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by patkai 10y ago
You said "like" SAP, not SAP only, so let me suggest Cobol. It's a language we rarely hear about but it is an exotic niche that could also pay well. Well, this is just an idea, I'm not an expert on Cobol.
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by patkai 10y ago
This is a bit surprising to me. Based on my gut I assumed that if a group has a sufficient probability of producing individuals with "broken selfishness" then the group has a higher fitness to survive, especially if some evolution
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"distributed Prolog on the global scale. Systems would exchange constraints until they reach a mutually agreeable solution" - wow, I'm impressed, but not sure I fully get this. Any pointers or writeups on this or something si
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by patkai 10y ago
Unfortunately the Kindle version of The Strategy of Conflict is unavailable.
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That makes it even more interesting, I mean the fact that this or something similar didn't get traction. I often have an idea of what I would like to know about my repo, but don't want to start hacking the answer together.
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by patkai 10y ago
It's quite shocking that even technical people think AI is "a" thing, and will "come" at a certain time.
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by patkai 10y ago
Don't connect cars to the Internet? I can't believe companies like GM do it. They recently had huge problems with ignition keys, but I guess they are confident that putting cars online will be OK without hiccups.
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by patkai 10y ago
Amazon is supposed to make money with innovation, not exploitation.
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by patkai 10y ago
I think I understand what Musk is doing, but I need to ask: what is everybody else doing? Soon all innovation will be Tesla/
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by patkai 10y ago
Nobody asked about JS, apparently that's clear :)
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by patkai 10y ago
The Cybernetics angle is really interesting. I thought the Chilean Cybersyn project - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/sep/08/sciencene... - led by Stafford Beer was an isolated case, but appar
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by patkai 10y ago
I'm also a bit older and have had a 10 year academic career followed by 10 years of software contracting. The biggest difference between academia and current web development - not sure of "other" software development like emb
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by patkai 10y ago
RethinkDB was simply too good to be true. I've been reading Slavas defmacro.org probably since he started writing it, and was watching where he will end up. It was no disappointment that he created this with his cofounders, and while I
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by patkai 10y ago
"If you're going to compete with Google as the one-stop-shop for searches" Agreed. An easy way to test the difficulty of this is to switch to Bing for a week. I actually tried!
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by patkai 10y ago
You just made me think about a few issues: 1. wouldn't these five be a cute quasi monopoly? (is pentapoly a word?) 2. isn't it brilliant how "they" - including many others, like Musk - make a big fuss about AI that is mo
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by patkai 10y ago
I will continue to read autobiographies. Every single person on earth is writing her own autobiography, either on paper on in her head. I am writing my own and it is greatly entertaining and educational how others go about it.
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I wonder about the valuation of Basecamp, they may almost qualify.
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I see it as Nokia was a very good hardware company that couldn't turn itself around into a software company. Before iPhone you needed many moving parts, good supply chains, great hardware variety, spare part production and who knows wh
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by patkai 10y ago
I think a typical oil company/country does not keep Tesla high on the agenda. They probably worry about Russia, policy changes of USA, wars around them and global economic stability. Tesla started - or contributed a lot to - a revoluti
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by patkai 10y ago
But from the oil companies' perspective, Tesla is pretty small!
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I think we know some stuff about Tesla's products, their stock, their leader, but we know much less about their manufacturing issues. In a way it is not a bad problem to have that they can't scale up too well, if that's their
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by patkai 10y ago
When they published the new logo design of Yahoo I came to the same conclusion. A stunningly professional answer to the wrong question. Mayer might be - and I emphasise "might", as I don't know enough about her - the archetyp
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by patkai 11y ago
Zuckerberg just did something similar, with his home AI project.
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Meet the Founder Who Is Determined for Women to Stay in Tech(forbes.com)
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by patkai 11y ago
While his novels are great, to know Eco you need to read his essays, columns and dialogues with e.g. the archbishop of Milan. His warmth and love is unforgettable.
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by patkai 11y ago
I would add: 1) logo that doesn't go back to the homepage when you click it, and 2) 'hamburger' navs on desktop..
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IoT
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by patkai 11y ago
One could easily mirror the title as: "German citizens to use Trojan spyware to monitor governments".
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by patkai 11y ago
"The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possesed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rul
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by patkai 11y ago
Almost any user manual nowadays has a QR code, I also see it on magazines, even in printed ads (in Finland also). However, the UX is really bad: 1. most people don't know what they are 2. if they learn, then they have to find a QR read

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