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by bps4484 6y ago
I thought the same thing about that quote. He is mixing up events with these two professions. Nobody wants an engineer who is passionate while they are literally writing code, screaming at the computer and flailing his hands[1]. Much in t
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by bps4484 6y ago
Absolutely it has run its course. There are a now a litany of javascript frameworks to suit the variety of projects being done in javascript (both server and client side), and browsers are now far more compatible (I think partially because
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by bps4484 6y ago
Jquery - abstracted away tons of cross-browser inconsistent behavior, both with the dom and javascript, and added new selectors to make dom manuplation easier. I think there was a reason it was adopted as fast as it was, it really was a 10
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by bps4484 6y ago
I'm most curious about how the experience was, both for the atlas team and the product team, around this quote, "Atlas is “managed,” which means that developers writing code in Atlas only need to write the interface and implementa
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by bps4484 6y ago
I scrolled down the thread wondering if someone would mention him and if nobody did I was going to. It's insane how much hype he had at a young age and how he's delivered again and again. The only players with similar [amount del
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by bps4484 7y ago
But wouldn't all those same problems you outline be the case in other countries? I think the question isn't "Why are infra costs so high?" which I think your list answers, but instead "Why are infra costs so high i
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by bps4484 7y ago
I'm very saddened by this loss. I took him for both 6.034 (artificial intelligence) and his survey course 6.803 (the human intelligence enterprise). Some memories: 1. I still use VSNC (you can read more about it here: http:/&#
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by bps4484 8y ago
This article is a little bit old because he mentions the upcoming union vote. The vote has now been cast, and 95% of writers have voted to only work with agents signing a code of conduct that bans packaging: https://deadline.com
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by bps4484 8y ago
"Amusing Ourselves to Death" is one of if not the best books for its avant garde cultural criticism.
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by bps4484 8y ago
I would recommend the book, but would skim the first 300 or so pages and only read deeply the parts that catch your eye. I think the author was on a mission to get the book to 400 pages and there is a LOT of filler on every detail of every
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by bps4484 8y ago
I think it is also worth calling out that at least 2 of those acquisitions, android and google, were made before they became as dominant as they are today. Android was purchased by google 2 years before it even launched, and while youtube
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by bps4484 9y ago
> You cannot tell your selection committee 'I refactored code and that'll save us probably 100 bugs in the next year, times 2 hours per bug, at $300 per man hour, a $60000 savings.'. You can't? Especially if you have
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by bps4484 9y ago
First, just to make sure we are on the same page, are you in agreement that this wasn't politics, but perhaps a disagreement in the roles and responsibilities of a manager and an engineer and what an engineer is expected to do at googl
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by bps4484 9y ago
[Manager here] I don't really see what the political game is here that he lost. What I think he failed to do was show impact in a clear a visible way. Don't get me wrong, there is salesmanship required here in terms of clearly de
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by bps4484 9y ago
I've often wondered about the selection bias of the "80% of restaurants fail, they're the worst investment" because I had a suspicion that many people start restaurants thinking essentially, "My Mom's pasta sau
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by bps4484 9y ago
Unfortunately I agree with your intent (going after your dreams, trying to enrich your life or enlighten yourself in a way that may seem crazy to most) but disagree that it can be applied here. He literally did nothing to prepare himself
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by bps4484 9y ago
I completely agree. I grew tomatoes for the first time last year and couldn't believe the difference in taste. The cherry tomatoes had a sweetness I had never tasted in a cherry tomatoe before. It was almost like they were cross-bred w
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by bps4484 10y ago
I agree with what everyone else has responded with about what makes instagram so huge, but there is something else that made it popular: You only upload 1 photo. True, someone can dump a lot of photos one at a time, but I think that's
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by bps4484 10y ago
"Four years ago Google said they would have a driverless car for sale in 3-5 years." This is a side tangent, but do you have a source for that? I'm only curious because it has seemed to me most makers of autonomous vehicles,
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by bps4484 10y ago
I'm not a doctor but just had a loved one die of cancer, and what the parent has said is correct from what I learned. Here is a breast cancer survival breakdown by stage: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer&#x
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by bps4484 10y ago
The problem with making the exceptions public is you're then making athlete's medical records public. There is a slippery slope here as well that as drugs continue to get added to the list of banned substances, an athlete has to
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by bps4484 10y ago
I love the Steve Blank definition that "A startup is a business in search of a scalable business model" because it really cuts out all of the companies have their business model and metrics in place. It would certainly eliminat
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by bps4484 10y ago
Another area that's scarily inefficient in transportation: http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/12/technology/lyft-medical-ride... "Typically, National Medtrans Network calls livery cab companies to bo
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by bps4484 10y ago
[note: I work at a company that allows telecommuting and I currently manage 5 engineers in two different locations] I wanted to expound on "The bar to communication is lower when they're so accessible." I think a lot of commu
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by bps4484 10y ago
It may create more sprawl, but 2 of the big complaints I've heard about living in a city is how hard it is to get around, and it's hard to have a car that allows you to leave. Autonomous cars would solve both of these problems wh
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by bps4484 10y ago
"but about creating want in the user" reminded me of a quote, but it was about television advertising, which I think may be a more apt comparison: Indeed, we may go this far: The television commercial is not at all about the char
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by bps4484 10y ago
No, there were many changes to the curriculum, and for a variety for reasons. They created 6.01, which serves at an "intro to EECS" so it involves both EE and CS, as opposed to the old intro 6.001 which was really an introduction
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by bps4484 10y ago
It may have been that it just took 7 years to actually get a new course in place, but it wasn't until fall 2007 that MIT officially got rid of 6.001 as required course, well after the dot com crash. There were a TON of changes that hap
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by bps4484 10y ago
It may be that a company has done very well but hasn't raised more money to bump up the present market value of the stock. In this case you would want to exercise early so that the clock starts for capital gains in the event of liquid
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by bps4484 11y ago
Why is it an absurd statement? I legitimately don't know. I don't know what IFR qualified means.

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