ethbro

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by ethbro 7y ago
Could you drop me an email at username.co a t gmail with a way to get in touch? (With you or them) Can't guarantee it would be a fit -- the stuff I do is either incredibly interesting or incredibly boring to people, depending on their
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by ethbro 7y ago
Notepad is notepad because someone, god bless their soul, had the sense to put new features into a different app as Wordpad. In some terrible, dark dimension, Notepad has a ribbon interface and supports PDFs.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I don't think electric cars are the product: they're the consumer-funded demand.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Instead, he goes for 20th century tech and infrastructure that's proven to work and tries to squeeze every efficiency drop out of it. Ironically, this is Musk being more SoftBank than SoftBank. Given our current and near term te
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by ethbro 7y ago
Because farms are huge, and any given unit of area needs to be touched relatively infrequently.
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Diversification.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> lawyering up is the last course of action you want to take, as it tends to make issues more complicated, expensive and combative Not sure if the incentives are the same in the UK, but in the US, most lawyers retained in matters like
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by ethbro 7y ago
I would much more like to employ your children than ones which were taught to accept "Because."
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by ethbro 7y ago
Well said, comrade!
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by ethbro 7y ago
On the flip side, they're also going to bring ideas from $LANGUAGE_WE_DONT_USE_HERE. Short term vs long term optimization. Neither strictly better.
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by ethbro 7y ago
To people who only know how to write backend javascript, yes. I think companies underappreciate this. If your current tech team is focused on (insert any specific language / framework), then why are they going to like and hire anyone w
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I sat and watched a raven (majestic and BIG, if you've never seen one) at Yellowstone Park for a few minutes. It was a big parking lot outside the gift shop, and some visitor had parked his motorcycle there. Pannier bags on the back. T
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by ethbro 7y ago
... and after that Ozzy Osbourne's cats never brought him dead animals again. The end.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Big lies seem self-reinforcing, particularly in public companies. Or to put it another way, nobody is going to charge you with a crime for staying with the herd. That's a passive choice. But when there's a dissenting voice, sudden
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... Dinosaur eats man. Woman inherits cryptography.
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by ethbro 7y ago
This is the reply I was honestly hoping to get. I always felt like one of the UX blockers for key exchange was the assumption that people couldn't be expected to learn the basics, because it's too complicated. And every attempt to
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by ethbro 7y ago
> It's interesting that this list closely mirrors the precarious stages and situations in life that can often lead to homelessness. It also has direct knock-down effects. When everyone has a large (historically speaking) private h
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Education is supposed to be about learning just for the sake of learning, which benefits all of us. Does it? Human instructed education is a limited resource. Unlike self-directed or automated education, it doesn't scale without
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The person paying.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Passwords should be a thing that's integrated in your browser/computer experience... this is something that can and should be handled by computers. I had this crazy idea, whereby computers could themselves come up with very
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by ethbro 7y ago
In the individual case, some number of shares in the company is property of the shareholder. Perhaps more accurate would be to say they liquidate part of a company's wealth (the broader value of all assets owned by the company) into st
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by ethbro 7y ago
This is definitely the more cogent point, and I expect why the FBI et al. are harping on this point with their PR and legal efforts. In a world where my provider encrypts, the more ironclad self-incrimination protection does not apply. And
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by ethbro 7y ago
One of my weed out questions in programming interviews is to ask their opinion on Excel. Specifically, strengths and weaknesses. If they don't come up with at least one strength or spend the whole answer bashing it, that's an inst
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by ethbro 7y ago
"Macro-recorder on steroids" is a surprisingly tricky thing to do well. Think supporting 30+ years of different UI frameworks, over process variants that may be dissimilar (e.g. when code = 5, the "OK" button is actually
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by ethbro 7y ago
Obligatory RPA: GUI-based automation to mimic user interactions, leveraging existing application and web GUIs as an API to automate against. Not something I'd recommend to backend developers / data crews. But it's pretty awes
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This is an argument of nuances, but I would make the point that the design and software / firmware stages provide fundamentally different capabilities than manufacturing. You have entire industries around supply chain assurance, so
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Programmers drastically underestimate the amount of poor abstractions we've created. There's no reason someone should have to learn object oriented programming in order to be able to do 4 actions across 2 apps. Fundamentally, that
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That's still coding. The intent here is to build on a better, Excel-user-accessible set of abstractions. Which generally means: 1) Graphical IDE 2) Automation activities which map directly to their existing manual activities 3) High-le
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by ethbro 7y ago
The US NSA TAO implants are a bit different ball of wax. Fundamentally, they illustrate that the NSA (government) can't / won't ask Cisco (vendor) to directly install backdoors for them. So in many ways a validation that chec
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's not actually been accused, has it? The proposed rules are on the basis of hypothetical future spying capabilities. (Personally and technically, I don't think the ban is a terrible idea. Non-audited software, from a country

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