bioapparatus
Re:Ask HN: What is a commonly known tech topic that non-techies fail t...
on Friday June 02, 2017 @05:13PM (#14473352)
Assume the topic is a difficult one. The manager / exec you are talking to can always interrupt and tell you to skip to the more technical.
If you prepare to explain it to a five year old, and you could already explain it well to someone with domain experience, you can probably explain it to someone that lies in between.
Re:Ask HN: What is a commonly known tech topic that non-techies fail t...
on Friday June 02, 2017 @05:10PM (#14473331)
...but "I need this yesterday."
Re:Free software is suffering because coders don’t know how to write d...
on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:03PM (#14472502)
though I share your cynicism, this could easily be reversed as "people value software developers that can also do other stuff good too."
Re:Improving advertising on the web
on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:41PM (#14465585)
Are we giving censorship a new name now?
First the search results, now the ads. When the users?
Re:US quits Paris climate pact
on Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:04PM (#14464709)
That's the convergence phase, where the rocket car, land car, underground car, and boat car fuse into a glorious transportation chariot for humanity's reach for the stars. Can't remember what page that would be in Musk's master plan.
The pictures were awesome.
Re:US quits Paris climate pact
on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:35PM (#14464362)
My money is on a water car.
Re:Why Managing Data Scientists Is Different
on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:29PM (#14463646)
>it is clear that a significant component of a data scientist’s organizational role is to educate the organization about what is possible and, at the same time, to help other decision makers understand the consequences of reduced quality, shorter timelines, and smaller budgets that may result from different options.
Replace "data scientist" with a different title and this covers almost any employee with domain expertise.
You do not need a massive training set and a bunch of layers to verify this.
Re:First Human-Pig Chimera Is a Step Toward Custom Organs
on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:17PM (#14463514)
Going to assume we will see genetic testing results on replacement parts, just to make sure that nobody is getting an illegally harvested human heart when the packaging says "pig hybrid."
Re:The Reality of Developer Burnout
on Thursday January 05, 2017 @03:19PM (#13330970)
Makes a lot more sense to read it that way. Auto-pilot (...I guess I just did that) caused me to read it as Google Analytics.
Re:The Reality of Developer Burnout
on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:39PM (#13330603)
Not sure how I should feel about this, reading a post about no longer reading posts, while I should be writing code.