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by zeroname 8y ago
> That graph shows the probability of the whole system working correctly (aka as the user expect) if each component is 99% correct. Yes, it shows that. But what's the point of showing it? It insinuates is that there is a probl
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I do aggree that it's pretty high bar in this case though - it's changing the flow, not just improving it. My whole point is that this is not an improvement, it's actually a worse way to enter a simple datastructure in
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities Because progressives don't like the poor, they just hate the rich.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Don't get excited. The thing that this demo shows in minutes could've been typed up in text in seconds . It is not a productive way to do things. There's a reason that these systems never catched on, they are unnecessary. Yo
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by zeroname 8y ago
What if I could just write text in my text editor of choice to manipulate the state of my user interface? Oh wait, I can. Thank God.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> "Don't code your UI" Do code your UI.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> If you exclude the guns that kill, guns are safe. There are indeed guns which are ridiculously unsafe to use and if you just count all guns in the world and average their failure rates, then "on average" guns are less safe. T
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by zeroname 8y ago
> [asymptotic graph trending towards doom] > How many programs are you running right now? :-D I don't even know, there are probably thousands of processes running right now, totaling hundreds of millions of lines of code. And it
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by zeroname 8y ago
works on my machine™
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Both are essentially a kind of accessibility tech, and when it comes to accessibility questions, the chief concern isn't necessarily whether everyone uses it. It's still a question of whether a significant amount of people us
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by zeroname 8y ago
Delivering value to only 0.1% of users is equal to taking away value from the other 99.9% of users. You're not strictly saving development time, you're reallocating it to better utility. Now, if those 0.1% of users have some sort
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by zeroname 8y ago
I don't understand what you're disagreeing with exactly. I say "unpaid overtime" appears to be legal. I didn't say "unlimited unpaid overtime". From everything you quoted, "unpaid overtime" is le
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by zeroname 8y ago
If you actually look at the court case, the guy won because the contract was unclear on its terms, not because such terms are inadmissable in general. That's why the lower court didn't decide in his favor. The decision doesn'
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Use German resources if you want to learn about Germany. This is an English speaking forum. Unless you have evidence that the English resources contradict the german ones, calling me out on this is pointless. > Tldr; employees and e
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Unpaid overtime definitely conflicts with labour law. I can't find any evidence that it does. It seems to be common practice: https://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/342740-unpaid-ove... If you receiv
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by zeroname 8y ago
At least it's not blockchain.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Doesn't that conflict with German labor law? I doubt it, Germans rank high in terms of unpaid overtime. https://www.dw.com/en/unpaid-overtime-a-common-phenomenon-in... They also have some of the lowest wage
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I have no sympathies for companies that turn down highly qualified intelligent workers by the truckload. There are so many people with MBAs who, for years struggle to get any kind of job at all. An "MBA" doesn't make you
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I’ve been working in a hedge fund as a quant dev for more than 10 years. Before that I worked in 3 banks. I guess you know too much about it, then. > “this seems to work, but we don’t really know why, so we probably shouldn’t use
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by zeroname 8y ago
> What clothes will make my manager and coworkers think I write better software? The kind of clothes that they wear. Which is probably not the same kind of clothes.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Am I (and colleagues) a magic snowflake, or are tests a massive waste of time, or is it somewhere in the middle? Tests are definitely a massive waste of time if you never need them. Write and forget code exists and can certainly run ha
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by zeroname 8y ago
In my estimation, existing models are just oracles with less variables. > One of many factors there was the way rating agencies gave very generous ratings to mortgage securities. Garbage in, garbage out.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Fair argument, but somehow I doubt you know too much about real-world finance. Not a lot of reason to be found there. Frankly, I think the problem here is "too new" or "too many variables". I doubt any of these managers
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by zeroname 8y ago
> members of the IDW Oh, it's a membership now? Where do you sign up? > It's a shame because while we really do need something that goes outside of the crazy mono-culture that tries to destroy all dissent, based on what I&#x
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by zeroname 8y ago
> "Fine and Manson stressed that vitamin D and the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil are important nutrients, but the best way to get them is as part of a well-balanced diet. That includes eating fatty fish like sardines, tuna a
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by zeroname 8y ago
Legalize Heroin for everyone again. If you're going to be a junkie and, let's face it, many people will prefer that over debilitating chronic pain, it'll be a safer and healthier alternative than these synthetic opiods. Heroi
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by zeroname 8y ago
> There is a book on this dichotomy of environmentalists vs technologists, and how one group advocates efficiency/conservation and the other advocates innovation/change. I think both schools of thought are needed to move forwar
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by zeroname 8y ago
If you're at the top of Google, one of the most well-financed entities in the world and you actually understand all of its "high end" technologies to a reasonable degree, I think that's going to bring you back down to
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Technology absolutely solves humanity's problems. There's pretty much no problem that given a large thoughtful effort, technology has not solved. The problem is that humanity is bad at choosing where to invest in technology.
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by zeroname 8y ago
A for effort. > Now, again, you have to go through three of these rounds of interviews, each time going through the independent probability math. Again, my probabilty math isn't the best here, but I think the odds that you are a dum

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