donmatito

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by donmatito 7y ago
My framework to think through technical debt: I don't think of it as debt (negatively connoted) but business investment. When you take a debt it's usually to finance something. Focusing the wording on debt highlights the negative
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by donmatito 7y ago
I wonder if they are going to address potential limitations to their systems (bad weather, snow etc). Their tech seems absolutely impressive but I suppose there will always be failure. Does the system fail "gracefully" ?
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by donmatito 8y ago
Total War Warhammer is a very interesting case for that. Many, many races, units, items etc. Much more than Starcraft. And yet the balancing seems quite good! There are obviously tier1, tier2, tier3 races, but even these tiers are disputed
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by donmatito 8y ago
Ok now are we getting DeepMind vs OpenAI competition ?
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by donmatito 8y ago
Dimensional analysis and soft matter physics always make for interesting and very readable papers. What I like the most in this field, is the connection between mundane observations (crumbling paper, tearing scotch tape, pouring shampoo vs
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by donmatito 8y ago
very good answer ! (ok_hand emoji, 100 emoji)
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by donmatito 8y ago
Your case is somewhat particular (and is a very good thing to do). Because you have a log of past events, your memory processes can match against a reference and filter out deviations. Most people don't have such an external log/r
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by donmatito 8y ago
An Amazon-published book, winning a prize, pisses the "traditional book industry" A Netflix-produced movie, winning a prize, pisses the "traditional movie industry" In both case, these are syptoms of tectonic shifts in t
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by donmatito 8y ago
I think you did good but employability is crazy good in computer science. Not sure how much is applicable in other fields. Apprenticeship can work in other engineering fields (at least it does in Germany, for cultural reasons), perhaps a fe
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by donmatito 8y ago
I don't deny that Taleb brings some great insights, but specifically to the phenomenon you describe, a more relevant book could be Kahneman "Thinking, fast and slow". The "gut feeling" is framed as the result of exp
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by donmatito 8y ago
I think parent's point was that with JSON you are, in most langages, a JSON.parse(payload) away from a message protocol. I am interfacing our startup's services with legacy (insurers) systems. We don't use the same programmin
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by donmatito 8y ago
Or, "worse is better"
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Being good at 2 things is better than excellent at 1(dev.to)
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by donmatito 8y ago
Random-play Monte-Carlo was the first algorithm that lead to good computer Go software, before neural network. It was around 2008 I think. Before that, pattern-base algos were really, really bad (like, barely above human beginner level). I&
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by donmatito 8y ago
I am not a designer but THIS IS SO AWESOME
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by donmatito 8y ago
Yes I had, but I forgot about it, thanks. Much better than HN own implentation. Algolia also implemented a linkedin contact search infinitely superior to Linkedin own search. I remember thinking that both demos were really brilliant growth
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by donmatito 8y ago
Every time I need to use Algolia in a project, there is this sense of "wow". It's such a magical feeling. Every single time.
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by donmatito 8y ago
The HN search implentation is a bit sad, because it lacks the most magic part of Algolia : the real time search. Using Algolia in a full-page-load HTML request is using a Ferrari do drive to the grocery store. You can, but what a waste
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by donmatito 8y ago
I have been blessed that the last 3 projects I worked on (roughly past 3 years) were the most rewarding of my professional life. - a simple hack to connect two Slack teams, just to learn the Slack API, turned into my first solo project to g
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by donmatito 8y ago
Piecemeal batch production to continuous roll-to-roll production is most definitely a step change. Continuous production allows for mass production, quality monitoring, and progressively increase in width, in a way that is not possible with
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by donmatito 9y ago
Isn't it the temperature needed for enzymes to properly work their metabolic magic (1) temperature helps reaction rates 2) enzymes need a certain temperature to maintain their shapes)
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by donmatito 9y ago
That's a problem earn.com could have solved, but unfortunately only ICO promoters ended up using the platform, I think
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by donmatito 9y ago
Thank you for expressing all this much better than I could
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by donmatito 9y ago
would the 3rd-party database be natively open to 4rth party apps, like an open API ? Given that no third-party actor has offered a tracability solution from source to consumer (the only one that comes to my mind is the beef tracability in E
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by donmatito 9y ago
these are very good additional points, thank you
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by donmatito 9y ago
Sorry, I replied somewhere else, I don't feel like copypasting, but roughly the blockchain would not prevent false declaration. It would 1) considerably simplify the non-fraudulent papertrail 2) provide an auditable record for investig
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by donmatito 9y ago
how about scanning a barcode or a RFID reader ? This information is already read and stored in ERP. Is it such a technological step to imagine a RFID reader or an ERP module that would write the information in a blockchain? I don't see
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by donmatito 9y ago
I agree, that's the issue. I suppose it will depend on the application need, and the criticality. If you need to prove that life-saving drugs have been kept at the correct temperature throughout their shelf-life, you can probably affor
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by donmatito 9y ago
Because you have sent them a purchase order and they have sent you a truckload of parts that you ordered? I'm sorry I don't understand the objection here
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by donmatito 9y ago
I know that, but I don't understand why it is seen as such a roadblock. A supplier would add its tag on thousands of parts each day, which would find their way into thousands of products and thousands of end-consumers each day. The sup

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