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   by menzoic 7y ago

   OP was speaking less about software and more about tech startup culture. Theranos comes to mind. Shoddy MVPs work well for consumer software but are dangerous in the medical field where the results could be life or death. The question is ho
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   by menzoic 7y ago

   What about UberEats?
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   by menzoic 8y ago

   Sounds similar to what Robinhood does.
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   by menzoic 8y ago

   To be fair he was talking about usability and not encryption/privacy features. I agree mostly though, even capable developers don't have time. Feature requests make software better. If you want people to use your app, you should b
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   by menzoic 8y ago

   Clickbait title on HN? He said it's one of the first, not the very first one. Also just say "request". Anyone interested in an old npm package being deprecated will probably know this module. "request is being deprecated
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   by menzoic 8y ago

   Yay proper use of a positive feedback loop.
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   by menzoic 8y ago

   Roses are flowers. Not all flowers are roses.
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   by menzoic 8y ago

   Maybe not wired differently. It could be that they've gained knowledge and experience that makes this seem normal/safe.
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   by menzoic 8y ago

   There is no alpha male. The original study confused the father in a family of wolves as a general "alpha". The original author retracted the results, but it still lives on. https://www.businessinsider.com/no-such-t
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    > No computer will ever demonstrate actual intelligence, which is the ability to bring a new and unforeseen solution to an existing problem It's easy to disprove absolute claims such as yours. Yes AI can create new things and it&#x2
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    This brings to mind the popular Blind app where co-workers feel safe enough about their anonymity to put things online that they never would have otherwise. https://www.teamblind.com
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    Thanks arbitcoin! Refreshing to see feedback taken to improve content even though I was a bit harsh. That's a great personal attribute that leads to growth and mastery, I wish most people were like that.
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    I used to feel that it was hyperbole when a big deal is made at huge companies that miss earnings but still do significantly better than most. The problem is investor sentiment. All investors want their investment to grow which makes stabil
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    This is a poor quality article with lots of weird assertions. > "All new forks initially inherit their parent blockchain’s market cap, regardless of their own merit, value, utility, initial uptake, use, liquidity, etc." Forking
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    >For another take, if the Zuckerberg of 2004/2005 was presented with what Facebook would be in 2019, extreme success, billions of dollars, social problems, and increasing questions about what role it does and has played in Democracy
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    https seems to be redirecting to http. At least on mobile.
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    How would this work if the data was stored on an immutable blockchain?
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    Not only GitHub staff but any attacker that gains priviledged access to GitHub servers
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    How does NASA fully know what they need? I would think they have the most unknowns out of any other engineering organization.
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    With that logic, no one would ever become a freelancer. I started freelancing when I was 15yrs old. My portfolio was just toy projects that I did for fun. I found my first client on a forum that had a topic for posting gigs, I used the same
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    By mass or quantity?
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/march/ho...
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    I built a crypto wallet / portfolio tracker that is much more useful as a mobile app. I can imagine how expanding it to a website could make sense down the road, but the utility is in quick access to transfer funds and check your portf
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    TekMol, I don't get how your analogy relates? A gun would have to be put to every individual miner's head to force the majority to upgrade. Even then, if it caused a fork, individual users have the freedom to continue using the ol
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    > How can Ethereum be decentralized if they can so easily keep changing it? Decentralization doesn't mean it needs to be immutable. It just means that power and responsibility is distriubted to many. > I'm a total dilettante
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, the creator of Deep Learning left academia in the United States and moved to Canada in part as a personal protest against military funding of research.
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    What happens when you try to send politically sensitive messages on WeChat(qz.com)

    20 points by menzoic 8y ago|1 comments
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    Lots of misinformation in this article. My favorite one is "Plasma is dead". Meanwhile Plasma MVP was just demoed at Devcon last month...
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    The article presents the idea of a future mass pool of novice coders who don't (or don't need to) level up, that can take care of simple things like "manage the login page". I think that underestimates the complexity of
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    by menzoic 8y ago

    This happens in Nigeria a lot (><) I hear and see a transformer explode multiple times per week.