kmicklas

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by kmicklas 9y ago
Yeah but in this fucked up battle, you are the bad guy and the employee is not.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> If you sign a contract, you are saying you're alright with it. No, you are saying you don't want to be unemployed and starve on the streets. > Good luck in life but those of us who stand by our word want nothing to do with
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Yeah of course, I'm not saying the contract wouldn't have an influence on my actions, just that I don't (and you shouldn't) feel a moral/ethical obligation to follow it.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
It's the same bootlicking mentality behind both of these problems.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I feel bad for people with this bootlicker mindset... If I get sued for violating the contract well that sucks for me but I'm certainly not going to feel bad for it.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I don't think modern CRUD apps are necessarily more general. They're just built on top of many more layers of broken abstractions.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> why would you expect major improvements to arise? Maybe not, but you certainly shouldn't expect a regression, which is exactly what we're witnessing.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> So I don't understand how anyone could be passionate about it, except maybe to passionately question why we're fine with continuing to do things this way, instead of stepping back and after a sober thought concluding that th
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> So your mentor seems to be right, even though what he's suggesting is not 100% ethical: if you read your contract you'll see that all of your software related ideas are property of Google. It is most definitely not unethical
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Sometimes I wish I was a nihilist programmer. They seem much happier, and in my experience optimist programmers slowly get all the life sucked out of them when on a team of mostly nihilist programmers (which seems to be most in the industry
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Yeah it's a false dichotomy.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I think the opposite, WaveNet already sounds basically human to me but after more than a few sentences no computer generated text looks real.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Unicode isn't hard, dealing with software that doesn't use it is.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I can't take these things seriously when they say stuff like "It’s not as musical as Spanish, or Italian, or French, or as ornamental as Arabic, or as vibrant as some of your native languages." The classic fetishism of Romanc
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by kmicklas 9y ago
It's funny how surgeon is listed as the farthest out application of in the abstract. I think surgery is in fact the easiest of all the listed jobs in an AI sense, but it might depend more on advances in robotics.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Releasing both code and models needs to be STANDARD for ML research.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I think think most skilled developers could easily do data science work, they are just more expensive to hire than data scientists.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Yeah this is basically how Python is used in ML/data science work. Except Haskell lets you apply solid engineering all the way from the prototype to the production system.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
This is Hacker News not Startup News.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> I think the solution to this is the 20% time rule, but Google only really does this. Google doesn't really do this either anymore.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I'm not sure how Polish could be considered that hard for English speakers. The writing system is completely phonetic, there are a ton of cognates (more so than other Slavic languages I think because of its proximity to Western Europe)
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Q: Where is Go in May 2017? A: 1970
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by kmicklas 9y ago
And the British empire, more than that. Hence, British communists.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
If only he implemented his thesis into Go. Then maybe we could add generics.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
What's so puzzling about that?
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> Linux lets you use multiple libcs, so (at the expense of a more complex build) it should be possible there, at least? Linux lets you use no libc if you want, too. I suspect the reason this kind of change doesn't happen is, if you
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by kmicklas 9y ago
The argument for UBI over NIT, as I understand it, is that if rich people but UBI too they'll be less likely to attempt to defund it. I don't find this especially convincing, since from a purely rational point of view decreasing U
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Why? The CAP theorem has a logical proof which can not be refuted, this seems unlikely to even have a strong informal argument to me.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Google has 12354697024785902789027345238907423 messaging apps and no one has any idea why.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I think you more or less get the best of all the worlds if you: 1) have a good build-test-release process so updating hard coded values is not so hard or dangerous 2) use a language like Haskell that makes custom DSLs easy and automatically

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