qntmfred

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   by qntmfred 6y ago

   The key word being rarely
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   by qntmfred 6y ago

   I was hype until the part about it being total miles, not range on a single charge. And then I was disappointed. And then uninterested as I thought to myself "yeah that makes more sense." And then suddenly angry, as I thought to m
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   by qntmfred 6y ago

   More on this analogy from CPG Grey https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
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   by qntmfred 7y ago

   That's pretty cool. What industry are you in that y'all are willing to invest resources for such an exercise?
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   by qntmfred 7y ago

   This is exactly what I thought of while reading the OP article. I love this metaphor and use it often
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   by qntmfred 7y ago

   Labor force participation rate does not include children, so the 215M number is actually much lower
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   by qntmfred 7y ago

   My girlfriend beat my high score at this mobile app Blockoduko so I'm working on a genetic algorithm that'll 100x her score
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   by qntmfred 7y ago

   Now do it for bad posture plz
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   by qntmfred 7y ago

   yup. I did a lot of WPF/Silverlight work 2008-2012 and I STILL get emails from recruiters (one this week even) asking if I want a job doing that kind of work.
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    Is it not possible for Yang to acknowledge the scale and capability of Bloomberg's operation without it being considered an endorsement of some kind??
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    Looking for senior full-stack engineer or engineering/product leadership roles (Engineering Manager, Director/VP of Engineering) Happy to be hands-on for smaller teams or with larger teams to focus more on product strategy, techno
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    the Dear GitHub era was a long time ago. they used to be super stale. made a lot of improvements over the last few years imo
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    Looking for senior full-stack engineer or engineering/product leadership roles (Engineering Manager, Director/VP of Engineering) Happy to be hands-on for smaller teams or with larger teams to focus more on product strategy, techno
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    Highly recommend following election security writer Jenny Cohn for more on this topic. GA is a highly egregious recent example, but the entire industry is a mess and very few are paying attention. https://twitter.com/jennyco
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    bribes are conditional
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    this is why Andrew Yang is running for President on the Freedom Dividend. Solve wealth inequality and the social problems attached to it, abolish poverty, without feeding the government extra revenue that could go to waste (aka spent on war
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    I worked in edtech for many years and read her work regularly for most of those years. At a certain point though she started to feel more like a restaurant critic who took too much pleasure in roasting whoever the latest target was. Did she
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford Race Against The Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    Both my parents also worked at Data General, and my dad was there all the way through the EMC acquisition. Love that book.
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    Not sure how big ig was on acquisition, but I always remember that story being about WhatsApp with only 35 engineers
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    Always liked the garden metaphor https://blog.codinghorror.com/tending-your-software-garden/
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    The NC State Board of Elections is meeting THIS FRIDAY to vote on the certification of voting machines. They previously scheduled to hold a vote on July 28 and of the 15 individuals allowed to give public comment during that meeting, every
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    > People forget what extensions they have installed automatically sync your settings into a Gist with https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.cod... bonus - if you work on multiple machines, it'll a
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    by qntmfred 7y ago

    I like the idea I'll try it for a bit and see how sticky it is. One quick suggestions - if I start a timer and then I'm out of the room or don't notice the notification until 23 minutes later and then I enter what I was doing
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    by qntmfred 8y ago

    OR...Bezos’s interests in Blue Origin and the Washington Post
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    by qntmfred 8y ago

    Hmm the YouTube app on my TV timed out I just switched to Netflix didn't figure it was a global issue
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    by qntmfred 8y ago

    "Those that say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it"
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    by qntmfred 9y ago

    I often recall this post from Andrej Karpathy when I'm noticing the current limitations of AI http://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visio...
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    by qntmfred 9y ago

    I've been running a site that started in 2000, never incorporated. Looked briefly at turning it into a non-profit a few years ago when I thought I was going to transfer it to new owners.