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by zzalpha 10y ago
But at least I get how that's tech related, as it gets into the ethics of the role of technology in society. But this? This article has exactly zero to do with tech. It appears relevant because it just so happens that there's a
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And yet it's still utterly unrelated to tech . If we're gonna start including topics that are slightly tech adjacent, IMO you destroy the key differentiator that makes HN worth frequenting.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
In the same way that Trump seems to have changed the norms of politics, it seems the election has changed the norms of HackerNews. I wonder what the odds are that my HN RSS feed will stop being 30% political crap that's completely unre
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And yet American presidents hold hands with Saudi leaders who hold the reigns over an objectively violent dictatorship and not a word of condemnation can be heard... funny, that.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
So Facebook is even worse. Good for them!
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by zzalpha 10y ago
But once you get past the interview your recruiter works with you to find teams that you will be interested in That just confirms his/her point. If you don't know what you'll be doing until after you've gotten through
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by zzalpha 10y ago
So, in other words - go through the grueling interviewing process and finally discover that the position may not even be relevant for you, completely wasting everyone's time. Oh but you see that's where you're confused. You
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by zzalpha 10y ago
It's just so much easier to make music on a computer. As though making music and playing music were the same thing...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Fun fact: since Perlin noise basically provides a smoothly varying scalar gradient over a space, it's trivial to extend it to higher dimensions (including variance through time), and to use it to generate things like vector fields when
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Alternate less click baity title: Abusive Bully CEO Kicked Out of Y Combinator Startup Incubator Admittedly less interesting, though...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Riiiight. So because the n-word and the f-word have been reclaimed by their communities, I shouldn't assume that folks not in those communities aren't still using the term in a derogatory fashion? Please. Go back and read the ori
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by zzalpha 10y ago
To then assume that everyone "knows" the term is a negative one when it's sphere of influence is a few small niches of the internet is being dishonest. Which is what makes it a dog whistle: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. I'm as liberal as they get, but Trump appealed to a broad demographic. Reducing it to "uneducated whites" does a disservice to the very foundations of American democracy, as it dismisses out of ha
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Please. Let's all admit SJW has a clear, negative connotation. I mean, geez, it has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior is a pejorative term for an individual promoting sociall
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Could be, but personally I'm done with being silent and just chuckling silently to myself or rolling my eyes when people pull out these infotainment zingers disguised as "insight". I agree. Throwing a derogatory zinger out
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Well, for me, it was usually because of the high quality commentary, wherein folks had rational discussions about the content of a piece rather than resorting to Reddit-style content-free snark that neither educates nor illuminates. Funny h
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by zzalpha 10y ago
If the results had been different, our prediction would have been correct. First, that comment is about the polls, not their model. Second, it's called a polling error. It's actually a thing. This election happened to be extre
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I almost think this was a textbook troll. Start with a reasonable statement. Back that up with some interesting facts. Then drop a bomb in the room and wait for the aftermath. Pretty nicely crafted, all things considered...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Also notable that they mentioned repeatedly that: 1. Polls in key swing states like Michigan have been consistently bad over the years, and there hasn't been a lot of high quality polling in those states during the election, which mean
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And he was getting flack for giving Hillary only 2-1 odds. And he also indicated there was error bars that work in both candidate's favour. IMO, if anyone was at least sorta close, it was FiveThirtyEight.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And two, five, ten years from now we'll all be talking about how the Paris agreement failed and how the <insert name of major city> agreement is a major breakthrough and we'll limit warming to 3-4C this time, we swear! But g
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Is that an average commute for the average commuter? If not, sounds like they, too, are simply mega commuters. Poor bastards...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
It's the same short-termism you see in the sports world. Meh, if the ensuing thread below has taught me anything, it's that one person's short-termism is another person's rational, long-term solution. So couching the
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yes the average users usually don't know what they want but enthusiasts are easier to convince and are more willing to take risks and innovate. Enthusiasts are exactly the wrong people you want to talk to if you're looking to bu
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by zzalpha 10y ago
The article makes a lot of hay about how they reach out to "the community" to get their feedback on product ideas... an idea which comes straight out of the world of Agile and, in principle, seems like a nice idea. But imagine wha
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by zzalpha 10y ago
In-ear headphones? All the benefits of passive noise cancellation without big hefty cans on your head. I switched to them mainly to protect my hearing (I tend to listen to music on the bus or on airplanes where there's a lot of ambien
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by zzalpha 10y ago
As much as I love working from home or an office or whatever, team productivity is better when people who work together share physical space. Define "team". I fully believe that a co-located 5-9 person team in an open space can
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I think a book that cites sources is immediately more trustworthy, to me, than companies following fashionable trends in office design without a critical eye toward impacts on employee performance. Show me one, just one , example of a com
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by zzalpha 10y ago
You could go back as far as you want, but the bulk of voters and those in power grew up in the environment of the late 60s through to the early 80s. Their ideologies were largely shaped by events during that time (which also includes Vietn
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yup. I'd go all the way back to Nixon and Watergate, followed by the anti-institution rhetoric of Regan and his acolytes which served as a reaction. Mix in the junk bond scandal of the 80s and you had the groundwork laid for fundament

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