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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Fermi problems come up all the time in computing Hm. I've never faced any such problem. But then, I do uninteresting stuff like deciphering horribly documented APIs and writing desktop software. If I go into an interview for a desktop s
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Did you ever think that I was there and might have taken note of such a thing? There's a difference between "I don't eat meat" and "I don't like corned beef." Do you ever give people the benefit of the doubt, or do you always exploit omis
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
And there are some people who are perfectly well socialized who are also sexist jerks. Okay. I maintain that in the tech community , it's horrible social skills that's driving the majority of what appears to be gender bias, sexual haras
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I don't think anyone, with good or bad social skills, should have to deal with this crap. Of course not, and I didn't want to give any impression that my statement endorsed the behavior. Rather, I think that it might be more productive to
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
In SF, I witnessed the classic: guy offers sandwich to 'hungry' homeless guy. Homeless guy responds, "what kind is it?" Apparently, beggars can be choosers.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I think this is largely the expression of terrible, terrible social skills. I've seen appalling things toward women and men alike from young, socially inept Bay Area tech males. Also, for what it's worth, I've received a lot of crap from w
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Regarding planning for the future, this seems like someone who was used to buying machinery was put in charge of buying technology. Sure, in five years the library might need a gigabit of bandwidth, but by then the Linksys WRT may well han
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I really don't look forward to a future where everyone is some variant of a STEM major. Talk about pedantry and a lack of cultural texture...
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
The Reddit question wasn't really what I would consider relevant for HN, but I personally found the ethical issues at least a little bit interesting. I commented on it: my thoughts being that he should stay under the radar of management a
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
F.lux has a preference for transition. True, but as I recall it still behaves oddly in some circumstances. Change your location to a point two hours to your west? That's the usual suggestion, but then you have to change it back if you r
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
That didn't seem very cohesive or insightful.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I use F.lux. I find certain things about it irritating[1] and I don't see any signs of updates or improvements from the author. Unfortunately, it appears to be patented, which rules out the possibility of competition spurring improvement.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Go to any interntional company's office in Singapore, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and note that it's filled with Brits, Australians, New Zealanders with very few Americans; this is why. Americans are exempt from the double-tax up to $91,400.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Like others are saying, he should (gradually) reduce the output of his automation system to something more believable/less noticeable. Instead of going after the meager bonus, he should put his time into doing some kind of side work. Of c
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Last time I checked, which was awhile ago, Blackberry was the only non-pager that could guarantee delivery within a known time-frame. You can't run server alerts over SMS, since it might take an hour (I've heard of a 12 hour delay around N
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
when I am an old man, I hope my family make more of an effort than to plan for strangers to call me. That's a really rude statement. Also, you have no reason to think the parent commenter's father enjoys games, or even to think that an a
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
when your real purpose is ad hominem Please stop misusing that term.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I've been to two conferences in my life. One was, I think, a Bluetooth conference back in 2001 or so. I learned nothing. The other was a Flash conference in 2004ish. I learned nothing and was appalled at the low quality of presentations
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
It's interesting that you mention the Japanese, because when I looked into it awhile ago, I could find no evidence of any increase in birth defects following the bombing. I could swear that we had pictures of deformed children in a textboo
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I don't think the meth addicts burglarizing my neighborhood are that sophisticated. ;-)
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I interviewed a 'senior' developer who had been a consultant for several years. When we asked how he implemented past projects, his answers were really vague. We got suspicious and dropped down to a simple problem like, "write a loop to p
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
And hey, Windows is just DOS with a bit of new code If you think that the step from a command line to GUI, multitasking OS is anything at all like cramming an 'X' or 'Live' into a bunch of disparate technologies, then I don't know what to
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Always hire A Players Words cannot describe how tired I am of hearing these sorts of weird sports metaphors used to describe tech talent. Are we really so immature as an industry that we have to constantly rely on sports metaphors? It's
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
OLE, ActiveX, .NET, MFC, WinRT - they're all entirely different technologies Not really. Initial versions of OLE were built on DDE. COM was the next generation of OLE. ActiveX was just COM with a DispInterface (self-describing interfac
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
How many billions of people are there on the planet? 'Social' is probably the only application of technology that I see applying to every single one of them. While I think what we've seen so far is rather faddish, 'social' will continue t
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
NPR story on the ethics and changing definition of death: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/03/27/149463045/a-strug... NPR Fresh Air interview with Dick Teresi, who wrote the WSJ article you linked: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/19/14829
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Looks like nothing more than a rumor, flagged.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Wow, not to mention that the MIDAS project shows much more personality and hilarity. Seagal vision for the security bot? Brilliant!
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Why is this on HN? Flag, flag, flag.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I've seen a lot of Forbes articles appear on HN lately. I don't think a single one of them has seemed the least bit insightful or interesting. They mostly seem to write poorly-based opinion pieces that show ignorance of large swaths of te

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