hasbroslasher

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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
Ironically, your code looks much more like Python than the author's. "Simple is better than complex" at play, I suppose. If I were to sit down and start writing Go, the idea to use equality would come long before I bothered w
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
It is funny that people say "we should be paid hourly" but any job I've ever had with hourly pay I did as little as I possibly could. Possibly because I was a stoned teenager in food service. But even as a salaried employee,
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
Presumably because the amount of Carbon-14 in the sample passes below the error in the measurement equipment
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
Methodology question: why is there no mention of radiocarbon dating? It's one of our most reliable methods, it works on bones, and it doesn't have the same feel as "they used this other random technique and magically got 300,
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
Some people have moral frameworks that always make seeking profits immoral. I'm not sure if that's what OP is saying, or merely that showing the driver and the passenger different rates and subtracting the difference (this is an a
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
If robots can design websites in 5 years, it won't be much longer til they can devise statistical ML schemes. Also, if you don't have a background in math, you'll just be finishing your studies of math/CS after 5 years,
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
That last paragraph is funny as hell, and I get what you're saying. I guess I'm just more pessimistic about anyone solving the problems of the language barrier and remote work soon - as with ML, once we truly have global, language
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
Overseas competition? I'm not sure what you're on about now - it's currently the hardest [1] time in history to get an H1-B with Cheeto man in the White House. Also I think that USA-born and educated developers are still sig
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
I'm a person (software engineer) who knows some ML and I tell this to my coworkers when they express similar sentiments: If you're worried about ML taking your job then you're not thinking straight. If the world has autom
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
I really like that you just went off on a huge tangent about this, no sarcasm. I really agree with your last line too, Kevin Shields is another example of this. By perfecting a unique playing style (holding the pitch bar while strumming) he
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
You're right that it's a staggering amount of arcane knowledge. But starting out I always recommend experimentation over getting too deep into the theory. It does help to have some baseline understanding of: 1. Frequency 2. Harmon
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
Profession: Software "Engineer" [07:35] First alarm goes off but sometimes I wake up at 6:30 a.m. randomly because traffic noise. [07:45] Wake up, drink coffee and brush teeth. Never eat breakfast. Maybe work on some music for 20
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
Hmm. I'll need to think about this one. I can see what you're saying... It's probably true but it definitely messes with my (and everyone's) tendency to see history as a series of monolithic happenings.
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
I'd like to think that in time someone will solve this too by some kind of clever obfuscation, but it's not going to be BoA doing it. It's going to be someone who wants to fuck with their status as a state-sponsored usurer. O
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
Generally people think something's "broken" when they commission an app like Slack - whether it's UX, speed, price point, poor efficiency broadly... I mean, hell, what new inventions aren't done in the name of eff
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
The example of your son's school is fine, but imagine that your son lives in another country. Cash has other problems beside being slow. It's insecure - a person could steal your $20 bill from your mailbox or his, or from the Post
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
I really like this point. It's easy to say that "Slack solves the problem of centralized team communication" or "eBay and Etsy help everyday people collect money off their trinkets, crafts, or useless old clothes".
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
SV?
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
A great many thinkpieces will be written about this, but let me beat someone to the punch: Foucault's Panopticism is the obvious tie-in. Usually when we talk about the Panopticon in the modern era, we're talking about mass surveil
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by hasbroslasher 9y ago
"The plural of anecdote is not data"
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
This makes two big assumptions that can't be overlooked: 1. People can't self-manage (to some degree) 2. Performance is the end goal of management I think both of these are wrong, or at least unfounded. I work in a more-or-less se
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
There's an (underrepresented) idea when looking at the history of tech called a Kondratiev_wave[0] that says global economic changes happen in a series of predictable peaks and valleys. If the recent trends of computing really took off
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
Don't quit necessarily, but quit if you feel it's the right thing to do. I've never thought highly of Uber, so having it on your resume is similar to having military experience or working at Amazon to me, it immediately sound
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
Didn't Samsung already patent this feature?
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MIT Develops Fiber with Electro, Chemical and Genetic I/O(news.mit.edu)
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
Love that xkcd, but I found the Maclaurin "trick" to be extremely common-sensical... If you're already finding the area of infinitely many small boxes under a curve then Taylor series don't seem that weird. Once you ar
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
I agree, the suggestion that anyone could/would be able to just throw out everything they know about arithmetic is sketchy at best, and even it's sketchier to make it seem as though a result like Euler's formula could purely
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
> Assuming the noise or smell was somehow contained, what's wrong with living next to a concert venue or Sriracha factory Pretty big assumption, my friend. Generally they're not, or they're not contained well enough, or pe
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
Well obviously they're still "allowed" to do whatever they want - (usually) no one's forcing you to sell the quaint victorian and move into the new Gulag of an Apartment complex. Everyone essentially agrees with you. The
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by hasbroslasher 10y ago
I totally agree. I don't agree, however, think that this is the only future of programming. The statistical UI morphing may work for UX, but when it comes to algorithms writing novel algorithms to solve mathematical equations without

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