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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> $25 a year would be too low, everyone will be verified I don't believe this. Suppose it is true. This would be an excellent reason to start with a "quota" (say 10000 per day) - sort of a queue based FIFO system. But
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
This looks like too much effort. Here is a far simpler idea: just hypnotize people via ads so they willingly disable ad blockers, click on every ad they see and ultimately buy so much stuff they go broke.
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." Henry Ford You are right to expect that the internet could make it easier to do such thinking. Except, you are not taking into account
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Reminded me of this story about Donald Knuth: https://www.quora.com/How-would-Donald-Knuth-fare-as-a-compe...
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Not endorsing the guy in this video and don't know much about him personally. With that disclaimer, if you watch this video his lampooning of these meetings as an insider is quite hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
The two companies are like two giant vacuum cleaners sucking competition out of the technology industry. Taken in isolation, the two trends (data acquisition and talent acquisition) are already disturbing. Combine the two, and you have to w
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
I think the software creator is also going to be facing another issue: this seems only one step away from creating an actual malware version and releasing it on the internet. That is not an impression you want to leave on your potential c
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
The person who created Dplot seems to have left a comment on that page clearing the air a bit: "Mine is a mostly word-for-word copy and dates Aug 2015. But as I recall the original was Dexter Bell, who offered this up on the ASP newsgr
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Damn! I was just imagining a scenario where the case took a turn for the worse and came after the very customers of the Azure Intellectual Property advantage :-)
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> After a brief career in publicity Any notable achievements from your publicity career you can mention in your resume? Are there are a lot of people with a similar background to yours (publicity + coding skills)? If not, can you som
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Those who can, do. Those who can't, leech.
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> I'm sorry for the early morning jocularity but I just can't take this topic seriously No worries. Seeing as you have missed the point of the parent's comment, its not surprising you overestimated how jocular your com
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Look, here is a simple suggestion. Come back here in about 6 months after you join FB (settle down first). Since there is no realistic chance for FB to improve their practices within that timeframe, there will be one more complaint thread a
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
But wait. Google created the internet so Amazon can now do business. And Apple invented the PC so both Amazon and Google can do business. Knuth invented computer science so all three of them can engage in business. And von Neumann was Knuth
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
With all the tech giants now engaged in a veritable race to the bottom, it is a good time to point out that people who work at these places seriously reconsider opening their mouths (or typing the words their brain thinks) when there are ar
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Indeed. For some reference, here is something I saw recently in the Deep Learning for Coders course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th_ckFbc6bI#t=16m0s
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Well, if you want to be that precise about the usage of words like karma, lets just say it is the organization's karma. I would like to think others can see my first comment as rhetorical. Although I am now curious. If I found a way
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
I looked at the article going in with a somewhat sympathetic view. But after reading that the person is at Microsoft, I thought "Well, good. Maybe now he will know what it was like about 10 years back for folks who were probably workin
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Credentialing in software probably has a really short half life. I agree with the comment about how insanely inefficient it is though! I have this near conspiracy theory about why the interviewing process includes such ridiculous things as
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Awesome! The first movie ever made based on an anonymous comment on HN. Wait. So I can't get a cut in the profits then?
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
I can't help but feel you are asking for a result and everyone is describing a process - which is fine and is very likely to lead to the result, but if the issue you are facing is not knowing when to stop a particular process, then the
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Not to mention, Amazon is catching the long tail of cloud failure like Google is catching the long tail of search keywords. They can now say with a somewhat straight face - "You know all those scripts you run to keep everything up? We
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Imagine if the customer saw the same actor getting fired in different companies! Is the customer going to catch on? More likely, they will think "Yeah, no wonder there was a problem. This same incompetent dude wormed his way into this
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
I don't quite understand why people thought iPads were good for content creation in the first place. Also, I think Apple really missed a trick by not going after the education market with a more suitable device. With Windows, you never
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> This kind of "outsourcing economy" has been tried, and we have observed mostly negative effects. It deskills the country which pays for the goods, creates trade imbalances that help to break down what's left of our i
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Automatically modify Donald Trump's tweets to say nasty things about Facebook and other social networks on a regular basis.
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
HN is a bubble for sure, but that may not be the reason why low-code tools are not discussed. Suffice it to say that my interest got less and less piqued with every single word in the URL you provided (I was already biased against it before
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
No no no! Why did you have to do that? Don't you know they scan HN for easy to memorize one-liner questions to add to their question bank? Now those who enter the US are really doomed! :-)
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
I agree with the principle, but I wonder if there are actually certain issues which dominate the news today where simply collecting all the arguments for the other side turns into a really large, unmanageable endeavor because the new inform
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
On the other hand, imagine if the data collection never stops and one of the big companies gets hacked, or faces a serious competitive threat making it more likely to sell its data, starts going out of business, or needs to cooperate by sha

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