neilobremski

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by neilobremski 7y ago
I can't say I agree with this (besides how silly it reads). Outright avoidance as a periodic tact sounds like jarring panacea. One day I wake up in a flood of sensations and the next day I stick my head in the sand? Where is the adapta
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by neilobremski 7y ago
This is really what I'd suggest to the OP, not necessarily THESE services but SOME form of out-sourced support. You can add technical redundancy until the cows come home and some bug is still going to stop things, probably with the wor
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Holy shit this is scary. I must have been living under a rock but I didn't realize that FULLY-AUTONOMOUS self-driving cars were even LEGAL yet. > The self-driving car was fully autonomous at the time at the accident, though it had a
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Big Tech paying/obeying Regulations is their version of Certifications. It costs them a bit of money but it also appears to the customers that they're "doing the right thing" (akin to buying integrity?). Unfortunately, w
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I'd enjoy a timelapse video of this with a timer at the bottom and an occasional pauses or slow-downs to show specific parts. Fun stuff. My first thought is the time I was installing Windows 9x from floppies and one of thirty-something
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I agree that "this law is hurting the web" but I don't see how shifting that from the website to the application is going to solve the root issue. Prompts like these are annoying speed bumps that I have a hard time believing
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Man, I still drop this line as a bad joke into conversations sometimes. I remember it saying "That is incorrect" (it sounded so final!), "The correct spelling of <WORD> is ...". The way that it would say each word
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by neilobremski 7y ago
This is just lovely. I'm the lead of a company's data warehouse project, having inherited it from someone who was a DBA that read a book and then made the whole thing ... I tend to joke that I'm a digital janitor and now I&#x
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I need a zen curtain on the front of my phone, my television, my laptop screen ... heck I need some zen everywhere
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by neilobremski 7y ago
This reminds me of another rising sentiment: "feeling disconnected while everything is connected". Perhaps a loss of ownership in all things also means trading in pieces of identity? If everything is a service then is everyone a c
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I have never used Tcl but this headline truly intrigued me. It sounds like the antithesis of JavaScript's "everything is an object". An object is very abstract whereas a string is very ... literal? I know many generic operati
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by neilobremski 7y ago
This was fun but really short ... I must have missed the part where it explained the correlation between the color and the noise pattern. Why is it "pink" versus "chartreuse"? Sometimes when I'm at the edge of sleep
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I wonder how my younger self from twenty years ago would have responded to me now: I'd prefer to PAY money for software once rather than being suckled by subscriptions, annoyed by ads, frazzled by fingerprinting, or prickled by privacy
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Software developers hate working for the pointed-haired boss too. Agile is just a name for a process which is a meta "tool" for a company to get its work done. We're always going to hate working in an environment where manage
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by neilobremski 7y ago
This brings to mind the phone ringing in the middle of the night. You pick it up and add mumble into the receiver and the conversation begins. But no, now the phone rings in the middle of the night (assuming it isn't text / Slack
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Inevitably the goal of a project like this is going to start the fiery debate around artist compensation, free content, and advertising in general. BUT this is a great way to really see (or rather hear) ML work. It reminds me a little of so
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I think it's great that Apple is attempting to design an OS for a specific form-factor and the use cases that go along with that. I worked on Windows 8 and the idea of putting the same UI on every device regardless of its size or input
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by neilobremski 7y ago
This makes sense to me and maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it explains why I can't find my keys when they're in my hand.
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Whether or not you love/hate ORM, I think the advice at the very end is still applicable: "If you’re using an RDBMS, bite the bullet and learn SQL." This knowledge will help you write SQL if that's what you're doing
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by neilobremski 7y ago
It may sound strange but the focus of my interview questions is to encourage the candidate to express an OPINION which I hope becomes a STORY. To that end I'll ask questions that at a glance seem to be objective through a lens of soun
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by neilobremski 7y ago
What does a viable alternative look like? I've been using Bing for the past few months; it's not great or terrible but is it "viable" enough for people to shift to over time? Or is it not viable because it's backed
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by neilobremski 8y ago
I started reading this link and this sentence popped out at me: > It’s a phenomenon that’s been used to explain atrocities from the Holocaust to the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. This sounds an aw
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by neilobremski 8y ago
Do people really crave silence? I always seem to crave quiet over pure silence (where the hissing of my tinnitus can become too distracting). There's a hum and a rhythm to a busy room that doesn't need to be loud: the chatting at
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by neilobremski 8y ago
I send tech books and articles to my Kindle for later reading but these often include HYPERLINKS that are easily / accidentally tapped when trying to turn the page. For that reason alone I miss the hardware buttons on the side. Were th