johngalt

98 ms·

901.
by johngalt 16y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1522
902.
by johngalt 16y ago
Two xeon server class machines in the robot? 16 cores?! That's a lot of horsepower to carry around. Amazon Robot Brain anyone? $0.25 per robot hour. Or cheat the system with Mechturk?
903.
by johngalt 16y ago
The battle rules look a little problematic. Seems like you'll be coding up formations and counter formations rather than overall strategy. https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Ants-Game-Sp...
904.
by johngalt 16y ago
I don't know why the caption says 7x From the table in 2003 male/female incarcerated: 1,316,495/92,785
905.
by johngalt 16y ago
Quoted: "I couldn't help but wonder while reading this comment--have you ever experienced any sort of discrimination or are you a member of any minority group (person of color, gay, non-christian, etc.)?" You specifically asked if I exp
906.
by johngalt 16y ago
What I see in those statistics is that both race AND gender play a role. Do you see that too? It's not about oppression olympics, it's about not letting that jerk investor do any more damage by making you bitter towards the whole process. D
907.
by johngalt 16y ago
Yes I have extensive experience with discrimination, and it was much worse than any founder that had to put up with being hit on. Does this make my point more valid or less? The point isn't a defense of discrimination, but merely a question
908.
by johngalt 16y ago
Same thing I thought. If a VC started hitting on me during the pitch I'd leave, and frankly I wouldn't deal with a VC that would treat any founder this way. If they will use power to exploit why even consider a partnership with them?
909.
by johngalt 16y ago
No one complains about the lack of female plumbers, sanitation engineers, or electricians. Men are four times more likely to be murdered, and ten times as many are in jail. Why is it that genders are supposed to be equal except when men are
910.
by johngalt 16y ago
It would be hard to make their case if they didn't point to nuclear accidents, but I consider timing and tone to poor in this instance. Normally, I'd agree with the second half of their tagline. Nuclear weapons are terrible things, but any
911.
by johngalt 16y ago
Ok, but you have to be careful about "better solutions". I am not a nuclear engineer but passively cooled nukes are only solving one rare problem. A power generating station has a lot of moving parts, I'm sure there are other risks that pas
912.
by johngalt 16y ago
All caps = less credible "BeyondNuclear.org" I'm not familiar, but it's possible they are using this tradegy to push an agenda.
913.
by johngalt 16y ago
The original fire departments operated in this manner.
914.
by johngalt 16y ago
While it's not what I would choose for my kids, the money isn't uneared. His parents or ancestors earned it and spending it on him is what they want to do. It's not like he took it from them by force? FYI, objectivists are also allowed to b
915.
by johngalt 16y ago
Ok, so build your connections working as a banker? People will like or dislike you for a number of reasons/bias. I once had a high dollar investment customer that would only deal with me because of my attitude. Others that refused to deal w
916.
by johngalt 16y ago
If you sign a non-compete, are you surprised that it's difficult to go out and found a competing organization? If you can't manage starting your own investment firm, then you apply what you've learned as a banker to a different slice of the
917.
by johngalt 16y ago
So the real issue here is that everyone wants to be "better". It's not about rich people, it's that you think you're too good to clean things for a living. In your view, who deserves to work that mop? There is nothing wrong with working a m
918.
by johngalt 16y ago
There are things that a small group can't accomplish (building an oil pipeline for example). However, a little expertise and the right scope could attack the industry obliquely. Rather than try to build the whole system perhaps you have a s
919.
by johngalt 16y ago
Investment banker: Work hard where you're at and then steal the client list to go start your own shop. If you're really better than the boss you hate people will flock to you. Make sure the clients see you as a go-getter. That investment sh
920.
by johngalt 16y ago
You're right it's hopeless and unfair. We are all losers that should stop trying immediately. We should spend our time wishing for impossible utopian communism that will somehow arbitrarily add fairness. Then we can complain that we aren't
921.
by johngalt 16y ago
Why would this shock you? Don't you find it interesting/impressive?
922.
by johngalt 16y ago
A rich child has a much higher standard to live up to, and much more to lose. If I'm an eight figure trust fund kid and I screw up bad I end up being middle class. If I'm middle class and screw up I end up middle class.
923.
by johngalt 16y ago
Morally I agree that something you buy is yours to do what you want with, but in practice there are routinely restrictions on what you can/can't do, each with their own degree of right/wrongness. For instance most people find it reasonable
924.
by johngalt 16y ago
Think of every crucial system running Linux... It seems that this story is backwards. He should be the celebrity, all these idiots were just in front of a camera at some point.
925.
by johngalt 16y ago
There is always someone who is pressed into service for this type of thing. It will happen as early as 5-6 staff members, and it doesn't go away when you hire an outsourced IT vendor. In fact it gets even more insulting. "Thanks for spendin
926.
by johngalt 16y ago
IT department says you can only use software approved by them, for your own good. boo hiss "IT is a doomed industry!" Apple says you can only use software approved by them, for your own good applause "New era of curated computing!"
927.
by johngalt 16y ago
"Deserve has got nothing to do with it" Stop seeing compensation as a judgement of value and instead see it as a measure of scarcity. Most people prefer to be employees rather than founders, compensation reflects this.
928.
by johngalt 16y ago
I completely agree, sounds like we both want the same thing, but wouldn't a better method be to just script the setup? If it's already detailed and personalized why not just have it as a script that goes through and sets it all up? If all t
929.
by johngalt 16y ago
While I share your pain as a sysadmin. Exceedingly few people will pay for this, and the ones that do pay won't want to pay very much. Automated training/guides have been around for a long time, but every shop I've ever been to just has one
930.
by johngalt 16y ago
Seems there is no way to win this one. If men don't share it's a "boy's club", if they do share it's condescenion. Also my bias detector is beeping. Reverse the genders. What if I found it insulting that a startup event wasn't "men only"? I

More ›