kenster07

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by kenster07 12y ago
This is not about evaluating what is objectively better for the consumer. There is much less tolerance for the "ask for forgiveness, not permission" mentality in Germany than America, and this ruling proves that. If a competitor l
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by kenster07 12y ago
I find the angry tone of this message to be misplaced and unnecessary.
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by kenster07 12y ago
Node would be useful for the chat feature that one can see in the screenshots.
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by kenster07 12y ago
Patently false. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm
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by kenster07 12y ago
The fundamental problem is actually the arbitrary separation of the practical and theoretical. They should be informing one another. Consider this: many great "theoretical" discoveries in history, including those in CS, were not t
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by kenster07 12y ago
The fact is that past X hours most people just aren't very productive I agree with the sentiment, but people need to remember that the number 'X' is different for different people.
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by kenster07 12y ago
The article's title is quite link-baity. That being said, it is obvious that technology will displace more and more traditional human labor. Of course, unlike in the past, human labor becomes increasingly unnecessary to sustain said hu
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by kenster07 12y ago
The article seems to subtly suggest that if you do not have an advanced degree [1], you do not have "brains." As someone who has "brains" but has chosen not to pursue and advanced degree, if I were working for the author
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by kenster07 12y ago
That's a bit of an overstatement. Many purchases are time-sensitive to the extent that expected deflation would have to be very high.
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by kenster07 12y ago
This blog entry is not very generalizable. It implies a certain kind of programming for a certain kind of business.
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by kenster07 12y ago
This whole situation is more depressing than anything. Who would have thought that exemplars of our industry would cheat their own employees to this degree. One might have expected this in some other industries, but software?
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by kenster07 12y ago
"The idea that you will learn more in industry than in a CS degree only applies if A) you are in a shitty CS program or B) you aren't trying hard enough to learn anything." Disagree. If you learn more in 3 years of college th
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by kenster07 12y ago
So you should run away from Google? Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I actually think you have a valid point.
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by kenster07 12y ago
I disagree. If this person is a good abstract and technical thinker, he should be able to make the leap if he is sufficiently motivated. You absolutely do NOT need multiple years of CS undergrad to have a sense for scalability. If you open
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by kenster07 12y ago
I would argue that the wealthy are doing what they have an incentive to do, which is to hoard wealth. The problem is, rather than their wealth "trickling down" throughout the economy from their clouds, it is sitting in their bank
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by kenster07 12y ago
I think it is worth pointing out that for the vast majority of people, there still a level of 'belief' required for the modern science, not unlike the religions of old. There are very few laypeople equipped to think critically abo
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by kenster07 12y ago
There is clearly no reason for software patents. To look at this issue from another angle, consider the following. What was the reason for creating the patent system in the first place? To give people an incentive to invent new things: if s
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by kenster07 12y ago
I think the desire to work as hard and long as possible is admirable -- but if the long-term result is lower real productivity, then it's ultimately futile and counterproductive. The flip side is, some people can pull this off occasion
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by kenster07 13y ago
Well, there are separate issues at play: 1) In a market economy, monopolies should generally be distrusted and prevented whenever possible. 2) There are people who are unsatisfied with the claimed (lack of) health effects of GMO on human co
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by kenster07 13y ago
I'm glad that at least some of the commenters try to wait for both sides of the story before grabbing a pitchfork.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Actually, it is almost universally admired when a person pushes him or herself. One way to do that happens to be to work harder than other people. Now, it can get to the point where you become so inefficient that it's stupid. No, we do
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by kenster07 13y ago
Why are people defending artificially depressed wages? What planet are you from?
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by kenster07 13y ago
So after reading through the comments, a lot of devs apparently do not make the distinction between static typing and Java.
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by kenster07 13y ago
I'm curious as to what you mean when you say Russia is a "known evil." Are you alluding to real life? Movies? The Cold War? It would seem that true rationality and evil have little to do with one another.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Consumerism dramatically amplifies all said effects. Many of these issues would be solved for a long time by simply mitigating that mindset.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Those titles are so ridiculous, it makes Gawker look worse than Path.
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by kenster07 13y ago
"On the micro side, seeing 20-something kids get 150k budgets to screw around for a year is maddening" Nonsense. This is but an externality. What is maddening is the current state of the financial system as a whole. Though its int
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by kenster07 13y ago
It would almost be comical if it weren't so sick: rent-seeking through a government-granted monopoly, under the premise that the providers would serve the public good.
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by kenster07 13y ago
It would seem that browsers could implement the exact same algo using native code and achieve far better performance. This raises the question: why aren't browsers already using this or something superior?
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by kenster07 13y ago
Here is the thing -- algorithms are NOT an order of a magnitude more difficult for everyone. That is simply an unjustified blanket statement. Believe it or not, some people pick up merge sort or balanced binary trees faster than they can le

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