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391.
by zeruch 4y ago
Absolutely, we owe Zimmerman.
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by zeruch 4y ago
...because mostly cultural trends towards ever more inefficient (but peakcockishly loud) big vehicles (e.g. SUVs) and the political football that is saving the petrochemical industry from those dirty commie renewable energy...companies.
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by zeruch 4y ago
A large scale sequel to Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Seriously. I still play ETQW, 15 years after release, so...yeah.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"enterprise software isn't built for users, it's built for the upper level administrators who contract the software, and for the amusement and profit of the engineers who are paid a large multiple of the salaries of any of th
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Not every debate has equal evidence on both sides" Don't tell that to the side with a deficit.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Well, ask why that was the case for starters: I could posit a few things, assuming the intent was 'serious' debate and not just any amateurish attempt to prop up unequal-in-quality ideas: 1. Arguments to support it were so thin, t
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by zeruch 4y ago
"But that is not valued by modern academia." Bollocks. I have yet to see any decent univeristy that doesn't have Model UN, Forensics, mock courts, and other debate groups that all practice that skill set.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I switched from 'exciting startups' to boring CRM for a decade, and TBH, it was very useful (and not actually boring). It was an opportunity to work in a smaller (150-700 person) company doing interesting stuff (mobile, cloud too
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by zeruch 4y ago
He did some of his best (and worst) work while collaborating with Jon Anderson in my opinion. "Short Stories" was a great, quirky album in the late 70s. "Friends of Mr. Cairo" was dreck in the 80s.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"as users become more sophisticated then you expect them to need simpler rather than more complex tools." That sentence seems inherently contradictory. ...and yet all the stuff being built by and large makes users less sophisticat
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by zeruch 4y ago
Not sure if the computing world would be that different, but maybe Oracle would have taken a humbling tumble (I loathed them years before they even attempted the buyout, as their corporate culture is too much like Lord of the Flies except
402.
by zeruch 4y ago
"It's infuriating. I've stopped trying to contribute." You aren't the only one (albeit in my case, for more mundane/esoteric topics)
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by zeruch 4y ago
"I had never heard of this before the other day, as I doubt many had." I've been aware of this for a while, and its not just something 'the left' concocted, nor is it new, and has been a bogeyman of reactionary nutj
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by zeruch 4y ago
My last Sun box was a Sparc 20 IIRC, and I had that until 2007ish or thereabouts, before I gave it up. Sun is still one of the best companies I ever worked at, and I was there when the E10K and Java was released, really exciting times with
405.
by zeruch 4y ago
Oh, the nostalgia...(disclosure: worked at Sun in the mid 90s)
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by zeruch 4y ago
Always assume for anything that affects the economy at a macro level to eventually end up coming under the scrutiny of regulatory action (no matter how much ink is given otherwise) and that AML/CTF will be applied.
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by zeruch 4y ago
You have distilled a better framework in two sentences than Reason could have in two issues of features. Well done.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Would you like to borrow a mirror? You clearly appear to want everyone else to and not bother yourself.
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by zeruch 4y ago
You and I both know that in the lions share of cases of the above, the comment gets passed over without any ado. When its attached to ANYTHING related to Rand, or Cato or Reason, its a fluffer parade of anger. The short answer then is the s
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by zeruch 4y ago
Occasionally Reason gets it right...this is not one of those times.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"But I'm just an average developer what do I know. " Usually more than the 'above average' founder or VC.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I worked with Steegmans at SugarCRM (he was the guy who brought me into CipherTrace)...small world indeed.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Not all "blockchain" is the same (case in point, there are firms that do Anti-Money Laundering/Fraud and Counter Terrorism Funding activities which use lots of big data/ML stuff). Disclosure: I work for one of those firm
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by zeruch 4y ago
Indeed.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Except in this case older generation(s) can make/map a realistic delta between past and current such that to make reasonable hypotheses. Frankly, younger people can make the same hypothesis and test from the obverse...it's not tha
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by zeruch 4y ago
Having worked with several people from IBM over the last 20 years...some faked their way through that test.
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by zeruch 4y ago
When it is prevalent (including in the irony of subsequent commentary), it shouldn't be surprising to see it called out, hyperbole notwithstanding.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"The majority of CEOs aren’t in tech and don’t have anywhere near this life or career trajectory. " ...but they are monopolizing the expectations and setting a bar for the perception thereof.
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by zeruch 4y ago
...unpopular or unsavory in its implications?
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by zeruch 4y ago
..as a general statement, I think that's being too kind.

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