bcRIPster

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The Man Who Buried His Teacher(kitchencloset.com)
2 points by bcRIPster 3mo ago|1 comments
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by bcRIPster 3mo ago
Everything you know about the first AI winter is wrong. It was a hit job. Minsky learned from Pitts and McCulloch. Then he buried their field for twenty years. The same institutional pattern that shaped the first AI winter is running again
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The Silencing Engine(kitchencloset.com)
1 points by bcRIPster 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bcRIPster 11y ago
Nice rebuttal though. He has a point. Either show your proof refuting the claim or stfu. I get so tired of armchair experts discounting everything because they just know it can't be true, that it would be nice if someone put people lik
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by bcRIPster 11y ago
High-five. I like your thinking!
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by bcRIPster 11y ago
No, it wouldn't, there's more than enough stuff like this that goes around that taking one slice off the stack isn't really going to change the stack. ;) The thing is these solutions all sounds great on paper, but in practice
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by bcRIPster 11y ago
I understand, but every time I get handed one of these it's because someone who didn't know what they were doing was rapid prototyping something and woops they have 200 hundred users and it's crashing, it's corrupting da
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by bcRIPster 11y ago
A spreadsheet is NOT a database! Argh! As a person who gets asked to fix these kinds of projects once they hit a wall (performance/concurrency/etc) and then have to migrate them to a proper DB platform, just stop it! Put it on in
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Well, she did prove one point though. She's not a customer for these things and doesn't have first hand understanding of that market. So she's got that going... :P
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Apple makes a tech tool? Uh, no. They make fashion tech and have for over a decade now. Yes it's functional for techies but it's fashion plane and simple, and yes people will shell out for it. I know people that were already plann
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
I'm going to disagree. I do SEO work and this format is dying. Readers are put off by it as it lacks sincerity, it's also soon to get penalized in upcoming indexing activities. If she was doing this right she would leave the pitch
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
I enjoyed the article at first but she invalidated the positive experience with the pitch for her seminar at the end of the piece which just led me to discount the entire article as nothing but SEO bait for Google. Frankly it was irritating
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Sooo... what we're really saying here is that we really don't know.
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
I think you're presuming too much. As long as your code is documented and you're willing to release all potential IP claims as part of the sale I can imagine there would be someone interested in buying this straight out. You might
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Given that we've seemed to reach a stage where most US politicians seem to match the profile of what one would clinically call a sociopath, I'm going to hazard a guess that they will not really care.
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
I'm not sure of what the divergence you're indicating is. I agree that an app with no monitization is worthless for sure. A bloated app user base where you aren't monetizing your users is a money sink. Granted there are other
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
I now understand about how the system works after someone else explained. But, thank-you for the feedback.
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Thanks and no worries. It's just been one of those days. :)
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
What you say makes sense when you're selling a product. With most of these applications, their potential money making product though is the back-office data they collect on the users themselves which they then sell to brokers or data w
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
I don't know. Every Texan I've ever known likes to name drop Austin to defend their state to the point where it's like saying they've got a black friend so they can't be racists. Or, they let a gay guy hug them so t
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Thank-you... beyond that I just learned from another user that even though I've been using this site for years I have never seen a down vote option, so I always suspected it was a mod activity. Now that I know it's just other user
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Thank-you, I did not realize that. I feel a bit better now about the down votes in that light. As for you last comment though... are you sure you meant ethnicity? Maybe you meant demographic?
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
All that proves is that his Journalism instructor told him to be sure to include boilerplate CYA to deflect criticism of his article. If he really felt this way he wouldn't be so declarative of his opinions.
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
And I'm still not seeing it. All he's done is equated privacy with things like social security numbers. He's also indicated that he's taking privacy statements from these companies at face value. Privacy is way more than
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Honestly, I expect it's exactly as you say. It's just got me in a bit of a mood this morning.
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
If you look at the end of the article there is a short bio and his photo. He's a blond, white boy who's the spitting image of a young Mark Zuckerberg. To the "separated at birth" level of looking like him. Kinda freaky.
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
I'm feeling like we read different articles. I never once got that concept that he was somehow protecting his privacy. He just stated that his perceptions were that some sites were more private than others. I get the feeling that his f
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
Good! Good! Then I wholly expect to see every comment that is stating an obvious concept to now be down modded off of this site. That's really healthy for discussion.
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
No. Honestly I haven't been to Austin and I have heard good things about it but I did spend a few years living in the DFW Metroplex area (Arlington and then later in Plano). I have on the other hand have had bad personal experiences wi
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by bcRIPster 12y ago
And just how did you come to that conclusion when he specifically said he doesn't care if someone like Snapchat keeps his photos forever?!? Will he care when his photos start showing up in advertisements? Will he care when a prospectiv

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