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...and in games, you actually want smoke and mirrors: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/shouldn-t-our-enemies-b... If you really had hard and strong AI, a lot of games certainly wouldn't be as much fun t
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Cryptomnesia(en.wikipedia.org)
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I don't need to have faith, I have a smart contract for that.
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JustWatch | Backend, Frontend & System Engineers | Berlin, Germany | INTERNS, VISA, ONSITE, https://www.justwatch.com/us/talent We're always looking for hungry & curious engineers (from INTERN to senior le
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Looks like Putin's winning strategy was an American export. How ironic indeed.
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Not only that, but like the "War on Drugs" is doomed to fail, so is the "war on Ads" - or any other market in which there is significant demand. Companies need to advertise. If they don't sell their products, they
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Typed nils in Go 2(dave.cheney.net)
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After the unfortunate news from NPM today, I'm hoping Diesel doesn't come with a built-in defeat device... /s
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke 'nuff said. Every brand that has a large enough following will run into pitchforks for large redesigns - a lot of people are fans for something . If you want to do this su
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Is there any reported upside to storing that information in the blockchain instead of a stupid old database - except for guaranteeing funding for that project due to the hype? I mean really - Blockchain is the new MongoDB... I haven't
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899 days ago - Show HN: JustWatch – Choose your favorite streaming providers and see what’s new By now largest streaming search engine in the world at Alexa/Similarweb Top ~#4700 global with around 12 million unique visits per month. N
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It's pretty much the same issue as with FizzBuzz: You'd be completely shocked at the insane ratio of people passing already the very basic smoke tests of good due diligence.
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Guess what: they did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8756683 They just weren't ready to make any of the significant tradeoffs other languages have to do in order to support them. Whether that's a good outcom
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by endymi0n 9y ago
"Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity" -- Clay Shirky The root problem is that while process is usually something that's quickly thrown onto the pile, there's rarely any companies that continuously revisit
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This is how Big Oil will die(shift.newco.co)
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JustWatch | Backend, Frontend & System Engineers | Berlin, Germany | INTERNS, VISA, ONSITE, https://www.justwatch.com/us/talent We're always looking for hungry & curious engineers (from INTERN to senior le
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Lifelong sufferer of impostor syndrome here (after having failed university), now Cofounder & CTO of a pretty successful Series B startup: 1. Work together with awesome people who can reflect you. Now that I'm working together with
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Also, while queuing systems are preferrable to a database for some of the properties mentioned by GP, they break down for some use cases. For example, for one operation, we needed a time based priority queue that deduplicates on some attrib
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This. For about the cost of a NASA rocket testing facility that wasn't even used once [1], these guys built and flew not just the first fully private rocket ever but also an upgraded one that's competitive to the largest launchers
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Sounds what you get if you sell what essentially are sovereign duties of a state to the highest bidder: An extremely lucrative system of modern-day slaves that have to shell out their hard earned below-market dollars to a rigged monopoly sy
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Money Quote: > When contacted by Microsoft, Intel said the PLATINUM group wasn't using any vulnerability in the Intel AMT SOL interface, but this was another classic case of bad guys using a technology developed for legitimate purpo
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JustWatch | Backend, Frontend & System Engineers | Berlin, Germany | INTERNS, VISA, ONSITE, https://www.justwatch.com/us/talent We're always looking for hungry & curious engineers (from INTERN to senior le
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Well, you can be divided at the high level of individualism in the US - but even if you're not believing that everybody deserves a minimum standard of living, the belief that everybody should have a decent chance at it if you just wo
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I'm sorry to be the party pooper here, but... Signal was intercepted: http://heavy.com/tech/2017/03/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-bypasses... My favorite most depressing take on this by Peter Gutmann - "Cry
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I think the most dangerous thing is that what Snowden predicted actually happened by now. After all the revelations, nobody is interested anymore. There's this general fatigue and powerlessness that leads to a feeling of "well, ye
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Really interesting, adds some good tools to the chest - especially the flame graphs nicely put things into perspective. It's usually amazing how much more you can squeeze out of your database if you just take a deep look inside. Often
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There's an easy way to accomplish this: Commit yourself to 95% reading of code and 5% writing. Through great code reviews, spread your knowledge through the company and make others as good as you. Has the added benefit of making the st
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I guess I remember 9.3 -> 9.4 on RDS sucked big time for us (no migration option whatsoever except pg_dump/pg_restore), but since 9.4 they had it pretty much nailed. Update worked flawlessly during the small failover maintenance win
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What an incredibly deep and well written story. I did not know or appreciate that the author Alex Tizon died a few hours before publication - and this piece was his Faustus, the one personal story he struggled for years to write. https:&#x
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In the end, that's what killed JS in the backend for me for anything nontrivial that needs decent performance. It gets you with things like "with its JIT, your code might end up runnning faster than C" - and while that's

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