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by gota 8y ago
It is always a pleasure to listen to Toady One speak about DF. He seems to be perpetually at that stage, regarding DF, where you like something a lot, the initial hype is gone but given way to a more 'profound' sense of pleasure f
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by gota 8y ago
It helps that when you read Dan Ariely's stuff it confirms every kind of thought you had on the back of your head about how people 'work'. I'm aware that doesn't mean it's correct per se, in a hard-science sens
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by gota 8y ago
Pardon my ignorance but FTA means 'from the article', yes?
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by gota 8y ago
And then you click in any link whatsoever and it's www.reddit again instead of i.reddit or (the still much better) old.reddit
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by gota 8y ago
I'd love for the extension to collect what elements are being killed by other users and kill them automatically for me. Specially on mobile. I don't think that feature exists anywhere else and seems a trivial implementation of col
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by gota 8y ago
I was about to comment something similar. I've myself worked with patent lawyers and can emulate their speech to some extent.
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by gota 8y ago
Also that other sites in the same 'bracket' increase number of visits. Even if HN's visits were increasing, they could still be rising faster. Also when a site has been around for long you have to start taking into account th
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by gota 8y ago
"The Isle of Flowers". It's heart wrenching and it's only 13 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcdXh9v0pA I could give you a summary but watching it with no context makes it as powerful as it was
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by gota 8y ago
Also very similar discussion at the Workplace StackExchange: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61431/how-can-... The most voted (and accepted) answer has this: "Sudden VP and director-level resign
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by gota 8y ago
Just a sidenote, reading your comment it occurs to me that I have no idea - and as far as I can tell never read anything about - what is the proportion of code that is done 'for fun' versus 'for pay'. If anyone has any s
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by gota 8y ago
With OpenAI's Dota playing AI making the rounds over major media and serving as a major advertisement for the game itself, why would Tencent develop and publish an AI of a game they don't own (Starcraft) as opposed to one they do
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by gota 8y ago
I interpreted it as follows: If unemployment is indeed down (and he asserts that it is) then the supply of extra workers is down also. The salaries, following the supply/demand ratio, should be up. And they are not. Since they're
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by gota 8y ago
Some countries have both systems. A network of public-funded universities, in which admission is controlled via standardized tests, plus private ones, in which the government subsidizes the monthly fees of many students in several ways. And
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by gota 8y ago
Although maybe not as strongly, I sympathize with your comment because of the feeling that we are moving away from indirect reputation (like certificates, diplomas, etc) and towards direct reputation. I've posted about it before: &qu
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by gota 8y ago
One consequence is the reduction of trust and perceived-value in the global economy, which reduces our capacity for investment and growth* As far as I can tell, as long as the economy runs super well and everybody trusts that it'll con
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by gota 8y ago
I haven't, no, but I know there are initiatives in Process Mining that closely relate to knowledge graphs, etc. and wouldn't be surprised if there are groups working on that. I'm particularly working with the mining of plans
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by gota 8y ago
Process Mining [1]. When I programmed a rather complex logistics simulator at work I told my coworkers 'whoever comes up with a way of instantiating a simulator from data will be praised forever'. Turned out process discovery is a
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by gota 8y ago
The article is about level of wealth, so in a sense a level 0 means "does not qualify as wealthy". I think the scale is fine on the lower end but agree it could go "higher". Although your example of level 4 takes into ac
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by gota 8y ago
I'm not accusng you of lying but this story is extremely suspicious. It conflicts completely with my professional and personal experience, which I'm pretty sure is close to the general truth. Unless you have found yourself working
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by gota 8y ago
I have no idea where the author got the generalization that this is a rule "everywhere in Brazil". It's at most more or less a custom in Rio , and no other places that I know of. In southern Brazil not arriving within half h
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by gota 8y ago
32 (and just learned about Competitive Analysis) but I wanted to say that learning how to make stuff in Dwarf Fortress is always rewarding in a very deep sense. I have no idea why, but every new mechanic mastered seems to multiply the possi
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by gota 8y ago
"Mike did receive one new assignment: Every week, he had to create a report for senior management in London by Monday morning based on information that wouldn’t come in until Friday night. He was given this task a day after he chatted
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by gota 8y ago
Reinforcement learning is direct adaptive optimal control https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/126844/?reload=true
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by gota 8y ago
I've struggled with that a couple of times. Anecdotal evidence: I wrote a technical report describing an algorithm and its novel applications, etc. A good compromise between a high-level description of the concepts and a documentation
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by gota 8y ago
I've been sleeping from 1:30 AM to 6:15 AM on weekdays and at least 12 to 14 hours from Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday. Been doing it for 4 years since I changed schedule. I don't feel tired or impaired at all. Usually
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by gota 8y ago
Being well payed is supposed to alleviate these issues to the point where it wouldn't normally justify moving _because of those issues_. You can move because a certain aspect is more appealing to you, as is the case with vacation days
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by gota 8y ago
Sure, this is in line with other comments about healthcare and other benefits. But the piece (and my comment) were more about general employment and compensation
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by gota 8y ago
>> Thats a huge generalization. True. Although now I'm curious what the proportions are. >> And there are lousy paid IT jobs as well. In comparison to other IT jobs, absolutely. In comparison to other industries, not so muc
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by gota 8y ago
Well, virtually nobody browsing HN can say they share the pains of the workers of the US that 'suffer when compared with the rest of the world'. Sure, there are many low-income residents, high inequality, high turnover, low unempl
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by gota 8y ago
If I recall, the point is that if you have a record player that can play _every record_, then it can play _a record that breaks it_. I think the piece's statement is supposed to relate to the "enumerating all deductions" bit

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