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by zzalpha 9y ago
Elon Musk is big on working long hours. And it's hard to argue with what he's accomplished. What does one have to do with the other? Unless we can view an alternate timeline where Elon wasn't a workaholic, it's impossi
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by zzalpha 9y ago
As a Canadian, when I read the domain name I thought this was going to be a message from a Canadian beef jerkey manufacturer: https://www.mcsweeneys.ca/
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by zzalpha 9y ago
We've already crossed that threshold: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/googles-alphago-levels-board-g... But then, about a year ago, DeepMind redesigned the system. In essence, they built the new AlphaGo withou
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That was done for military strategic purposes, not simply for the lulz.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
NPP isn't just a mobile payment solution, its a new platform for Australian banks to perform real-time clearing and settlements: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Payments_Platform It's basically an Austral
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yeah I think it's fair to say that prescribed vitamins for those with a medical condition are probably worth taking. ;)
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The one vitamin worth taking for anyone living in a northern climate is D, particularly if, like me, you don't consume a lot of dairy. Beyond that, I agree, vitamins are entirely unnecessary.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I strongly believe AI will become a part of us like an external brain That's optimistic. I can't imagine it would be long before the AI saw things the other way around... and then began to wonder why it was bothering with that
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by zzalpha 9y ago
many more couples than you might think choose sleep separately for exactly the reasons shown by this data. It appears you didn't read past the first graph (which initially implies a reduction in sleep due to sharing a bed with his pa
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by zzalpha 9y ago
UBI in its most corrupt form turns into communism. A I know it's fashionable to label any level of government involvement in the economy as "communism", but unless the means of production are collectively owned, it's n
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Assume a family and a couple of kids, health care, child care, and transportation and according to this: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-expensive-is-san-francisc... You're already at 91,000 for basic expenses. That
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Probably logical to start here! https://developer.chrome.com/getstarted
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That depends, are you factoring cost of living into your calculations? 200-300k is sounds like a basic living wage in the bay area these days... What's the point earning that kind of cash if it's gonna be chewed up by housing and
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It is essentially like running Google Play Music in your Chrome browser, but as a native standalone app with some extra controls, nicer styles, and without having to use Flash. So why not just deliver this as a plugin for Chrome that resk
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Mice have their place. But they have issues with precision, RSI, and force the need to move the hands to/from home row. And if you use a laptop as a primary work tool, being able to avoid the touchpad (or trackpoint for those ThinkPad
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Disclosing potential conflicts of interest is standard journalistic practice for any respectable news organization. This isn't something the Post just invented.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I guess that explains the "may"...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You miss the point. "10x" doesn't mean working 2-3x longer than everyone else. If that's necessary, bad news, you're not a 10x coder. You're just an above average workaholic.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
A chromebook as a dev environment is something I've never heard of. My dev laptop has 16Gb of memory and a 512Gb SSD with a Core i7 onboard. It gets 8 hours of active dev work on a charge. No Chromebook comes close to those specs.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Frequently. It's a laptop, that's kinda the point! Aircraft and buses are common locations, but even when I'm coding on the couch I appreciate not being tethered to an outlet. And the sleep/hibernate problems are equall
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Hah, touche!
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Eh, with Google's backing, I'd say it has reached liftoff. So far these feel like articles to attract page clicks... The substance has been seriously lacking.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You know, I gotta admit, as someone who rather likes Kotlin, even I'm getting a little exhausted with all the breathless Kotlin articles...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I don't get why developers even bother I word: laptops. I've used a laptop as my primary dev environment for years. During that time I ran Debian on ThinkPads. Compared to Windows you paid a price in terms of higher power consu
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by zzalpha 9y ago
For further coverage, this is also discussed in the (kinda disturbing) book Hooked as the Investment part of their cycle.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I find Scala suffers from similar problems you find in Haskell or C++: an overly complex type system, obsession with operator overloading, way too many ways to do things leading people to find a "manageable subset" they can deal w
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by zzalpha 9y ago
But it doesn't seem better enough to force old Java dogs to care for new tricks. Don't count on that. I'm an old dog when it comes to Java. But I decided to give Kotlin a try on a little pet project of mine. JetBrains are
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Also, I don't understand the point of Kotlin. Clojure, Groovy and Scala are all very distinctive from each other and have their own niche. Kotlin is just a subset of Scala. Uh. Yeah. Exactly.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
If you did read it, you'd know the article claims that systemic bias leads some to be privileged over others in society, thus causing them to be more willing to take risk since they perceive less risk in the first place. The "whit
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by zzalpha 9y ago
And this article cites various studies that call into question just how "fundamental" it is. Did you even read it?

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