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by dqpb 4y ago
I’m very interested to hear what you spend your time working on.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Maybe it’s just the news I’m fed, but I have an unshakeable feeling that China is waging war with “the west”, but they’re doing it discretely, by making everyone a little sicker.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> Perhaps we should organize a national poll against social media. Including HN?
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by dqpb 4y ago
If you’re a futurist, and want to live on the frontier, San Francisco is still 10 years ahead of every other American city. Unfortunately, it appears that the future is an over-taxed, shit littered, drug infested hellscape.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Lol. Next time someone criticizes an idea of mine, I'll try responding with: "Easy, we'll just use airships."
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by dqpb 4y ago
I really like this video by Juergen Schmidhuber: https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg He makes the case that we’ll approach technological singularity (Omega) around 2040 (as do many other tech profits). I like to contrast this with
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by dqpb 4y ago
I think this is one of those things that need to be evaluated retrospectively. How “key” is anyone when their project is yet to be successful?
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by dqpb 4y ago
> widely respected Except he failed to achieve what he claimed he could.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I don't understand why you would sell for that amount.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Unlike all those other companies who are totally fine with low performers?
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by dqpb 4y ago
> “get inside” and “stay tuned.” Ok, but is it like that time when Chris Christie shut down the beach, and then took his family there for a private vacation? Like, is this just to get all the people out of the way so the elites can get t
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by dqpb 4y ago
This reminds me of the pseudo science of new age “sacred geometry”
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by dqpb 4y ago
> results in the customer understanding that they're crossing a boundary of sorts here I think you're looking at this the wrong way. If the customer / manager want to get into the weeds with you, you should let them. Infor
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by dqpb 4y ago
This is not for people who work for a living. It’s also probably not for people who gained their fortune via their own intelligence.
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by dqpb 4y ago
They’re headquartered in Beijing.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> TikTok is technically not a Chinese company I guess the economist has it wrong then: > As the first consumer-facing app from China to take off in the West, TikTok is a source of pride in Beijing. But the app’s Chinese ownership make
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by dqpb 4y ago
Besides which, it’s routine for China to rip off and ban foreign businesses.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Are there any category of workplace issues that do not decrease productivity and morale?
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by dqpb 4y ago
> illegally acquired stock Illegal how?
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by dqpb 4y ago
> It reads like a hit piece There’s nothing wrong with a hit piece if it’s factual
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by dqpb 4y ago
Silvio Micali (MIT professor and Turing award winner) describes a PoS implementation which addresses all the concerns in this thread: https://youtu.be/NykZ-ZSKkxM
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by dqpb 4y ago
I don’t see why TDD would kill the creative spark, but I do think “Agile” development does.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> Far fewer than 1% of Clojure users are our consulting or product customers, and thus contributing to our livelihood. Ouch, he just said 99% of the community is worthless to him. Fame requires fans. If every non-paying user stopped usin
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by dqpb 4y ago
> Backend development hasn't tended to require this - you query information, perhaps you transform it, you return it. Maybe the backend of a crud app is fundamentally simpler than a user-facing UI.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Maybe founders should stipulate that if the project ever gets discontinued, they get all rights back to the original product.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> The flipside to starting much later is that kids will be exiting schools later Or they could just give that time back. Maybe things have changed, but back when I was in school, almost every class was a waste of time.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I wish this wasn't so focused on PlusCal
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by dqpb 4y ago
I actually don’t mind rude belligerent people if their opinion is novel. But I can’t stand them if their opinion is typical.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Fyi: I’m upvoting any post that lists the salary and downvoting any post that doesn’t
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by dqpb 4y ago
> I don't think LaMDA (or any other AI) is conscious or sentient. Neither do I, but it would be easy to blur the line more than they have. Make it stateful, tick it at 30fps, and give it access to a persistent environment it can obs

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