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721.
by rubidium 10y ago
Never thought I'd see Pieper referenced on HN. Great point and reference. For everyone else, Leisure the basis of culture is worth reading and relevant here. But finding a realistic economic system where the benefits of automation don&
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by rubidium 10y ago
Academically I would agree, but I disagree out of business principles. Testers finding bugs is the ideal situation of a good production process. Ideally not a ton of them, but if a programmer has really thought through every potential edge
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by rubidium 10y ago
There's a difference between accidents and recklessness (similar situations arise in driving). This was charged as reckless. The flower pot is different in that regard.
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by rubidium 10y ago
@dang (or other mods, I think there are some): I admit I don't know exactly how flagging works here, but this is the first article I've seen that wasn't flagarent abuse/spam that has been flagged. Can you please provide
725.
by rubidium 10y ago
The author, despite an intentionally abrasive tone, nails the analysis. Facebook could literally disappear tomorrow, and the world would keep going. It's only power is it's network effect. A thousand networks (more local and more
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by rubidium 10y ago
I've meet one programming manager with 0 programming experience (but he was a Mech Engr). His team loved him, they got real work done, he prioritized things for them effectively, and he helped insulate them from the b.s. So, while it&#
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by rubidium 10y ago
I wish I had the time to gather the data. Someone please do this. Make sure to normalize against total activity. I'm a hn user since at least 9.8 years ago (my first HN handle was different than current, which is 7 years old). To my im
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by rubidium 10y ago
They bought the Pebble assets for <$40 million. The engineering knowledge and brand awareness was a steal and must-do, even for a struggling company. Remember, they still did $500 million in revenue in Q4. Fitbit and the entire wearable
729.
by rubidium 10y ago
They didn't like the way the future was being made (no voice and no dignity. Coastal elites controlling the wealth of the nation.) Fundamentally Brexit and Trump are symptoms of a rejection of free-market liberalism as a good idea for
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by rubidium 10y ago
A few thoughts: 1) 90 executives, $14,000 dollars... that's $1.2 million! 2) "Brexit and the election of President Trump are the symptoms of society’s preference to cling to the past rather than engage with the challenge of making
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by rubidium 10y ago
As an actual scientist, 314 looks to be a pretty partisan and shallow take on the issues of our day. Their energy proposal is fusion research... there are much better ways available.
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by rubidium 10y ago
Who could? A programmer with time to figure out how to do it. Who couldn't? Everyone else.
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by rubidium 10y ago
I just realized that the Star Wars "you have a 45% chance to death if you proceed to travel" could totally become a reality in hazardous travel conditions. Heck, there could be live read-out of "probability of accident",
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by rubidium 10y ago
From the article: One of the guests was skeptical, Dugger said. “He leaned forward and asked, ‘Are you taking your pilot’s family, too? And what about the maintenance guys? If revolutionaries are kicking in doors, how many of the people in
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by rubidium 10y ago
My wife has that app too, but has the enhanced US Midwest edition. After 4-5 months, she doesn't even have to use her mouth anymore. People just offer her their seat. Best thing is, it's free!
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by rubidium 10y ago
Using "disenfranchised" in this case with made up statistics of 20% and 80% is rather odd. There are _plenty_ of discussions to participate in here. WSJ make up maybe 1-2 articles on the front page per day? Can someone explain why
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by rubidium 10y ago
A few points: 1) The workaround works for me if I open an incognito chrome window and copy/paste the "web" link from HN. It doesn't work w/o incognito. 2) If the article gets upvotes, then enough people have subscri
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Xi Jinping’s guide to the Chinese way of globalisation(ft.com)
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by rubidium 10y ago
It sounds like you're being sarcastic, but in case you're not. Process is built for people, not people for the process.
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by rubidium 10y ago
Sorry to knock the post author off his high horse, but "just like you wouldn’t want a highly trained surgeon spending several hours a day inputting patient data from paper forms." Highly trained surgeons _do_ spend several hours a
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by rubidium 10y ago
Your "universal culture" sounds a lot like corporate consumerism and lacking in real cultural diversity.
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by rubidium 10y ago
"It's almost as if JFK reached out into the twenty-first century where we are today, grabbed hold of a decade of time, slipped it neatly into the (nineteen) sixties and seventies (and) called it Apollo." - Cernan That quote s
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by rubidium 10y ago
Simplified map from national geographic helps show migration patterns of the world: https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/ Actual article is open-access: http://journals.plos.org/plos
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by rubidium 10y ago
No real "news" here. AIP does many nice studies of where physics PhD's end up. One of the hardest challenge as a Physics PhD in industry is finding interesting problems. See fig 2.2 for reporting on that: https://w
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by rubidium 10y ago
A few thoughts: 1) You've already started your career. 2) Companies (generally) don't hire "generalists". They hire people to solve their particular problems. You need to show why you're the right person to solve co
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by rubidium 10y ago
"Changing your password every few months is good practice in general." Stop saying that! https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2016/03/time-r...
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by rubidium 10y ago
Depends a lot on the company. You will have more leverage with HR to negotiate salary with an M.S. for certain positions and companies. I'd recommend it if you have the time. As much as HN likes to push "just show your github cont
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by rubidium 10y ago
You think they would've done something after the Volkswagon disaster... this is either extreme ignorance (we don't really know what our code does) or malicious intent (let's hope we don't get caught like them).
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by rubidium 10y ago
Exactly. PG: Get your grubby money-first hands off the biographies of those who are driven by a genuine interest in understanding the world.
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by rubidium 10y ago
No, it's a pretty traditional technique to "beat" quantum mechanics by using squeezed light states. Short version: you don't really beat quantum mechanics, you just shift where the uncertainty resides.

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