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by jackconnor 8y ago
Bloomberg has turned into tabloid-level shock journalism when it comes to tech. All about the scares, not much substance. It doesn't surprise me at all that they might've screwed up their article this bad, but I hope it's a w
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Haha, maybe not, but it still is good for you. I'm American and I concur, this does not always come naturally to us.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
When coding, learn to type fast and not use autofill. Your code will be better and you will retain the code in your mind it much, much longer.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Accept all negative criticism advice as well as you possibly can. If it's just someone being an asshole it's very easy to know that and just ignore, but if it's real it's the most valuable feedback you can get.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Yes absolutely. I stopped using it because I felt weird and voyeuristic about knowing what people were up to that I hadn't seen in years, long before any of this controversy started.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
In addition to "worried about not being good at them", I think the competition for hobbies has greatly increased, too. My grandpa used to sit around on his porch in Indiana whittling because there was nothing else to do at night b
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Very well said, thank you.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
I hate facebook but I still totally agree. And, I just don't use it, though I still maintain an account for messaging purposes. Like, in my perfect world, Facebook would go away because I find it kind of gross and think that it is gene
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by jackconnor 8y ago
This is what Palantir does in the united states, the only difference is the specific laws and the government in question. There's a big gray area here.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
The title is insane, nobody would ever guess what the article is actually about from it.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
This article is about the Chinese podcast industry and how people use it for education, and so this title makes no sense to me. What is being FOMOed? Why are neither the word "podcast" nor "education" used in the title?
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Some blue collar jobs that will be created include: maintaining the factory robots, producing the robots that run the factory, installing the robots that run the factory, and retrofitting old factories to work with new automated systems, lu
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Yea i feel you, I've always read a lot of Bloomberg but, the last few years I keep seeing articles like this that are speculative but scaremongering. It's not a great look for them, in my opinion.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
In other news, Bloomberg is has now reached a new low for click-bait technopanic. Do they think the world will run out of low-skilled jobs because AI learns how to perform current ones? History doesn't back this up, as things like the
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by jackconnor 8y ago
This is, in fact, 100% accurate: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jan/11/nuclear-... It's not that radiation can't ever be harmful, it's that the safeguards and regulations, wh
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by jackconnor 8y ago
I do Angular and I 100% agree, as I keep all compiler error outputs on for every save, and you find/squash a trillion bugs before they can turn into anything bad.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
So, what's the "6 - 36 months" piece then, if they already have a workable quantum computer? Answer: they don't, and they don't know if they ever will, otherwise the time to completion would not have a totally arbit
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by jackconnor 8y ago
The point is that it may be such a minor difference that most consumers would never know the difference, not that it's worse.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
They're creating a cloud SaaS platform, yet haven't actually solved the quantum issue, which will be solved in: "My guess is this could happen anytime from six to 36 months". This company has built the easy part first (t
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Yea I kind of agree. I think most people, myself included, just don't really recognize minor performance differences, only relatively large ones. And I've always thought that these things improve so fast year-to-year, that it&#x27
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Follow up question: Doesn't this just screw over Latvians by limiting their content over other European countries?
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Question - how would this even work in small countries with limited local content? Is Netflix Latvia going to be just a small handful of movies/TV since they can only add 60% international content (aka a tiny part of their catalogue) t
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by jackconnor 8y ago
The "hole" is that they think construction costs are too high based on "engineering literature". While the literature does undoubtedly say this, Musk's MO with SpaceX is doing things way, way cheaper than competitor
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by jackconnor 8y ago
KCorbitt, thanks to you and the team, I was really impressed with how this was handled.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Omg those are cyber-punk royalty and both incredible, engaging reads. Great suggestion.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Whatup funnynoodles, there definitely are reasons this COULD end up bad, which are pretty much just that YC gets stretched too thin. But, honestly, it could also go super well for them. I mean, accelerators are entirely based on the idea of
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Joel on Software - I learn new things every time I read it, but the best part is how insanely funny Joel is when he tells stories about working on the early microsoft products. Stardust - My favorite last page of all time, but it only works
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Man, credit where credit is due, this showed a lot of integrity. There was one good solution, it was just a painful one, yet they still did it. Well done YCombinator! P.S. They make the point that this is an experiment, and I think all of u
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No
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Best headline in HN history

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