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by zcw100 7y ago
You will have a unique experience. One thing I learned through the dot-com days was that there were wildly different experiences. I struggled to find employment but after a lot of hustling finally found one as was surprised that most of the
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by zcw100 7y ago
I don't have a problem with reinventing the wheel if that's what you know you're doing. Other people have already pointed out the many good reasons why you would want to do that. What I do have a problem with is people who re
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by zcw100 7y ago
I don't see the people in the chemistry department saying, "We don't teach students to stir shit in test tubes we teach fundamentals!". I get it, they're not there to teach job skills but it's also not an excus
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by zcw100 7y ago
It's a failure of the education system. They want to teach the academic side but ignore the skill side. They're taught the language but none of the tooling. When I was in school, which granted was a while ago now, they didn't
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by zcw100 7y ago
It's hard to get excited about a $1000 iPad when the US is projecting 20% unemployment. A large portion of he population is facing death from a global pandemic, is wondering how they're going to pay their mortgage, utilities or fo
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by zcw100 7y ago
Translation: Companies are pissed that the free software gravy-train is over and how they actually have to start paying for it. This is the way it should have been for the past decade.
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And they rage when the little guy does it to them. It's obvious that employers are either paying people to post good reviews or strong arming current employees to write positive reviews on Glassdoor. The good thing is they're easy
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by zcw100 7y ago
You should take a look at ONgDB https://www.graphfoundation.org/projects/ongdb/ and might find some of these blog posts helpful https://blog.igovsol.com/
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Ok, this is shameless self promotion masquerading as a casual, "Hey I've got an interesting story". I notice that he conveniently left out the part where Alibaba promoted him to VP, Data Science at the same time he started an
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by zcw100 7y ago
That was the plot of Rising Sun by Machael Crichton and was published in 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_(novel) The only thing you'd need to change in that novel is substitute China for Japan
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by zcw100 7y ago
Yes. When your manager comes over and says, “stop tracking meetings or you’re fired”
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by zcw100 7y ago
The cognitive dissonance with describing hiking in Pategonia as low tech is amazing. How exactly did you get there? Probably in a jet powered aircraft. What were you wearing? I’m guessing it wasn’t wool and cotton but some of the most sophi
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by zcw100 7y ago
It doesn’t bother me when they change their mind. What bothers me is when they refuse to document it. Every change should be documented. Print it out and get them to sign it. Then when they complain whip out your pile of documents and say,
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by zcw100 7y ago
How many Ford F-250s do you see on the road in the Netherlands?
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by zcw100 7y ago
All that and not one word about the price of fuel. Going with the all-in bundle only makes sense when the price of hauling around all those extras is cheap. If gas went to $8/gal you'd see people change in a real hurry. If people
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by zcw100 7y ago
I was waiting for someone to mention Solid. Solid takes all the bad ideas from the Semantic Web and goes all in on stupid. They've been pushing WebID for years which is flawed at its very core. It ties a TLS certificate to a web resour
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by zcw100 7y ago
Enron looked great, right before it didn't. House prices will only continue to rise. All it takes is one drop of blood. Maybe that will be Tesla's fate, maybe it won't but it's naive to think that can't happen.
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by zcw100 7y ago
These emails are good. They’re only Bad for Boeing. 346 people are dead. The result of this, unfortunately, is probably going to be management at Boeing and elsewhere to step up corporate email monitoring and in a visible way so that employ
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by zcw100 7y ago
I don't think I'm seeing anything wrong and you've only reinforced my point. You replaced a car with one that is over three times the price. Go ahead and compare the vehicles but it's not much of a comparison if you don&
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by zcw100 7y ago
This makes no sense to me. After driving around an extremely inexpensive Ford Fiesta (14k MSRP for a 2019) you purchase a 40k Tesla then think, "Maybe I should get rid of the Fiesta"? So you could have easily afforded a more expen
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by zcw100 7y ago
Perfect example. French and English are not in the same "larger family". French is a Romance language and English, while influenced by French, is a Germanic language. Learning it in 25 weeks depends on your definition of learning.
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by zcw100 7y ago
I really think manufacturers have really missed out on an opportunity with QR codes by handing them over to marketing. Most of the early QR codes in the US were just links to advertising. I'm not going out of my way to scan a QR code j
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by zcw100 7y ago
“ We’re not going to give the whole game away” so security through obscurity. Trust us, if we say crypto three times it must be secure, crypto, crypto, crypto!
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by zcw100 7y ago
Yes, there are some wonderful people in there. Andy Seaborne has always impressed me with his thoughtful responses. I won't call out any of the bad apples. Usually a question goes something like, "Uh, I'm new to the semantic
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by zcw100 7y ago
Social media is a straight jacket. You can say anything you want but no one cares what someone in a straight jacket has to say because you can't actually do anything.
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by zcw100 7y ago
I always think of Akerloff's "Market for Lemons" when I hear about hiring in IT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons (Not that any particular company or person is a lemon but the market c
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by zcw100 7y ago
Bloomberg did it to me. Even blocked my phone number. I figured that out when I changed my caller id. It was back in the day when VoIP was new and they didn't expect that someone could do that. It was worth hearing the panic on the voi
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by zcw100 7y ago
I could write a book on what's wrong with the semantic web. One of the worst isn't even technical, it's the community. There are some great people in the community but there are also a large number of extremely toxic people t
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by zcw100 7y ago
Sounds like BayesDB. (That was an academic project and I’m not sure if it’s still being worked on).
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Tesla isn't but this is one of the biggest problems I have with Tesla that I don't hear many people talking about. Tesla is more like a laptop with wheels than a car with a computer. That's fine but I'm not going to upgr

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