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by kentm 8y ago
Yeah I misread your post, sorry about that.
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by kentm 8y ago
Developers that build a new thing are disproportionately valued over developers who improve or maintain old things. The formers will be the wunderkinds of the organization and referred to as "rock stars" and "10x-ers" d
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by kentm 8y ago
This is well-put. A lot of the issue with "learning new things" is that you're not learning new things, just old things that have been repackaged. Those new things are almost always poorly documented.
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by kentm 8y ago
The tech industry idolizes and encourages terrible behavior, and it ends up being self-reinforcing. Efforts to counteract that get pushback. How many people will get upset if you suggest that Steve Jobs was not a good person and probably
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by kentm 8y ago
Our profession consistently ignores operation and maintenance in favor of building a new thing, despite the former being at least as important. How many people post negatively about Java in terms of productivity and cite boilerplate as a pr
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by kentm 8y ago
This is true and its truly awful. You'll have people who question your credentials because you don't have projects on github.
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by kentm 8y ago
I agree with your point. To elaborate my position, once one builds an opt-in surveillance network, it only requires a shift in public policy to remove the opt-in nature. You would have to have strong confidence in the safeguards against s
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by kentm 8y ago
This is an unhelpful comment. Rather than attacking chrisfosterelli you could explain your point of view.
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by kentm 8y ago
Systems being isolated and containing encrypted communication does not mean that there are no vulnerabilities. Otherwise, TLS would be all that’s needed to secure a website.
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by kentm 8y ago
I didn't mean to assume you did, sorry. Its just fun to be the jerk that points out that hiring without bias is actually really hard. We've had quite a lot of discussions about this internally, and even with humans at the helm wi
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by kentm 8y ago
Unfortunately using open source work, even if only for programming, introduces all sorts of biases as well. A lot of very competent programmers work at jobs that do not have open source contributions and also have families which limit the t
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by kentm 8y ago
I would argue that you should be able to and then follow that up as to why its prohibitive (and what prohibitive means)? At least on the library side, there tends to be a default-to-trust to the point where large projects put dependencies o
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by kentm 8y ago
I put creating 5 companies... Zip2, x.com, SpaceX, Boring Company. Elon didn't create Solar City or Tesla. What am I missing?
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by kentm 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/elon-musk-tesla-... The plan, as it was negotiated by lawyers, was for Mr. Musk to step down as chairman of Tesla within 45 days and not resume that post for
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by kentm 8y ago
According to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/elon-musk-tesla-... the original terms were The plan, as it was negotiated by lawyers, was for Mr. Musk to step down as chairman of Tesla within
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by kentm 8y ago
The facts in the above post were incorrect. It’s the same deal with worse penalties. The deal Musk rejected was also for stepping down as chairman rather than CEO. In other words, Musk blinked not the SEC.
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by kentm 8y ago
I think calling it just an API later over Lucene is a bit dismissive. I’ve worked with search products built directly on Lucene vs ElasticSearch and there’s significant value add even without the API. In particular, sharding, replicating an
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by kentm 8y ago
I can't speak for pseudocook but the fact that they replaced the dash with a tablet really puts me off of the 3. Not only is it ugly (IMO), its less functional.
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by kentm 8y ago
Sorry, can you elaborate on the point you are trying to make?
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by kentm 8y ago
> Why do you think that games journalism is not only niche, but extremely niche? I can't really speak to whether or not its niche in an objective sense (i.e. the readership of games journalism), but it may seem that way because the
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by kentm 8y ago
This is why I would never, ever rent out an autonomously driving vehicle I own (something Tesla wants to offer). I really have to wonder about peoples' experiences with shared services that they think this is desirable.
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by kentm 8y ago
At least for the space elevator, we do not have the necessary materials to create it. There's been some hypotheses that carbon nanotubes could have the required strength, but we cannot produce strands long enough.
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by kentm 8y ago
The article is light on specifics, so no idea.
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by kentm 8y ago
Looks like the eventual plan is to link the airport to a tourist spot and the city is just the first stop on the way through. Might also be cheaper/easier to do in a less populated area.
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by kentm 8y ago
I doubt the lawyers would OK such a thing, even if they weren't afraid of the legal consequences. Interviewers are just employees on the loop with minimal training, and as such you're likely to run into a non-trivial portion that
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by kentm 8y ago
There’s a difference between requiring source code as a precondition for selling and stopping sales of a product on documented safety concerns and requiring participation in an investigation to resume sales. It’s down to whether the law is
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by kentm 8y ago
The 4% withdrawal rate has been challenged, and one shouldn't use it as a guaranteed safe rate. It included massive bull runs that may not be repeated going forward. A lot of research has predicted lower real rates of return (around 4
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by kentm 8y ago
If you're in the lumber business and giving estimates on how much wood you're going to deliver per month, then not knowing what the forest looks like might be considered something of an existential problem. I get that Musk really
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by kentm 8y ago
Whether a problem is interesting is orthogonal to whether its important. This is an earnings call and scaling up production is actually an important issue to address for the company's long-term viability.
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by kentm 9y ago
Does anyone have an opinion on Godot Vs Unreal Engine?

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