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by smattiso 7y ago
How is that condescending? sub "frontend for Google AdWords" with "plumber, truck driver, etc." Not everybody has the skills, motivation, luck, to be working on problems that push the human race forward. So what? People
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by smattiso 7y ago
So you are moving society forward? Your banal motivations of lifting heavy things and having sex with random women is noble? Says who? You exploit software so that other people can steal, spy, etc. and I would argue that your life is even m
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by smattiso 7y ago
I agree building a company just for the sake of building a company is as arbitrary and meaningless of an Ithaca as it is to want to work for say Google. However contributing in a meaningful way to improving the world is a noble pursuit and
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by smattiso 7y ago
I'm actually more interested in the science, however from what I've seen that's usually reserved for PhD Oceanographers? How do I get in contact with you?
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by smattiso 7y ago
I've often considered going back to school for a MS in Robotics, but I wonder if it's possible to join an outfit like yours as a SW guy and "pick up" some of the prereq knowledge on the job? I'd probably stay more o
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by smattiso 7y ago
I've been fascinated by this forever. It seems like it's mostly for EE and ME people though? Are you working in Marine Science?
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Ask HN: Coolest CS Subfields?
10 points by smattiso 7y ago|14 comments
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by smattiso 7y ago
1.) Piracy effectively kills independent movies and books. -- Outside of showstopper Marvel, Star Wars, Avenger-esque media, most movies lose money or are rolled up into subscription services. -- However other showstopper type franchises ar
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Ask HN: Serverless.com framework vs. raw AWS console?
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Which master's degree unlocks the coolest jobs post-grad?
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by smattiso 7y ago
Good. Javascript needs to die. It was far simpler to build performant multi-device UIs 15 years ago than it is today. Building UIs natively on iOS and Android is so much simpler than building for the web. Technical question: 1.) What is the
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Ask HN: Neo4j Prospects?
1 points by smattiso 7y ago|0 comments
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by smattiso 7y ago
Sure I'm all for automating things we don't like doing, but everytime we outsource some piece of ourselves to technology we lose something in the process. We invented farming and lost our communal hunter gathering cultures. We inv
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by smattiso 7y ago
Are we losing something as humans by automating so much? I mean I'm all for technical progress but at some point our computers will have killed so much of what makes us humans. Chess, go, driving, flying, math, written language, music.
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Ask HN: Where to find good looking static site themes?
8 points by smattiso 7y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: What tech projects actually have interesting work?
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Ask HN: Best Companies to Work for in Charleston?
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Ask HN: Using consumer cellphones for an IoT network?
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by smattiso 7y ago
Not necessarily, speech to text engines are pretty decent so it's conceivable a listening device could just send the transcript.
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Ask HN: Best way to get into embedded programming?
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by smattiso 7y ago
The unfortunate consequence of this is that some previously viable types of movies won't make financial sense in a mostly streaming world. Spending 50 million dollars to produce a comedy only to have it end up on Netflix competing dire
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Ask HN: Can I build a Chromium browser on iOS?
1 points by smattiso 7y ago|1 comments
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by smattiso 7y ago
What would it take to get this running on iOS and Android?
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by smattiso 8y ago
I did this and my advice would be “it depends”. It’s been a mixed bag. Financially I’m much worse off than I would have been staying at my 300k job (who knows what it would have grown to now?). I will say the stress of not knowing what you
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by smattiso 8y ago
But isn't that why companies hire employees on visas to begin with? I would venture to guess for every 1 truly pioneering mind that is working in the US on a H1-B visa there are 100 people working on CRUD software at Amazon or Microsof
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Ask HN: Is There a “Test Suite” for robots trained in a simulated environment?
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by smattiso 8y ago
I think that depends on how good our physical simulations become? If we can model our robot to a sufficient degree of physical precision, and our world simulation is good enough, with the right objective functions it seems like one probably
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Ask HN: How did you change professions?
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Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?
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by smattiso 8y ago
Interesting. As part of your Comp Bio PhD did you learn the fundamentals of AI research? How are you planning to transition?

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