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by jaibot 10y ago
Focus on the fundamentals. How do you find the write tools and libraries? How do you translate requirements into projects? How can you communicate with other people effectively? How can you learn what you need to know when you need to know
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by jaibot 10y ago
Can confirm. I did tech at the DNC in 2012. We pushed to get senior staff using 2FA and ran internal phishing drills. Obviously didn't take.
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by jaibot 10y ago
This is not what superintelligence people are worried about, in general. The human brain is already embarrassingly parallel. I'm sure you can find at least one person who will advocate for the "Moore's Law=Doom" scenario
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by jaibot 10y ago
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth
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by jaibot 10y ago
I don't know why Google doesn't make any effort to tell users this, but: you can access all of your Google Play video through YouTube. Just search YouTube for the thing you bought, and you should find the full-length legal video m
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by jaibot 10y ago
Eh, it's not that inaccurate. AWS is a bunch of data centers full of big computers that simulate a bunch of smaller computers.
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by jaibot 10y ago
I mean, yes, but I'll change my mind if I notice all the higher brows disagreeing.
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by jaibot 10y ago
"Investors other than Norway invest $860B in coal; money remains fungible and markets remain pretty efficient"
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by jaibot 11y ago
I didn't bother waiting for my signing bonus. I paid them to get out of there.
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by jaibot 11y ago
Pedantic: It can if some of the departments are turning in massive losses.
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by jaibot 11y ago
Looks like they're pretty unrelated accomplishments; this enables faster interchip communication, while quantum computers enable speedup of a very specific subset of problems if you can get enough qubits within a chip to play nice.
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by jaibot 11y ago
As a colorblind person, Happy Thursday.
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by jaibot 11y ago
Okay, I don't get this one: >>> False == False in [False] True
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by jaibot 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
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by jaibot 11y ago
It's been a week and you may be in danger of becoming productive again, so I thought I'd link you to the LJ that the author kept before starting SlateStarCodex: http://squid314.livejournal.com You're welcome.
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by jaibot 11y ago
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by jaibot 11y ago
WHY WOULD YOU USE PIE CHARTS FOR THIS
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by jaibot 11y ago
Poe's Law invoked. (sidenote: Going to start calling comments like this "In SuperPoesition").
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by jaibot 11y ago
There are four hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
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by jaibot 11y ago
Are you signed up for cryonics?
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by jaibot 12y ago
We also give food and shelter to guests for free, but restaurants and hotels are still a thing. People do favors for people, and employment is still a thing. People look after each others' kids, but daycare is still a thing. You probab
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by jaibot 12y ago
Because trust is an important commodity on a project like this. Higher trust means fewer horrible things slipping past the review process.
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by jaibot 12y ago
"By 2000 I don't think this will matter." - 1978
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by jaibot 12y ago
Predicting code use in advance is hard. Linux was a casual side project not meant to be taken seriously; Javascript was hacked together in a few weeks.
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Show HN: Direct Password Update Links for Popular Services(updateyourpasswords.com)
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by jaibot 12y ago
Skype's Linux clients are always wonky. G+ has more ItJustWorks, and the contacts list is already built for me from years of using Google stuff.
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by jaibot 12y ago
This is a good point (does anyone have a good source on global GINI?). But I suspect that what we're currently experiencing in the very-developed world is what's expected globally long-term. If global inequality is shrinking, it&#
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by jaibot 12y ago
> that inequality is not an unintended result I haven't seen him argue that rising inequality is "intentional" - no one sat down and said "Hey, let's build a system that widens inequality indefinitely". For
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by jaibot 12y ago
I believe the implication is that if OpenSSL had been written in Rust, Heartbleed would not have been possible.
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by jaibot 13y ago
"Quorum contracts" could also be a thing - contracts that exist solely to aggregate data from multiple sources, so you don't have to request data from each source every time you want to check something.

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