val314159

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by val314159 3y ago
don't use rails, use python
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by val314159 3y ago
sounds like it's 3 hours of coding / day + 5-10 hours a day preparing for and thinking about the problem. that's 7-12 hours / day if you add in an hour's worth of breaks. sounds billable to me!
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by val314159 3y ago
check out 80's movies. The dying steel town was a trope.
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by val314159 3y ago
or we could just build a ton of nuclear plants.
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by val314159 3y ago
But they had AIs that generated stories in the 1960s! Were those "intelligent"? Some people back then said they were.
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by val314159 3y ago
Do you think the card catalog down at the local library is sentient? Maybe that's not enough data, though! Is the card catalog for NY Public Library sentient? Maybe that's still too local. Is Google sentient? Everyone with a clue
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by val314159 4y ago
if you look at Uber's fundamentals thru the IPO it's clear that most of the value was a money laundering scheme for the Saudis.
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by val314159 4y ago
where I live, some restaurant's don't use cars, they use remote controlled robots. They are also extremely cute.
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by val314159 4y ago
Everyone I knew ran Linux in the late 90's, I chose to run FreeBSD. I guarantee you Linux was very influential. Solaris was its only real competitor after a while, and Sun went all Java and screwed up its OS.
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by val314159 5y ago
Why not just start a DAO, give the AI to the DAO, then have the DAO only respond to commands from the AI?
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by val314159 5y ago
the whole field's expanded; the average pay is lower because there is so much janitorial work to be done, but the high end has exploded.
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by val314159 5y ago
If you're working in software development already, all decent employers should encourage you to constantly learn, even if it isn't directly related to the job at hand. If this isn't the case, it's a huge red flag.
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by val314159 5y ago
you think the government doesn't have a list of its citizens? I'm sure they have something like a social security number.
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by val314159 5y ago
for the love of god, someone please rename these "diluthium crystals"!
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by val314159 7y ago
Why hasn't anyone pointed out that, except for function and variable names, almost all of computer code is symbols which were pilfered from . . . arabic???
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by val314159 9y ago
I could totally see that. However, too many "misspeaks" like this could come across as telegraphing your true feelings. Sometimes how people say things is even more important than WHAT they say. (other case in point: "Decen
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by val314159 9y ago
You want to find a girl who is: 1. ready for marriage 2. has had NO previous boyfriends 3. doesn't drink more than twice a month 4. said girl should not value money at all 5. this girl should be ok a guy who has poor social skills 6.
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by val314159 10y ago
That seems like it's clipped from a "You Can Do Anything!" article. He said he's full up on Generic Business Magazine advice.
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by val314159 10y ago
I will PERSONALLY teach you to program for only $1.5M!
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by val314159 10y ago
Because docker is the new hotness while smalltalk is old hotness?
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by val314159 10y ago
I will do this if I can get a Kickstarter to give me $10,000!
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by val314159 10y ago
Um, calling Shadows and Forms "a lot like" Object-Orientation in Computer Science really belittles much of Information Theory developed in the last hundred years. If anything, I would consider it an early version of "Signs an