jes5199

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   by jes5199 11y ago

   > but the defining characteristic of email is that it is the primary mode of communication that we use, both professionally and personally, when we are asking someone else to perform a task. what the fuck. This is so specious. I don&#x27
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   by jes5199 11y ago

   Wind is getting cheaper and more reliable, too. I think I read that it's because we're building bigger wind turbines.
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   by jes5199 11y ago

   Paying someone an hourly wage that is below the socially accepted minimum amount is simply not moral. It binds employees to a cycle of poverty where they have neither enough money nor the free time to work for themselves productively. To br
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   by jes5199 11y ago

   > 100% impregnable, and people maintain good OpSec fortunately, that never happens. Even the strongest defenses consistently fall to human error
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   by jes5199 11y ago

   yeah, Chinese is heavy on sounds and glyphs unfamiliar to Westerners, but is really light on syntax and grammer. So: high barrier to entry, but not that steep of a learning curve?
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   by jes5199 11y ago

   But we don't actually know what having access to a babelfish does to language learning. It's easy to assume it would make learning a second language obsolete, but a counterproposal is that it makes the other language(s) more acces
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   by jes5199 11y ago

   I got my first real startup job by submitting a bunch of bugfix patches to their open source offering. It was relatively easy - they had a public bug tracker, and I just picked the things I thought I could figure out, and after one weekend,
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   by jes5199 11y ago

   I'm not sure but I think part of the problem that you're describing may be "Baumol's cost disease" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
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   by jes5199 11y ago

   gift economy?
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    classic Id
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    Amazingly, according to this 1981 interview in the New Yorker, Minsky's first neural net was itself randomly wired! http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/12/14/a-i "Because of the random wirin
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    Same way the rest of us do: by getting a job at a different company
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    I think that's backwards
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    I'm trying this plan: work for a San Francisco company, remotely. Buy a house in a city that is only "expensive" instead of "ludicrously expensive".
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    Faster internet, bigger TVs, better cars, and fancier produce have very little influence on your actual quality of life. Better medical care does, but it's expensive medical interventions that bankrupts middle class families. Also: Rea
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    OK, that google link says the averages in SF is $103,367 but I'm hearing about people hiring entry-level coders for $100k this year, so I don't see how that can possibly be up to date.
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    My favorite explanation of what the verbal stream-of-concsiousness does is from this paper: http://www.jayhanson.org/_Biology/consciousness.pdf titled "Conscious Thought Is for Facilitating Social and Cultural Int
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    is it still common to have TVs at home? I watch TV on my laptop, and so does everyone I know.
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    The first generation Square readers were basically the read head from a tape recorder soldered to an audio plug. All of the signal processing was done in software, and even that was pretty simple - magstripes are low bit-density binary, aft
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    Square has a habit of wasting a bunch of energy on bad ideas: half the company worked on Square Wallet, which was a dead-end. Half the company worked on the Starbucks integration, which is now known to be a money pit. I sort of think this m
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    in San Francisco, I'm starting to see post-Square registers crop up. For example, Revel ( https://revelsystems.com/ ) is also iPad-based.
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    Square does high enough volume to negotiate better rates than you'd expect.
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    yeah but they also say that computers should be avoided because they are influenced by the demon Ahriman
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    "ruined" is a pretty strong word. The logos are rather ugly anyway.
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    Did they really write this whole article about machine-generated text but not actually include an example of the actual reply the system generated?
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    Installed!
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    I'm excited about the ClojureScript-in-ClojureScript work - apparently it will soon be true that you can run ClojureScript on top of any JavaScript environment, including node. That's very close to Clojure on anything!
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    A case could be made that we're already post-scarcity.
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    > the level of these issues varies wildly depending on the subsystem in question this is exactly what some kind of official minimal expectations would help: bring the worst offenders up to the level that's normal in most groups
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    by jes5199 11y ago

    I worked at Square when it was relatively small (<100 people) and Jack seemed to only be around for weekly presentations. But! That seems to be normal for CEOs? It's not like their job is actually to play pingpong with software deve