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by ewjordan 9y ago
> And the rate of growth really climbed after the middle of the 20th century, when the expansion of basic education became a global priority. You can read more about the expansion of education systems around the world in our entry on Fin
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Forcing all children to go to school has been an answer for a few generations now, and even with the crappy imperfect education system that we have, it's paid off immensely. I'm merely suggesting that tech is now important enough
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Except in the cases where it does work astoundingly well to solve issues that would have been labeled cultural before they were improved, like raising literacy rates across all races (achieved by massively increasing investment in educati
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by ewjordan 9y ago
One obvious step is that we need to do what we do in every other subject: force all children to learn enough tech to figure out whether they are good at it or not by making it a required class. When schools do that, they find that tons of g
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Probably the same way everyone does, by pulling it out of thin air as a guess. When nobody even knows what theoretical breakthroughs are necessary, you'll always end up with a scattershot all over the place, even amongst experts. Try a
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by ewjordan 9y ago
All of that seems to argue pretty strongly in favor of calling it "emotional labor" - caretaking involves a serious trade-off where the caretaker is expending a lot of emotional energy to do work for someone else. Much like physic
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by ewjordan 9y ago
The article explicitly notes, though, that most excellent programmers were also excellent communicators. Effective communication doesn't necessarily mean you talk a lot or are extroverted. It means that you say things that matter when
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by ewjordan 9y ago
It's often not even an explicit choice, it's just default behavior. Up until recently, Rails defaulted to 32 bit IDs, so there are a ton of apps out there that could have these issues, especially since Rails has always prided it
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by ewjordan 9y ago
By making your email something custom instead of @gmail, you're spending some energy, time, and money to protect against a perceived threat. I guess my real question is, what exactly is that threat, how damaging is it, and how likely i
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by ewjordan 9y ago
The reality is pretty simple, though: a lot of people making decisions like this will look at their career options when they graduate and have to face the real world, struggle for a while, then realize that they're more than qualified
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by ewjordan 9y ago
You're pointing out an important difference: firing because of experience/performance vs firing because of behavior. Being a bit naive, making mistakes, and needing ramp-up time is to be expected, especially from a junior hire. Yo
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While maybe it shouldn't be a strong signal, showing up for a tech interview in a suit is kinda like showing up for a finance interview in jeans and a hoodie. It indicates that you're either unfamiliar with the norms in the indust
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Let's be accurate about that quote, though - that Vox article itself says that a lot of what goes into IQ is heritable, and comes through DNA. "No genes for IQ" is better interpreted as a statement that it's not just
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by ewjordan 9y ago
It's at least potentially valid to suggest that charging the same rate for SSL overhead as for normal traffic is maybe not the best system, though, since I'm assuming that the overhead does not affect load on the value-adding serv
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I suspect that you already know the answer here: better !== better for everybody, and worse for you !== worse for everybody. A lot of people even think that "more expensive for most" still qualifies as "better" as long a
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by ewjordan 10y ago
According to the complaint, this was part of the contract: 52. The Uber Defendants and Plaintiff and the other Class Members had a contractual agreement regarding the collection, receipt, and payment to drivers of the fares paid by
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by ewjordan 10y ago
If you tie the frame rate to the physics step, then yes - that will be true for pretty much any physics engine. The classic advice here is http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
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by ewjordan 10y ago
I think theoretically you're correct that the methods underlying Box2d could be used in such a way, but practically I don't think it's there, as that was never one of the engine's goals. Read up on the methods used (for
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by ewjordan 10y ago
Box2d's continuous physics does not allow for a tickless simulation as I understand the term, because continuous interactions (stacking, sliding, rolling, etc.) are not reduced to discrete time-of-impact calculations. Joints are also i
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by ewjordan 10y ago
To reuse a point brought up quite often in this context, making predictions about when and if AGI might arrive based on extrapolations of current technological trends is like trying to predict when the atom bomb would have been created base
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by ewjordan 10y ago
> I'd like to see more books about how people actually argue in life and how to change their view. Rule #0 for changing someone's view is that they have to actually be open to changing their view. It's surprisingly common
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> and often take more than minimal effort to dispute This is where all ability to have a rational discussion breaks down in many cases, especially when people care a lot about their initial opinions. Take an issue like evolution. You s
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Is your claim that the pipeline is not completely fugged? Because there are very clear numbers indicating that it is, starting very early, at the K-12 level. Or is it merely that the pipeline being fugged doesn't mean that everythi
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And every person that tells you that there won't be any jobs after AI passes a threshold has already considered your railroad question, and decided that for various reasons the AI shift is different. There's a big difference betwe
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You're right that they're not conflating the phenomena, but to say that two events are only simultaneous if they're on the light cone is still incorrect - that's the boundary of the region of simultaneity, whereas the
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You'll have freedom to do the things that are fashionable in your field which you are qualified to research and are popular in your department. That's very different from "what you want to pursue" in many cases. If those
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by ewjordan 10y ago
That "quantum leap in battery chemistry" is obviously physically possible, given that animals exist...
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Firing gets rid of the worst. Hiring, at least in theory, pulls in the best. Healthy companies at scale and size equilibrium should be doing both at roughly the same rate, averaged over time.
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And when you're actually taking games to market, all that non-game code makes up a huge percentage of the development cost. It's highly predictable code that most game devs have done many times before (which is why I always argue
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Except that if I'm hiring someone to build my house, if they tell me "well, I can guarantee you that we'll prioritize iteratively and get it done as fast as possible" I'd tell them to piss off, I can't throw go

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