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by laughingman2 9y ago
I am in a quickly growing mid-size company which has reduced this problem. The co founders are cool, considerate and have respect for new developers. They provide opportunities to shift across teams and roles based on the principle that not
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by laughingman2 9y ago
The irony of people defending apple because its "safe" and doesn't let you "shoot yourself in the foot" in a forumn named Hacker news. What is happening to hacker culture? I think as influx of new programmers increa
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by laughingman2 9y ago
It will become even more monopolised without protection in isp level. Assholes at Netflix who supported it now turn their backs because they have become big company that now no longer needs net neutrality to grow..
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by laughingman2 9y ago
In unrelated to topic note, I am in a team making html5 remote desktop thingie, I have to now start making the linux agent. If its alright for you to answer, 1. What would be the best/cross platform way to proceed?We now have separate
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by laughingman2 9y ago
http://course.fast.ai Its hands down the best course to get your hands dirty with latest , state of art stuff, and then learn how it works. It has completely different approach to most courses. It is top down. Do this first, you
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by laughingman2 9y ago
As Wittgenstien said many philosophical questions are just examining misuse of language. In a universe with a well defined casual chain in macroscopic world, is asking "might have been if X", even meaningful? Even considering inde
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by laughingman2 9y ago
I never thought hackernews would have so many opposing net neutrality. Is some alt-right brigading this thread? which is ironic considering how they claim to care about free speech.
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Lots of Anarcho-Kapitalists drunk on Ayn Rand Kool Aid. Travis is a criminal who has marketed his breaking of labor laws, civil laws as "disruption". Maybe this is what will happen you get billions of investment dollars without ea
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by laughingman2 9y ago
> I'd look to lower the inheritance to children to say 10% and abolish trusts that fund generations of lazy, spoiled brats living from their great-great-grandfather's money. Exactly, these leeches have to be stopped. And the mo
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Its being done in Zoho corp. A product based company in India. They pay students from economically weaker segments who don't/can't attend college and teach them software development basics some time. And these students are pu
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Is it because we are not ready to do away with capitalism as it becomes obsolete?
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Anecdotal evidence means shit, of course there is biological difference between men and women. The point is you making arbitrary claims using it without evidence is stupid. Centuries ago there were no women scientists, now there are, so do
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by laughingman2 9y ago
I think you this will interest you. Its a mathematician's lament on how the current system of teaching math is wrong. https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
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by laughingman2 9y ago
I think that the anarcho-capitalist outlook to form "trust less" networks for humans who rely on trust in many aspects is inherently contradictory. https://aeon.co/essays/trust-the-inside-story-of-the-rise-an.
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Blockchains don’t offer us a trustless system, but rather a reassignment of trust https://aeon.co/essays/trust-the-inside-story-of-the-rise-an...
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by laughingman2 9y ago
I think this article portrays why trust is needed even in decentralized systems. https://aeon.co/essays/trust-the-inside-story-of-the-rise-an...
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Why do you people at Facebook use a patents clause and destroy integrity of open source license of BSD? Better create a proprietary license which allow you to protect your predatory patent claims instead of acting benevolent and releasing w
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by laughingman2 9y ago
But this isn't play you are speaking of, this is just a "play" on vanity to boost personal data collection by a soulless corporation.
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by laughingman2 9y ago
The cynicism is well justified. Facebook hires top talent, its sad that the top talent want to work on such problems for making profit instead of something else. The pioneers of internet like J. C. R. Licklider had grand visions, sad that t
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by laughingman2 9y ago
The pioneers of tech like J. C. R. Licklider had grand vision of making the internet a human intelligence augmenting super power. Its sad that the intellectual people in these tech companies only want to use it to sell personal data by play
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Until the people who painstakingly build the stuff are allowed to own the results of their efforts , aka worker ownership we will see more and more of this shit everywhere.
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by laughingman2 10y ago
Exactly. People harping that this is not "commercializable" miss the point that selling out of the web is the very thing this fights against. The creators of personal computing and internet like Licklider were idealists who enviso
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by laughingman2 10y ago
Yes!
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by laughingman2 10y ago
> The web as we know it is popular because there is financial incentive. Really? how does wikipedia function then, why do lots of people create meaningful content in web for free? Applying the results of a system (aka web being currently
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by laughingman2 10y ago
I guess there are other people who would applaud the japanese to aim for self sufficiency in producing food instead of selling out to corporate interests of few engaging in globalized trade.
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by laughingman2 10y ago
This is direct result of capitalism. Employees who put their heart and soul to build something don't own it in capitalistic model. Only the owner by virtue of being owner of private property/company has right to it. Treating peopl
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by laughingman2 10y ago
Exactly, I have vast wealth of contextual knowledge because of browsing Internet regarding multiple stuff from philosophy, computer science, history etc. This has resulted me to find and appreciate connections between various stuff, things
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by laughingman2 10y ago
Then the most practical hack is banning meat and dairy industry.
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by laughingman2 10y ago
And the Pro-corporate shills would say "What if he made printer into a ink bomb? we should respect the right of manufacturer to offer printer as a service". This kind of blind slavery to ideology of blind market instead of intelli
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by laughingman2 10y ago
Well then if the Trump administration is searching for "Foreign actors posing as federal employees", shouldn't it first look into a mirror instead of twitter first?

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