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by jrd259 5y ago
The Stoic philosophers considered this, though they of course were not software engineers or even in a capitalist world. You can only pursue "arete" (excellence) under your own criteria. As the Stoics remind us, you don't
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by jrd259 5y ago
I don't know any, and I have written or reviewed about 20
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by jrd259 5y ago
PL/1 was the systems programming language for Multics. Certainly not a bad language to work with.
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by jrd259 5y ago
Perhaps a bad idea, but at least it was rigorously specified. I note that that Javascript and perl have same ability. See also https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by jrd259 5y ago
We have one already: cash. As for protection against authoritarian actors. If your state has already gone full panopticon, crypto won't save you, indeed the state will mandate exclusive use of their chosen crypto, gaining even more v
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by jrd259 5y ago
If you are under 30, it appears your risk of death is low regardless of your status, but you will not forever be under 30, and perhaps you know some over-30 for whom the difference in death rate is important? Even if there's no one yo
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by jrd259 5y ago
Just today I got two phone calls that showed up as "Unknown". Neither was spam. One was my family doctor, the other a local bicycle shop. If it matters, I'm in Toronto, using an Android phone, with Rogers as my carrier. T
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by jrd259 5y ago
Kerson and his team asked buyers at every retailer who stocks PNW parts to remove them from their Amazon stores too, so that everyone involved could maximize their profits and not undercut each other. IANAL, but is this not collusion or pri
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by jrd259 5y ago
> After leaving his job in global business development at Amazon, Aaron Kerson used his knowledge of the platform’s sales algorithms to power up his new business. Don't corporations typically have non-compete clauses to prevent an e
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by jrd259 5y ago
Perhaps "in there too" ?
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by jrd259 5y ago
Ted Nelson was very explicit on this point in his visionary book "Dream Machines".
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by jrd259 5y ago
To amplify on that. Consider the upside to catching a cheater. Catching a scientific cheater: * You improve the collective knowledge of humanity. * If the cheater is in your own country, you may also reduce the size of the grant-seeking po
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by jrd259 5y ago
The lisp dialect (*Lisp) did get off the ground. I programmed in it.
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by jrd259 5y ago
A parody of the song "That's Amore" by Allen Sherman has lyrics like "When you're diving at night And your feet feel a bite That's a moray!" and "When you see a big eel with its jaws made of steel th
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by jrd259 5y ago
I express my dismay that you would even suggest using a pirated edition. Do you deny that McWhorter (and/or his publisher) is entitled to sell his work?
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by jrd259 6y ago
So now I want to know 1. what is the eigenface for each of the two clusters? What does the perfect liberal look like? 2. What is the political orientation of https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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by jrd259 6y ago
So you accuse the author of bad faith or at best laziness or gullibility. You are now obligated to provide superior explanation of the trading regulations, not just call names.
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by jrd259 6y ago
Where is "ansible"? (Faster-than-light text-only channel) Coined by LeGuin, but also used by Card and others
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by jrd259 6y ago
How regrettable that the document has no named author, other than the official sponsor. The advice stands or falls without it, still one would like to know the name of the one who advocated so well for clear writing.
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by jrd259 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man
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by jrd259 6y ago
We always allow the candidate to use any reasonable language. We're not testing if someone knows Java/Python/Lisp (I wish). We're testing if they know any language. I can confirm seeing people with resumes who never
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by jrd259 6y ago
Our incentive is not (as you imply) a selfish desire to enrich ourselves though artificial scarcity, but rather the knowledge that a weak team member hurts everyone and is hard to get rid of. At my firm we have the explicit goal of hiring
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by jrd259 6y ago
It's one of the questions I ask when I interview people. I could care less whether you remember some algorithm you could look up in Knuth. I want to know if you can put yourself in your customer's place and design an API that mee
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by jrd259 6y ago
Unlike the GG&S case, where smallpox and influenza decimated (literally) the new world peoples, there is no evidence that East Asians had evolved resistance to the coronaviruses prior to the pandemic. What differences in death rate we
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by jrd259 6y ago
Maybe you mean First Law of Robotics? (is joke, in case not obvious)
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by jrd259 6y ago
This reply is in bad faith. He did not attempt to "justify" the pricing with "vendor lock-in". Indeed, the prices went down, not up.
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by jrd259 6y ago
And putting other people at risk
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by jrd259 6y ago
Questions 1. How these detectors read distance of the event? In order to assert that the rate peaked 8*10^9 years ago, we'd need to know distance. Surely it's not based on amplitude 2. Galaxies collide. Is there reason to think
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by jrd259 6y ago
Isabel Wilkerson's new book Caste compares the systematic racism of the USA, the caste system of India, and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. She attempts to describe a fundamental framework of caste (including divine mandate) that encom
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by jrd259 6y ago
Then again, the AI system Eurisko won the Trillon Credit Squadron game twice in a row, each time with novel strategies. You might say that dogfighting is more constrained by laws of physics we already know, and so this won't happen.

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