johngalt

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by johngalt 13y ago
Someone who has all the answers, probably has an important answer wrong. Also, don't look at people's plans, look at their criteria.
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by johngalt 13y ago
It's accurate to describe the XMPP standard as 'used' by many but 'supported' by few.
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by johngalt 13y ago
The closest option is XMPP. Unfortunately it's suffered an extreme case of scope creep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
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by johngalt 13y ago
The issue with the idea 'some good cops vs some bad cops' is that the good ones will still protect and aid the bad ones.
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by johngalt 13y ago
It's easy to see that 5-10 years from now we will all be walking around with phablet style devices in the 5-7" form factor. Docking with a larger fixed display or external keyboard/mouse when needed. It's been in progres
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by johngalt 13y ago
What are the potential downsides to artificially lowering wealth inequality? One of the first things you learn in engineering and life: nothing is free. There are trade-offs and costs to every decision. I could even describe the engineering
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by johngalt 13y ago
It's interesting to see protectionism V2.0 play out via the patent system.
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by johngalt 13y ago
A test to determine if a robot will take job X in the future. Ask: would this job be automated today if hiring a human cost $500,000/year? If yes, then the clock is ticking. Over time the robot will only get cheaper and the human will
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by johngalt 13y ago
i.e. Not only is pg a witch but also a liar for not admitting it! Look we get it. You enjoy being some moral arbiter that has impossible standards so you can act like your better than everyone while accomplishing nothing.
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by johngalt 13y ago
While I like the idea of making courses as independent as possible, some kind of suggested course track might help completion rates. I passed the original ai-class on schedule with distinction. Then when Udacity started I zipped through int
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by johngalt 13y ago
I think there's a similar story about Fedex being the highest throughput network provider.
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by johngalt 13y ago
Depends on the nature of the work. Begin with the understanding that operational concerns will never be zero hours. The best freelancer in the world will need guidance from the internal staff. If you've already got something in place a
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by johngalt 13y ago
The article makes more sense from that perspective. The idea that ops needs should be planned and responsibilities designated makes sense. Otherwise it's easy to end up with fragile systems that are no one person's responsibility.
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by johngalt 13y ago
Sounds like you agree with everything I said until you edited my comment down to that sentence. If there's honestly 40 hours a week of ops issues during the first hire/MVP/market fitting phase. One of two things is happening:
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by johngalt 13y ago
Sysadmins are what you bring in once you've grown enough that operational issues detract from development rather than add to it. A sysadmin should absolutely not be your first hire. At most a consult with an engineer in the early days
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by johngalt 13y ago
Regarding #4 specifically. An autonomous runaway recursively improving AI would make things like bunkers irrelevant. It might buy you days at most.
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by johngalt 13y ago
Arguments like these always ignore any motivation of the person providing the products and services. If water is selling for $100/bottle you'll find a large number of people driving trucks full of water towards a disaster zone. If
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by johngalt 13y ago
If one party is willing to buy and the other willing to sell, where is the issue? If you want regulated rates, wait for a cab. Intentionally using a premium service then demanding price controls makes you sound like the old man complaining
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by johngalt 13y ago
In other fields we recognize that there is a bifurcation between the knowledge required by practitioners of that field and the base level of understanding from non-practitioners. A 'good driver' isn't expected to know about i
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by johngalt 13y ago
These articles always walk a very fine line between opposing views. How do you simultaneously claim that pink dolls are marketed to girls and that's bad. Then also claim that there are no video games that have pink dolls, so therefore
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by johngalt 13y ago
The goals of Zero-Tolerance policies have nothing to do with student outcomes and everything to do with legal outcomes. If you expel Johnny, but only suspend Jane for the same infraction; Johnny's parents are going to sue. Conversely i
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by johngalt 13y ago
The whole post made me think of someone defending an abusive spouse. 'Yeah I'm not allowed to go anywhere ever, but he takes care of me. I probably wouldn't even meet the requirements for the job, I'm sure lucky he chose
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by johngalt 13y ago
Congrats Kenneth Kuan. If I ever meet you in person I'd buy you a beer and tell you it isn't always like this. Realistically PA needs at least two hires here. One ops guy responsible for IT/Sysadmin, and one dev. Both can cro
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by johngalt 13y ago
You're right, I'm not being charitable in my assumptions. I would edit it and trim it back a little, but I don't want to take away from your response. To examine this more seriously: Individually their requirements fit in t
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by johngalt 13y ago
Par for the course for IT/Sysadmin type jobs. "We expect you to build the hospital while running the emergency room and operating room." They are just being up front about it. There are a few areas where they glossed over it.
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by johngalt 13y ago
Anyone writing an article like this should also write what would change their opinions and a plan to fix it. Imagine you've won me over completely and SV is an elitist boy's club. Now what do we do to change it? When is your stand
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by johngalt 13y ago
I'm sure someone would argue that it's the Illuminati. That doesn't make it a rational argument.
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by johngalt 13y ago
Hardly a definitive proof that it's all just biology. I'd scale it back, and draw the conclusions more conservatively. Along the lines of 'employment statistics don't necessarily imply discrimination'. Just because
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If you wanted to work as a banker prior to the adoption of computers you'd need an education advanced enough to calculate amortization tables. Now you'd simply need to know where to put the numbers into a spreadsheet. Same for acc
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by johngalt 13y ago
Articles like these seem to make the superficial assumption that technology only puts downward pressure on the unskilled or uneducated. That improving technology can only benefit the existing elites. I couldn't disagree more. Tech impr

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