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by blueboo 8y ago
If you're busy with a job (and you're posting on HN), you probably have enough money for a tutor. Language tutoring over skype is cheap -- you'll get a (human) chatbot adjusted to your level that moves between tools. And it
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by blueboo 8y ago
Being in tech means never having to say you're sorry (because you can freely switch between being a libertarian to shirk responsibility or a collectivist to shirk responsibility)
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by blueboo 8y ago
either that, or the copyright enforcement regime has lifted human creativity to unprecedented heights because of the financial protection it afforded, while simultaneously encouraging people to create original work rather than clinging to d
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by blueboo 8y ago
The downgrade in security isn't worth it. Too little, too late folks
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by blueboo 8y ago
part of the issue is if you have anything other than textedit open, the discrete GPU is on hoovering up all your watt-hours.
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by blueboo 8y ago
no one cares his book of essays is interesting, at least
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by blueboo 8y ago
> They used to matter, but they were left behind. Hence Trump. A common misconception; those who were 'left behind' tended to vote Democratic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/20
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by blueboo 8y ago
It's big news when car manufacturers do major recalls too
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by blueboo 8y ago
> was Steve and Alexis submitting most of the content for the first few months until there were enough people to keep the front page fresh. To wit, they submitted most of the content -and comments- under a variety of pseudonyms to give t
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by blueboo 8y ago
New York Times Reporter Talks To The Youngs, Saves TheOutline.Com Link To Pocket
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by blueboo 8y ago
*Lieutenant General Michael Flynn No comment on his later antics, because they, ah, rather throw his judgment into question: He utterly beclowned himself with hilariously sloppy op-sec. From being caught planning to exfiltrate a Turkish di
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by blueboo 8y ago
This article is interesting, but not for the the reason the author thinks it's interesting. This fellow puts Alexandra Petri to shame. Let us shed a tear for the humble bitcoin enthusiast entrepreneur, traumatized by "crack-zombi
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by blueboo 8y ago
It's true -- the best often languish in unrecognized obscurity -- FAANGs deliberately keep their most productive/crucial engineers secret -- carefully ensuring they're never named in blog posts or that marquee products don&#x
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by blueboo 8y ago
I like this list if you add one more point (that happens the most important one): * the solutions she comes with are easily explained and understood by everyone working on the codebase. Stories like this: https://medium.freecodec
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by blueboo 8y ago
Surely that opinion requires believing programming "most of the engine" (prototyping) and engineering production code are the largely the same thing
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by blueboo 8y ago
lol! tldr: Every story has change. * Positive * Negative * Positive, then negative! * Negative, then positive! * Positive, then negative...then positive! * Really negative...then positive! if that's what you learn after studying 1700 n
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by blueboo 8y ago
You're suggesting more or less what people are doing. Yet you sneer at it, calling it Luddism. You missed the point. It's not that there's FUD around tech. It's that the people who understand tech the most (see the hea
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by blueboo 8y ago
It's lacking insofar as political opinion is restricted to "should the poors starve" and "is the female intellect inherently inferior"; but when it comes to things like engaging with problematic regimes, capitalist&
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by blueboo 8y ago
It seems obvious that adding 1000s of women like her would absolutely meaningfully change the company though
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by blueboo 8y ago
If a specific term in a narrow context has a meaning different from the one in common use, choosing to misread one for the other isn't a nitpick, it's just...misreading
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by blueboo 8y ago
But you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. And if stoking panic in the easily-panicked is something you ARE okay with forbidding, why is it then ok to stoke hatred in the easily-manipulable? I guess that wart makes this a world y
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by blueboo 8y ago
Yes, there's a third: that the balance they strike is infinitely perfect and the net benefit is zero in all dimensions. It struck me as childishly pedantic to address, so
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by blueboo 8y ago
The dead, at the very least.
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by blueboo 8y ago
The choice is: police hate speech or promote hate speech. Observation: promoting is cheaper (even profitable). But they can promote it with plausible deniability. Which is a more "dangerous" path? And to whom? Society? Shareho
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by blueboo 8y ago
you can have overly large teams with burdensome processes in a small company and lithe, efficient, empowering teams in a massive one. Not that size doesn't have other implications -- but the specific people who work with/around yo
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by blueboo 8y ago
Hold on. If a reporter is uncovers hostile, state-sponsored corporate espionage in extant, US hardware, it's "shockingly irresponsible" to report that? The putative fact that our supply chain is so totally compromised is im
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by blueboo 8y ago
If this were proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, China would be shown to be guilty of a massive act of corporate espionage. Surely geopolitical pressure combined with the commercial pressure for that not to happen is enough for Bloomberg to
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by blueboo 8y ago
"A startup I worked with once"?! That's the dominant start-up model.
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by blueboo 8y ago
This comment rather flippantly elides that what it means to be in and out in different organizations varies tremendously. With a healthy corporate culture, being "in" means respecting your co-workers and meeting clearly-laid out e
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by blueboo 8y ago
Varelse.

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