jmhnilbog

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by jmhnilbog 6y ago
Online social events just don't do it for me. The time delay is a small factor, but reducing social interactions to what I can take in to only two senses while everyone sits in a chair is just not what social events are. Real life inte
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by jmhnilbog 6y ago
Yeah, he might have to move away from the west coast and live like a king on whatever scraps he saved.
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by jmhnilbog 6y ago
One more data point that no one with self-respect could work at a FAANG company?
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by jmhnilbog 6y ago
Facebook doesn't have anything more that the dream of a promise that some day they'll have AI smart enough to curate content as well as humans can. They don't even have a hope of doing so in a way that all humans can agree is
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by jmhnilbog 6y ago
Good for you! You can always go back if you get the itch. Most tech changes too quickly to catch up with only at the cosmetic level anyway. For evidence, see any of the cycles of coders in new stacks rediscovering patterns from two stacks a
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by jmhnilbog 6y ago
Do you think instances of anxiety are inherently irrational or unhealthy? I know of the effect of sustained stress on people, but I was trying to bring to light potential positive effects of anxiety bringing clarity or insight into ways to
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by jmhnilbog 6y ago
Agreed. Anxiety can also be expressed as a realization that what's being worked on is useless, adds negative value, or just personally unfulfilling or unimportant. Cops firing teargas at peaceful protesters a few blocks away has cause
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by jmhnilbog 6y ago
While I agree with this framing of the problem, it feels like another expression of dysfunction in development increasing as direct interaction with clients and users decreases.
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
Reverting won't erase your users' poor experience with your product.
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
Human behavior is no more complicated than that of anything else living. We just have more complicated ways to justify our actions.
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
I just wish someone would teach comp sci kids that checking for error conditions is more important than making something look pretty and/or complex.
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
If you're going to argue that truth is relative, fine. Let each person decide their own truth and broadcast it. Let each person decide what to believe and decide what is good and what is evil and let them constantly fight. Constant mis
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
If you have so little skin in the game that you can maintain that attitude, you should probably stay out of the discussion.
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
Platforms must be responsible for what they publish. If NBC ran child pornography, it'd be held responsible. Facebook runs it and says, oops in ten years we'll have AI to not show you that. If you want to be a miserable person on
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
A world where all podcasts have lo-fi production values and only weirdos with too much time and a LOT of interest in the topic at hand make them would be wonderful. The audio version of the early web. They can have podcast web rings instead
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
Is there a goal in creating artificial general intelligence other than creating a form of enslaved life we can tell ourselves isn't really life, so it's okay?
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
If only everything could be homogenous everywhere, so the very few people who have the opportunity to work wherever they like could avoid momentary inconveniences!
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by jmhnilbog 7y ago
Don't people at least like to pretend they have free will and are not automatons responding mechanically to biological prompts? Are the prompts somehow acceptable if they appear on a screen?
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by jmhnilbog 8y ago
I'm not arguing to pay YouTube to hire thousands of moderators. I'm arguing that YouTube should not be allowed to post content without taking responsibility for it. If YouTube can't find a way to act responsibly, why should i
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by jmhnilbog 8y ago
Gawker, a publisher, was shut down because it reported on Hulk Hogan's sexual activity. I think we can assume that larger publishers would be shut down for more outrageous content. Yes, obviously, manual approval of content does not sc
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Ask HN: Why shouldn't platforms be responsible for what they host?
2 points by jmhnilbog 8y ago|4 comments
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by jmhnilbog 8y ago
Eventually it becomes interesting again, though. The guy who does nothing but white canvases gets a degree of notoriety after a while. And the three thousand, two hundredth guy who does nothing but white canvases blows up because now it&#x2
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by jmhnilbog 8y ago
Everything that you've ever encountered has made some tiny impression on you. Advertising is a "weaponized" process that aims to force a set of impressions on people where the agents behind it think that they know how those i
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by jmhnilbog 8y ago
Location: Pittsburgh, PA Remote: Yes (not preferred; I miss having in-person co-workers) Willing to relocate: Nope Technologies: JS, php, Java, whatever C-ish or scripty language, I've fussed with it to some degree profes
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by jmhnilbog 8y ago
I would love to see this idea translated into event planning/calendaring. Probabilistic party planning. I want to see what might be happening tonight in addition to what is definitely happening. "If 5 people show up at my house to
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by jmhnilbog 8y ago
What percentage of software churn is based on developers being reluctant to call out mistakes by other developers on their own teams/in their own companies (while having no problems calling out flaws in internet strangers' code)?
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by jmhnilbog 10y ago
I'm not seeing any of that.
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by jmhnilbog 10y ago
I feel like an idiot, but I can't tell what this is and the "About" page isn't helping me.
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by jmhnilbog 10y ago
Isn't the value of the article completely divorced from the time it took to write it? (I don't pay more for a movie that took five years to make than one that took a week.) News is one of the more obvious examples that things beco
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by jmhnilbog 13y ago
A third entry for that day's exercise level would be great, though difficult to fit in as a rhyme. Meals/Feels/Wheels? Meals/Feels/Burnt Caloreels?

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