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by nilkn 7y ago
I think my comment is only at the top (for now, at least) because nothing in this thread is particularly upvoted. I certainly didn't mean to offend and I won't take issue if a moderator decides to remove my comment or "demote
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by nilkn 7y ago
I acknowledge whole-heartedly that this is a difficult topic, but I really don't think it's that off-topic. The articles available so far focus a lot on the economic incentives involved in slavery and how the American economy wa
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by nilkn 7y ago
That's my point. I think we're reaching a point in history where we can start looking at slavery at its true scope and scale, both in geography and time, so I'm increasingly less enthused with analysis that doesn't attem
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by nilkn 7y ago
Personally I would like to see a broader and less American perspective on slavery. While chattel slavery in the American antebellum South went away, slavery in general certainly didn't, and it also didn't begin in 1619. To illustr
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by nilkn 7y ago
I've written a fair bit of Haskell, including some production software. Your second version here is my personal favorite of the variants proposed so far. It's the version I can look at and more or less instantly understand. I thin
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by nilkn 7y ago
In many cases, using the cloud is a business and staffing decision more than it is a technical one. It's a decision to accept a monthly cloud bill above a certain threshold instead of maintaining an expensive and perhaps extensive oper
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by nilkn 7y ago
You know, I was going to argue against the above poster, but then I read your post here, and I think this is an excellent point. I think it's extremely reasonable to wonder how many folks would avoid feeling the need to go to a place l
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by nilkn 7y ago
I should clarify that the theory also encompasses the additional inference that the above statement justifies racial violence today. The gist is that you shouldn't worry about how people today might judge you, because you'd be jud
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'm on the record here defending /r/The_Donald. I'm even on the record saying I didn't think it should be quarantined and that I don't think it should be banned in the future. It takes a lot for me to wonder if
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by nilkn 7y ago
I've generally been on the free speech side of this debate, as some of my previous comments on HN will show. With 8chan, I legitimately don't know what my opinion is. I've read it before, and I spent a few hours reading it th
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by nilkn 7y ago
Sure, but I also wanted to suggest a simple descriptive name that sidesteps the problem.
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by nilkn 7y ago
> Rng I really think names without a fairly obvious way of saying them out-loud should just be avoided/deprecated. I can't pronounce this as "ring" (because then you'd think I was referring to a ring, not a rng).
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by nilkn 7y ago
I might disagree on this. The software engineering behind production machine learning systems can be quite interesting and nontrivial. It really depends on the scope of the challenges being faced. If you have thousands of models that need t
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by nilkn 7y ago
For what it's worth, the port also runs really poorly on the Switch. It feels like there's a lot of input lag and the frame rate is all over the place. It's not unplayable but it required me to spend the first 30 minutes just
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by nilkn 7y ago
I couldn't imagine having a new developer go several months without looking at a single bug. Sure, I'm not going to give them something that I know is going to be really difficult and frustrating, but I generally try to get peop
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by nilkn 7y ago
If a C-level executive officer would be involved in a decision to fire a low-level developer, am I right in assuming the company was quite small? As companies get bigger, firing power and other forms of authority cannot stay concentrated on
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by nilkn 7y ago
This was a major motivator for me going into management. I don't necessarily like the role more, and overall there are fewer jobs for engineering managers than there are for engineers. Yet as I get older (and I'm not that old eith
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by nilkn 7y ago
Many companies have team lead positions that have no formal management authority or responsibilities. Was that perhaps the case here? The bottom line is some folks in the company do have firing authority -- or at least have broad say in ini
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by nilkn 7y ago
I still think her work is at most middling in terms of difficulty and likely not even that. Multiple levels of character insight is nothing compared to Ulysses parodying in sequence the entire development of the English language in stream
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by nilkn 7y ago
Point (4) strikes me as a bit off because Jane Austen is generally among the easiest classical authors to read. Pride and Prejudice in particular is a simple romance story that can easily be read and appreciated by almost anyone with litt
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by nilkn 7y ago
What’s most interesting to me is the rise of YouTube. Increasingly for movies I just rent one, for TV shows again I just rent or buy a whole season unless it’s a show I’m really into, and for “open the app and try to find something random
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by nilkn 7y ago
I have a Herman Miller Mirra 2 at home and don't regret the price I paid to get it. I bought it new so I could customize the colors to match my home office. It's a bit cheaper than an Aeron and actually better in my opinion.
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by nilkn 7y ago
Could this be explained by supposing that people are just searching for current events, sometimes national, sometimes international, sometimes very local? If so, you really wouldn't need much indexed to handle those queries. I imagine
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by nilkn 7y ago
He lost his career and all subsequent earnings, which would have been substantial at the C-level executive tier. He’s only ~42 — this loss of earnings will vastly exceed a small $500k payday at that career level. And we don’t see the probab
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by nilkn 7y ago
To be an executive is to be responsible for execution. Someone who allows major blunders to happen under their watch is not a successful executive, whether they were personally responsible or not. You can't make excuses as an executive
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by nilkn 7y ago
I think he/she meant that the trash can model was very poorly received whereas the new one has generated a lot of excitement. If the new one was designed without Ive or against his wishes, it could have seriously called his value into
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by nilkn 7y ago
Great point. We'll have to see if it goes down over the next few weeks. My fear and prediction is this will cause it to go up by dramatically enhancing the censorship lore that r/the_donald has been increasingly invoking for a whi
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by nilkn 7y ago
> Also the fact that reddit admins had to change their site algorithms to remove it from aggregated results, because posts were being gamed to the front page, implies that the behavior was not normal human traffic. It implies it's u
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by nilkn 7y ago
Your position seems to have backtracked from concern over bots to... disliking lots of upvotes within a community. Forgive me if I think you're being disingenuous with this latest statement.
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by nilkn 7y ago
The subreddit's culture for years has been based on aggressively upvoting everything posted there. This started back when it was small and the community tried to get pro-Trump posts on the front page of Reddit, which invariably caused

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