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by lz400 8y ago
I think maybe it's a bit of a notation problem. They seemed to have been talking about programming as just the "writing the code" phase. We all understand programming as the last step in solving a real problem. You have to un
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by lz400 8y ago
Amazon. You generally get a very polite human on the line in seconds.
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by lz400 8y ago
I've never realized how much I hate that meandering and how difficult it's becoming to go through those overlong pieces until I saw it verbalized in this thread.
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by lz400 8y ago
That looks very high for senior devs and very low for directors/VPs.
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by lz400 8y ago
Couldn't they be connected wirelessly and send the electric signal they receive digitized?
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by lz400 9y ago
I think it's possibly the same or similar. I don't buy the pioneering mission with people who go knowing that they're not going to get back and possibly die of radiation exposure. I think nobody is going up there until there&
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by lz400 9y ago
One thing is having the technology to send a rocket to Mars, another thing to have a completely functional and self-sustaining colony, that doesn't depend on Earth supplies and that offers the possibility of a life that is not just gro
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by lz400 9y ago
I hope so too :) but what I mean is even removing apocalyptic scenarios, I still think serious space travel with flesh and blood humans is never going to happen
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by lz400 9y ago
I think we'll achieve singularity level mind uploading before anyone physically goes to any other planet. And, to be honest, makes a lot more sense to do it that way. Carrying humans around, with limited lifespans and feeble bodies, ma
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't disagree but listening to the absolute nonsensical, lie riddled incoherent rambling of the current POTUS makes me believe I don't really know what charisma is.
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by lz400 9y ago
Can you elaborate on how that change affected news outlets? I can understand they losing traffic to fb in general but I guess I'm unaware of that specific change.
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by lz400 9y ago
Is the recent attack on Facebook a coordinated effort to kill Zuck's office run? Don't get me wrong, I think all the flak Facebook is getting is deserved but there's little in the revelations coming lately after Cambridge Ana
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by lz400 9y ago
You are saying _I_ should die, even if there was technology to avoid it?
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by lz400 9y ago
Charlatans don’t really do clear. Look at Deepak Chopra, it’s also going to be difficult to do demonstrably false stuff. It’s mostly vague mumbo jumbo that’s intuitively nonsense. Still, saying that we are unwiser now than before the enligh
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by lz400 9y ago
Saying that we are unwiser post-enlightenment than in the dark ages is pure charlatanism in my opinion, however vague than statement is. The arrogance argument is more arguable but in the context it makes it look like the only thing we got
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by lz400 9y ago
How about his claims that the enlightenment screwed everything up and we were better off with a religious approach? Contradicts all evidence. Post-enlightenment reasoning and culture advanced civilization dramatically.
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by lz400 9y ago
Taleb is a serious charlatan. I found somebody tweeting this the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H11t5zBd3fU
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by lz400 9y ago
You shouldn't "assure" stuff you have no idea about. Fact is JLaw was very upset about the leaks and reacted so badly to it that most of reddit style sites fell out of love with her because she didn't appreciate having h
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by lz400 9y ago
It's these deluded comparisons that make blockchain proponents look silly. The "traditional banking system" provides orders of magnitude more services than a blockchain. They are just not comparable.
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by lz400 9y ago
Comments: "Thank you for being so brave and sharing this with the rest of us" "This very much resonates with me, I went through a personal phase in which my core values blah blah spirit animal blah blah blah get in touch if y
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by lz400 9y ago
cryptokitties or whatever is called? :)
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by lz400 9y ago
Sure but if that were the case wouldn't you think it's silly that you need to train months to be able to juggle to land a SWE position? wouldn't it be stupid? the current interview culture in those companies is not as silly a
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't know. If all the candidates are that well prepared, then if you are not you are at a disadvantage, even if it didn't used to require it. And at companies where people want to work for, like Google/amazon/FB&#x2
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by lz400 9y ago
I think this is terrible. I feel there are many good engineers that can't possibly compete for decent jobs in tech companies because they haven't spent 6-12 months reading cracking the code interview, doing this Stanford course, p
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by lz400 9y ago
Not sure but in Japan there are a lot of preparedness measures for earthquakes. Everyone goes through disaster training, people have survivals kits at home, are aware of evacuation centers, etc. There is some overlap between these measures
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by lz400 9y ago
Anyone has more insight into why? if I try to grid search hyperparameters for a random forest takes ages in a single machine with scikit-learn. I only ever see GPUs in neural networks. Is there some acceleration for non-NN machine learning
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by lz400 9y ago
Because if nowadays we consider inequality a problem and the 1% holding half of the wold's wealth obscene, in bitcoin it's orders of magnitude worse, and a lot of that early wealth is in the hands of people that from what I'v
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by lz400 9y ago
Yes but that's like "losing the war". Who's telling you the next goal isn't going to be 5%? now they'll know the government caves in if you do enough financial/fiscal engineering. I don't know that it
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by lz400 9y ago
It was a bit of a mess. Took 4 weeks from ordering to delivery, arrived defective. Called them, they said we'll pick it up, repair it and return in 1 week, I said ok. After 3 weeks I called them, they say they are waiting for a spare p
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by lz400 9y ago
Yes, Apple customer service is worlds beyond Lenovo, I had to return a defective laptop and it took months and painful calls. But still, the hardware is just more competitive in Lenovo. And YMMV but I can't deal with the new MBPs'

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