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by firebrand39 12y ago
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think Mr. Musk is baiting us.
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by firebrand39 12y ago
So it is much more a problem of AI getting into the wrong hands than AI itself. Which raises the prospect that it may get used prematurely and with weaknesses. This reduces very much the self perfection scenario completely without human int
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by firebrand39 12y ago
SSH is calling a shell. If it is bash and the vulnerability test is positive http://fedoramagazine.org/shellshock-how-does-it-actually-wo... then your VPS is vulnerable and you better patch it. To other posters. This vulner
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Bezos is finally overreaching.
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by firebrand39 12y ago
This is fabulous. It makes me speechless as to why this true and not surprising at all. My quick theory is that deep down we are social animals and a lot of our 'management' decisions stem from this part of us. Not from wanting to
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Why not eastern Europe. Budapest comes to mind. They do have a well educated tech work force. The politics may be inconvenient but its the EU after all. Cost is low and it is a real adventure :-) If anybody has a convincing idea, I'll
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by firebrand39 12y ago
True, and they have been surging again after the chinese government eased monetary conditions after the financial crisis in 2009 (remember). But to Xi Jinpings credit -and I do not think he is getting enough of it- he has pricked it. For th
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Very true. I think it is precisely the not-fitting in which makes cultural mixture very very productive. Or in other words, cultural homogeneity is stagnation and unproductive. Besides, did anybody realize how much chinese are contributing
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Well, in the first place I cannot. I take the thing as it is. This is the risk-taking part. But, I guess, that is why I have to move from correlation to causation or rather embed this one correlation into a broader context. Because it prote
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by firebrand39 12y ago
I have been privately lumping causation and correlation together for decades now. It freed my thinking. While the two are certainly different, it is also true that causation does not have the set-in-stoneness/invariability that is comm
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Just a very delightful quote from the link above: <quote>To me, however, a programmer is who I'm looking for, while a resume full of revenue increases and cost reductions sounds like an "anomalously high-cost parasite who ty
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Well, what if being a "Programmer/Analyst II" is precisely what you want? In my case it is absolutely true, both of it. For once, I would love to see those despisers of hands-on-technology honestly describe what they want for
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by firebrand39 12y ago
From 2011, this article is just the usual business trash talk. Contrary to the article, one does not succeed in business by adding value whichever way. Clearly, it is optimal adaptation to the organisational environment which counts, i.e. k
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Honestly, any manager who does not have a hands-on approach is a waste (20 years business/it experience). That said, there is what I call management-craftsmanship, i.e. knowing how the legal environment influences you, understanding ac
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Again (same article, same question) from a 2 weeks ago. Well, and then it is go from google, also known as golang.
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by firebrand39 12y ago
Well, you are right it reminded me of method overloading. Otherwise I think time will tell. In the end generics are just types with parameters, for creating typed permutations _at_compile_time_ of functions/maps etc.. And as you said,
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by firebrand39 12y ago
That's probably more a matter of taste. Go has a reflect package which allows the programmer to determine type at runtime, making generics unnecessary. It may not be as convenient and familiar as generics. Here is an example http:&#x
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by firebrand39 12y ago
go (golang, google language) is pretty cool too. They are pulling a lot of good things together from other languages (c++, java) but leave out the useless/once fashionable/error prone stuff. It even has pointers (which I like beca
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by firebrand39 13y ago
Kudos to this very, very good article. Let me add a couple of facets. - Walter Euckens 'ordoliberalism' which laid the foundation for the postwar German 'economic miracle' was a direct response to the chaos and ineptitude of Hitler's bureau
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by firebrand39 14y ago
How about math? Being a programmer helped my get up to speed on math. And there are so many wonderful resources out there. My advice, do not buy a textbook and try to kind of linearly take in math from a single author. Pick a topic and then
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When functions have no value(s): Delta functions and distributions(math.mit.edu)
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by firebrand39 14y ago
A very good thing is the minus sign in google search. It allows you to exclude keywords and sites. They should expand that. My searchbar gets very crowded at times.
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by firebrand39 14y ago
Coldtea has a point. 'Too big to fail' banks, coercive patent litigation and so on, indicates to me that 'free markets' are nothing but an ideological cover up for coercive powers in the hand of private actors instead of the state. That's n
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by firebrand39 14y ago
Glad that the fogbeam guy asked. Me always thought that Google was 'better' than, say, Microsoft and if google were to become just another 'evil' organisation, that would be troubling. So here is my take. The key word for me is organisation