ryanmolden

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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Innate talent just seems like a cop out "explanation". Oh so and so is good because he had an innate talent. One might as well say so and so is good because he has a frogelmonbal. Very few things are innate in humans and I highly doubt many
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I predict roughly everyone who already believes in god and follows this kind of news (only half-jokingly). In my experience most people don't form their opinions based on the totality of current knowledge and keep adjusting them in some Bay
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I'll assume your comedy detector is mis-calibrated, I have a hard time thinking someone could post here about the "tiresome whining of their servants" in anything but a joking manner.
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I also have heard carriers generally do not allow it (i.e. software makers pushing updates without the carriers permission). I have heard the reason is basically support costs. If they have not had time to test and vet your update against a
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Title seems misleading, the post said Andy is moving on to other things at Google . Edit: fixed (it used to be "Google lets go Andy Rubin", which is generally a euphemism for fired)
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
The last New Scientist had an article on this. The primary unknown/concern was structurally destabilizing the seabed by extracting the methane. They were talking about replacing it with CO2 to keep the seabed stable, but said that was reall
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Yes, I accepted a request from someone today (first time being there in quite some time) and it immediately suggested I endorse him for a slew of skills. I presume some people just click the button, thus I largely ignore it, I assumed other
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
This is somewhat outside my wheelhouse, but don't you do load testing on something like this before release? Did they think no one would want to play it? It seems totally tractable to write some bot players and unleash them in a swarm on yo
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
The world is a big place. Your admission that you have met people smarter than yourself may well put you in a different category. The people I talk of are the people that seem to honestly think they are the smartest people in the world/thei
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
>I'm so much smarter than everyone else I've ever met People that seem to think this never seem to consider a simple explanation: Perhaps they just haven't met very smart people yet.
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I've only (yet) read Innovator's Dilemma, I would definitely recommend it. As for order, I suspect publication order would be the best as it would show progression of ideas/learning.
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
It also resets itself to Top Stories say, every day or so. I would say I am surprised that with all the engineering talent Facebook has they can't manage to remember this one setting I have made about 20 times, but I am not that naive.
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I'm confused, are you actually advocating only reading things you agree with? Or is this last line supposed to be indicative in some negative way of the overall quality of the article?
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
The whole "best in the world" schtick just seems like such pablum, and most people espousing it aren't best in the world at anything. The arrogance required to think you can be/are (literally) the best in the world at something is astoundin
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Or maybe your experience is an anomaly and it isn't that Amazon has just brainwashed everyone else via their clever marketing. I have bought a large number of items from Amazon, the price has always been competitive and even where slightly
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I hadn't seen your previous reply, I don't always follow up on my own posts :) I wouldn't argue there is subjectivity in reward, there always will be. I don't work in Windows but I know a few folks that do. I haven't heard any stories of pe
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
As someone that works at Microsoft I know I can't really respond to this without being accused of being a shill/apoligist (even at a place that prides itself in logical thinking, like HN), but this is such a massive oversimplification, and
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Oh, come on, the ModR/M byte, opcode extensions, variable length instructions, opcode prefixes, what's not to love </sarcasm>
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Yep, that why I said I supported the availability of the courses. My high school had none, as in 0, optional or not. My scepticism is around forcing kids to do things they are not interested in and the beneficial outcomes thereof. I took a
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
My view would be that people that are interested, the most likely to pursue it as a career, don't need a requirement to drive participation. Those forced to do it like they are forced to take <insert many other subjects here> are no
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
>so they're resorting to "look at how terrible their product is." I'll presume you must have felt the same way about Apple's I'm a Mac/I'm a PC series of ads? Since all they really did was try to paint a picture of how terrible PCs were
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I think, as a general rule, people overestimate the value of their own skillsets/contributions and underestimate the skillsets/contributions of others. It is probably a Jedi mind trick to make ourselves feel more important/smarter/what have
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
At least at Microsoft, and I assume other primarily tech companies, there are level bands (job titles) above "senior developer" (principal, partner, technical fellow, distinguished engineer) that have nothing to do with management. Generall
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Authoring a book and being an expert in the topic of said book is, surprisingly, not always correlated. I don't know this particular person, so don't read that as a comment on this particular author. I have met people whose books I have rea
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I think our culture (well, American, capitalist society is all I can really comment on) has a very strong implied link between income and worth/value. We have magazines that routinely have lists of the highest paid / richest people. People
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
As I have said (here) before, MS is a massive company so anyone making as statement like "MS does X" is almost assuredly wrong. Devdiv, to my knowledge, as a whole (VS, CLR, etc..) uses TFS. The fork of Perforce the original commentor is ta
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Did you transpose false negative and false positive in your statement about airport security? I think airport security would much rather have false positive (i.e. This guy has something suspicious, let's do further checks, oh, turns out it
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Congrats, this is awesome news! I contributed to a couple of patients when I first saw you announce this on HN because I like the 'direct to patient, 100% utilization' nature of it. This is a reminder for me to go back. I see from your webs
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Sorry it is so hard to read, most of my posts here are casual thought not elaborately structured rhetoric. Rewriting it to better please you is not high on my list of things to do at the moment, so, pass.
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
In theory that is false, in practice it is less clear (at least to me). The ranking (and subsequent curve fitting known formally as calibration) is done across a level-band (bascially 'job title') across a much wider scope than a single tea

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