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by laythea 9y ago
I laughed at this :)
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by laythea 9y ago
I don't think the parent was talking about writing bad code. I think he/she was saying not to stress about writing good code too much . Those are different things.
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by laythea 9y ago
This is a very good, professional response.
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by laythea 9y ago
Awesome link. Thanks.
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by laythea 9y ago
With no evidence whatsoever, I would argue against that. "Top talent" does not equate to "moving into an industry with potential". I think the other comment re TensorMonkeys is valid. How many AI researchers actually und
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by laythea 9y ago
Not if X is problem solving, which is what I was getting at really. For example, you could teach a monkey to teach X to another monkey, but what if the other monkey did not consume the learned material. Then the teacher monkey would not be
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by laythea 9y ago
If you are trying to tell me that HTML was purpose built for the task that it does today, then I'm sorry but I do not agree.
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by laythea 9y ago
I agree. HTML for documents. C# etc for applications.
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by laythea 9y ago
Yep. Except I would consider what I do as mostly engineering, and what I said above still applies. Subsea oil/gas control systems, gas turbine control systems, etc, but then sometime just desktop applications, eg OpenGL/Java etc.
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by laythea 9y ago
I disagree. It may be possible to teach a monkey to perform X. But can you teach a monkey to teach another monkey to perform X? EDIT: no implied insult there.
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by laythea 9y ago
HTML is inferior than a technology that is purpose built. It was not originally designed to handle the job it does today. It is possible to create a much better user experience with eg. C# using some network code to talk to the server than
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by laythea 9y ago
I think you misinterpreted me a little. I think the reason that lawyers and doctors cannot "jump around" is not because, for example, a lawyer cannot absorb the information required to be both a good corporate lawyer and a good li
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by laythea 9y ago
This is so true. In my job, it's the problem solving ability that is valued. Not the innate knowledge of tools etc that we use to solve the problems, however that is, off course, required also.
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by laythea 9y ago
I don't think that is what he/she meant. I don't know what your professional software experience has been like, but software is applied and required to some extent in all industries nowadays, and therefore there is a broader
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by laythea 9y ago
Just to clarify, I agree, it's not nothing. But still.
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by laythea 9y ago
I'm sorry but I disagree. Mature Rust is not the same as mature C++. If you are a commercial entity you would, in my opinion, be fool-hearty to select a language like Rust, mature in the sense you mean or not, as the main language of u
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by laythea 9y ago
No, that's not what I said. Let me put it another way, things form patterns in life. All sorts of patterns. E.g. As a silly example to illustrate clearly, trees are generally green. Is that discriminating against other colours? (if suc
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by laythea 9y ago
Wow, so much debate over the specific manner in which to solve a problem. More needed on the which problems to solve, I think.
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by laythea 9y ago
Is this not alike to asking me to not have the mental view of a basketball team as a coloured group of tall males? And if I had that view, then am I discriminating against short white people, or have I built a more accurate mental model of
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by laythea 9y ago
Surely if you had a good idea for a company, the currently zero interest stuff would suddenly become a bit more interesting. Then it would seem that this is more about the lack of any good ideas than the actual starting of a company.
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by laythea 9y ago
Agreed. Long live ladder logic!
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by laythea 9y ago
I work in the industry and I can definitely say that these things aren't built to be internet facing, but nor should they be.
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by laythea 9y ago
"For me, I start relying on the readouts for speed and rpm around the four hour mark. Tired brains don't work well." Wow. I never rely on readouts. Always use the window :)
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by laythea 9y ago
I'm not sure what your definition of best programmer is, but to create your own language in order to solve a problem is an extreme measure in my opinion, very rarely justified. I like code that says "does this, then that, then tha
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by laythea 9y ago
Its crazy isn't it. First we had desktop applications, then webpages that try to be desktop apps, now websites are changing their very definition to being desktop applications (using the browser as a framework). It's similar with
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by laythea 9y ago
Why is a failure of the cluster readout display, during driving, a big deal? If it fails, it would be fixed soon. The driver still has the window. I'm struggling to see how an immediate failure of speed readout etc would immediately en
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by laythea 9y ago
Yep, this applies to most things. E.g Engines.
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by laythea 9y ago
Not a fan of the website UI. Eg. For me, having to have a big down arrow telling the user further content is down, is a UI fail.
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by laythea 9y ago
Are you kidding? How many undocumented processor instructions and undocumented processor operating systems do what with your data. Imagine a world with transparent CPUs and you are imagining a world without mass data collection.
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by laythea 9y ago
I wouldn't worry about that. Please allow Windows to determine what platform you are running. It knows best, after all.

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