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by ptero 7y ago
> rotors operate fully in 3D, whereas quaternions are in 4D. This means you can visualize rotors ... whereas with quaternions, you have to ... trust the formulas. This is a bit of a stretch -- by the same logic any operation on more than
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by ptero 7y ago
If you have the problem for which microservices are the better solution (as you describe in your example), great! But I have seen people try to build a solution using microservices "because this is the way to go". But this often t
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by ptero 7y ago
<tin foil on> Supposedly democratic governments learned a few tricks on how they could manipulate the opinions of the governed to avoid being thrown out. Some fear works. Wars, too (that is, when at war people will cut their governmen
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by ptero 7y ago
The poster you are responding to is correct. Sorry, I could have been clearer in wording and "it"s. Skunkworks is great, but works while it is small and nimble. Fund it fully. But this could cost billions, tens of billions at most
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by ptero 7y ago
Real work is (comparably) cheap. With F35 budget well over a trillion dollars this is 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than needed to fund maximum number of projects Skunk works can sustain, at max manpower. It is bureaucratic waste with mini
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by ptero 7y ago
I have no beef with your definitions, those are nice and consistent, but in practical terms I have trouble imagining anyone who, by your definition, wants more accountability . This seems to be asking for a harness and a whip. On moving up
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by ptero 7y ago
If one wants more responsibility, one has to move to leadership. This is true in almost every company and work type, not just in software development. There is a flip side to this, as some (many? most?) excellent ICs either become poor ma
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by ptero 7y ago
That is a good point. In a perfect world, managers managing technology would make an effort learning it. But it is always better to assume that they did not (assume they focus on potentially harder skills needed to manage humans and teams).
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by ptero 7y ago
On the flip side, the problem might not be with the non-IT manager. I know nothing about your specific cases, but many managers are smart enough to understand the statement that there are 30+ hits per page view, especially when it is demons
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by ptero 7y ago
First, as humans, we should not really be doing many jobs that the machines do well (cleanly, cheaply and reliably). That is not always how the world works. Technology adoption lags and there is a big gray area in the definition of "we
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by ptero 7y ago
> You can’t diversify radically from your own company and at the same time tell investors it’s the future and it’s going to be trillion dollar business etc. Sure you can; in fact in many cases you should. Say, one knows (to keep things s
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by ptero 7y ago
The problem with this change is not that Reddit has costs that they are trying to recoup. The problem for me is that much of the user-generated quality content that Reddit is trying to monetize was created , by users, under certain assumpt
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by ptero 7y ago
IANAL, but I think the US presidency is the only job that requires one to be a natural born US citizen. For any other job, you may need to be a citizen (e.g., to hold a clearance), but basing eligibility on the country of birth is likely il
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by ptero 7y ago
Selling code will be hard, maybe nearly impossible. One option, especially if you see other companies popping up trying to do what you already have, is to join them. Set up a good demo of what your code does, then approach new companies and
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by ptero 7y ago
> Monitoring internet access on school devices? That's been standard in every single school and workplace for decades. What country are you talking about? Honest question, just curious. I am in the US, but even today many small and
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by ptero 7y ago
Agreed. And I wonder if the answer would be different if they asked parents instead of kids (who remember having regular, metal knives at school cafeterias; being able to bring a folding knife to school; etc.). It seems to me that that publ
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by ptero 7y ago
The grass always seems greener on the other side. Academic careers have their own stresses and challenges with many postdocs and pre-tenure professors working slave hours at just-above-poverty wages for many years. If you want to do academi
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by ptero 7y ago
> But I wouldn't generalize my case nor should you generalize yours. The way I read statements that you replied to is with a silent prefix "based on the experience of folks I work/talk with". If one disagrees (i.e., s
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by ptero 7y ago
Good points, but we also need to quantify the risks posed by human drivers in similar situations. Getting "similar situations" is hard, but not impossible: aircraft industry builds faithful sims where people can respond to vario
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by ptero 7y ago
Manually installing extensions from an XPI file . I also think the discussion moved to a more generic "safe default with options for users to change" vs "choices hard-coded based on perceived safety for general users".
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by ptero 7y ago
That is a fine idea. We can make Firefox as safe as they want at startup. Just keep it as a default option -- something power users can turn off and do not make this a hardcoded choice "because those users turning it off may not know
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by ptero 7y ago
And so is, for example, Android. But due to some (shady) tactics, a successful fork of either is impossible for a small group. Saying to a hungry kid in a favela "you are free to get rich" is technically correct, but ignores pract
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by ptero 7y ago
I personally have no objections (usually not even strong feelings) to setting defaults, as long as that's what they are -- default choices that users can change if they see fit. But an option that cannot be changed is not a default cho
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by ptero 7y ago
It is not clear what is best for the general public. You can aim for the "safest" choice, which seems to be what you are advocating. If so, it needs to be said explicitly and the implications of functionality reduction (that safet
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by ptero 7y ago
This is interesting. Not doubting your story, but my personal experience, as a Cyrillic user, is opposite: at least in early versions of Windows apps I constantly struggled with a random mix of hardcoded assumptions for encodings, key press
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by ptero 7y ago
It's not quite like that. The first company cannot prevent scraping by individuals or another company of information that it already shows to everyone. Which, to me, is a good thing. My 2c.
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by ptero 7y ago
I do not doubt that the waste and accountability are a huge problem in the DoD, but $21T sounds extreme. The FY19 total military budget, according to Wikipedia, is a bit under $700B and you need to misappropriate 30 years of that to embezzl
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by ptero 7y ago
> The current government requests to be able to access encrypted info with a warrent are an extension of what currently happens in physical space. The key difference, to me, is that the current setup where the police can kick in the door
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by ptero 7y ago
Different police units are trained for different rules. Somewhere it is a verbal warning, warning shot, shot in the leg, shot to kill. Sometimes it is just a verbal warning and a shot to kill. Not defending the police in this specific case
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by ptero 7y ago
I think the point is that the US military with vastly superior firepower, organization and funding failed to conquer (i.e., control) the country.

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