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by soup10 8y ago
they must be holding some pretty big bags lol
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by soup10 8y ago
Maybe true in the very early days but Google has 100K employees now. It's a mixed bag of skilled and mediocre.
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by soup10 8y ago
Google and other tech companies shouldn't be banning services that do productive things with their data, especially not when that data was cheaply collected or volunteered to them. bandwidth is not expensive. Not saying that's wh
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by soup10 8y ago
how does that make it any less hypocritical for Google and others that vacuum up everyones data for free and monetize it to ban or api-restrict others
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by soup10 8y ago
You don't get it guys, when Google scrapes the web and downloads everyones data then serves up parts of it with sponsored ads next to it in searches its OK because they are Google. But if you scrape their data it's not OK because
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by soup10 8y ago
Even if you are winning and can tolerate the grind, as soon as you go up in stakes you lose most or all of your edge and variance goes way up. The ugly truth about poker is its only fun if there are fish feeding chips to the good players.
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by soup10 8y ago
i hate these underhanded "use this cool feature that we made to lock you in to our platform" tactics
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by soup10 8y ago
this really depends, i'm sure many of us here run servers that have been humming along for years and are rarely even thought about
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by soup10 8y ago
nobody is arguing that major tranquilizers don't have their place for controlling psychosis in emergencies but long term use of them has a degenerative effect on the brain
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by soup10 8y ago
they don't really manage it well, the drugs they use depress all cognitive activity and patients almost always stop taking them. their cure for depression is pills that zonk people out too
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by soup10 8y ago
Modern Psychiatry in a nutshell: Patient acting crazy? Label them schizophrenic, schizo-affective or bipolar(doesn't really matter which, they are all subjective); Hit em with some major tranquilizers and dopamine inhibitors and rack
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by soup10 8y ago
i do this too with my data on a smaller scale, but i'm suprised tumblr does this because even with only a few million files s3 buckets that big are awkward to work with
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by soup10 8y ago
Apple should take no cut, and profit only from the sale of hardware. By taking cut on software they are double dipping. Good software makes the phone more valuable for users and drives phone sales.
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by soup10 8y ago
successful open source game dev is pretty rare. i don't know why, but i'd guess mostly that polishing a game to modern standards is a heck of a grind.(not to mention artists aren't really keen on working for free either) T
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by soup10 8y ago
its a 2D engine. (just clarifying because it wasn't immediately clear)
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by soup10 8y ago
engine development is one of the more interesting aspects of game dev to me and many other programmers, having so much focus on clunky monolithic closed source platforms like unity is lame. just providing a counterpoint to the unity hype,
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by soup10 8y ago
1. the primary issue is you can't properly optimize rendering and if what you want to do doesn't fit neatly into unity's architecture its gonna be dog slow and your gonna spend forever writing hacks and work arounds to get it
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by soup10 8y ago
i wanted to like unity but not having low level access to the rendering and physics internals is intolerable.
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by soup10 8y ago
people working on new systems and tech are generally better programmers than people hacking away at enterprise spaghetti at a big corp. big corp jobs like that pay better for less work though.
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by soup10 8y ago
what's elusive about it? there's some pretty obvious situations where you expect driverless cars to have trouble: bad weather, unusual traffic or pedestrian patterns, emergency vehicles, rarely travelled roadways...
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by soup10 8y ago
All video games have a shelf life. The experience gets stale, the hype dies down and people move on to something else.
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by soup10 8y ago
they should focus on mastering mundane routine driving and have a backup to switch to remote controlled operation for risky or unusual situations.
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by soup10 8y ago
Amen to that, we are starting to get some of the groundwork but are far far away from a “standard model”, neuroscientists,psychiatrists and AI developers oversell their understanding in order to keep their jobs and funding.
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by soup10 8y ago
I’m bullish on yelp still, they have the highest quality community sourced reviews, a forward thinking engineering team, and energetic management. I think they will pull through and continue to be competitive with Google, but they need bet
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by soup10 9y ago
Nobody besides a few elite security people even knows how legit crypto products really are. It's all a rumor mill for us lay programmers. Crypto is cool and all but human right? Not sure what that has to do with anything. Crypto is
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by soup10 9y ago
Greed and speculation today becomes genuine mass distrust and dislike of fiat tomorrow, don't underestimate cognitive dissonance.
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by soup10 9y ago
The utility of bitcoin is that it's a global currency backed by an impartial computer system rather than a government. By being politically neutral it eases tensions and competition between countries. It makes commerce more efficient
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by soup10 9y ago
If I bought monopoly money for $1B then later am able to sell 10% for 200M. I might believe and tell people my stash is now worth $2B, but most reasonable people would say your stash is worth $0 because its monopoly money and you got scamm
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by soup10 9y ago
my point is the most recent trades are a small sample of financial activity which is then extrapolated to make the market cap metric. and i think it's not as meaningful a metric as it would be with stocks since its a much more volatile
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by soup10 9y ago
it's like if a vc invested at a big valuation for a tiny stake. it's impressive, but nobody knows if that valuation will hold up.

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