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by repolfx 7y ago
Sure. Write a desktop app with something like JavaFX or Qt.
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by repolfx 7y ago
But you can nail those things down before coding begins, just through talking with them. You don't need to literally change the code completely every week - iterating a plan is much easier than iterating a codebase!
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It's worth observing that successful tech firms like Google insist that PMs have computer science degrees and are former developers. Exactly to avoid this issue.
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Developers don't want to give you ETAs, especially not for bug fixes where 90% of the time they have no idea how long it's going to take. I've never seen developers volunteer such estimates - they always have to be demanded (
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't know what I'm going to need next week let along 3 months (or whatever) from now. Doesn't this reflect some much deeper problem with the product planning or management? If you literally can't plan even a week in
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Like I said, it can take some thought and analysis to discern the underlying logic. Still, I tend to think that even though of course not everything is 100% logical in politics, it's more logical than it may first appear. "how ca
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No. The effects of reading news and getting more degrees are the same - your perception gets further from the ground truth established by surveys. These surveys are called "ideological turing tests" by the way. They usually find t
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And also, the more news you read, the higher the perception gap. The problematic effects of education don't surprise me at all though. I've felt for a while that more education seemed to make people somehow less intelligent in som
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Thinking is work, isn't it? The brain is an organ, it needs energy in order to work efficiently. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the brain had properties somewhat like a muscle, and deep reasoning for prolonged periods burned
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I for one would much rather go for an interesting 50-year vision instead of pushing for quarterly stock gains exclusively. That's great if you're, say, under the age of 50 and plan to hold your stock your entire life until retir
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In the hope that GOOG pays out cash in future. Either via dividends or stock buybacks. At least, that's why I've been holding my shares. I was thinking of dumping them for better performing tech stocks, given the malaise I see the
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That's a very strong claim you're making there. Do you not consider mixins from News and YouTube to be "web pages"? I've also worked at Google. Things that are clearly the case: 1. There are blacklists of certain po
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AI helps generate synthetic speech from brain recordings(news.developer.nvidia.com)
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Tesla's approach means there isn't a finishing line. Just a long stream of over-the-air updates that incrementally enable more and more complex scenarios. They could be at it years. One day people will cross a psychological thresh
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by repolfx 7y ago
For compute, during the autonomy day video they mention they use their own clusters, because they've designed their own "full self driving computer" with a custom set of neural network accelerator ASICs. So to do test runs on
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The airline industry is heavily regulated and the software industry isn't. Will Boeing be punished if they're found to have made a mistake - politically it's an absolute certainty, legally I presume it'd depend on whethe
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That's a huge over-reaction. One reason Facebook came to dominate over older social networks was that they provided much, much better user privacy controls, they were better at keeping fake users off their networks and they kept the si
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by repolfx 7y ago
Are you assuming here that Equifax could absorb any size of fine? Also, you seem to be OK with the idea that any company that gets hacked could be fined $5 billion. As being unhackable is an unachievable standard, that effectively means the
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by repolfx 7y ago
Lots of talented men don't get promoted either, and it demoralises them too. Promoting the right people is hard - what makes you think it was sexism and not just the normal day to day corporate realities that led to those outcomes? For
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by repolfx 7y ago
Seems like this aligns with my intuitions about what people care about. "Inclusivity" doesn't mean anything by itself, it's a synonym for diversity, and these terms themselves essentially mean bias in favour of women. La
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by repolfx 7y ago
You mean, beyond the companies being successful and effective, and famous for the skill of their workforce? Beyond 9 of the top 10 most valuable companies in America being tech firms that all interview in similar ways? What kind of evidence
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But the research project exists to inform future changes in their hiring practices. It's quite likely Automattic already tries to discriminate in hiring because they mention their "strong focus on metrics" along with their am
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What happened to http prefetch or server push? Does anyone use those things?
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PHP is considered a proper server choice these days? When did that happen? It's been a long time since I encountered a new project being written in PHP.
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I think it's more likely because the credit goes to the market (i.e. everyone together) rather than a big move by the government. Very different to the Energiewende.
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We're talking about Americans who live paycheque to paycheque. Presumably their time actually is valued at close to no cost (by their employer). Nobody is arguing everyone should drive a cheap old car.
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Tons of housing and higher density appears to be working on London though. https://www.forbes.com/sites/garybarker/2019/07/18/london-ho... London has seen extremely high levels of house and apartmen
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by repolfx 7y ago
Two problems with that. Firstly if you want to personify the economy (don't), it has always been "geared towards getting you to spend what you can", from the first markets in antiquity through medieval times. Nothing about
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For example you might want to measure several reactions such as: interesting, funny, angering and sad. Slashdot does that. To vote for a post you have to pick an adjective. I always thought it worked well, because it showed what kind of c
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, I agree targeted ads work for some things, like people who are wanting to find the thing the advert is for. But the claims being made here are very different - that ads can "capture" people politically even if they didn&#x2

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