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Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @11:16AM (#47208014)
if you like, the business model is called Innovation-as-a-Service :)

That's perfectly aligned with capitalistic motivations

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:53AM (#47207818)
that's only partially true.

AI can innovate in synthetic-realm of novel ideas, while real-world novelty will remain untouched.

There are different types of novelties

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:38AM (#47207668)
before you had a lesson that every engineer has to start with writing C, yet most of modern devs never did.

Seniors should be prepared that Seniority will mean different thing and path of getting there will be different too.

Just like there was a shift from lower lvl languages to high level

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:36AM (#47207642)
fwiw 90% of software is reinventing the wheel. 80% of devs have an itch to "rewrite from scratch".

AI will deduplicate all of this

Re:Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work? on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:23AM (#16412228)
In my view, you are very lucky you can ask this question. It means you don't have external stimulation big enough to not have time to think about these matters. I don't want to be silly, but if you'd be hungry, jobless or having a lot of stake at risk, your brain would imidiately switch to "get shit done". So much for external motivation. Internal motivation, thats another story, which everyone need to figure out themselves. Still struggling myself.
Re:Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf] on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:58AM (#15817261)
I think that jewelry should have a property of showing off, so hidden private key wouldn't work that well. You need to have some mechanism how to show status. And that nicety factor was driven mostly by women decorum.
Re:Tether Critical Announcement on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:16AM (#15746948)
"swap your liability for Bitcoin, which drives up the price of Bitcoin at the margin"

Or any other altcoin available on Bitfinex.

Re:Segwit2x Bitcoin Fork Suspended on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:17PM (#15658083)
we need to go more meta. Who design a consensus about how to build a consensus ?
Re:Why Do We Have Blood Types? (2014) on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @10:42AM (#13867826)
tldr someone ? :D
Re:Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:37AM (#13820479)
I see this events roughly the same. The romantic emotional turn against rational enlightenment, can be seen nowadays. In a broader picture, you could see this oscillation of rational / irational (objectivists / subjectivists ) cycles all over history. Someone surprised by this events seems ignorant of history, and how people can actually behave.
according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_biological_comp...

Complexity argument is not valid. It's debatable at least. AFAIK it's part of the bigger discussion whether evolution has direction.

Your experience could serve as limitation to your view of the world. Younger ones without the baggage of experience, has greater chance of discovering new approaches. Due to this, population with changing generations, might be more intelligent than one without these clean slates.
Re:Lessons learned after 300 books in 4 years on Sunday November 20, 2016 @12:49PM (#13000053)
imho usually the best books, are those complex ones, which I read for 4 months. Because after every page, 15 new questions arise, where settling them takes time, and then internalization of that wisdom takes time as well. And I don't even mention, that best books get better after re-reading.

In this light, 300 books in 4 years, seems quite a lot...

Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:00AM (#12814168)
same for me. Doing CRUD apps is fine, but how can I apply that in biotech ?
Anecdotally, one girl loved Harry Potter books. After acquiring basic level of foreign language, she would re-read those books in that language. As she knew the story back and forth, new words came to her in very familiar context, and learning was much more effective. I'd be interesting to research more this method !
I've read a critique of this approach, which critiques the basis of this assumption - "laws of physics". It goes like, that living systems does not follow laws of physics completely, but rather, as time progresses, establish new laws. And we have the word Emergence now. New laws emerge from within the interactions of the system, they are not posed apriori.

Would be happy if someone more knowledgeable could elaborate.

Re:Why Economic Growth Will Fall on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:01AM (#12201453)
to add, I would say, the limits of human imagination are cognitive limits posed by the physical limits of our brains. Let's say cognitive biases, you can't completely unbias yourself. You could argue, that with coming technology, we can modify the biological basis (those limits), but just go more meta. We will have limits about how to modify those limits.
Re:New silicon valley in international waters near SF on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @06:39AM (#7771904)
it should work now
Re:Turkish government takes down YouTube too on Thursday March 27, 2014 @11:28AM (#7480966)
and the next revolution comes to...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014) on Saturday March 01, 2014 @01:10PM (#7325332)
Could someone explain, what is usually considered by H1B here ?

Either candidate should already have H1B, or he could apply without H1B, but possible to process ?

Re:Ask HN: What do you ask a potential employer on Friday December 06, 2013 @05:52AM (#6860476)
Where do you see this company in 1 / 3 / 5 years ?