drngdds

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by drngdds 8y ago
I mean, not really. You're already trusting software to decide how your car should steer (automatic lane keeping), brake (automatic emergency braking), and accelerate (adaptive cruise control).
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by drngdds 8y ago
>Interviewers kept on saying things like, "I managed to pick out enough of the right words that he probably answered me, but I wasn't sure." Did it ever occur to them to ask "Sorry, could you repeat that?" Someti
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by drngdds 8y ago
>Some guy who I have never heard of complaining about various things You just described 90% of the content on every social media platform
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by drngdds 8y ago
>Building a large government system, or something internal for a large company that will have heavy and pretty-well-quantified usage, and need to be maintainable? Hell yeah bazookas all the way down. Sure, but that's not a fly.
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by drngdds 8y ago
>Wouldn't it be technically illegal to discriminate against disabled without a bona fide reason? It's really easy to make up a reason. "Not a good culture fit" and so on.
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by drngdds 8y ago
I got about 2/3rds through this and I didn't like the lack of exercises or real example programs.
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by drngdds 8y ago
It would be a great idea if there was a good alternative in low population density areas.
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by drngdds 8y ago
>I know that housing is very expensive It is, but don't have to live in the city to work in the city. It's extremely common to live in cheaper areas near NYC and take public transportation for a 1-1.5 hour commute.
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by drngdds 8y ago
>You have no idea what precise benefits their work contributes to society. Can you inform us?
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by drngdds 8y ago
In a gaming chat app?
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by drngdds 8y ago
They also weirdly assume you have a 2BR on a single income, which is not the norm.
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by drngdds 8y ago
Not particularly. That's where the money is. It's the same as how a lot of brilliant math people go into quantitative finance.
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by drngdds 8y ago
It's convenient for people who already live in those places and want to be able to move between companies without totally uprooting, though.
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by drngdds 8y ago
"Just business" (aka profit maximization or capitalism) is frequently crooked and corrupt
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by drngdds 8y ago
Might be fine on a desktop but the ASCII art is illegibly small on my phone screen.
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by drngdds 8y ago
So is "Bush did 9/11" and "Hillary Clinton is a child rapist." Just like a infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters would eventually write the complete works of Shakespeare, a bunch of people making up unsubstantiat
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by drngdds 8y ago
Can they pay as much as Google and Goldman? No? Then no.
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by drngdds 8y ago
Sometimes what's really fulfilling in the long term isn't what's fun in short term. For example, practicing an instrument vs. playing a video game.
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by drngdds 8y ago
This version is blazing fast!
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by drngdds 8y ago
Searx seems like the best option in this space, since you can host your own instance and avoid having to trust anyone (except the developers, assuming you didn't audit the code yourself).
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by drngdds 8y ago
One of the many downsides of making all your computers like two millimeters thin.
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by drngdds 8y ago
Might be interesting if it was federated. Federation is AFAICT the only way to avoid network effects, which are why we're in this whole mess to begin with. (Many more people would have left Facebook after all the scandals if they could
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by drngdds 8y ago
"in naturalistic observational studies" You shouldn't remove something so relevant from the title.
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by drngdds 8y ago
With no snarkiness intended, why would I want to use this? Is it just for people who want an OS to contribute to for fun? The only features really mentioned are "it's not horrifically legacy" and "it's easy to contr
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by drngdds 8y ago
They're not all that great in the software field, either. 75% of them are just content marketing.
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by drngdds 8y ago
Literally any other blogging platform
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by drngdds 8y ago
Is there a legitimate reason why ICO-backed projects seem to need so much money before even making a working prototype? Don't startups normally have to have a basic product to show off before they get investors?
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by drngdds 8y ago
Yeah, Medium does that. It's annoying I wish people would stop using it.
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by drngdds 8y ago
DVD and Blu-ray both have DRM, though. I guess there's always VHS.
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by drngdds 8y ago
Isn't testing important even if you're not doing TDD? It's really helpful to be able to modify something and know whether you borked it automatically instead of hand-testing your whole big app.

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