dgudkov

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by dgudkov 8y ago
>There is absolutely no consideration for the artistic value of their works. Artistic value derives from uniqueness. The commoditization of the game industry may be a sign that not much distinctive artistic value is created nowadays, tha
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by dgudkov 8y ago
It seems like the concept of local guides on Google Maps is getting to a new level.
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Ask HN: Name one biggest improvement in your life made possible thanks to AI?
15 points by dgudkov 8y ago|16 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
It may also mean that the employer has reasons to believe that the candidate is well aware of his/her skill level and will treat this job as temporary while looking for a higher position in another company.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>GDPR could end free internet services. They are not free. Someone pays for them. If someone wants to pay for an internet service by giving advertisers access to their PII -- that's fine. But it doesn't mean that this monetizat
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Letting anybody in the world call you any time without any restrictions is absurd. It should be possible to enforce a mode that requires the caller to send you a request for permission to call first (like contact request in Skype). And unle
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by dgudkov 8y ago
I can't cite any research on boredom. But after reading some articles I realized that continuous consumption of entertaining information makes me tired and agitated. So I restricted social media and internet news only to desktop and le
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AI Reconstructs Photos with Realistic Results [video](youtube.com)
2 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>What should I be doing? Get bored. It's OK to be bored from time to time. Your brain needs to get bored. Being able to get bored is becoming an increasingly rare skill. I'd speculate that cognitive abilities improve after peri
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Also Pendolino: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendolino
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by dgudkov 8y ago
If any animal has won the meta-game it's the cats. Yes, those adorable, cute, dumb bastards. They badly lose on any tactical level. But man, win on the strategical level so much.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Strictly speaking, borrowing assumes returning at some point.
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Flipd: Stay Focused(flipdapp.co)
1 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Marx Was Wrong(project-syndicate.org)
2 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
The old Skype was perfectly usable. The new Skype sucks. But if not Skype then what? Needed: - VoIP for groups - Built-in screen sharing - Chat/messenger - One-click voice calls without the need to switch off camera every time (looking
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Tech in general and software in particular is hard to learn. So hard that you can't progress beyond mediocre level unless you have strong passion for it. Only that passion pushes you to spend hours and days fighting a problem. Only tha
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Try my EasyMorph ( https://easymorph.com ). It's pretty simple to use (we aim it at non-technical users) and has a decent free edition without limitations in time or data volume.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Machine learning in smartphones is all great and cool, but when can we get easy "undo" in text editor? Really.
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Why enterprise software is switching to subscription-based pricing(bi-review.blogspot.com)
2 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
The level of naivete in this article is frustrating. >I’m frustrated that the web’s promise of instant and free access to the world’s information appears to be dying. Free access won't die as long as there are people who are willing
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Many economical models (including working 9 to 5, btw) came from the times of physical labor. At that time the part of labor was relatively small in the cost structure, and the part of materials was big. And since materials is a one-time ex
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by dgudkov 9y ago
Tableau has reached its peak in terms of product development, just like MS Word has. It's a mature, feature rich tool, but it has nowhere to grow substantially as a product anymore. Some new bells and whistles here and there will be ad
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James Webb Space Telescope Launch and Deployment(youtube.com)
2 points by dgudkov 9y ago|0 comments
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Equality Is a Mediocre Goal. Aim for Progress(bloomberg.com)
3 points by dgudkov 9y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 9y ago
You're about to enter your prime time in terms of professional life. Your experience gives you a good understanding of risks (technical, people, etc.) and means of achieving goals. You mostly control the flow of events in your life, ra
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by dgudkov 9y ago
>So Rob has it right and Google is hiring really mediocre people. All big corporations start hiring mediocre people sooner or later. Nothing wrong with that. It's just the way it is.
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by dgudkov 9y ago
Never flew Asian airlines, but among European ones the best food I typically find on flights with Air France.
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by dgudkov 9y ago
>it should at least do 50% of what facebook does It's a common mistake to attribute the success of Facebook to its features (it boils down to microblogging + threaded discussions). The usefulness (i.e. product from a marketing persp
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by dgudkov 9y ago
OK, factual data fed to some AI-based algorithms produces results that are not so politically correct as some people would like it to be. Is this a problem with the AI algorithms, or with the people?
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by dgudkov 9y ago
>I'd argue that the kid was entering through an open window of a public building. Given that he tried to sequentially download all possible documents by sequentially incrementing document ID in URL it's more like trying to open

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