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thavalai··on “I just chose words carefully”
It seems to wrap correctly in landscape mode.
thavalai··on The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program
I wonder if transaction costs get in the way. Someone has to pay the payment provider in both directions.
thavalai··on The bee that everyone wants to save
In case any one else runs into a "this video is not available outside the UK" message, I'm able to see it here: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-garden-thousand-bees-abou...
thavalai··on Reverse engineering Wordle
I liked this deconstruction of Wordle a lot: https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle...
thavalai··on A Forty Year Career
Financial Independence/Retire Early. One forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
thavalai··on A Preview of C# 8 [video]
Just wanted to point out that besides creating Typescript, Anders has been the Lead Architect on C# since 2000.
thavalai··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
The seeming "idolization" is probably to make up for what he wrote about Bezos (and Amazon) in his famous "accidentally public" post that preceded it: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
thavalai··on Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers
"But of your job is to look at data and make descisions based on that data, you're gonna be the first to go."

"The last people to be replaced are going to be software devs"

If your job is to write code so people can look at data and make decisions based on that data, you're gonna be the second to go.

thavalai··on The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016
Lots of commenters seem to think that programmers are safe for a while. As a programmer, I sincerely hope they are right.

But, the majority of developers I know, including myself, are ultimately writing software to be used by humans, typically presenting data that is comprehensible to humans, so that they can make decisions.

If AI advances to the point where similar decisions can be made by machines, looking at the same data, then I fear that entire classes of applications will disappear, and with them, the need for developers who build them.

Obviously, we'll still need developers, though perhaps far fewer than are needed today. Perhaps software development will go through the same revolution that agriculture did, where from we went from > 90% to < 3% of the population being involved.

thavalai··on Google recruitment mistakes: part 3
Sounds like "before" was five years ago.

I'm curious to read parts 1 & 2, wish there were clear links to them in "Part 3".

thavalai··on Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
I got excited about this, as I live in MA and seriously considering a change, until I read the part that it doesn't go into effect until July 2018.
thavalai··on What ever happened to Wordstar?
You should try a clipboard manager (on Windows, I use 'ditto.' Search for 'ditto clipboard manager.')
thavalai··on The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp
Looks like it means that the encryption cannot be reverse-engineered: http://help.penzu.com/pro/what-is-one-way-encryption/
thavalai··on Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location
Time to buy BestBuy stock. They just became an acquisition target for Amazon.