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by reggieband 5y ago
I see people saying this getting downvoted but I have to add to the voices: I'm disappointed in Canada. I recall the subtle pride Canadians showed early on in the pandemic when our rates were comparatively low and when we secured massi
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by reggieband 6y ago
So many responses here are of the type: "My org couldn't hire someone like that for legitimate reasons". They then list a series of fears they might have with such an employee. This is typical engineering thought, a pessimism
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by reggieband 6y ago
R&D = Research and Development. In many orgs product development falls under R&D. That would include all of the people involved in developing the product including engineers, product owners, QA, graphic design, etc. One tidbit I rec
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by reggieband 6y ago
I can't comment on NativeScript as a technology. However, I would like to comment on the issue of his treatment in support channels. He surrounded in quotes: "We are working on NS for 6 years, how dare you tell something is wrong?
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by reggieband 6y ago
Totally tangental, but I recalled while reading this a documentary I saw on some African tribe. It was years ago so this is a pretty loose description. The tribe was a late discovered tribe that until shortly before the documentaries filmin
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by reggieband 6y ago
I think you are wrong and you are confusing your opinion with "absolute truth". It is a limited form of is/ought fallacy. Just because things are one way today doesn't mean they ought to be that way. I recall reading a16
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by reggieband 6y ago
> couples it with a very beautiful SDK and component framework I would not call the flutter SDK and component framework "beautiful" nor would I ever add the adjective "very". I have actually found it to be very verbos
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by reggieband 6y ago
That growth curve is impressive. If you keep that rate it won't be a side business for long.
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by reggieband 6y ago
> It seems more likely that it’s a politically expedient way to get cover for a decision I have not doubt that is true in some cases. However, it might be a a bit too cynical to see it that way in all cases. I have a developer on my team
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by reggieband 6y ago
> I don't think it's exactly a false choice, but I'm sure there's a name for it. It's a false dichotomy [1] and that is exactly how these narratives are spun. Another technique isn't forwarding your own narr
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by reggieband 6y ago
I often think of political spin. Great politicians don't need to lie or even to misrepresent facts. They just have to present actual facts that highlight some narrative. It seems to be a fact that limiting or preventing buy orders woul
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by reggieband 6y ago
The 1% chance you will click on a singles ad is worth more to Facebook than a 90% chance you will click on an ad for your favourite hobby. The singles company will pay higher for that 1% click chance than anyone else. Even if Facebook could
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by reggieband 6y ago
> Clearly I'm missing something in my logic Your logic may be solid but you probably lack sufficient data. Plato was a pretty smart guy but he thought the four elements were Water, Fire, Air and Earth. His mistake wasn't intell
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by reggieband 6y ago
> THIS is the best you can do with teams of engineers making > $200k/year throwing AI at everything? Maybe it is the best we can currently do and maybe it isn't objectively great. But the real question: is it better? I mean,
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by reggieband 6y ago
Believe it or not there is strong evidence that more shorts are being added. Consider a potential attitude that Citadel is going to get away with this blocking. I mean, maybe ... just maybe ... they'll get an SEC fine of a few hundred
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by reggieband 6y ago
I'll take a crack at a possible meaning. Imagine you have a product with 10 features. You want to generate growth. Your first instinct might be: time to add a new feature (upgrade the product). Another approach might be to investigate
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by reggieband 6y ago
I first learned the idea of fire as breaking molecular bonds formed during photosynthesis from a video snippet of Richard Feynman [1]. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
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by reggieband 6y ago
I was very lucky enough to travel through Turkey. The South Western coast of Turkey, from Antalya to Bodrum, is some of the most beautiful Mediterranean sea coasts in the world. Seriously, take a look at pictures from Fethiye or Kas for exa
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by reggieband 6y ago
I would be sad to see them go, if only because of the exceptional Hudson Bay point blankets [1]. They are iconic and legitimately good. It is hard to find equal quality thick wool blankets. But if I am honest that is probably the only thing
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by reggieband 6y ago
> How expensive is it to run your own single-tenant stream on your own website? This is a function based on the number of viewers. The ingest and transcoding/transmuxing can be thought of as a fixed cost (and in many cases is free)
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by reggieband 6y ago
A long while ago I did a lot of 2d graphics work. I read a blog post on 2d rasterization of lines with anti-aliasing. The post was very long and detailed. I felt awe at how much complexity the most simple operation could take. Drawing many
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by reggieband 6y ago
There is an old story about pottery students. A school split a pottery class into two groups. They instructed the first group to focus on making a few exceptional pieces. They judged the second group based on the number of pieces they creat
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by reggieband 6y ago
> but also higher capacity chips that can be connted through PCIe to surpass your CPU capacity (Blaize). How do things like Nvidia Nvenc fit in?
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by reggieband 6y ago
I fee like I've gone around on TikTok. At first it was a joke and a silly waste of time, then it blew my mind with how subversive and funny it could be, then I was scrolling it for hours at a time, then I felt uncomfortable, now I rare
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by reggieband 6y ago
To add to this (which I 100% agree with) is the chorus of voices suggesting that their usage was OK because they weren't downloading RIAA content. Just because someone isn't an RIAA member doesn't mean they don't have co
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by reggieband 6y ago
> This modern trend of needing to pay before you even know if you love the work How modern do you mean? It seems to me that I pay for a movie ticket before I sit down in the theatre and watch it (trailer not withstanding). Same is true f
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by reggieband 6y ago
> Once your idea is public knowledge, there is no reason for it not to spread freely given how easy it is to transmit information now. This treads into territory I feel is grey. I imagine the complex case where I sell some creative conte
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by reggieband 6y ago
It is a bit of a tough question. How would I feel about someone borrowing a book from a library and then photocopying it to keep a local copy? If the intent was to re-distribute then I would not feel comfortable allowing it. However, if the
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by reggieband 6y ago
I have to admit, while I loved the schadenfreude of watching Hollywood hubris collide with the terrible launch of Quibi - I am surprised that they are throwing in the towel so quickly. The basic premise of high-quality short-form content ac
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by reggieband 6y ago
Something about this new wave of AI tech makes me think about Bell Labs or Xerox Parc. It isn't always the companies researching that gain the significant benefits. I wonder if in 30 years we'll be watching VR documentaries on the

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