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by exelius 7y ago
RPA does eliminate workers. Modern RPA isn’t just “write a screen scraper and never think about it again” — you use BAs and line workers to (cheaply) build out a bunch of RPA integrations, see which ones are the most popular / valuable
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by exelius 7y ago
I agree that open-plan offices drive the opposite behavior than they are touted to. They make it impossible to have impromptu discussions that have any sensitive aspect to them. I have a lot of those conversations. I work from home or a cof
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by exelius 7y ago
Yeah, exactly things like that. The SaaS marketplace became so crowded that companies sought out a wide range of differentiated niches and automated a lot of specific use cases.
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by exelius 7y ago
Not at all. The discovery problem is too hard. College degrees from elite schools only work because they’re elite and people can remember a small number of “good” schools relatively consistently. If I want to hire someone, how can I tell th
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by exelius 7y ago
I mean, if I could tell you that I would use it to predict the stock market so I wouldn’t need a job. Of course, the fact that the smartest people in the world do exactly that is in itself part of the problem...
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by exelius 7y ago
The change I see happening now is that many of the jobs people are hoping to “skill up” to are themselves being automated out of existence. A combination of targeted AI and good old-fashioned process automation are going to put a lot of w
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by exelius 7y ago
Yeah; I suspect the core of the problem is that too many software developers fancy themselves business analysts while too many business analysts start to cower in fear whenever you suggest they check something in to GitHub.
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by exelius 7y ago
Yeah, exactly. I have more than one (female) Orthodox friend and they’re constantly having to stand up to elders within their own communities for respect. The older generations still believe women shouldn’t work.
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by exelius 7y ago
It’s pretty clear the author is Orthodox, so this is within her community. That said, many forms of Orthodox Judaism aren’t far off from what we would call “radical Islam” when it comes to their views on women (they don’t wear an abaya, but
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by exelius 7y ago
> A silver lining in this cloud is that "normies" don't really think this way, it's just the media. I’ve come to believe that one of the core problems of journalism today is Twitter. It provides a false narrative as t
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by exelius 7y ago
But like, if you were more passionate about your job, it would be more rewarding! Maybe not monetarily; but think of all the interesting people you get to talk to as an Uber driver!
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by exelius 7y ago
So... it’s really hard to get the physical leverage to actually cut your food while laying down in bed — especially with your arms tied down by IVs, monitoring devices, etc. It’s a really awkward position. Which brings me to my pet peeve as
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by exelius 7y ago
Or the resurgence of Evangelical Christian mysticism as a political force in America...
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by exelius 7y ago
> And why would this be particularly bad for DevOps? Are DevOps programmers worse and/or more easily confused? DevOps is all about consistency and readability... neither of which are strong points of Perl. Perl was the de-facto cros
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by exelius 7y ago
I have a special place in my heart for Perl5, but I would never use it for anything DevOps related... Perl’s motto is “there’s always another way to write it” — and that’s the exact opposite of what you want in a DevOps environment :) Oh ye
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by exelius 8y ago
By the same token, if you normalize failure in a structure that large, it’s hard to get anything done. It’s more enriching to get paid to fail 5 times than it is to do the thing once successfully. Failure is great when there is oversight an
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by exelius 8y ago
The procurement process for the government is broken because our political system is broken. You need deep pockets and political connections. This is actually Elon Musk’s greatest triumph; almost all of his post-PayPal businesses are based
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by exelius 8y ago
That whole math sequence was part of my MBA program that culminated in Markov chains for synthetic options pricing after like, 9 months. And this is for business school students; not engineers :)
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by exelius 8y ago
So put some telescopes in orbit around the Moon and Mars.
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by exelius 8y ago
That type of roaming actually ends up breaking a lot of WiFi implementations — it’s really only super useful for WiFi VoIP phones. I worked with a vendor (Bandspeed) doing that kind of WiFi roaming back in 2005, so it’s not remotely a new c
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by exelius 8y ago
I do this kind of work! I don’t know at Google, but typically there will be some amount of third-party due diligence for deals over a certain size / risk profile. Some companies have an internal strategic deals group; which I would ass
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by exelius 8y ago
Ferrets absolutely love running through tight tunnels! I’ve heard stories (maybe apocryphal?) that ferrets are/were used to run pull cord in long underground fiber conduit runs.
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by exelius 8y ago
Yup; this is why VPN over HTTPS is a thing.
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by exelius 8y ago
This tech is just now making it into military aircraft in the F-35 (it’s designed to compensate for failures or combat damage while keeping the plane’s handling relatively consistent), so I would guess it’ll be a while before we see a civ
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by exelius 8y ago
I think it’s about them misleading the advertisers; which is actually fraud. I know a guy who bought 50k followers for a few hundred bucks and uses it to get free shit when he travels. I seriously doubt he’s the only one doing this.
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by exelius 8y ago
> I think the question of how to safely analyze suspect USB devices, at the level of potential nation-state actors, needs a lot more consideration and probably some custom tooling. I would be absolutely shocked if the US’ three letter ag
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by exelius 8y ago
Yes; however many of the early philosophers are incredibly verbose in their arguments and you can learn a lot from a 2-page summary of a 50-page essay. Once you get to Nietzsche, the readings actually started to get interesting and I found
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by exelius 8y ago
I have a philosophy degree, and I believe it’s a big part of why I’ve been successful in technology. It taught me to think in patterns and layers upon layers of abstraction; while giving me general-purpose tools that can be applied to probl
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by exelius 8y ago
Pretty sure Trump would be all too happy to send some “freedom fireworks” to SA if it preserves the petro-dollar. The only reason we’re allies with them is because we need a major Islamic power in our corner to provide a counter-balance to
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s changing pretty quickly at big companies; most of my friends are in a similar position. If you’re already working on a global team, it doesn’t matter much where you sit.

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