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by nfoz 13y ago
> It seems to me so many businesses are chasing playthings because solving the real problems of the day are hard Not only are they hard, it's that they're not obviously monetizable.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Oh no, not again....
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by nfoz 13y ago
It's amazing how popular the term "Bayesian" is amongst people who don't really know what it means or quite where it fits in the context of other statistical paradigms.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Cloud Computing is fine if it uses proper encryption etc. That few players do this is a market opportunity. If I was running a cloud service there's no way I'd want any ability to tell what data was being stored....
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by nfoz 13y ago
Do they care to? Seems like they make gobs of money regardless.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Yo, that takes actual work, investment, and domain-specific knowledge.
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by nfoz 13y ago
"Ideally, you wouldn’t have to take time to think about personal content management anymore." Sigh. Everytime someone makes things "easier" for me by removing my ability to manage my content, it ends up being way more frustrating than if I
908.
by nfoz 13y ago
Both as a small child and as an adult, learning music I'm suuuuper distracted by the complexity and the badness of traditional music notation.
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by nfoz 13y ago
"Up to date software is secure." lol no it isn't.
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by nfoz 13y ago
I code all day. I don't have a whiteboard, I don't use a whiteboard. I can expect whiteboard-questions but that doesn't help anything. Am I supposed to practice them? Why can't you be happy just giving me a laptop, or a pad and paper, o
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by nfoz 14y ago
Sure, qwerty sucks. But I don't think it's the limiting factor. I reckon that with any keyboard layout, a much more substantial improvement in typing ability will come from spending some quality time with a typing tutor program. The peop
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by nfoz 14y ago
Instead of self-driving cars, please instead use your computer vision to automate an entire food production line. Then we can move to a roughly post-scarcity society where only a minimal base-line of work is necessary to give people comfor
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by nfoz 14y ago
Popups are bad. They're still bad on websites.
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by nfoz 14y ago
Please tell me you're joking. The #1 priority of government websites should be accessibility , not looking cool with whatever garbage unusable web trends are popular du jour and supported by only a handful of desktop browsers running on mo
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by nfoz 14y ago
Usability failures include low contrast, no delineation of borders, and no visual cues for the interactions that are permissible for different parts of the interface (e.g. "clickable" button vs. bare text). Sigh. I like the aesthetic but f
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by nfoz 14y ago
I still prefer my everything in plaintext....
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by nfoz 14y ago
Stop whining and build something better. Reader was never a very good RSS reader anyway. You can do better.
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by nfoz 14y ago
Is this related to the other HN thread "I Knew a Programmer that Went Completely Insane"?