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by jes5199 13y ago
I don't know, Automattic seems much more obscure than a lot of the companies we usually talk about.
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by jes5199 13y ago
I daydream about this periodically, but I can't quite picture how the community keeps the game rules balanced enough for there to be a game
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by jes5199 13y ago
I would be startled if existing legal code was sufficiently rigorously defined to be encoded into machine-readable forms. I really think it wouldn't work! Someone prove me wrong?
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by jes5199 13y ago
I think a thing that has happened is that the community is actually full of people who have not learned all the fun computer science stuff that people like you and me take for granted, and that's why they're voting it up. On the
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by jes5199 13y ago
Sometimes you have to just leave meanings implied to avoid being very discursive. Why would you take a child to see ice? Why would it be significant? "See" doesn't usually carry that connotation of "for the first time&qu
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by jes5199 13y ago
there's a strain of management books called "Topgrading". The gist is: you, the new founder, are grade A awesome, and you can have a successful company if you only hire other As. Unfortunately, Bs and Cs will show up, and lie
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by jes5199 13y ago
I don't know if I buy the resume-killer concept. Do you have some examples? maybe it's because I'm a programmer and not a CEO, but it sure seems like at interviews people just skip the boring parts of my resume to talk about
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by jes5199 13y ago
Apparently I have access keys that predate the release of IAM ! Fortunately there's a convenient "disable" link on security keys page.
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by jes5199 13y ago
I have 2-factor auth enabled on my AWS login - but am I right in thinking that if someone has my API keys that they don't need the 2nd factor?
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by jes5199 13y ago
Yes, that's true, but in some regions of the USA those fringe churches dominate the culture.
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by jes5199 13y ago
Is your side project really this important to you? It's your source of identity and self-worth? I say: take three months off from even touching a text editor and practice guitar every day. I think my system leads to happier, healthier
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by jes5199 13y ago
Is there any evidence that sentiment analysis scores are correlated to anything we already know about emotions? I find the whole concept to be extremely speculative and dubious.
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by jes5199 13y ago
Yeah, but that's true of Prozac, as well. It turns out that depressed people are definitionally ineffective at finding the root causes of their problems, and if you cam artificially suspend the feedback loop, then they might have a cha
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by jes5199 13y ago
Some time ago, I was suffering from several months of severe depression. Out of desperation, I obtained some Ketamine. I carefully measured a dose that was somewhere between theraputic and recreational. I had the experience of seeing myself
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by jes5199 13y ago
I disagree. I've never seen a program fail because of an unsafePerformIO call, but I've never seen a Haskell project that didn't suffer from at least one mysterious, hard-to-solve unevaluated-thunks-filling-up-RAM bug. Even t
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by jes5199 13y ago
For a language that prioritizes "safety" above all things, there is an awful lot of flying blind and dangerously in Haskell. It's so, so easy to write Haskell code that's safe until you change something distant in the sy
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by jes5199 13y ago
I've always assumed that Dorsey's comments about his sleep habits were a combination of macho bravado and myth-building - it's not like anyone is actually around him enough to know if it's literally true.
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by jes5199 13y ago
Things make me miserable that other people are fine with. I change jobs every two years. It's just life.
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by jes5199 13y ago
at this point, we should read "hiring like crazy" as "trying to get acquired". Having a lot of employees boosts your valuation but does little for your ability to deliver a product
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by jes5199 13y ago
mobile UI isn't very powerful, compared to Kay & Engelbart's applications either, though. They were focused on quick and powerful editing of content - mobile apps hardly allow you to edit anything at all.
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by jes5199 13y ago
My perception is that there are a lot of apps right now designed to solve the problem of "please make it less awkward for me to meet strangers." Bizarrely, they're converging on the Tinder interaction - just look at their f
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by jes5199 13y ago
I've seen some suggestions that the human brain is full of random pattern generators, and that some kinds of learning are selecting which pre-existing patterns most reliably match the external stimuli
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by jes5199 13y ago
There's a good paper about how some geometric hallucinations are formed: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/golubitsky.4/reprintweb-0.5...
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by jes5199 13y ago
While I agree with you that rent-seekers have more concentrated wealth than us merely overpaid people, I don't know how to voluntarily separate those people from their money.
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by jes5199 13y ago
It's really surreal to me that we're having this conversation without discussing the reality that outside of the Apple-controlled iOS sandbox, the world is replete with hundreds and hundreds of languages. You don't have to na
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by jes5199 13y ago
okay, I have a pitch for an MVP. It's an independent organization that functions as a voluntary tax collection. Everybody who believes in basic income signs up for it, and makes a monthly donation. At the end of each month, we divide t
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by jes5199 13y ago
not in detail, but imagine: you have code that walks a complex object graph every day to figure out how much money to move. The business rules interact in complicated ways. Do you trust that you'll always get the same value out of that
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by jes5199 13y ago
> 3- Needed to wait for transaction to get validated in the blockchain This process is slow and I don't see how it can possibly get faster. The best I've come up with is you have a second money-apparatus that moves more quick
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by jes5199 13y ago
I've seen the before-and-after at a company that didn't use this sort of modelling and then added it. It was like night and day - suddenly we stopped making embarrassing errors with people's money. Even without really optim
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by jes5199 13y ago
the student loan system is a mess, but with income-based repayment, taking on extra debt doesn't actually increase people's monthly payments until they actually get a high-paying job.

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