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841.
by ng12 7y ago
Could you specify the things Palantir does that Tableu and other data analysis tools do not?
842.
by ng12 7y ago
I'm not sure why that matters. You can knock on IBM's door with a pile of cash and they'll build your software system for you. I don't doubt that it's a smaller part of their business but it's still analogous t
843.
by ng12 7y ago
They're in the data analysis business. Your government is in the mass surveillance business. If ICE fed the data into Tableau instead would that be any different?
844.
by ng12 7y ago
SAP and IBM are both absolutely consulting firms, with the caveat that tech consulting means you're actually building solutions for your customers and not just telling them what they should build. I think the biggest confusion is that
845.
by ng12 7y ago
I'd believe that under the Obama administration but it's a much tougher sell now.
846.
by ng12 7y ago
Palantir is much closer to a consulting agency (think SAP or IBM) than anything like that.
847.
by ng12 7y ago
All the more reason they should support an open environment which allows individual members to decide which companies they do and don't want to work for.
848.
by ng12 7y ago
I'm sure that argument holds up when you're before a judge on a few counts of possession.
849.
by ng12 7y ago
Do you think it's a fair, balanced decision taking in a wide range of opinion or a reactionary one based on a few particularly loud naysayers? Past conference experience leads me to believe it's most likely the later.
850.
by ng12 7y ago
As Google has recently proven steering clear of the politically woke is probably the right move anyways.
851.
by ng12 7y ago
But the author is talking about FizzBuzz. It's just a loop with an if/elseif/else statement. Both types of developers you reference should pass it handily.
852.
by ng12 7y ago
This is the equivalent of casting in Java. Is Java's type system unsound?
853.
by ng12 7y ago
What, and give up all that lobbyist money?
854.
by ng12 7y ago
Flavored cigarettes are banned on the presumption that they disproportionately appeal to kids. Why would flavored vaporizers be treated differently?
855.
by ng12 7y ago
The principle of least power still applies in the FE space. If you can get away with rudimentary technology, do it. The problem I find is usually misaligned incentives. When you go to BuzzFeed you just want to read an article, but BuzzFeed
856.
by ng12 7y ago
Because the ultimate goal of the site is not to serve you news. If it was, it'd just be an FTP server or a CDN. The site exists to track you and sell advertising space, end of story.
857.
by ng12 7y ago
Who's to say a 20 year old driving high is any more or less dangerous than an 80 year old geriatric? Drunk driving is definitively provable as dangerous, high driving is not.
858.
by ng12 7y ago
Hey what's it matter when you're making $20/pop.
859.
by ng12 7y ago
I think it's the opposite. Sex, politics, and religion used to be verboten in any professional context. There's good reason for that: you're going to have to get along with people who believe different things than you do, and
860.
by ng12 7y ago
> Sure, it's nice to say, "I would prefer...", but honestly, we would all prefer things to be different than they are. But they're not. I think it's important to note the role that Google plays in breeding this c
861.
by ng12 7y ago
Any sufficiently advanced statistical model is indistinguishable from AI, at least for the purpose of VC dollars.
862.
by ng12 7y ago
Skateboarders destroy things. They wax concrete edges and repeatedly grind them with metal trucks -- it doesn't take long at all for the edge to be worn away. If you've skated for any period of time you can pretty easily pick out
863.
by ng12 7y ago
If you expect Tumblr to have a lot of autonomy why not let them handle what used to be their core competency?
864.
by ng12 7y ago
It's certainly more likely than a site with no users.
865.
by ng12 7y ago
Already most H1B jobs are entry-level jobs with senior-level requirements. Maybe that's part of the reason for the recent purge.
866.
by ng12 7y ago
Not many of the excellent programmers I know went to grad school. It's probably self-selected for people interested in social issues.
867.
by ng12 7y ago
Too bad the rest of the EU doesn't live in Estonia, it would have made GDPR much better.
868.
by ng12 7y ago
How is that not a problem with GDPR? They passed a law which relies on technology which does not exist. There is no way to safely and reliably identify an individual electronically.
869.
by ng12 7y ago
I think that's exactly the problem -- small/medium companies can't really afford to hire someone to do GDPR compliance (or at least, do it well). It's textbook regulatory capture.
870.
by ng12 7y ago
Or maybe they just want to come to work, write some code, get a paycheck, and go home. I don't know what any of my coworker's political stances are and I kind of like it that way.

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