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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Thank you for this comment. The links are fantastic. On the reading list. :)
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I find Apple 'hate' far more understandable because of their market share. Bitcoin makes up a tiny portion of the market and is completely optional. I mean, it barely even exists. Apple's activities (notably 'tivoization
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
That'll be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop, then? ;)
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
>> In the pre-Gox days of the Bitcoin subreddit This is true! You don't have to agree with them, though. The network still exists and is cool and useful regardless. You don't even need to use Reddit! I don't hang out on
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
As I posted further down - most of the issues here seem to stem from people having this idea that in the extreme long term Bitcoin takes over the world and 'their' (as if this is some sort of holy war?) green bits of paper become
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Sort of, but not really. I think really what we're arguing about now is the distinction between hiring for a Google position (pushing the absolute state of the art) and hiring for a position creating accounting software or something. I
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
>> rather than just kill time Yeah, that's something I find really odd about most mobile games. They seem designed as a way to basically put the brain into a low energy state or something, rather than actually being interesting.
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I think that's only true if you follow this idea that Bitcoin is going to take over the world, become a global reserve currency, we should hold 100% net worth in it, whatever. Regardless of correctness, that sort of attitude feels real
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I think you're spot on with this. The general quality of discourse on any thread seems to drop hugely whenever politics comes up. We seem to be able to leave each other alone when it comes to using vi vs. emacs - the odd joke comes up,
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I find the vitriol towards Bitcoin kind of odd. If I posted an article about Linux 4.1 or something, I wouldn't expect to see comments saying 'meanwhile, I used Windows yesterday, and played GTA5, and it was good'. What gives
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
>> Also your flippant, dismissive attitude on quite important CS concepts wouldn't take you far. Please try to avoid this. We can discuss without resorting to attacks. >> "There's no point in testing for X or Y be
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Yes, it's really odd! I used to work at St.Oberholz in Berlin. It was open until midnight and had a fantastic vibe. Thanks for the link but I don't have a device to download the 'app' to, so the search continues...
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
The article is a bit tangential to what I imagined based on the headline, so I won't comment on that. I would be very happy to pay for journalism, though. I don't know if it's always been this way, but traditional news media
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I think the way to look at it would be to imagine that you are optimizing some utility function which incorporates some mean and some variance. The risk of going for a clean energy project is massive. It can fail completely, it could work b
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Yes, I am. >> From my point of view, an interview really isn't an exchange between equals If you design it that way, sure. It doesn't have to be like that. The whole principle here is that there exists a growing portion of d
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Sure. I know what a list, a hash table, a tree are because I looked it up whenever I saw someone mention it, and eventually internalized it. But before that, I'd used them for 10-15 years without knowing the name because it doesn'
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I think this makes sense if you consider an interview as extending a hand to a poor, down-trodden vagrant, rather than an exchange amongst equals. The article might go over the top a bit with self-pity, but personally I just see it as subop
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Well, if the knowledge of a particular thing is useful for that job, then yes, that's reasonable. But we know that most of the time this isn't true. <1% of software developers write sorting algorithms on the job, and even fewer
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I edited my post. Yes, this makes sense, if the interviewer describes what they're actually after. I have experienced (on both sides of the table) situations in which it just hasn't happened. 'Can you do X?' 'What i
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I don't know what BFS is. I just googled it. Oh, I know what it is now. If you haven't been exposed to it, it's just jargon. That's the point. You are testing for jargon rather than ability. It is the distinction between
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Is it even just hiring? Every employer I've worked for has made the experience farcical. If not at the start, then over time. You interview for one job, and eventually end up doing something else. A full time career that doesn't p
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I haven't tried JuiceSSH, I use CM and only have F-Droid installed (not play store). Most of the reason I use termux is to get away from proprietary apps (I can run all free software on a server and SSH into that). Sorry that I couldn&
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
This reminds me of the Game Boy Advance SP and how it removed the 3.5mm jack for seemingly no reason other than to have me buy an adapter. I won't buy a phone without a 3.5mm jack. It just works. I don't need digital audio. My (me
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I don't think 'affordability' is the relevant metric here. I'm talking about EROEI - the viability of doing it at all. Private enterprise can play the capitalism game and make it cheaper. But it won't invent breakev
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I agree in some ways, but I think energy research is different, because if it actually works it directly results in stuff for everyman. The actual goal of Apollo was 'put a man on the moon'. Which is super cool, but obviously not
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Yep. I was sort of trying to get at this with: >> Health issues in cities are irrelevant if global warming means the cities are underwater. I used to live in Central London and you could smell the diesel fumes in the morning. I'm
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Ultimately it's not really about software developers, is it? Most of these issues seem to be management decisions. Like giving a car mechanic a few cheesegraters and a dog, sticking him in an open field in a thunderstorm, and asking hi
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
The idea of 'cheap' makes increasingly less sense going forward as the abstraction of money falls apart due to automation. What matters is EROEI with externalities included (e.g. energy cost of carbon capture or sea barriers or wh
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I find myself wondering what the budget for Bletchley Park was. We are in a war, just as we were then. It's just slower and less visible. If we don't fix the energy problem, we are done for.

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