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meh2frdf··on Ask HN: Ex-Employer alleging me for hacking. What should I do?
failing start up looking for someone to pin their failures on, I’m guessing they got hacked in some trivial way ... I’d resolve it by giving the twat who is taking crap a slap ... or you could do the lawyer thing, sounds more American.
meh2frdf··on EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
Any examples?
meh2frdf··on EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology
It’s more than that in my experience, often the concept was a non starter, or the output is nothing an enterprise couldn’t do it self if so motivated, and certainly aren’t going to bother picking through the mess of some academic code base.
meh2frdf··on Catala: a programming language for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming
So what is the actual benefit of having the law represented in a programming language?
meh2frdf··on Note to self – never give up on your dreams
Actually looks really useful plugin too!
meh2frdf··on Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized
You’re an instance of a class. The class is where intelligence emerged.
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: What do I move on to from Django?
I would learn something that has a longer half life than a web framework. Broaden you general ability, perhaps more distributed, infosec aspects, or networking.
meh2frdf··on HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database
And if you use Owl you get both?
meh2frdf··on Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming
This was my opinion too, might be a generalisation, yet it is the impression I and it would seem others have!
meh2frdf··on A Neuroscientist’s Theory of Everything
That article doesn’t really say anything, unless I’m missing the point, please unpack your understanding of it?
meh2frdf··on WebAssembly on an FPGA
All I think is haven’t we heard all this before, multiple times, is this just the next generation going through what sounds like a good idea, but in practice isn’t!
meh2frdf··on Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
In the UK the amount of minutes is regulated for broadcast.
meh2frdf··on Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
Yes
meh2frdf··on Netflix urged by EU to slow streaming to save internet
Which countries specifically do you mean?
meh2frdf··on Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones
Hmm but my phone wasn’t crashing ... it definitely was slower!
meh2frdf··on Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics
Philosophical question until it becomes in reach of science, it then moves into one of those ‘sub fields’.
meh2frdf··on What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today?
I’ve read some of his books, and know a bit about the subject. My take aways are somewhat different to yours, that’s fine. I’ve found some of his work extremely useful over the years.
meh2frdf··on Atlassian adds free tiers for Jira and Confluence
Yeah and just jacked up the price by 70% for existing customers!

Terrible service, terrible pricing!

meh2frdf··on It took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3
Often it’s the assumptions that go into an estimate that are critical, and defining them along with the estimate. Often it’s problem and delays at the client side that delays things or makes them harder.
meh2frdf··on It took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3
That’s why you do a time boxed spike, ie a fixed amount of time to do the investigation so you can work out your preferred approach. After you have sufficient knowledge then you can estimate.
meh2frdf··on When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)
Depends on what his motivations are, is it to make money? In out is only relevant to what your betting on.
meh2frdf··on Yes, Estimate Software Projects
They are used for forecasting
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: Where do you keep your Knowledge Base?
Emacs org mode
meh2frdf··on Deep Representation Learning with Genetic Programming (2018) [pdf]
I wonder how many people actually read this 40 page doc having seen this link. Would be nice if the OP gave us a clue why they posted it, perhaps a summary.
meh2frdf··on American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs
Very similar experience here. I would also add generally a complete lack of comprehension of making something concrete that satisfies production.
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: Advice for first time CTO
Your a cto of a startup, don’t confuse this with cto of an enterprise, very different level of maturity and experience.

Good luck :)

meh2frdf··on [dead]
So much delusion in one page, think the guy needs help!
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
Angular will pass, so will the next framework and react to, once you’ve been through a few of these frameworks, you’ll probably become less excited about investing your time into them if you have the opportunity to invest into something more fundamental, say functional or logic programming, data modelling or architecture skills.

Young devs are surprised when I say Git is only okay, look forward to the next SCM tool, they tend to think git will be the tool fir eternity, and surprised when I list if the 6 other tools I’ve gone through in my career ... so far!

meh2frdf··on Why Semantic Versioning Isn't (2015)
Wahhh SemVer isn’t perfect, thus it’s useless, I’m so much cleverer than everyone...

Then a junior dev comes along at work and parrots this suggesting we just use the git sha, sweet bejeeesus!

meh2frdf··on Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?
Data scientist is a term similar to Web Master, I don’t think it will be a thing in 10 years.
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