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by shusson 9y ago
> These discussions do need to be had I agree, but (and call me old fashioned) I don't think these kind of discussions should happen at work and I definitely don't think an employee should be publishing opinionated documents na
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by shusson 9y ago
> We have a culture of anti-intellectualism and dogmatism around certain topics that for whatever reason are considered sacred and not allowed to be challenged (ie. political correctness), and its disgraceful. From a personal perspective
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by shusson 9y ago
Does anyone have any positive experiences with HR performance reviews? I am genuinely curious because in my experience they have been pointless except from making the organisation feel good.
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by shusson 9y ago
Hmm anyone else thinking of Pied Piper?
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by shusson 9y ago
> How is it fundamentally different if the type system does it? runtime vs compile time. For example someone could write some TypeScript that would forever compile, which is intuitively unexpected when compiling.
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by shusson 9y ago
Sort of, I would say that the "million modules problem" is caused by the ever changing but backwards compatible web standards. So even if you don't target the web, but use web tech, you'll suffer similar issues.
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by shusson 9y ago
Languages usually have a technology that drives their popularity. Javascript has the browser, and in my opinion the browser is the reason for most of the fatigue. Sure call it FOMO, and of course it happens in other domains, but web develop
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by shusson 9y ago
Please stop calling it JavaScript Fatigue. The complaints are web development related(specifically the browser) not language specific. The distinction is important because people keep trying to compare the issues with other languages.
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by shusson 9y ago
Good point, but they may be caching or storing results on the volume
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by shusson 9y ago
> EBS volumes are lazy loaded TIL, that probably explains other weird performance issues I've seen. further info: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-initi...
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by shusson 9y ago
tldr: AWS EC2 has the concept of I/O credits for storage. If your instance runs out of credits, bad things, which may seem completely unrelated, will happen. I was having similar issues last week and did not consider I/O credits.
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by shusson 9y ago
Agreed, the big AI successes of the past decade like AlphaGo are specialised machines that only work in a specified domain. It's still a huge achievement, but I have yet to see any AI that warrants regulation anymore than any other aut
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by shusson 9y ago
I think it's relevant because it seems like the media treat Musk as some sort of authority on AI.
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by shusson 9y ago
Yeah it's a loose definition, but I think the point is Musk does not develop or research AI directly. He owns a company that is developing AI.
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by shusson 9y ago
As Rodney Brooks was recently quoted: "There are quite a few people out there who’ve said that AI is an existential threat: Stephen Hawking, astronomer Royal Martin Rees, who has written a book about it, and they share a common thread,
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by shusson 9y ago
you can use MapD on your MacBook pro in CPU mode, but it will not be able to do any vega rendering because that requires a GPU.
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by shusson 9y ago
Sounds like to me this is because the market for developing novel IOT devices is not as disruptive as previously thought.
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by shusson 9y ago
> why don't we set society up so that you have to work less in the first place to earn a living I think in practice this is very hard and would require modification of economic fundamentals e.g at a very broad level capitalism vs so
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by shusson 9y ago
Honestly I find that Vega, the visualisation grammar, is much more interesting. Finally we might have a standard for describing charts!
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by shusson 9y ago
don't forget the seller who may also need protection. Traditionally companies like PayPal would offer some level of protection to both the buyer and the seller. However I imagine transaction insurance would just become another business
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by shusson 9y ago
> Get over yourself The guy is simply describing his personal experience. Why don't you describe your own personal experience instead of attacking him?
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by shusson 9y ago
thanks for the info. On a side note, do you know if GCP will ever support preemptible GPU instances?
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by shusson 9y ago
> Google K80s are half or quarter the speed of a real K80 do you have any evidence for this?
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by shusson 9y ago
While the authors article is relevant if you are stuck on GCP, on AWS you will not have the same conclusion. This is because AWS has GPU spot instances (P2) which can be found for ~80% cheaper depending your region [1]. Hopefully one day so
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by shusson 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I think you're right so I've updated the deployment with bar charts.
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Show HN: Interactively explore every GitHub PR between 2012 and 2017(github-investigation.firebaseapp.com)
5 points by shusson 9y ago|2 comments
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by shusson 9y ago
You about summed up my experience too. > So i'm not quite sure why it's so important for the author to declare one and only one winner in the race Attention seeking I guess
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by shusson 9y ago
> To me, it is incredible that the frameworks matter THAT much in the JS world It's not the JS world, it's the browsers world. I think a better comparison is iOS vs Android vs web development.
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by shusson 9y ago
> Nobody is forcing you to try new stuff and then talk about js fatigue. If you read the conclusion, the author is actually very positive about the entire experience.
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by shusson 9y ago
> It is hard to reconcile claims like “mumbo jumbo” and “blah blah blah” with legitimate critique I just watched one of their intro videos[1] and can confirm "mumbo jumbo". [1] https://youtu.be/P8EoAvWfFnY

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