doug_durham

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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   I’m in your same demographic. However I see these technologies as career extenders, not career threats. I can learn things faster than ever and adapt to changes more easily.
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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   I don't share your cynicism. If ChatGPT became pay-only, I'd start paying for it. It has revolutionized how I learn technical topics. Millions of others find it similarly useful. Crypto never had a technically valid use case, t
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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   I agree. It seems like the target audience is the experienced Deep learning practitioner. Which makes me wonder why such an audience would need this treatment. Why not just read the original paper?
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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   Citations please?
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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   Citations please? That's a pretty bold statement to make in the face of observed reality.
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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   All over the news. There are tons of high quality, high resolution photos of the balloon.
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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   I think there are a couple of nuggets of useful information in this article, but most of it is asking more a more developer friendly future, not a user centered future. The reason there are apps to control your keyboard color is that'
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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   Wow this guy has bad luck. I simply don't have any of the problems he mentions. Stuff rarely breaks. I'm sure that his 70 year old juicer draws about 5 amps, and isn't grounded.
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   by doug_durham 4y ago

   It's rare that I see a posting which I disagree with virtually every statement made. It seems like the author is trying to cram the world into a "one size fits all" dystopia of their own design. I don't want a large hi
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    by doug_durham 4y ago

    I have one word for you "Usenet".
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    by doug_durham 4y ago

    Absolutely learn the patterns. You will encounter places to use them. The book isn't an instruction book on how to write software. It is a "here are some useful patterns the occur occasionally during development". Having
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    by doug_durham 4y ago

    I missed a big change in my list which is the Internet. We were using the internet in 1992. I remember FTP'ing source code from machines in Finland from here in Silicon Valley. I knew it was going to change the world. Ubiquitous netw
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    by doug_durham 4y ago

    Effective C++ was an amazing book. I bought copies for the entire team out of my own pocket. The Gang of Four on the other hand was an unfortunate turn for the industry. As you say we took it too seriously. In practice very few projects
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    by doug_durham 4y ago

    It was very process heavy in my experience. Because of the available technology development was slow and costly, so the thought was to put a lot of process around development to minimize the chances of projects going off the rails. We were
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    by doug_durham 9y ago

    Apple | Web Application Developer (Ruby on Rails) | Cupertino, CA | Full Time | Onsite We are the SWE Data Analytics Team at Apple. We originate, collect, process, and analyze diagnostics and usage data from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple
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    by doug_durham 9y ago

    Apple | Web Application Developer (Ruby on Rails) | Cupertino, CA | Full Time | Onsite We are the SWE Data Analytics Team at Apple. We originate, collect, process, and analyze diagnostics and usage data from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Appl