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by euske 9y ago
I tend to think of politics as resource arbitration. Say, you have limited resources (as we all do) and there are too many contenders who want to settle this without resorting to any sort of violence, then you need pretty much politics. Tec
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by euske 9y ago
> Here's an idea. Make companies pay extra compensation if employees work overtime. I guarantee you companies will be literally pushing their employees out the door at 6 PM then. Most companies already do pay extra compensation for
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by euske 9y ago
The story is doubly sad because a) the family often couldn't prevent their children's death, and b) the companies don't want to admit how bad Japanese productivity is and keep resisting the changes.
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by euske 9y ago
This theme of slow technological advancement echos with a recent NPR podcast. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/19/529178937/episo... Basically they say that productivity growth is spor
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by euske 9y ago
Here's my pet theory: when I try to put myself into an average high school student's shoes, they're already surrounded by all the CS achievements today; namely, video games and smartphones and Facebooks. They're exposed
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by euske 9y ago
Back in 90s, some Japanese manufacturers (e.g. Panasonic) tried to sell AI-based home appliances such as rice cookers or washing machines. The buzzword then was "Fuzzy Logic" instead of NN. Don't know how successful they were
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by euske 9y ago
They have made Red Flag Linux back in the days, which was possibly based on Red Hat, which I found amusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
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by euske 9y ago
I think this argument is misleading because we're not guaranteed to find this "equilibrium" in a reasonable amount of time. Think this of as a machine learning problem. The market is trying to get the global optimal point. I&
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by euske 9y ago
This is why there's York and Zach in Deadly Premonition!
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by euske 9y ago
"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." -- Vladimir Nabokov I feel like I was born as a rebel.
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by euske 9y ago
This is pretty laughable. To me, almost every Western country is half-broken. When I lived in the US, I was surprised how frequent power faults were there. Streets are full of bumps and corroded pipes were everywhere. And in Europe. Do they
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by euske 9y ago
Everyone is talking about the hardware cost, but people seem to have forgotten the software cost, which will have a much bigger impact to the industry overall. Yes, there will be a few great VR apps and games that actually add to the experi
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Living by the Girl Scout Law, Even Without a Home(nytimes.com)
34 points by euske 10y ago|0 comments
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by euske 10y ago
I was always saying that the Google motto is not "do no evil", but "do evil so thin that nobody can notice or can speak up and be taken seriously." But that tiniest evil is multiplied by billions, with the power of autom
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by euske 10y ago
There's a recent NPR podcast interviewing John Zimmer, one of the Lyft founders: http://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this Sounded like he's a pretty straight person. I liked it.
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by euske 10y ago
One thing I'd add to these principles: I always emphasize when I teach programming that there's no magic. There's always a reason behind everything and regular folks like you can understand it. There are people (even among te
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by euske 10y ago
I think that the root of this goes back all the way to Zen-type of thinking. In Zen, it's often taught that mind is elusive/delusive and action matters. "Mindlessness (mu-shin)" is often thought of the best way of carryi
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by euske 10y ago
Watching a discussion like this really make me wonder this: what is a module, anyway? There are obviously varying aspects of modularity, such as: * different code locations (e.g. functions) * different namespaces (e.g. libraries / Pyth
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by euske 10y ago
When I hear things like this, I always think of Richard Feynman. He was simply a distilling genius to me.
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by euske 10y ago
I found the concept of unit testing useful even when you don't actually write test code . Just thinking of making your code testable will already make it better, because you start caring about the clarification of specs and separation
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by euske 10y ago
I graduated one of the top schools in Japan and went to the US to get a PhD. (But somehow I got patriotic and came back to Japan after that, don't judge me.) In many ways, Japan feels like a gridlocked country. And people (especially y
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by euske 10y ago
I personally agree with you, but this sounds like a typical "get big or get out" argument. There could be some middle grounds.
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by euske 10y ago
Just food for thoughts: Software is like buildings. So, an analogy that I drew from this story is that in future it might be illegal to make your own software and let some others use it. I can imagine that you'd have to pass some sort
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by euske 10y ago
I tend to think that these xkcd URLs are becoming like bible verses for geeks. I find myself memorizing those numbers. (e.g. "Ugh, he's getting like xkcd/386 again.")
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by euske 10y ago
I have a hard time understanding why even technical people use the term "AI" today. Its use should be limited to sensational media and cheesy sci-fi. It's roughly equivalent to saying "computery thingamabob". I woul
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How Snowden Escaped from Hong Kong with Help by Poor People(news.nationalpost.com)
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by euske 10y ago
This is a good opportunity so I'm gonna post what I, a native-born Japanese, have been always thinking: This country is literally shaped by earthquakes. This is true not only in a geological sense but it also applies to the culture. Ea
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by euske 10y ago
I've read that NHK news presenters are also trained to use emotional language/tone in this kind of emergency, so that people would pay a better attention. There was a significant revision of emergency response in Japan in the past
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by euske 10y ago
Tsunami alerts/forecasts: http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/tsunami/ They should really provide an English version of this page. Come on, Yahoo Japan.
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by euske 10y ago
"In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable. " This sounds such a short-sighted argument. Do people greet others because they expect some sort

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