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by deong 9y ago
Mono was awesome for what it was, and I'm not trying to denigrate those early efforts, but what it was wasn't really enough to say .Net wasn't Windows only. It didn't support WinForms, so no GUI application built for Win
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by deong 9y ago
The university system was the envy of the world when it was run like a government program. It was only when we started running them like businesses that the system has gone pear-shaped.
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by deong 9y ago
It's a combination of mainly two things. 1. More people are getting PhDs, which means if the job supply remained constant, higher percentages of people won't get a job. 2. There are fewer "real" academic jobs, because un
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by deong 9y ago
The fact that we spend too much by an order of magnitude or two doesn't mean the rest of the world is dependent on us. We don't spend this much because it's the only way to make the world safe. We spend this much because ever
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by deong 9y ago
Yep, I'm a US citizen with an American PhD in CS. I did a five year stint at a research lab in Iceland, and after two years back in the states, we're in the process of moving back to Reykjavik now, for most of the reasons you&#x27
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by deong 9y ago
The world isn't that binary. No one is suggesting you hire a bunch of people who don't care at all about solving actual problems and who would just screw around all day messing with whatever shiny object caught their eye. The disc
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by deong 9y ago
I'm not sure I wholly agree there. There's an awful lot of real work being done that makes real money based on deep learning, and deep learning comes from the CS "it works, what's the problem" side of the field as o
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by deong 9y ago
That explains why we don't have widely implemented algorithms of higher-degree polynomial complexity, but it doesn't explain why we haven't thought of many such polynomial algorithms that just aren't practical. After all
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by deong 9y ago
This is true, but it's difficult to imagine what such a problem could look like. In reality, algorithms tend to come in discrete complexity "units" with very small terms. A linear algorithm isn't just fast -- it tells yo
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by deong 9y ago
(1) It's not illegal to fire someone for their politics (it's not one of the enumerated protected classes under federal employment laws anti-discrimination law at least), and (2) it's not "clearly" what happened her
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by deong 9y ago
You absolutely have, because in the real world "correct" isn't a cleanly defined objective target. Humans decide if your code was well-written enough or you used an appropriate data structure, and humans can be pretty solidly
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by deong 9y ago
It doesn't really help to say, "I'm in favor of diversity" any more than it helps to say "I'm not a racist but".
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by deong 9y ago
The burden of proof is on the side arguing there's something "special" about Google. The effect is present everywhere we've looked. Lacking any specific evidence to the contrary, it's present in Google hiring too.
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by deong 9y ago
If you don't want to bother with dealing with Dell, they do provide official repair guides on their site telling you exactly how to do it. I bought the prior generation of the XPS 13, and for $25, an Intel 7625 wifi card. Took me about
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by deong 9y ago
I don't worry so much about that. I'd hope in the modern world that everyone understands that no one really means everything they say when dancing around the "where do you see yourself in five years" kind of interview qu
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by deong 9y ago
Sure, but when we're talking about a core foundational feature, they do. Richard Stallman would absolutely be willing to say, "We 100% guarantee that gcc will never become non-free software" instead of "we realize that
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by deong 9y ago
Well, I guess if you had no master password, any script you expect people to run could have a surreptitious "pass <some args> | curl" to post password data to some web service of your choosing. Still, if you use a password m
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by deong 9y ago
One immediate problem -- this is how these systems are made to function. It's not like the kickback is happening behind the back of the operators of the exchanges. It's not "hacking" to follow the rules as they're l
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by deong 9y ago
At the risk of looking like I take the "Singularly" at all seriously...(and putting aside the non-sequitur about Kurzweil having anything to do with Google's shipping software)... The implication you're making is that be
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by deong 9y ago
I've found that I generally regret doing this kind of thing to the extent that you need to do it to make a meaningful difference. The problem is that all this stuff comes at a cost -- my source code is no longer structured in a semanti
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by deong 9y ago
I'm not sure why you seem to deny the possibility that capitalists are concerned with future profits as well as past ones. You say their reason was not lack of profit, based I guess on the fact that they haven't suffered any major
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by deong 9y ago
I love how people like to explain things to me as though a wikipedia article presents something over actual knowledge and experience. Iceland has a very divisive political system at the moment. The ruling government has been a coalition of
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by deong 9y ago
I lived and worked in Iceland for five years, and they have a virtually 100% unionization rate. It's handled at the industry level rather than individual companies, but when you start a job, you are pretty much automatically enrolled i
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by deong 9y ago
Honestly, that's probably true. Not in some elitist, "if you have to ask, you're not smart enough" kind of way, but in a "if you have to ask, then you're the kind of person for whom figuring out how to set up a
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by deong 9y ago
The basic problem is that people are not educated, sophisticated -- whatever term we choose, they don't possess enough of it to have any sort of nuanced understanding of an issue. Politicians simply noted that fact and use it to their
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by deong 9y ago
In that case, I agree. The problem here seems, from my understanding, to be that what Apple did was more like app -> CFFile -> unicode normalization -> fopen -> APFS which screws you because anyone can just call fopen o
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by deong 9y ago
"Happening at a higher level" is a reasonable solution, if it happens consistently , no matter which higher level you're using. If you have 18 different functions to open a file, and 11 of them normalize and 7 don't, th
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by deong 9y ago
The issue isn't a "bag-of-bytes" filename model. The issue is a "bag-of-bytes" filename model combined with an inconsistent normalization scheme. It's not a problem on Windows or Linux filesystems because Windo
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by deong 9y ago
Like I said, probably nothing can be done that isn't ultimately likely to be worse. Short of people spontaneously becoming smarter, you'd effectively have to outlaw news outlets deemed to be "too slanted", and even if yo
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by deong 9y ago
You're 100% right. What I'd say is that we as a society have to make a choice between preserving the full range of protected speech we all enjoy and curtailing the degree to which the democratic process has been corrupted by the u

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