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by lsc 9y ago
>Good for you if you're OK with that extreme imbalance. But, I know too many people that discovered only upon an exit, that the financial reward was never destined for them. so personally? I don't care about the imbalance, I c
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by lsc 9y ago
On the other hand, in 2004, I was... not that much older than the author... and making not that much less than the author said microsoft was offering them (of course, instead of 4 years of school, I had ~6 years of post highschool work expe
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by lsc 9y ago
On a more personal note, I grew up using messenger protocols, icq, aim and yim. Now, I'd use a multi-protocol client, which is a little like federation, but now that doing this is inconvenient? SMS has almost entirely taken over the
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by lsc 9y ago
I've seen similar applications for ios, but they all seemed to want permissions I wasn't so happy to give to some rando. If apple provided the service, I'd probably be okay with it, but I'm not super comfortable feeding
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by lsc 9y ago
Is this something the phone company implements? or that your phone implements?
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by lsc 9y ago
>What do people really still use public phones and email for? My impression is that inter-company communications all go over email and public phone. Intra-company,of course, you use the company's walled garden, if the company is la
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by lsc 9y ago
>I guess I’m confused on what the goal of all this is.If we wanted a computer that thinks “just like a person”, why don’t we just get a person? I thought the idea (edit: behind true machine intelligence/machine consciousness) was to
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by lsc 9y ago
>People enjoy federated networks of regulated, good faith players; wide open federated networks tend towards anarchy. Like... email and the phone system? both of those have huge amounts of bad actors and spam, and people still use them
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by lsc 9y ago
>The kitchen area, despite being an office staffed with supposed professionals, is always a mess. How does this happen? Are you staffing a professional cleaner? Expecting software engineers to be good at keeping a kitchen tidy is about a
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by lsc 9y ago
I think mathperson is referring to the fact that 'big 5' is the new personality type test that psychology researchers seem to take more seriously. My understanding is that it's a lot more, I forget the word. reliable or repe
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by lsc 9y ago
>If it's hard, it's usually a psychological difficulty rather than a lack of opportunity. Sure, but that doesn't mean it's easier. In my experience, it's the other way around, really. I am rather good at oper
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by lsc 9y ago
>So I'm in a job search right now. I just aced another interview. It's a company that wants to pay me way, way too much money to work on updating their legacy app. I have money woes right now but I'm considering turning it
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by lsc 9y ago
so, uh, I have similar issues, and you know what works for me? Going into a physical office with a professional middle manager. I mean, assuming I find a place where I'm a good fit (meaning, my technical abilities make it worth the tim
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by lsc 9y ago
>Consumers should be the ones building chatbots to talk to brands not vice versa. There was a lot of sci-fi ish talk, back in the day, about 'agents' or 'smart personal agents' or thinks like that; where we'd all
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by lsc 9y ago
Interesting. When I took high school math as a kid, there weren't many explanations, (and for some reason, I wasn't up for looking them up/figuring them out myself- weird, 'cause I totally was up for that sort of thin
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by lsc 9y ago
I personally find Serge Lang's "Basic Mathematics" to be super useful in explaining the "why" of a particular formula in pre-college level math, as most books at my current level just seem to say "memorize th
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by lsc 9y ago
So, I know a lot less about math than you do. However, I have been studying lately myself, and reading a lot of Martin Gardner and Serge Lang; Both of those (and many of the other math types I read) seem to hold that making math practic
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by lsc 9y ago
I hope your prediction comes true. my point, though, was that arguing that Clinton lost because she was too conservative runs counter to the fact that someone way more conservative beat her. Really, I think this counters the "Trump wo
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by lsc 9y ago
The counterpoint to your wall of text? Trump won. He wasn't so far from even getting the popular vote. My point is that this goes directly against the idea that people want universal health care. This was a very strong vote again
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by lsc 9y ago
My experience is that 'collectives' aren't a lot easier for the socially impaired than traditional body shops, and they usually have less work. they do usually charge a much smaller cut, though, which is pretty good, so if yo
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by lsc 9y ago
So, if you are a business, I think relying solely on AWS is a super bad idea. Amazon is aware of the lock in effect, and if your usage spikes and you don't have a good alternative ready to go? Amazon is setup so that you will pay thro
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by lsc 9y ago
From watching friends, for higher end jobs? you are almost never terminated 'with cause' - I don't know even one programmer who got fired from a fully paid programming job (I mean, a job paying six figures, not a "shad
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by lsc 9y ago
Haha. Your position, then, is that recognising consciousness is so hard that we don't even know it when we see it?. That's fair, and in some ways I agree. But I think a certain amount of that is implicit in "I know it when I
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by lsc 9y ago
Do you think devops and sre work are the same thing? In my experience, devops interviews are mostly concerned with your ability to write scripts against APIs and operate puppet or similar tools. SRE interviews usually assume you will be wor
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by lsc 9y ago
Personally, though, I think there are book anti-patterns, too. If you start somewhere new or get new management and they hand out Machiavelli or Sun Tzu, You should probably update your resume and start taking recruiter calls; things ar
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by lsc 9y ago
You could, of course, do machine checks of some subset of "can generate syntactically correct English" -and that would cut out a whole lot more bad programs than 'can you write MacBeth.' but- even when you pass that te
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by lsc 9y ago
>My expectations are being set for radical transformation across most areas of technology in the next decade or two As someone who as lived through most of the last four decades, this seems like a very reasonable expectation. I mean, t
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by lsc 9y ago
If you can implement passes_turing_test() in a way that is testable without human intervention... that would be a pretty great advance. I'm pretty sure we're not anywhere near there. The fundamental problem, as I understand it,
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by lsc 9y ago
I personally think that all stock advice is bullshit; if anyone had a working strategy, they'd use it and it would get priced into the market, making it worthless for the next guy. but my favorite investment method is 're-balanc
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by lsc 9y ago
>Totally agree that executives and so on are hyper-vigilant about status. However it's possible to be aware of status without aiming to increase it. Those whom I had in mind are religious leaders like Jesus or the Buddha. They appar

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