exelius

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by exelius 7y ago
> This is false. Bridges are large and have failure cases that managers and government officials understand. They only think they understand. > Software is invisible and has failure cases that are completely incomprehensible. Which ar
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by exelius 7y ago
I don't think emotion on its own is bad or good; but it's not something that a computer can emulate. You may get better decisions in some scenarios with certain stakeholders, and worse decisions in other scenarios. When we talk ab
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by exelius 7y ago
You're really telling me that because you can't become a bazillionaire, you'll have no motivation to make money? You can structure a progressive tax such that the 83% rate only kicks in for income above $10M. Maybe you pay 60
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by exelius 7y ago
For better or worse, our economy is based on utter selfishness.
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by exelius 7y ago
Absolutely agree — a computer algorithm can never capture the complex motivations behind human decisions. Two humans can have exactly opposite reactions to the same situation. Any algorithm under which decisions are not random can be deceiv
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by exelius 7y ago
Huh? Not sure what you’re trying to say, but privilege isn’t something to shame someone over. In my mind, understanding my privilege simply means that if I want to live in accordance with my own values, I have to recognize the biases that c
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by exelius 7y ago
I mean, excuse me for wanting to dismantle social security because I’ll never see a dime from it.
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by exelius 7y ago
I’m not necessarily against a for-profit pharmaceutical industry... but I certainly am when the entire cost burden falls on us because the pharmaceutical companies band together to prevent our government from negotiating drug prices at the
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by exelius 7y ago
A citizen science model — which is what we de-facto have for anything that isn’t cancer — is more efficient and cost effective. As it is, if someone finds a new life-saving use for an 80 year old drug, there are suddenly shortages of the ol
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by exelius 7y ago
The biggest problem with “human intelligence” is that our memory is so short and influenced by emotion. Though judging by the amount of data created and lost over the last decade, that’s probably true of computers too.
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by exelius 7y ago
I have a feeling that without the US market capable of paying a hundred thousand dollars a patient, many of those cost-ineffective treatments never get developed. People could still pay for them out of pocket, but without the guarantee of i
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by exelius 7y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s “just” a benefit of their business model; it’s the entire point. I don’t see Samsung making any of these moves. Any good product organization (and Apple is one of the best) focuses on their customer. We all know that. Bu
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by exelius 7y ago
That’s why I think whatever trust solution we come up with will have a heavy audit component to it. I know everyone here hates SOX compliance, but the entire goal of SOX was to increase investors’ trust in financial reporting in the wake of
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by exelius 7y ago
Yeah, Apple had the foresight to see the next big thing in tech was going to be privacy. But I think it’s reflective of a larger societal problem: we don’t know who to trust anymore. It seems like every company is trying to scam its users,
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by exelius 7y ago
It’s pretty boss on a Vive Pro. You’re right, the extra resolution and screen refresh really help.
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by exelius 7y ago
Because Elite delivers on a lot of the promises of Star Citizen, and it’s a mature, actively supported game with a dedicated player base that you can buy today. The fact that you can’t walk around with your avatar actually makes the game mo
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by exelius 7y ago
Yup, this is the real reason behind concepts like “10% time”. Play with new stuff on your side projects, not on production systems.
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by exelius 7y ago
I would simply argue that traditional “system administration” is now the responsibility of development teams rather than ops teams (yeah yeah DevOps, but the “ops” part has changed). Ops today is largely responsible for maintaining build &#
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by exelius 7y ago
The problem with blockchain is that a significant percentage of people who are bullish on blockchain are only bullish because they think it will negate the need for governance. They fail to see that many systems they want to replace with bl
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by exelius 7y ago
Agree in all cases. Bamboo was actually ok for a little while; but then they got rid of the cloud version which made it a bit more niche. I also like to plug VSTS in these conversations. It’s really nice to be able to drill down from featur
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by exelius 7y ago
There is immense value to the intern just for being around; the biggest things software dev interns learn isn’t how to code: it’s how to code as part of a team . So check-ins, CI/CD, automated testing, daily meeting cadence, architect
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by exelius 7y ago
Most real internships pay under market rate, but not insanely low. A few years back, going rate for an undergrad CS internship was ~$25/hr or so. If you’re recruiting on campus, you’re competing with other companies for the most prom
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by exelius 7y ago
So that means we should encourage low-wage slavery?
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by exelius 7y ago
Yeah; it’s actually pretty easy work. Interns have a lot of uncommitted time, and they’re going to leave soon so you don’t want to integrate them into the team too much. It’s also way easier to build to a well-defined spec (which an in-prod
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by exelius 7y ago
It’s just an absurd situation that health care is tied to employment in the first place. If you get sick and can’t work, you just become a burden on society that’s not accounted for anywhere — but society still has to pay for anyway. And we
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by exelius 7y ago
I vehemently disagree with this. It was maybe true in the beginning when payouts were subsidized by VC, but the most recent rounds of driver payout cuts have led to a situation where a lot of drivers are recent immigrants who “lease” cars o
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by exelius 7y ago
The person who has “stagnated” while drawing a high salary will be the first one let go when the economy gets less rosy.
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by exelius 7y ago
I would suspect it’s because even many of the core libraries are still written in Obj-C. Swift is neat and I really like it, but the ecosystem is such that even when using it on a new project you end up writing ~25% of your project in Obj-C
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by exelius 7y ago
Okay, but I think we as a society are poorer as a result. Consumerism is not the end-all, be-all.
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by exelius 7y ago
Money is not the only thing in the world, or even the most important. It’s a means to an end.

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