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by shrimpx 5y ago
Given the limited capabilities of that hardware, it probably would have been a waste to have non-technical design teams coming up with unimplementable ideas.
602.
by shrimpx 5y ago
I don't buy that. For example Ramana Maharshi was awakened and he self-realized suddenly without following any path. There were awakened people before Buddha, and there are awakened people today without having followed any path. The id
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Many enlightened Indians didn’t follow Buddha’s path — and in fact followed a variety of paths.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It’s obvious in the sense that it’s basically elimination of unproductive habits. And it might be unlikely, but some people arrive there naturally, without pursuing it. As for the teachings, I think they’ve been misleading people for centur
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I think there are two kind of separate topics here: mindfulness meditation and enlightenment. Mindfulness meditation can be useful just as a tool to improve attention and awareness in daily life. To “achieve enlightenment” you may or may no
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by shrimpx 5y ago
“Enlightened” people have existed in all walks of life, not just Buddhism. In fact one could see Buddhism as annoyingly codifying into a religion that which is natural and obvious. Just like Christianity.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
When I saw the link named "explaining [FFT's] ingenuity in more detail" I was nearly certain it would be a 3B1B video, and it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Do Google interviewers ask whatever they want, without any standard? Or is the standard idiotic, allowing for or encouraging questions like that?
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by shrimpx 5y ago
That's an idiotic interview question. I've experienced this at young companies where both the company and its engineers are too immature to understand basic etiquette in the industry. Btw I doubt Google would ask a stupid "go
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Sorry, I had to dig. The particular conversation is from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f8bqYYwps Around the 30:15 mark. Apologies for my incorrect quoting, I was paraphrasing from memory.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Good point. But Jobs "predicting" the future of his own company is fundamentally entangled to predicting the future of the industry. It's hard to predict markets 20 years out.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I spent half a day watching multiple Jobs interviews on YouTube and there is an interesting effect across these interviews: the interviewers sound dated in their assumptions, while Jobs sounds fresh and contemporary. Even though these inter
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by shrimpx 5y ago
With apologies to my European friends (I’m also European), this article illustrates how the EU is a second rate sucker in technology. While they boast and believe that they’re cutting edge because they’re investing in Blockchain, the likely
614.
by shrimpx 5y ago
Apple's reaction to Sweeney's statement: "See ya!!!"
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by shrimpx 5y ago
There's a 4th type, the competent but lazy engineer. They do great in the interview, then it's rest and vest time. They thrive in remote positions where they spend most of their time at the doctor, dentist, and vet.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It makes sense from the perspective of Apple consistently being a "personal device" company. A car is another personal device. The more cars become imbibed with computing the closer they get to Apple's core interest.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I think statistically it's not the case that wealthy people are more targeted, but I know wealthy people who'd rather live under the radar wrt their wealth.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
And wealthy people who prefer to not show it would become targets.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It’s a cool product and I’ve only lurked so far. But without contacting each seller to release private info, you know only super generic info like “e-commerce startup with $x ARR”. There’s kind of too little info at a glance to even know if
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by shrimpx 5y ago
The most botched and nonsensical feature announcement ever. > Here's an extremely sophisticated mechanism that has insane negative potential ramifications for our users and our brand, but that's ok because it's all in the
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by shrimpx 5y ago
They’re great as a casual light walking shoe but not that great for longer and more challenging walks. You can’t really put off-center weight on them. Since there isn’t much support, your foot can easily slip sideways off the sole which can
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Stripe gets an unfair amount of love for being a hockey stick VC-backed startup. The Collisons are seen as model cofounders, infallible even, and their docs and blogs are great, but invariably the company will be driven to dubious ends by t
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by shrimpx 5y ago
In my experience, as you learn more about lambda calculus and type theory (LC, STLC, System-F, System-Fw, CiC) the peculiarities of language designs start to fade. This is because when you see a weird-looking language feature, instead of in
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by shrimpx 5y ago
> Too many times it doesn't see some keys combinations I hit. This caught my eye because I tend to think the opposite of this statement. Emacs doesn't skip a beat on text input -- unlike say VSCode which has perceivable input
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by shrimpx 5y ago
The ”new information” is that jury selection starts Tuesday.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Sorry. This blurb made me think cooked books: > Notably, the company told prospective investors in 2014 that the company was on track to break even and generate $100 million in revenue. It brought in little more than $100,000 for that pe
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It’s ridiculous! In multiple active cases we find out VC wired tens of millions of dollars without an iota of diligence to find out if the receiving party had legit books. Then VC cries foul and is 100% the victim. Shouldn’t there be some l
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by shrimpx 5y ago
They’re grumbling because they’ve been there done that, too — tried to communicate the ills of frivolous changes — and nobody was interested in paying attention.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
This takes PG’s advice “do things that don’t scale” to an extreme IMO. The morale of the engineering team will be low, as the most valuable eng work by far will be to trudge through gnarly integrations — either to do new ones or fix the gro
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Presumably if a user’s data is visible in any way while logged in as that user, they can scrape it.

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