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by cirgue 8y ago
I am increasingly happy to pay for software and services as long as the organization producing the software has no relationship with advertisers. I would rather pay money than use something for free that includes advertising. If there are g
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Agile coaches, HN talking about the revolutionary power of disruption.
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My experience with this dynamic is that leaders and power structures emerge in “leaderless” organizations despite the best efforts of participants. This leads to a lack of accountability for the excercise of de facto authority because it su
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by cirgue 8y ago
Censorship isn’t a bad thing if it isn’t a government doing it. Facebook has no power to tell you what is or isn’t appropriate to write on your blog, they can’t stop you from writing a book or from publishing an article via any other medium
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> It's that people kept thinking it would magically be different this time. I don't think that's the problem, rather it's that the overwhelming majority of people currently on the internet are completely unaware there
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Technical writing is a bit of a different beast: you’re writing both to instruct first-time readers and to serve as an authoritative reference for people who have read the document or are otherwise already familiar with the subject.
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> Medium is the Massage I initially thought that was a typo. For others reading this: it's not, it was a collage-style collaboration between Mcluhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore. That's really cool, I will have to check i
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by cirgue 8y ago
What's the distinction between a database access layer and read/write apis? Is that a semantic distinction or do they accomplish different things?
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by cirgue 8y ago
> That you presume they have any other goal in mind is frankly bizarre to me. Google is an advertising company. They are not a search company. There is absolutely no reason to think that their goal is 'good' results. Their goal
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by cirgue 8y ago
‘Simulacrum and simulation’, ‘understanding media’, and ‘society of the spectacle’ right now. My focus this summer is on everything ever written about media and society. I am currently looking for works on social trends in response to radio
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"You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you."
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> What culture needs to curb is capitalism. I think this is even more specific: culture needs to curb advertising monetization. Google, FB, youtube, et al generally suck because they are rapidly evolving toward convergence with tabloid p
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by cirgue 8y ago
> You can't prescribe how language is used. Toxic culture now means this. Seriously? You can't prescribe how language is used either. Meaning in language is constructed around conversations about how words should or should not
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by cirgue 8y ago
Motivation is absolutely a skill that can be mastered. Being motivated to get up and run at 6:00 am is not telling yourself that you have to, it’s learning how to want to do it . Same thing with anything else. You have to learn how to conn
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by cirgue 8y ago
It also has connotations of 'built by the lowest bidder for thrice the promised price and with half the promised functionality'
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by cirgue 8y ago
I think the sentiment still holds, waterfall or no. There are still an identifiable cycle of product development in an agile shop, but they aren't explicitly mapped onto differentiated development phases. It is still possible to see th
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by cirgue 8y ago
I still haven’t found a subreddit that’s better than the other existing communities for that topic. Can you list some examples of subtedddits that are _the_ forum to go to for their domain?
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by cirgue 8y ago
I was referring to my experiences with hiring engineers. Throwing shade about people's education isn't cool.
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If you have to use it as a selling point, it means you don't have more compelling things to show.
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by cirgue 8y ago
GPA, in my experience, seems to map exactly onto your ability to wrangle a good GPA. That set of skills is largely orthogonal to solving hard problems or making useful contributions to a team.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Google, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Apple, FedEx, UPS, AT&T, and WalMart are all very centralized. And that level of centralization and oligopoly is leading to the exact kinds of problems predicted by economists for the last century
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by cirgue 8y ago
Arguments about the moral qualities of capitalism v socialism are always an unproductive pissing contest, doubly so on the Internet.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Fuck AR glasses. I absolutely do not want a society where they are an important component of participating in economic and social life. In my mind, that is a far greater threat to human freedom than any corrupt government or act of violen
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by cirgue 8y ago
This is kind of a no-duh though. If you're the NSA, of course you're going to set up shop at peering facilities, there isn't anywhere else that makes practical sense.
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> You severely underestimate the bandwidth of your eyes and ears and other senses Sample size and record size are two different things.
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by cirgue 8y ago
This is my point: the term AI has always been BS. It was BS when beam search was AI, it was BS when expert systems were AI, and it is equally as BS when applied to neural networks. It comes to the same thing: the 'AI' tools we use
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Are you implying that people believe the US doesn't have an intelligence community that engages in covert surveillance? In the past few years, the debate seems to have shifted from "What is appropriate oversight and behavior for i
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None of the things you mentioned are even close to AI. They’re applied statistics, and they mostly use techniques we’ve known about for decades but have only now found a use case because computing and storage is cheap enough to make them vi
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by cirgue 8y ago
Watson's law: as the complexity of technology and business processes increases, the amount of time it takes for people to recognize and acknowledge that the emperor in not in fact wearing clothes increases in proportion to the profitab
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> This works well for IBM generally (the products are shit) but especially well for Watson because it's extremely easy to sell AI without getting bogged down in details. The cynic in me says that every use of the term AI in any capa

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