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by rafiki6 8y ago
As with most technologists and futurists, he fails to grasp that things take time, lots of time, to make meaningful progress and adoption.
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Technology at this time is nothing but an extension of human will. There is no indication or path that it has yet left our grasp. Therefore we are the limiting factor. Just as nature or the divine might have been the will that allowed us to
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But let's not forget evolution of the magnitude you speak of took hundreds of millions of years. I'm not sure why humans think we can beat that record.
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Not sure what machine can possibly completely test a problem with a 32-bit input space in any "practical" or "reasonable" time. Once states are added in, it quickly explodes beyond a simple 32-bit input space. I have yet
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You will never be able to come up with all possible test cases to cover all possible scenarios. That's the idea. This applies to all practical programs. There is literally not a single piece of software that doesn't have a missed
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A lot less porn...
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Why not start by becoming a consultant? I think that's always a good question to ask yourself. Consulting has many of the challenges you'd face running your own business, except the product you're selling is yourself.
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My fundamental issue with this viewpoint is that it takes away the inherent entrepreneurship that exists in an employee/employer business relationship. Whether I'm on a team of 10 in an organization of a 100 or a team of 100 in an
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I argue it's not demonstrably true, and as a matter of a fact, given how right leaning the entirety of the US is (even within the left leaning circles), and the prevalence of two dominant political parties that would be consider center
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The US is 30 times larger than the largest Scandinavian country. It stands to reason that the US would have a government proportionally as large unless they somehow found a way to be more efficient. I can guarantee you they have not.
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relative to their tax base and populations
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I read the comment in whole, and it sets this up as a clear strawman. I bet on lots of things that end up being wrong. Why is the commenter so against big government when not a single soul proposed making the American government any bigger
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by rafiki6 8y ago
You obviously have an agenda in your comment. Do you have any evidence that suggests the expansion of government correlates strongly to income inequality? Scandinavian countries are a great example of countries with large government and low
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Who says that feeling was wrong? At that time, Amazon was a moonshot gamble. Lots of very important things needed to line up for it to be successful, primary of which was investor confidence in a company that didn't turn a profit for m
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I used to hate python because of of the lack of static typing. I realized the reason I hated it because of that, was due to other people's bad code. One of the nice things with compiled languages that are statically typed is that there
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As a general rule in my experience, a re-write will take at least as long as writing the current software. There's a reason that much of our modern banking infrastructure still lives in COBOL. But that's not a bad thing. It makes
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I argue that this misses the mark. Jupyter Notebooks is much more an evolution of Excel then it is of other development tools.
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Fair enough. Using Jupyter Notebooks for any of the intended purposes you mention above is really out of scope of what Jupyter offers tbh. It's meant to be a Notebook. Run calculations, create visualizations, experiment with code. It&#
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Interesting. I've noticed that the upvoting/downvoting system isn't very objective and tends to favor one side of an opinion over another. Meaning people will upvote you on HN if what you post resonates with them, and HN read
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Bingo. You nailed it. I work in finance. Developed markets have efficient stock markets. They are highly liquid. The reality is that there's lot of people competing for the same profits. In reality when there's that many players,
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And they all leveraged some incredible pieces of infrastructure that were built up for them over several years by those with more experience, the primary examples being the Linux Socket library and the TCP/IP protocol. Building an appl
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Who says we can't replicate them? It's just not economical to do so and really serves no purpose. The world has generally moved past projects with superstitious/dubious meaning attached to them and does an actual cost/be
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This is also the case in software "engineering". Don't assume a code monkey who's 22 and can produce a piece of software with heaps worth of technical debt is a master of anything. The best software engineers in the worl
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This is all too common in developing economies. Due to general economic mismanagement leading to limited opportunities and sticky cultural beliefs, students are pegged against each other. A national exam is used as a filter to allow those t
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Out of curiosity, is there a reason that your customers want a more conventional setup other than perception? How about those colleagues? Are there legitimate reasons to collaborate in an office? For the latter, maybe the best solution is r
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This is why Go and Rust are coming into their own. C++ is a clusterf*ck of complicated design decisions (note, I didn't say bad, just complicated). It's certainly a powerful language for systems development but one has to wonder i
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It is an opinion and it is honest. So yes. If you don't share it about Apple products great.
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I don't know why this got down voted. It seems people don't appreciate honest opinions here. There's more evidence that he was a jerk than there isn't. He didn't need to be a jerk. His company doesn't contribut
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No. He was a huge jerk. I'd prefer someone who is just as brilliant and less of a jerk. They exist, I've worked with them and they have contributed far more to society than building over priced toys. Let's stop giving credit
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I can tie this back to my own experience as well. Humility generally comes with age, and it's important in running a successful and socially responsible business. It's easy to get caught up in the young successful founder myth bec

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