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by mwfunk 10y ago
I need to work on my chutzpah. I overspecialized in moxie and spunk (the personality trait, that is). Chutzpah's critical though- you're usually not going to get what you want if you never ask for it. You can wait a really long ti
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I was under the impression that once the war broke out, IBM in Germany was cut off from the rest of the company, and the support provided to the German government that was so controversial was from the severed German appendage of IBM rather
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I get that inverting a matrix can be computationally intensive, but what's the alternative? "What if you have to solve Ax = b for a lot of different b‘s? Surely then it’s worthwhile to find A-1. No. The first time you solve Ax = b
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Well, it's pretty obvious that that's one of the impressions they are trying to create, but it's almost disturbing that anyone would jump straight to that conclusion without passing through many, many, many stages of suspicio
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The choice of name alone ensures that the first impression is of a copycat at best and a scam at worst. Even if neither of those things are true and this company is totally legit, the fact that whoever is behind this company chose to use th
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by mwfunk 10y ago
What do you mean by gtk under Qt? What about Tk apps, or Athena apps, or Motif, or GNUStep, etc.? There really is no such thing as a native Linux look and feel, you just happen to use a consistent selection of apps on your own system.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I dunno, makes sense to me. Annexing one nation will make all the others fear and hate you even more, of course they'll denounce you. A big part of the game is figuring out how to walk the line between expansion and alienating the othe
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Me good no words. :) At least not right now apparently...
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I've always pronounced it as 'care', not because of how the identifier is spelled but because it's the first syllable of the word 'character'. I don't think there's a consensus between car/char&#
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Just because a CEO spends their day making high-level decisions because they are literally delegating tasks to tens of thousands of people doesn't mean that they are "resting".
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by mwfunk 10y ago
For something like a train I would think you'd want one or more humans babysitting it all the time no matter how automated it is. Thousands of people would ride it every day, all the time, even if it is 100% automated what would be the
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Time is money- plenty of people would trade $200 for not having to spend time doing that. That's the sort of thing that's really fun and cool and interesting if someone's a hobbyist and/or student and/or in the larv
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by mwfunk 10y ago
To the person that asked the question, headcanon's first paragraph is pretty much right on and answers the question. The downvotes likely came from the tribalism expressed in the second paragraph ("uneducated backwater hicks"
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by mwfunk 10y ago
And for another grain of salt, it's on Gizmodo, a Gawker property. I often enjoy some of the Gawker sites (esp. Deadspin) but they are openly, unapologetically tabloidy and clickbaity from the top down. Nothing wrong with that as long
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Very true. I was referring to the futility of trying to right past wrongs when said wrongs are essentially unrightable, but if awareness prevents future wrongs, it's straight up pragmatism.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I agree with you 100%. At the same time, in this specific situation I can't help but still be even more disturbed at the thought of a Trump presidency than I am by a data hungry, Orwellian, fascist Internet corporation. Not defending t
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Expecting other people to feel guilt over multigenerational sins is possibly silly, but ones' own feelings of guilt are certainly not. It's very human and admirable, even if it's irrational or not constructive or useful. I wo
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Can't you just use the same logic to make the opposite point? "In particular, people who commute using public transit are happy to read anything which externalizes and validates their views about the viability of single-occupancy
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The point is that we are wrong about everything to one degree or another. Maturing intellectually is a never ending process of becoming less wrong about the things we choose to study, but at no point do we ever cross a finish line and becom
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Very true. It's a lot easier to look at failures and understand why they failed than look at successes and understand why they succeeded. I would read the hell out of a book full of accurate postmortems of failed businesses, products,
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by mwfunk 10y ago
...and it goes without saying that the word "success" is being used here as shorthand for "making lots of money", which is only one form of success and not the most important one in the grand scheme of things.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I've always thought of it more like, there are some qualities that are conducive to success (like not giving up when things don't go your way), and there are qualities that make success less likely (illiteracy, poverty, geography,
863.
by mwfunk 10y ago
What country do you work in that's not America? I want to move there. OTOH, if you work in America, what country are you referring to that's not like this, and why aren't you working there?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
...and Wozniak was also lucky he met Jobs. So I'm not sure what the point is. The subtext sounds like you're bitter that it's hard to become a billionaire on the the basis of engineering skills alone, and that you don't
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by mwfunk 10y ago
AFAIK he does not owe his livelihood to anyone. He made his FU money from Tumblr, and a bit more from selling Instapaper, but since then his output (which, yes, has been iOS-focused) has been more like hobby projects that at worst keep him
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by mwfunk 10y ago
No, it's uh most definitely not. That's like saying genital herpes is a good problem to have because you had sex with someone in order to get it.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Whenever someone wistfully posts about how great it would be if their > 100 (heck, even > 10) employee company had a flat structure like Valve, I can't help but cringe a little. If you don't have an explicit organizational s
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Not sure why anyone would downvote this, it's a huge factor. It's a well-known phenomenon. The emotional impact of the stuff you listened to in your early days of music fandom is often much greater than even your favorite music as
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Agreed 100%. I felt the same way 10 years ago when people would always bring up the Minority Report UI as some sort of holy grail we should all be working towards. It looks cool (or demos well, in the case of conversational UIs), but outsid
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is the #1 problem with anything based on voice recognition and natural language processing IMO. It has to work 99% of the time to overcome this issue, but it seems like the nature of the technologies ensure that it will only asymptotic

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