celdon25

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by celdon25 4y ago
> Due to Microsoft Windows' dominance in desktop operating systems, Windows is the platform most targetted by spyware, viruses, and ransomware. That may be true, but a much higher proportion of downloaded Mac software lacks code sig
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by celdon25 4y ago
Hard disagree. There is incentive to pay for education (particularly the type offered by CodeCrafters) regardless of experience level, but the more engaged, more motivated, more mindful personality types will be more likely to make the conn
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by celdon25 4y ago
> I think far too many people who fight for remote work don't realize that they are fighting for their own commoditization, and that it will kill their career if they actually get what they think they want. A reasonable argument, bu
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by celdon25 4y ago
The reason for hiring someone you know is because you presumably know them well enough to know that you can trust them and that they aren't a fake or otherwise incompetent. Even then, you can do an additional vetting for competence to
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by celdon25 4y ago
Disclaimer: I don't have specific AI/ML expertise, but I've known the founder (Ben Goertzel) for close to 20 years now. OpenCog never got huge amounts of money. Ben believes strongly in developing AGI (he actually coined the
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by celdon25 4y ago
"maximizing human potential" is not terribly specific and can mean different things to different people. I'm not looking to be a shill in this thread but we might be what you're looking for, and even if it isn't, I&
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by celdon25 4y ago
I’ll do you one even better. We have a two-chamber legislature, and here is a prime example of what that actually means. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2187 Would have allowed for pro
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by celdon25 4y ago
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6g11f0FGPo
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by celdon25 4y ago
The community's reaction has been documented in a video here, and it's not good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6g11f0FGPo
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by celdon25 4y ago
> Doing this the right way is not impossible, it's just probably more engineering effort than the devs of VRChat are willing to put in. Those guys push major updates on friday evenings, introducing new bugs and causing clients to br
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by celdon25 4y ago
> we've been working towards native implementations of features like a main menu that's usable even when you're lying down Imagine not having even this yet and then pretending you weren't the one who dropped the ball
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by celdon25 4y ago
If it weren't for Hitler, World War II might have been over climate policy instead, and there might be no nukes. You gloss over Nth-order effects and cite a single statistic to compare relative damage done to humanity (spoiler alert: w
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by celdon25 4y ago
> it makes Hitler look like a saint. You clearly don't understand what you are talking about, based on this.
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by celdon25 4y ago
Maybe, but the discussion itself was about Microsoft's commitment to open-source. Open-sourcing VS Professional, traditionally (and still) an enterprise tool, would be a bridge too far. The commenter that started this debate called the
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by celdon25 4y ago
What part of the .NET SDK isn't supported on Linux?
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by celdon25 4y ago
> Yeah, maybe you could get a big, comfortable house You must have never dealt with the pains of maintaining a house. I wouldn't call it comfortable because of all the crap that goes wrong and you constantly have to deal with. Speak
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by celdon25 4y ago
Hopefully to the [flagged] bin
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by celdon25 4y ago
Nailed it.
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by celdon25 4y ago
>2 dreadful things in parallel. You sure it's just two? :)
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by celdon25 4y ago
I don't remember "changing the world" being mocked in HBO's Silicon Valley and not seeing a mention of the "Making the world a better place" in the OP?
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by celdon25 4y ago
If they were actually top talent, they wouldn't need to move there to get what they want (unless the goal is to work in-person at a specific company that happens to be in the bay area). > and quality of life I certainly hope that yo
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by celdon25 4y ago
I was one of the few professional F# devs at a time when F# was ranked #1 in pay (though that wasn't why I used F#). Spoiler alert: The pay difference is not large enough to be worth making a career decision off of. Use the languages y
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by celdon25 4y ago
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31023201
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by celdon25 4y ago
Unlimited PTO is often abused as way to prevent workers from feeling like they have the ability to take vacations when they need them.
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by celdon25 4y ago
The one we are on right now feels pretty moderate to me.
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by celdon25 4y ago
Can you elaborate on this? What's special about the domain here for security?
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by celdon25 4y ago
> People here are directors of strategy or vice presidents or head tech coordinators or editors at magazines. The author considers this the Elite Class? Those are just glorified middle management titles. Even most CEOs don’t qualify as e
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by celdon25 4y ago
No. Edit: apparently some people think I am disagreeing with the statement in and of itself. Yes, Java is a homework language, but it’s real problems are far worse than that. Worst of all is the generation of developers that it produced.
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You’d be surprised what some people are capable of doing.
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I was held at gunpoint after getting too close with my camera (which wasn't that close actually, much more than 8 feet, more like 30-50) while recording an arrest in Mesa, AZ. I was the one who actually called the cops on the dudes tha

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