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by gcanyon 2y ago
The prices they’re charging are not that far from where you could outsource to a human.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I can't say I predicted this, but this sort of thing is why I bought a kobo instead of a kindle. Of course, for all I know Rakuten is worse than Amazon on this issue, but so far so good...
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I don't code for a living. But I'm over 50 (ahem) and: 1. I still work in tech 2. I work at a startup 3. I write code daily as part of my job as a product manager 4. I love what I do and don't want to stop Just yesterday, I h
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Paraphrasing The Incredibles: when everything is an emergency, nothing is.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The advantage of working at startups (for me) is the fast-paced, open-goaled environment. I love the fact that a large part of my role at the company is shepherding two products that literally didn't exist four months ago, and which ar
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That is exciting news. I will check out Scripton in greater depth, and with the right set of interface widgets I would be in the heart of your target market.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I love jokes like that. There's the one where a statistician goes hunting with a friend, and the friend shoots to the left of a target, then to the right, and the statistician excitedly cries, "Got 'em!"
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by gcanyon 2y ago
But as I said, if programs are of infinite length, then a diagonalization argument proves the computable numbers not to be countable I think.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This video parallels the article, going further. I love the tag line, "We know none of the numbers." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkIe60y2GI
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Wait, the number of programs is countable? Are we saying that programs must be of finite length? (because if not a diagonal approach would prove them to be uncountable)
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Those are some sad numbers.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
re: 2: yep, I see that comment now...
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Referring to the fact that they were apparently taking more returns than sales by the end. So not negative in total, but over a given timeframe. (hence: "by the end")
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This looks really nice! I currently use LiveCode (which isn't Python-based) for my daily "I have a bunch of data I'm looking to filter/transform/clean up" tasks. I'm always on the lookout for a similar too
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> perpetual fallback license Are you sure this isn't what Scripton is offering? From the pricing page: > All updates included while subscription is active That doesn't preclude the idea that what stops when your subscription
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by gcanyon 2y ago
$116 million is a pretty nice payday for a product that never remotely lived up to the hype and had, by the end, negative numbers of customers.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
It doesn't break my brain that there's a rational between any two reals; it breaks my brain that this doesn't imply equivalent sizes between the reals and the rationals.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This one always breaks my brain, or at least my intuition. I understand that the reals infinitely outnumber the rationals, and the diagonal proof makes perfect sense to me. But the "between two reals there is always a rational" ju
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Most of the scrum projects I've worked on have been for mass internet users, where feedback came in the form of AB test results. Our current scrum process includes close review with customers, albeit not on a strict two-week/sprin
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by gcanyon 2y ago
On this project we're presenting to users two to three times a week -- not to the same user, the most frequently that we demo to a single user is about every two weeks, but there are a few we exchange notes with weekly.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
In addition to the roughly standard 2-week scrum teams I work with, I am also working on launching a from-scratch project with two developers, and our process is roughly: 1. I keep a backlog of new features that are needed. 2. The backlog
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> Better keep that pressure chamber leakproof for 1000 years It seems highly unlikely that even 100 years from now we'll be net positive on CO2 release into the atmosphere. Renewables are a thing, and we're making significant p
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I pity you for the biopsies you must (have) undergo(ne). Don't ask me how I know to say that.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Totally agreed, 30% would be an awesome improvement if true and cost effective, I'm just grousing about the term "self-healing".
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> the world's best selling car two years in a row cite?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> but I own a Tesla and I have the opposite experience. Everything worked out of the box. To paraphrase Chris Rock: should we give Tesla a cookie? "Everything worked out of the box" is what's supposed to happen.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
"10^17 seconds ago..."
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by gcanyon 2y ago
"They estimate it could prolong the lifespan of roads by 30 per cent." In my book that barely qualifies as "self-healing." It's a useful addition, and if it's cost-effective it's worth doing, but self-he
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Google DeepMind Conquered Stratego and Why No One Knows How It Did It [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gcanyon 2y ago|1 comments
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I specifically said "non-legal" -- to be clear, I didn't mean (il)legal advice: I know you can't do that. But (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice) it seems like you could track/present success metrics of va

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