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In the past, there were very few programs and they had to run very well. The cost of developing and deploying software was higher that care had to be taken, deep expertise brought in, so that low leve…

Is it just me, or has anyone else sensed a shift back from thick SPAs to Server-side rendering precisely because of performance?

> the US becomes increasingly internally focused and isolationist in its world view. There’s about 50-60% of the US population, and 2/3 of the US economy, that are very much eager to do busine…

My computer has USB-C ports, not Ethernet ports. ;) I’m a sketchy dongle away from a client zoom call going poorly.

Something small I like about Windows: when I plug in Ethernet, it actually shows an Ethernet connection in the system tray. OSX seems to have a special icon for tethering to iPhone, but not Ethernet o…

It’s actually more a case for authentication. Why don’t our phones authenticate cell towers when connecting to them? Why are providers so lax at enforcing that?

Also the social engineering and faction traits replacing govts from previous civ games. All these traits give you various bonuses or punishments for different attributes like morale, green, economic, …

Civ 3 came after Firaxis got the Civ trademark. They made SMAC in part because they didn’t have the TM after breaking away from Microprose. The contemporaries to SMAC are the Civ: Call To Power games.

Well I’ve only installed the widescreen patch. I’m not sure I have the time to get into all the other stuff they have!

I don't know what I've been told! Diedre's got a network node! Likes to press the on-off switch! Dig that crazy Gaian Witch!

Yes you can literally rebuild the landscape, and the climate system will redefine the raininess and other factors of the landscape. I also like you can do ocean colonies, and working in the ocean isn&…

Interesting, I just started playing this again in the last week. I found it surprisingly accessible after all this time. Especially the slightly pessimistic hard sci-fi content given the current pol…

I think a lot off preference towards humans is an issue of trust and a measure of your relationship with that person. Usually we get recommendations from friends and give them more thought and weight…

I definitely think it shouldn’t be your source of truth. However, I think as a public facing content engine it’s fine. I know of one major e-commerce brand that does this for products. This works grea…

In my experience as a patient trying to deal with a chronic illness. Doctors, like many professionals, seem to have a strong preference for methods that seem to work for them. Crucially I don’t think …

Same here. It’s pretty shocking how many different opinions you’ll get from doctors. I end up doing my own research quite a lot via public.

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The git status issue he lists (that it will say it’s up to date with origin/master) is really confusing to folks. Hard to wrap your head that your local “pointer” to that branch is potentially no…

Yeah exactly. At the time there was no way to predict the future, and it seems ridiculously risky to put a big chunk of my substantial 401k match into my employer.

Interesting! Maybe so. I exited around 2012 with a tidy sum

Another funny thing is I once got in trouble for tweeting about the “Boeingaucracy” of our new employers. I was shocked that someone cared about my dumb twitter account. It was pretty early on for bei…

Exactly! We could transition our stock out, but that setup employees with the lovely complication of having to learn about insider training and how to NOT do it...

Former Boeing employee here[1]: I remember when the company decided to do all 401k matching in Boeing stock in 2009. It seemed like a sketchy, borderline unethical way to keep the stock price afloat. …

Also immortalized in the classic Brandon Bird painting “Death of Jennifer Sisko” http://www.brandonbird.com/jen_sisko.html …

Right I agree. I mean to try to explain why so many go to this conference, not to criticize the conference itself.

Probably also too many people are focused on a solution , and not problems for specific domains. Learning more about deep learning is cool, but in practice, most problems in domains need domain exper…

Is this an "MBA attitude?" I get the urge to rant, but I feel like even a good MBA would have seen training as a liability to mitigate in the larger business, not a profit center in its own …