hobb0001

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by hobb0001 10y ago
Think of DeepDream x 1000. First, start with self-driving cars and semis cutting out taxi and freight services. Then, move on to musicians and composers no longer being hired to do mundane (90%) work, or video game levels being procedurally
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by hobb0001 10y ago
Not that I'm a futurist, but I predict that 2020 will be the decade where AI becomes unsettling (beyond image recognition, which is already becoming unsettling), and that 2030 will be the decade where AI has serious economic conseque
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by hobb0001 13y ago
The largest problem that I see with the militarization of the local police is that they will increasingly start to view themselves as soldiers. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment )
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by hobb0001 13y ago
These rotating circles that are referenced by the article will forever remain a cautionary tale for me: http://blog.matthen.com/post/42112703604/the-smooth-motion-o... In pre-Copernican astronomy, where the Earth
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by hobb0001 13y ago
> Tablets were never intended to be the next generation of word processing devices. sigh If only that we're true. iWork for iPad was announced at the first iPad announcement.
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by hobb0001 13y ago
Not all code is server-side code that can be addressed by elastic computing. Most C++ programmers work on desktop, mobile, and embedded programs. In such a domain, it is very likely that your code will be running on more than 10,000 cores o
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by hobb0001 13y ago
Arguably, the patent system is about execution, not ideas. Science fiction authors have been providing cool ideas for free for some time now.
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by hobb0001 13y ago
Security theater. sigh If the government was actually serious about protecting women and children from people with malicious intent, terrorists would be toward the bottom of the list, just above school shooters. Domestic abuse far outstri
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by hobb0001 13y ago
I'm not sure I'd care to code with this: http://i.imgur.com/Pu4FHi4.png I like to code with about a 9 point font, in order to maximize the amount of code per screen without going too far into the illegible. At tha
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by hobb0001 13y ago
True enough. It has only become schizophrenic lately because it is now eavesdropping on domestic communication as well.
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by hobb0001 13y ago
The NSA is a schizophrenic organization. It is tasked with two opposing goals: - To eavesdrop on the communications of foreign entities. - To protect our own government from foreign entities that are doing the same. It is the latter directi
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by hobb0001 13y ago
> Why would anyone trust one of them going forward? The same reason people trust the Dollar as a reserve currency. Yeah, it sucks, but better than any of the alternatives. Fortunately, there exist open-source/public-domain alternati
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by hobb0001 13y ago
I can't count the number of times my coworkers have said something along the lines of, "What are you talking about? I never saw anything about... oh, wait... I didn't realize it was scrollable. Never mind." After that ha
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by hobb0001 13y ago
I find it telling that not so long ago, "Human Resources" used to be called "Personnel". I'm still curious as to what caused the change from persons to resources...
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by hobb0001 13y ago
I do agree that that form of leadership is necessary. I was inferring a more literal interpretation of leadership, though, considering the associated word, "potential".
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by hobb0001 13y ago
> [he] believes every phase of the process needs to be meticulously designed to drill deep into skill sets, ... and leadership potential Ugh. I hate this. For a technical interview, why is leadership potential a priority? Speaking for my
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by hobb0001 13y ago
> While offices for everyone sound good on paper, moving everyone out of cubicles destroyed a culture of tight-knit interaction and communication. Please, no, do not fall for this misconception. I've worked in several "tight-kn
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by hobb0001 13y ago
> Further, what if you prefer 2 or 3 space indentation? This, alone, is why I always use tabs, no matter what any style guide says. People have different tastes. Using tabs allows any editor to indent according to personal tastes.
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by hobb0001 13y ago
Heh. Reminds me of the days when I used to run a Z-code interpreter on my Palm V.
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by hobb0001 13y ago
Regarding the title of his article, as a someone who routinely uses TCP/IP for tasks other than transmitting HTML, I find his concept of "internet" to be rather myopic.
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by hobb0001 13y ago
I've beat this drum before, and I'll beat it again here. The build configuration for every large project eventually becomes turing complete (requiring loops, conditionals, subroutines, what have you). Why is it then, that every new build to
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by hobb0001 13y ago
Celery is brittle. If you stop a celery service, odds are, it will either not stop at all or leave stray child processes running. It is not transactional, at least not with a MongoDB back-end. If you stop a celery service, any tasks that we
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by hobb0001 13y ago
Agreed. Since 1995, I've been hearing wild-eyed "visionaries" predict that the internet will bring about equality and the Age of Aquarius. They seem to forget that the same sort of things were said about radio and television. (And probably
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by hobb0001 13y ago
> It's hard(er) to create new content on a tablet, and I don't really want that becoming the default computer for any generation. At the risk of using yet another car analogy, I see PC's becoming the pickup trucks of the computer indust
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by hobb0001 13y ago
It's interesting how its always management that wants immigration reform; not the workers. On the one hand, it is management that does most of the hiring and are the ones tasked with finding talent. On the other hand, they're also tasked wi
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by hobb0001 13y ago
I'm of two minds when it comes to LucasArts. In both graphic adventures and in space shooters, they owned the genres with quality games, which is great. The problem is that because they so totally dominated, all competition left to pursue o
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by hobb0001 14y ago
Whew. I was wondering if I was the only one who has been out in the mountains and other rural areas, but have never seen a night sky like these.
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by hobb0001 14y ago
> A source who worked closely with Riccitiello ... said "The truth is that the game industry continues to pivot very rapidly. EA is in a good place but it requires a lot of energy and laser focus... He's been pivoting the company hard f
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by hobb0001 14y ago
Reminds me of the "death of programmers" that I've been hearing is right around the corner for that last 3 decades. You know, computers will understand what you want and just do it. Except that 90% of programming is not translating ideas in
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by hobb0001 14y ago
> Would-be investors in Icelandic bonds focus most of their attention, not on what happened in the past, but on what is likely to happen in the future. Once you understand that, you basically understand the entire financial industry. It

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