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by sp527 10y ago
> I would suspect the machine answer to this question would be something like P/E is lower so it's a good investment but who knows. So I agree with the economic/market insight comment as well. This is spot on (tried it onc
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by sp527 10y ago
Given Trump's predisposition towards expressing sentiments that suggest an attitude of uninhibited prejudice with respect to broad swathes of the population on the basis of their race or gender, it stands to reason that people willing
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by sp527 10y ago
My response is more along the lines of "in the case of almost all of the major tech industry successes you can think of, there existed diminishing returns to technical brilliance". Strategy, execution, and product design are so mu
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by sp527 10y ago
The concept of a long tail of less frequently useful features is intrinsic to software tooling. It's tempting to feel bad about only using the handful of primary git commands (status, add, commit, merge, branch, push, pull, log), but t
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by sp527 10y ago
This is a very amusing article because I went in expecting fairly sophisticated arguments about Cloud, PaaS, DevOps, layers of abstraction, higher-level languages/paradigms, etc. Perhaps this was naive, given the domain of origin. The
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by sp527 10y ago
I don't think I've ever seen someone reference former Soviet bloc nations as exemplars of economic prosperity...
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by sp527 10y ago
You know what else is in Bluffdale? The NSA. queue X Files theme
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by sp527 10y ago
The problem is that a lot of studies are bogus (p-hacking, deliberately hysterical to gain media attention , etc) so it's becoming difficult to winnow through it all and find the stuff that's meaningful. This is actually the fairl
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by sp527 10y ago
There are a lot of people (alcoholics, partygoers, etc) and entities (alcohol producers) with a vested interest in ignoring or burying this kind of research. Alcohol is far too entrenched in our society for anyone to successfully campaign a
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by sp527 10y ago
"Gender fluid"
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by sp527 10y ago
Have you actually read his tax plan? "If you are single and earn less than $25,000, or married and jointly earn less than $50,000, you will not owe any income tax. That removes nearly 75 million households – over 50% – from the income
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by sp527 10y ago
Agree completely. I said somewhere else that I'm treating incentives and subsidies as distinct from regulation and penalties.
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by sp527 10y ago
You'd be surprised what happens when people are risking their own money. But now we're just getting into Capitalism 101.. Edit: I feel like I have to clarify this everywhere perhaps because it's an unorthodox viewpoint: of co
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by sp527 10y ago
I can believe that. This is why it's so crucial to have good management. I've also realized through my own experience that a good manager has to be in the trenches coding with his/her reports, at least part of the time. It&
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by sp527 10y ago
Exactly. Maybe I should have been more clear earlier that I'm referring to incentives- driven intervention. Penalizing companies for the negative externalities they inflict on society is practically a first principle of good governance
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by sp527 10y ago
Getting there. Wrapping Lambda functions for local execution isn't too hard since it's really just JS. e.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-lambda
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by sp527 10y ago
That there might be two sides to the argument feels implicit. I did explain how Tesla's situation is relevant. We're not observing this in a vacuum.
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by sp527 10y ago
Well in SV I've often seen informality leveraged to mask Kool-Aid. 'If I'm talking like the cool kids, how could I possibly be punking you?' Bit of a cliched strategy really. Clearly some people still fall for it.
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by sp527 10y ago
Yea. The point is maybe he should care if he's running a company whose market capitalization is related to investor perceptions. Time will tell I guess. And, Tesla may still prevail.
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by sp527 10y ago
No. That phrasing was more pithy. Not wholly inaccurate if you think in the abstract, however.
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by sp527 10y ago
I utilize comment sections to keep my writing and argumentative faculties sharp. This is not how I'd normally communicate. I don't care about karma.
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by sp527 10y ago
DARPA et al do not represent an analogous scenario. As for portfolio theory: I'm not questioning something that fundamental. I'm saying the government has little to no hope of deploying it efficiently. If you had a technocracy of
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by sp527 10y ago
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Russell) Back when I was still an employee, I strove to take a more intermediate tact that let me be more vocal about te
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by sp527 10y ago
He should have written it with more formality and more rigor. Tesla is a public company and there is already a perception among investors that this is a facade. Musk needs to reposition Tesla as less of a personal experiment/quest and
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by sp527 10y ago
I don't trust the government to manipulate the free market efficiently. It's comprised of hapless morons who don't know what they're doing and whose favor is for sale to the highest bidder. Case in point are the tremendo
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by sp527 10y ago
If that's the case, I'd argue we're conflating software development management with software engineering execution. It's illogical to assert that utilizing microservices implies entirely forgoing centralization.
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by sp527 10y ago
I agree completely. I may simply have had the luxury of so far working in environments wherein software fads aren't hailed as Swiss-Army panaceas. Here's to hoping my track record doesn't ever trend Dilbertesque :)
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by sp527 10y ago
I'm genuinely surprised at the quality of Musk's writing and the presentation of certain ideas. He clearly insisted against copyediting, and that was probably a mistake judging by the output. I suspect that he was attempting to es
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by sp527 10y ago
Speaking as a young engineer, I can tell you many are already looking past microservices towards things like AWS Lambda, AMQs, and BaaS, which make a great deal more sense. Why? Because it helps reduce dev effort down to purely the logic yo
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by sp527 10y ago
Did you just utilize an analogy concerning destruction to make a point about production?

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