jariel

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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, for these things you can expect to figure it out - and/or it should be obvious what you are doing. There's no need for that level of ambiguity. You're dealing with large sums of money. The parameters described in the vid
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by jariel 6y ago
We have hindsight: the changes Ballmer made to increase revenue were not 'one offs' they were substantial. 1) He reconstituted Windows and Office distribution, sales, put office on the cloud. 2) He launched XBox and more notable A
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by jariel 6y ago
But KPop is Korean and corporatised. It's not like 'modelling' or 'acting'. The bands are run by organized machines. Hollywood/Music/Modelling are industries of individuals, sometimes coming together for p
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by jariel 6y ago
Sure, it wouldn't bother me either, but those things are 'squarely sexual harassment' of the kind HR teams usually writhe over. I think if the story were changed to 'straight white guys' then I can also see some let
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by jariel 6y ago
I didn't mean 'magic' (I know it's not that) - I just meant to imply that I think of AI as a 'function' not a 'lookup'. Inputs -> Outputs not Search -> Response Like if you train AI on a small d
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by jariel 6y ago
Different industries have different structures and different cultures. This is an entertainment thing and as noted by other commenters has to do with the very aspirational aspects of the positions, along with a total commodity of folks want
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by jariel 6y ago
Lost in this comment is how brutally inappropriate that Tumblr office would have been to work in - and beyond illegal in so many ways but it's just all cool because it's LGBTQ? I thought they were suppose to be 'just like us&
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by jariel 6y ago
I don't think KPop artists are sex slaves, though? Rather, it's a really rough, possibly exploitative gig. They are just like models, but they also sing and dance. The Music Industry and Hollywood though, they will protect themsel
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, I mean, that's cool, but I'm just thinking that this isn't quite the AI we were thinking about before. It's like a 'new form of storage and lookup' as opposed to the kind of 'magic algorithm' we
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by jariel 6y ago
I see where you want to go with that, but I'm not sure you made the argument you're trying to make. Ballmer didn't 'make money from extracting rents and screw everything else up'. Ballmer entrenched and expanded MS
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by jariel 6y ago
So, almost every possible ngram ever used is a 'input'? Can someone describe what the lexical reality of 3.5T inputs actually means? I feel like this is 'Deep Memorization' instead of 'Deep Learning'. Like a Do
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by jariel 6y ago
Keep it as simple as possible and focus on the experience not the technology. For straight up web or small companies, Wix, Shopify or Wordpress is fine. Look how great HN is with minimal tech. For 'Web Apps' it's obviously mo
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by jariel 6y ago
That's a good point but it wasn't really 'Ballmer' - it was the existential changes in the industry. I believe if Ballmer had of hung on for a few more years, that change would have happened eventually. Investors eventua
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by jariel 6y ago
It's a solid reference point because we now have a lot of history to look back upon, and those revenues were from foundational businesses. Satya's changes have been positive but most of the money he is making is due to Gates + Bal
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by jariel 6y ago
"made them a serious competitor again?" They were making money hand over fist, massive growth in revenues almost ever year under Ballmer. [1] Which part of that massive money train is 'not serious competitor'? [1] https
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by jariel 6y ago
"Microsoft became almost irrelevant under Ballmer or was at least trending that way. Nadella’s turn around is almost miraculous " This is definitely not true. Ballmer increased revenues massively, and launched a slew of new produc
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by jariel 6y ago
"There is no good reason for this, " No, there are a ton of things the US et. al. do in secret, it's normal. There needs to be oversight, public is better, but an independent council can work. But yes, there's going to b
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by jariel 6y ago
So yes and no. 1) It takes time to get to know the framework, it's know-how, and often the docs are not clear. 2) Good UI work is almost always more than just 'stuff on a screen'. But it doesn't have to be if you have go
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by jariel 6y ago
I have been coding UIs for over 20 years on and off, and I've done everything. React is a special beast, I don't like it, yes, it's a little bloated and no, I don't so much think it's quite suited to the front/
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by jariel 6y ago
"It used to not be so," UI's 'used to be' thinks you installed not web pages! That's what a lot of people are missing. With complex UIs, which people see to have forgotten even exist (!) there's a big diff
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by jariel 6y ago
This is not crazy, it's been this way in any app of scale for a very long time. You can put a good backend guy on the 'back of the front end' no problem, it's sometimes similar work and it can feel like 'regular cod
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by jariel 6y ago
Stack Overflow exists because we are terrible at documentation. There should be a straight up solid answer for 80% of those questions in the relevant docs. Docs should have walk-throughs / overviews, common examples, and good reference
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by jariel 6y ago
This position is a somewhat naive because it does not following through with the consequences of the actions: you missed the part where there is no National Geographic - and you don't get any content - in the most ideal scenarios fro
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by jariel 6y ago
I don't think regulations are holding people back. Low salaries, yes, but that's a failure of leadership, but also a systematic problem of companies inability to make tons of money. It's a long laundry list and it can't
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by jariel 6y ago
There's nothing, not even close and it's obviously a problem. The reason a lot of this antagonism exists is because the EU is not able to compete in a lot of these areas. While there's a lot of good impetus is privacy legisla
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by jariel 6y ago
Maybe we need agents. Athletes pay x% of their income to agents because it's worth it. I'll bet $1000 the same would apply to tech. Most people have no idea what they are worth - which usually means undervaluing themselves, but ju
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by jariel 6y ago
"P.S.: no opportunity is lost. There is always someone else who seizes it. :)" I'm sure these corporations want a random person in HN to provide service to 12 customers? It's false to suggest that material barriers to pr
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by jariel 6y ago
"No, the legislators didn't want the pop-ups to be annoying. They didn't even require pop-ups." This is the point: the legislators were exceedingly naive, and created a bad outcome. 'National Geographic' is not
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by jariel 6y ago
'Design and Software' ??? Brand, marketing, product strategy, product marketing, industrial design, ui design, millions of lines of code which is all part of design, massive retail distribution chains both direct and indirect, mas
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by jariel 6y ago
They are clear when succint, and especially for setting a value. -- example: var x; if(this) x = 10; else x = 11; -- is uglier than: var x = this ? 10 : 11;

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