going to be a direct report (short- and long-term) to the CEO, specific situational/tactical questions aren't going to be of much value since your manager (either existing or TBD), rather than the CEO, is going to b
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by blihp 8y ago
I don't think it will stay on mobile, but I do think it is and will remain targeted toward more casual gamers. Basically those who want something better than the river of adtech sewage that exists today but short of 'serious&#x27
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by blihp 8y ago
Take the marketing pitch with a grain of salt. They've been keeping track of aggregate usage data pretty much from the beginning. Also, they already have to keep track of things like which apps/music/movies you have bought
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by blihp 8y ago
For those who don't get the reference: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
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by blihp 8y ago
I think what's being referred to was the shoddy way many musicians and producers used digital technology and basically just digitized an analog recording without even bothering to get mixing or levels right on the analog side. Dire St
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by blihp 8y ago
I agree that it's a likely application which would reduce the manual effort involved. Someone is probably doing something with it (is there anything someone isn't trying to apply machine learning to these days?), but I'm not
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by blihp 8y ago
Keep in mind that was at a time when Adele was working to commercialize Smalltalk in the real world[1] eventually as a business venture selling to businesses (i.e. ParcPlace Systems) so there was more than a little bit of spin involved. (es
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by blihp 8y ago
Thief: The Ray-Traced Age?

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