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by d4nt 7y ago
I agree, NoSQL is still working it’s way along the hype curve but a huge amount of business data still lives in relational databases. The fact that there’s money to be made supporting this market is not big news.
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by d4nt 7y ago
“The ideal timeframe to use for the reward function” is an instance of an age old question about what’s really important in life. Most people agree that taking lots of heroin and dying in a matter of months is suboptimal. Most people also a
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by d4nt 7y ago
I agree. Also, there are many teams or departments in companies where the humans are following the instructions of a process manual, spreadsheet or software system, without actively knowing how it works. The Company “knows” things the indiv
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by d4nt 7y ago
I’m interested in the term “distributed monolith” and why shared libraries are bad, can you elaborate? (I’m an experienced dev who’s never worked on micro services). Say a service that consumed 6 other services became a service that consume
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by d4nt 7y ago
Locking down this network of services is a massive security improvement and they've used some very neat ways of achieving it. Overall, I really appreciate them writing this up. However, 1500 services? That really feels like they'r
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by d4nt 7y ago
I think many people would work less if they could afford to. But we're not getting paid for all this extra productivity[1]. [1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/10/03/us-wages...
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by d4nt 7y ago
Theory: Love isn't an emotional state as such. It's best thought of as a mental function that transforms how you frame situations from negative or indifferent reactions into more positive ones. It converts Apathy -> Engagement,
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by d4nt 7y ago
“We should provide for...” is a little troubling. Who is “we”, how did they get to that position and how are they enforcing they’re decisions on who can have food?
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by d4nt 7y ago
I think the problem might be even more complex than that. From what you’ve said they seem to be training AI to predict what people want and how valuable it is to them. This problem used to be the role of the giant distributed computational
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by d4nt 8y ago
At first I was terrified of this, in the short term this could cause a lot of suffering but I’ve become convinced it will fail in the long term. Human societies have evolved a very sophisticated mechanism for moving people up and down hiera
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by d4nt 8y ago
It’s similar, but in capitalist systems all get a weighted vote on how many points you get. (Either by buying your time/products or if I’m your boss I can promote/fire you). By the look of it, the Chinese system gives complete con
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by d4nt 9y ago
I think Facebook would be missing the correlations of likes to the Big Five personality traits. But they could rebuild it if they wanted to, by promoting a free personality test on their site. (I assume that correlations between personality
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by d4nt 9y ago
> most workplaces won't tolerate not responding to instant messages and notifications. This. IM conversations take longer than in person ones (or video chats), have a higher rate of misunderstandings, cannot be flagged for follow up
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by d4nt 9y ago
The general rule is: Nothing is called AI anymore once it works. Like with magic tricks, once we know how it works it seems a lot less impressive. So we stop calling it AI. When you think about it, everything computers do could be considere
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by d4nt 9y ago
We've forgotten the core point of protesting. The article skirts near the truth in the section about how hierarchical organisations are more effective than the modern decentralised variety, but it frustratingly seems to still miss the
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by d4nt 9y ago
There are some very rich people out there deciding to move their money into tech. I wonder what's prompting that decision. Random theories: 1. Big Oil is done. Battery prices have hit the tipping point and all cars will soon be electri
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by d4nt 9y ago
Perhaps I should have phrased the question as "why have the lower and middle classes become relatively less effective at taking rich people's money in recent years".
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by d4nt 9y ago
Something that's been on my mind recently, given the increasing amounts of inequality, is "why aren't the lower and middle classes more effective at taking rich people's money?". In other words, rather that thinking
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by d4nt 9y ago
I found the conference talk online: https://vimeo.com/144769901
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by d4nt 9y ago
Yeah, I was a at conference last year where there was a talk from an existing Planetary Protection Officer at NASA. She seemed mostly concerned with what kind of cleaning procedures had been performed on the various probes that had were goi
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by d4nt 9y ago
I think for .net developers, this makes more sense. You have an existing .net app, built to talk to MS SQL Server, if the latest version of .net can run on Linux, but your DB can't then you're faced with either managing two OS fla
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by d4nt 9y ago
Pure speculation: you could run an Android VM and used an automated testing framework to drive it
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Programming is 70 so we asked three programmers how they started(weared4.com)
3 points by d4nt 9y ago|0 comments
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The decade of fierce database debate(blog.sqlizer.io)
3 points by d4nt 9y ago|0 comments
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Why edge cases matter for product success(weared4.com)
5 points by d4nt 9y ago|1 comments
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Theresa May to create new internet that would be controlled by government(independent.co.uk)
12 points by d4nt 9y ago|1 comments
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by d4nt 9y ago
I suppose it's possible that just the right amount of mass extinction events are necessary for intelligent life to emerge. Too many and evolution doesn't build up any momentum, too little and there isn't enough change to make
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SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today(blog.sqlizer.io)
588 points by d4nt 9y ago|382 comments
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by d4nt 10y ago
Supposing I found the index location of the next Star Wars movie in pi, would it be copyright infringement for me to mention that on a forum?
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by d4nt 10y ago
Isn't this what we mean when we talk about democracies with "well established institutions". In other words, isn't it a feature not a bug? The public institutions wield power just like the press, the judiciary, the legis

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