nnq

77 ms·

601.
by nnq 9y ago
> Some of our unconscious powers of prospection are shared by animals, but hardly any other creatures are capable of thinking more than a few minutes ahead. >> That's simply not true. Evolution and historical knowledge are int
602.
by nnq 9y ago
> the F-22's and the F-35's avionics both were controlled over a firewire bus ...and what problem would a firewire bus seem to indicate? (But overall I'd agree that the widely trumpeted F-35 blunder is kind of a PR stunt f
603.
by nnq 9y ago
Looks a lot like https://gingkoapp.com/ . Any connection? Is this a better or open-source alternative to it?
604.
by nnq 10y ago
> The power supply is WAY too oversized resulting in bad efficiency and thus a bigger power consumption ...but who gives a f? It's a desktop, no battery to drain. And of all the appliances in your home, the computers surely don&#x27
605.
by nnq 10y ago
I'm really curious why are you so wound up against him to mount such a strong an "ad hominem" attack against him? Yeah, his work had mostly only aesthetic value imho (aka "worthless", I agree), bu one doesn't
606.
by nnq 10y ago
> You need a hopeful monster that can run its metabolism throughout the cell to develop large genomes of the type that can support differentiated cells in multi-cellular creatures There are a quite a few creatures sitting at the boundary
607.
by nnq 10y ago
What intuition makes you believe that once you have microbial live + some kind of stability (low levels of ionizing radiation + a decent level of chemical stability, so not too hot), evolution to advanced multicellular organisms is not pre
608.
by nnq 10y ago
Thanks. Do you know of any other resources describing Watson's inner workings? ...cause just googling for it leads to one of the zillions of marketing bullshit pages or whitepapers devoid of any real infos that IBM's marketing dro
609.
by nnq 10y ago
> collapsing damns [...] kill during normal operation Thank god I don't live anywhere near a dam designed to collapse as part of normal operation.
610.
by nnq 10y ago
No, but JS will kill them both :) </not the answer you/anyone wanted to hear>
611.
by nnq 10y ago
Imho it's greatly valuable to have a "real scripting language" in you tool-belt. Node doesn't qualify like one to me, unless you're one those mutants with brains twisted in particular ways that actually like explici
612.
by nnq 10y ago
It's a dynamic languages... what would you expect? For most boring everyday cases Python's "type system" (it's too much to call it so, but anyway) is quite ok, catches lots of bugs that would seep through in Javascr
613.
by nnq 10y ago
I have a "butt-in-chair" job, but it's more like "butt in any chair, anywhere one Earth, as long as I can get to a few in-person meetings every week"... yeah, I need to get my privileges checked, I know.
614.
by nnq 10y ago
My opinion is that dense cities unfairly favor extroverts and minglers/hustlers. People who like deep thought or long deep conversations with few people under not much time pressure (if you've already commuted 20min to tal
615.
by nnq 10y ago
> People will move to cities Why tf would you want this? As an European, what I loved about US was that people don't like being all crammed up in small, old and disgusting cities, and they are OK with long commutes as the price fo
616.
by nnq 10y ago
> some Golang for some godawful reason What's the problem with Golang in TF? It's one of the nice to work in languages and I imagine that Google sees Golang as somehting that will replace Python sometime long term...
617.
by nnq 10y ago
One more thing: you also have the odd combination of "product design" + "sounding-mostly-like-BACKEND tech experience", but people would expect "product design" + "frontend" with nicely sounding keywo
618.
by nnq 10y ago
Maybe it's that you're experience says DESIGNER all over the place, but you seem to look for a " DEVELOPER with some extra product-design attributes" type job. This confuses the heck out of most recruiters , since th
619.
by nnq 10y ago
EXACTLY! This should focus instead on outlawing cyberwar operations that indiscriminately affect civilians (and therefore could be used to justify a conventional or nuclear retaliation to a cyberwar act)! The list of this to be banned shoul
620.
by nnq 10y ago
Was wondering... is there any modern all-in-one RAD-tool nowadays? And if not... why? Has there ever stopped being a need for this?
621.
by nnq 10y ago
My anecdoticat evidence from even poor European countries suggest phones are renewed quite often (~2years). The horrible manufacturing quality of most modern devices ensures the market for 2nd hand devices stays small, because these thing
622.
by nnq 10y ago
Some people like me dislike working fully remote just as much as they do full-time in-office ... a hybrid approach is only thing that can work for me. "Constant consistent variety" is what keeps me ticking and productive. Also,
623.
by nnq 10y ago
WHY?! What parent poster describes above seems like "heaven" to me. Some people can be "true nomads", others can spend 50% time in office, 50% working from home, everybody can be happy and find "what works for him&#
624.
by nnq 10y ago
...How do you ask for something that may or may not yet exist? Maybe some data that you don't want to care if it's about the past (already exist), abut the present and in the process of being computed, or about the future and not
625.
by nnq 10y ago
Sounds great. But... how do you get from "a push architecture", if this is the mental model you start with, because it's obvious and natural, to a "pull based system"? Is there any receipe for this in general? Once
626.
by nnq 10y ago
The child's doodle is something one ca see and understand. You can even try to psychoanalize it or whatever. What I'm afraid is that there are some really powerful and valuable ideas in Urbit but they will evaporate away from hu
627.
by nnq 10y ago
...still no "Urbit for mere mortals guide" or something like this? Or even a "how to do X with Urbit" where X could be anything. Sorry, but no matter how great the ideas, until they can show an explanation anyone can u
628.
by nnq 10y ago
Ugly and simple truth: no. In real life, in a customer centric approach, you can choose to ignore even 50% of your users anyway, from a marketing pov, if you decide those are not the users you care about (hint: you care about those willing
629.
by nnq 10y ago
On the more technical side: does anyone know of a real alternative to Selenium? ...cause everything seems to be based on it even if you're not using it directly. I like my web app acceptance tests to be code, readable and maintaina
630.
by nnq 10y ago
I went with CodeceptJS [1] instead (Seleniu in nodejs, with most of the async madness abstracted away) for the last project, but, as thangalin says it best "It is a lot of effort to automate user interface testing with Selenium, especi

More ›