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dijksterhuis
4,117karma·1,383submissions·March 13, 2019
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sometimes makes weird machine music. sometimes makes machines do weird things. sometimes makes music machines do weird things.
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see my reply further down the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503075
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> It does seem like you aren't really disagreeing with us here. I'm not. > But you're just saying "don't make me think about why we agree about this!" My position i…
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I studied computing at AS level in the UK (16-17 years old). I learned about: computer components (disks, memory, cpu), binary, ASCII, assembly and machine code. We programmed in Turbo Pascal. I then …
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> If it were so easy to decide what the right thing is to build before you build it then business would be easy. It's not easy. That's why it's important to be straightforward and ju…
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sorry, but this just sounds like a rationalisation for "we built the wrong thing". we should just be straightforward, say "we built the wrong thing" and then ask how we built the …
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Software engineering projects expand to fill the deadlines you set for them (usually going over). Same thing for budget. You'll waste a bunch of a million pound budget. People are forced to get c…
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Story time. small business. less than 30 people. ceo had invested £1 million to build a data analytics platform. "democratising data analytics" in a very specific domain. essentially, compet…
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put simpler, you learned what not to build.
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> practicing and writing about machine learning ... full stack developer ... digital revolution. my mum, a boomer now in her 70s, would have no bloody clue what you're talking about. she used …
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https://replaceyourboss.ai (discussed 6 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46072002 )…
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one example from today https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewq1w7r0zgo i'm no fan of the politician, but scams like this one are increasing at a significant rate and are…
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what would be appreciated is 1. sources for your numbers rather than just random numbers thrown out on the internet 2. not using specific city data, i.e. look at national census-type level data. becau…
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as per sibling comment, your headline stats are cherry picking two things that are not representative of the whole of the uk. university of manchester is a university, and since the cameron/clegg…
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london is one place in the whole of the uk. might be the big stonking capital city, but it is definitely not representative of the whole of the UK. late edit copypasta stat from sibling reply with act…
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As someone who is white british -- this isn't happening. Please stop regurgitating right wing US talk show talking points. It's boring.
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Your username is weirdly on point for discussion of the topic at hand i guess xD
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this made me think of humdog’s pandora’s vox https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643
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It's bad, according to your definition of what good is. I enjoy all those things you've listed as bad :shrug:
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i have a feeling that the fp was being sarcastic / satirical.
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urgh, i'm with you on this. i need to stop, but i can't for some reason.
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I've known one semi-decent one in a circa 100 people business. Used to be the head of engineering. But he was fully transactional, sell stuff mode most of the time as CTO. CEO actually said one t…
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A CTO who doesn't understand what "the job" was. Classic.
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eh, my take is that you’re kind of going off in a specific direction when reality is actually behind you little here. i cannot explain why it’s not possible for us to fling the flange if i don’t under…
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original title waaaaaay too long for a submission so i cut the second part about defiance. > Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosur…