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by nmfisher 6y ago
Unless you have kids, which then opens up another world of benefits. The married, childless middle class really does get a bit screwed when it comes to taxes.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Yeah, flutter.io is the same. Given Google acquired the Flutter (AR) team, I assume it was just easy for them to reuse the domains when they launched Flutter (framework).
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by nmfisher 6y ago
My Chinese wife thinks this is hilarious - so yes, it is very subjective.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I read Mein Kamp when I was younger (in Australia) out of sheer curiosity, and found it to be rambling, poorly written junk, bordering on incoherent. If you came away enlightened, you probably already held very strong Nazi tendencies before
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Last I checked, Uber, DoorDash and Slack weren’t profitable (and I don’t know about the others). Doesn’t that mean there’s some truth to that comment?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I assume it's intended to show web rendering performance, not demonstrate its viability as an app framework. As a Flutter developer, I don't think Flutter will ever be a great choice for a lot of text-heavy things that people gene
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I think that's just coincidental naming, the Flutter mobile framework was founded by Eric Seidel, the Flutter AR company was founded by Navneet Dalal and Mehul Nariyawala.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
It's the 2020's equivalent of "think of the children".
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by nmfisher 6y ago
China has no such concerns, and them banning it would be more than enough to tank BTC overnight.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
That's also possible. I haven't played it myself, so I really can't comment.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Precisely. Hasn't GTA Online done over a billion in revenue? Given how incredibly successful it's been, it's conceivable the suits decided the opportunity cost of investing man-hours to fix the issue was too high, and that ef
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by nmfisher 6y ago
If you bought Enron in 1997 and sold in 1999, you would be up ~100%. If you sold in 2000, you'd be up ~200%. If you bought earlier, those figures would be even higher. Far more accurate comparison.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
You’re right, but they still haven’t managed to develop a money maker in over 10 years (as distinct from acquisitions). I don’t think it’s a strategic decision to avoid non-scalable products, I just think they’re fundamentally incapable of
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Set aside the ethics issues for the moment, the criticism that Google is neglecting alternatives to neural networks is probably reasonably fair. But on the other hand, research labs or not, Google is still a commercial entity driven by a sh
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> A "white whale" is something you especially DO want. "White washing" is making something bad look good by covering it in white. A white elephant is something so precious that it's inconvenient. The only word on
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Personally? Yes (except for the first example you gave, which I don’t classify as “list comprehension”). It’s not inherent complexity though, just personal preference. I grew up writing for loops so they’re second nature to me and I grok th
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I always found it amazing that Deftones managed to change their sound with each of their 9 albums over ~25 years, never fell off quality-wise* and never alienated their fanbase (even if some of those releases weren't 100% to everyone&#
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by nmfisher 6y ago
For what it's worth, I'll take for loops over list comprehensions any day of the week. I just find it a lot easier to read.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
In Singapore, it’s also pretty common for cafes to have menus (or even end-to-end ordering and payment) via QR code. I think that’s a pretty good use case (in addition to COVID check in/checkout).
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I'm going to be blunt - these types of anecdotes are just plain stupid. It's people picking and choosing examples to support their desired narrative, and just ignoring anything that contradicts it. There are just as many "bad
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Problem solving isn't keyboard-limited, but actually creating the solution definitely is. Once I know what code needs to be written, I still need hours to actually type the damn thing out (not to mention the constant typos, deletions,
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I haven't touched an ORM in over 6 years, but unless they've improved since then, I honestly can't think of a single reason why anyone would choose to use one. They're clunky monstrosities that act only as guard-rails fo
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Because Apple is fundamentally a consumer company. The marketing and branding that are huge drivers of their success just won’t work as well in the enterprise. Enterprise means people in suits doing sales calls. It’s a patient, one-on-one,
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I agree that an incentive structure is probably needed as a matter of practice (since few people will want to do extra work with zero upside), but I wouldn't call it exploitative. You're an employee, you work for a guaranteed sala
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> Hypothetically: a friend borrows your car, but you didn't fix the break fluid leak, and he runs over someone. > Who's at fault? Legally the answer is crystal clear. If it was intentional? He is. Unintentional? You are. I d
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Have you used speech recognition (or speech synthesis) lately? It's incredible, leaps and bounds ahead of where it was a decade ago. Not everything in ML is as rosy as the papers make it out to be, but to call it a "hoax" is
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I’m going through this right now, pages and pages into a manual calculation of a small factorial HMM. Not only does it help thoroughly internalise the concepts, it’s the only way I can be sure I have no bugs in my digital implementation.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Forget about TSLA's market cap for a second and look at their actual manufacturing quality, where defect rates are higher than almost all other automakers: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/tesla-lags-auto-
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> The Surgeon General, OTOH, was never a person to be taken seriously. But I don't blame Fauci for that. Why? I'm not from the USA, so obviously I don't understand the specifics of that position.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
On the other hand, if you bought into the Nikkei in the late 80s/early 90s, you'd still be in negative returns 30 years later .

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