mkramlich

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by mkramlich 12y ago
I think the US gov has become too addicted, structurally and incentive-wise, to this hack which lets them spend more each year than they take in organically through taxes/fees/etc. I can not realistically picture them ever paying
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by mkramlich 12y ago
consider books as well
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by mkramlich 12y ago
also: great books on those topics have existed for decades
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by mkramlich 12y ago
visually they seem like paradise. full practical reality: no. the ideal we should seek would have the best of both worlds.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
my off-the-cuff personal rule for determining what would be "east" with respect to a pole would be to treat the GMT line as the "north" line. arbitrary but consistent and something you could orient with respect to.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
it could be done evenings or weekends. i'd make it async/flextime as much as possible. the main point is to try a real project, however small, and pay the person, therefore it's real and fair for both parties. from my observa
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by mkramlich 12y ago
If you have to ask that I suspect you'll never understand.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
factually true, on-topic, helpful comments like mine should never be punished down to -4. HN's voting system is broken and too easily abused by people being jerks, helping to reinforce groupthink shame on anyone that contributed to tha
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by mkramlich 12y ago
factually true comments should never be punished down to -1. HN's voting system is broken and too easily abused by people being jerks, helping to reinforce groupthink
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by mkramlich 12y ago
having cats is not free. and there are tons of entertainment options, the vast majority of which don't shit, smell, scratch, bite or significantly increase the chance of children or the unborn being with infected with a mind-altering b
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by mkramlich 12y ago
simpler, cheaper, healthier alternate solution: have no cats
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by mkramlich 12y ago
thank you for sharing with us all these great designs over the years
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by mkramlich 12y ago
Another problem is that it can be used by others to justify torturing US soldiers, agents or officials that fall into their hands, if those others see the US as an enemy, and feel the US gov was conspiring or operating against them. That&#x
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I still find it interesting what the major news websites and channels choose to make front page headlines with or not. In the world I want to live in, there'd be a lot more daily hammering with (apparently factual statements) like: &qu
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by mkramlich 12y ago
1.3B$ to observe a bunch of kids growing up, taking metrics of them periodically, sounds like some serious inefficiencies going on there
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by mkramlich 12y ago
if they were spending their own hard-earned cash they most likely would have been more careful like that
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by mkramlich 12y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory Wikipedia and Google are quick ways to answer most kinds of "what is X?" questions.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
indeed. Be belongs to a list of companies that would be great to hear insider stories about. also NeXT, Thinking Machines, Symbolics (sp?), Infocom, Cray, etc
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by mkramlich 12y ago
examples of domain: tax law, fashion, playing guitar expert is used in the sense of the standard definition in any English dictionary one could be an expert at programming, and though that's a valid topic and craft to have expertise in
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by mkramlich 12y ago
ML is derived from humans thinking about how we learn. so the arrow of similarity runs in the opposite direction ;-)
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I bet the costs are lower than equivalent humans (eg. medical insurance, SS, lawsuit risk, paid time off, theft, recruiting/training churn, etc)
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by mkramlich 12y ago
so... not just a pass through a Rails/Node.js tutorial then? you've just eliminated perhaps 90% of the folks who've recently decided to switch to "hacker" as their career! ;-)
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by mkramlich 12y ago
correlation != causation (necessarily) could have been innocent reasons, an algo shift. it happens. sometimes you win the SEO lottery, sometimes they pull the rug out. my own experience: roughly 3-5 years ago (don't remember off-hand)
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I'd argue quality devs are mostly born and self-made and then slowly polished over a long period of time -- not the kinds of folks who are cranked out of a vocational school. It's an intellectual craft. It's not manning a f
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I once chose the BeagleBoard for a startup's product prototype. It had just the right hardware features, ran Linux, part price ok (esp since only needed 1-3 at most, on near term horizon), plus the "not tested/blessed for com
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I've been making computer games, either as a hobby or for pay, for a span of about 30 years. There have been periods where I only made one new one every year or two, and periods where I made one or more small prototypes per month. It i
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by mkramlich 12y ago
When employee count is small enough you can make just about anything work. That's the key ingrediant here, not any particular management paradigm. For example, right now, I run an organization of precisely 1 employee and 1 leader type,
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I love the DSL for sequence diagrams the most. I've always wanted a structured text notation for architectural concepts (databases, queues, load balancing, failover, etc) as well as more atomic (non-text) graphical symbols for each. UM
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by mkramlich 12y ago
SpaceX appears to be our best chance currently for one day making it routine. And an order of magnitude cheaper. They've stated as much. And they're still in that lucky stage of business life when they have their founding genius i
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by mkramlich 12y ago
technically speaking he's living there (Russia?) to protect himself from "our" government (USA), the one with the NSA and CIA, the latter of which our own Senate has now showed was torturing human beings not convicted of any

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