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by deong 9y ago
There's an enormous bureaucracy in play here, and you can't just turn it on a dime. Also, what was the point of the tax bill if you expect everyone to just rearrange the deck chairs so they don't have to pay any new taxes?
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by deong 9y ago
Well, that sounds more like different employers than a "cost-of-living adjustment". Sure, you probably can't get a local employer to pay what a Bay Area employer pays, but if your employer is a Bay Area employer and they&#x
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by deong 9y ago
I'm pretty technically savvy, and I almost never want to use my phone as a remote control. Yes, it's almost always with me, but it has to do a lot of stuff. A Roku remote has a big "Netflix" button on it. I press tha
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by deong 9y ago
Except I see tons of outages caused by things like VM and application server tuning. Software that isn't working isn't correct or performing well.
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by deong 9y ago
I'm with you for almost all of that journey. Companies should be held accountable for their actions. There are consumer protection laws, and I think it's reasonable for those laws to include protection against things like automate
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by deong 9y ago
I'm no libertarian; I'm just pointing out the difference between legal force and social pressure. You do not have to use Google Docs. You may really really need to, but there's no literal threat of imprisonment hanging over
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by deong 9y ago
> If we don't want the government arbitrarily censoring people, why are we OK with corporations doing it? Because the "opt-out" process is orders of magnitude easier. You don't have to use Google. Microsoft has onli
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by deong 9y ago
If you need the machinery Java has, you're already fucked. To a first approximation, no one knows how to tune a JVM. Whole books have been written multiple times on the subject, and everywhere I've been that used large-scale Java
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by deong 9y ago
I don't think the author cares about the logistics of it, nor should he. If you offer me a service, it's up to you to figure out how to provide that service. If doing so is a logistical nightmare, then you're failing uphold
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by deong 9y ago
It's a pretty weird practice, and I can't come up with a good reason why I think it should be done, but it is. Just not for corporations. That's my point -- not that it's desirable, just that corporations get special tre
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by deong 9y ago
The US government doesn't, as a general rule, care if the money has ever been here. If you as a private US citizen choose to live and work abroad, you are required to file US income taxes and declare all foreign income. And depending o
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by deong 9y ago
To be fair, a lot of podcasts have ads, but ads aren't what I'm objecting to. The modern web doesn't suck because of ads. It sucks because of the technologies around ensuring you look at the ads, around sharing your behaviors
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by deong 9y ago
I don't think most of those things are pluses for COBOL really, but if the alternative was what the Enterprise Java world has been doing for the past 10 or 15 years, bring on the COBOL.
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by deong 9y ago
Not all repetitive motions are equal. It's far more complex than that. The relative angles your joints are held at during the motion, rotations, etc, are far more important than just some simple metric around number of repetitions or d
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by deong 9y ago
I mean reliably, the same way a human does. I can make a lasagne tonight, or lobster risotto, or whatever. I can decide on a thing, buy ingredients, chop things, get that lobster out of the shells, find the right recipe, substitute accordin
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by deong 9y ago
The article makes a lot of good points, but for me, the critical error is in assuming that if short term prediction is hard, long term prediction must be massively harder. He asked a panel for the least impressive thing they did not believe
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by deong 9y ago
I think that's conflating different forms of racism. There's no denying that the modern suburbs was in very large part a racist development. That doesn't mean anyone who took part in that development had racist intents. As yo
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by deong 9y ago
There are parts of the standard academic paper that aren't really necessary for understanding it. You typically have background on the problem, for example. I can't say for certain I didn't lose a reader, but none of the refe
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by deong 9y ago
It's worth mentioning that some of those standards may not be producing the best outcomes (see https://lemire.me/blog/2017/08/15/on-melissa-oneills-pcg-ran... , for example). In my own experience, I
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by deong 9y ago
The requirements are straightforward and publicly known. Here's everything you need to know to submit a paper to JMLR ( http://www.jmlr.org/author-info.html ). Here's the complete instructions for NIPS ( https:&#x2F
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by deong 9y ago
Of course you're free to criticize his claims. It's just pointless to demand someone else do it for you. The interviewer here apparently felt there was a different purpose than they one you'd want. I'm not sure what your
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by deong 9y ago
That's basically my question. What's the market for people who want a terminal based programmers editor in late 2017 who don't already use Vim or Emacs?
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by deong 9y ago
"Hey, have you tried Safari? It's pretty great. Why don't you give it a try?" "Umm, hey there...me again. You still haven't tried Safari? What's wrong? Want me to launch it for you?" "Ok, this is
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by deong 9y ago
Within large organizations, I don't think there's any replacement for Excel. Google docs are great as a Word replacement, but Google's spreadsheet offering is a spreadsheet. Excel is an extremely sophisticated development env
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by deong 9y ago
I vaguely recall using it a few times back in the day to edit things like fixed-format columnar text files. Now that sort of thing is easier with years worth of accumulated knowledge of tools, but I wasn't born with that knowledge.
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by deong 9y ago
When I was an undergrad, we were "taught" tools like Emacs and Vim by being dropped into a systems programming class where we were told to telnet into a university server to complete the assignments, and "oh, you'll need
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by deong 9y ago
I think he probably chose his words fairly carefully: " feel so much faster". I don't think anyone argues that they can ship a piece of software noticeably faster using Vim or Emacs. Like you said, we're never limited b
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by deong 9y ago
"Emacs -> Cares, therefore Cares -> Emacs" is a form of abductive reasoning. It's only a logical fallacy if you treat it as though logic guaranteed the inference was true. If you treat it as, e.g., input helping to form
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by deong 9y ago
I had the same reaction to MacOS. It's permanently chafing me versus forcing me to fix something myself once. I don't see how that's a preferable option. That said, if I could only use one computer and OS, it would be a Mac s
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by deong 9y ago
I don't think it makes sense to deny that it's both. One can hold abhorrent political views -- that doesn't make them not political. What were the Nazis if not a political movement based on white supremacy?

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