Drakar1903

Today's useless robot deer is tomorrow's mountain rescue robot. Skepticism is healthy in moderation.

I keep wondering what pushes people to stay in the ecosystem of the forked chain that quote unquote lost the fight.

Let's not get hung up on details, if you have the resources to consider 51%ing Bitcoin for presumably nefarious purposes, you're probably a government/big finance/oligarch actor and you're probably not penny pinching.

I swear, HN really is the old boys' secret clubhouse.

Luck is when ability and preparedness meet an opportunity.

We could draw parallels to warfare, the one industry that historically warps everything around itself. First we fought with spears, swords and shields, then with primitive musket guns. Suddenly tanks and planes and helicopters join the frey. Then carriers, submarines, missiles and targeting systems. Radars. Space satellites. I'd be surprised if there aren't secret projects that simulate the same potential conflict a million times to decide chance of success given new parameters.

And every time the new advancement in technology blows the previous ones out of the water, but it is open to its own exploitable faults. Tanks beat infantry in open field, but they're less suited for urban warfare if you don't want to leave the city in ruin.

Call them contributor-hours, this way only the people that slack off can be offended.

This is one of those cases where that Ford quote about a faster horse is relevant. Many people will be happy to just have what they have now without thinking how it could be better.

That assumes two finger states - extended or bent.

Introduce half-extended as a state and you have 3^10 = 59049

You're right. We gotta push for Global Universal Basic Income. Someone surely has "X% of people live on less than 5 dollars a day" stats available on hand. If it makes their lives better over there, they have less incentive to uproot their life to go over here.

And here I thought this was about software development.

I will be very glad if you actually answer these questions, in a separate comment. I'm driven to write this by nothing but the desire to know.

As someone who also does this, I find that the problem becomes not processing the information, but retaining it, and I haven't found a solution to that yet.

Things in this industry are divided into those that get complained about and those that get forgotten.

With respect to all the elders for whom all of this computer technology stuff came up pretty late in their lifetime - when and where do we draw the line about basic computer competency?

Intern is the new entry level.

Once a consulting company told me they'd be happier if I had 2 years of experience because then they could pitch me as a senior engineer.

Overall the title inflation and title obfuscation in this industry is starting to become an issue.

Remote? I'd be happy to apply from Europe, but at the moment the planes are grounded.

Paying down tech debt is like brushing your teeth, if you don't do it regularly, you'll end up with more pain and a higher bill at the end.

This is what - I presume - is their implementation of sending an e-mail

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This looks like an exercise in obtuseness.

I wonder how people would feel about machine-learning enhanced lifeguard system. Machines are sharp all the time.

What I'm reading is that it's possible to sneak a bomb through as long as the bomb smells like lavender.

So it's the "best swordsman does not fear second best swordsman, no, he fears a total novice, for he is unpredictable to him" kind of scenario

Athletes are one thing.

The international flocking of people to one already overcrowded location is another.

Good to see both software architects and architecture architects run into same issues with legacy stuff.

Yes, things should be written in a simple way, but excusing the issues with the program with "Well, the developer should have written it simpler" does not resolve the problem, just shifts the blame.

I like to share this example when asked about butterfly effects: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c39y75/what_are_...

I owe my Java career to following a Spring for Beginners course. It did more to accelerate me forwards than, at that point, 2 years of university.

Justify that statement please.

But can absolutely be revisited.

There's a criminal fiction book to be written here. Disgruntled Google employee ends up playing both sides, as the man supplying the classification algorithms and also selling 'backdoors' to it. Only a rogue loose cannon dev ops can stop him.