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It's uncanny how common this comment is.

Literally both things can be true.

Also I hope you're right and he's wrong.

Though I can imagine a pretty cool hacker future where people just hack tags in to place. I'm also afraid of them being equipped with RFID.

How do you feel knowing that you are being watched?

Bad design. It should only depend on local net, and then raise an interface to outside world as needed.

Huh. I call myself 'digital god'. I think our egos are in different places in life right now.

They can, actually...the culture needs to learn to adopt them is all.

Having real talent and having to basically navigate terrain of those with less skill than you and yet, oddly enough, more power, is very frustrating. These people can knock orders of magnitude off development cycles, and make subtle decisions that affect your product years in to the future.

If anyone feels even remotely insecure because of your prowess you are shot down. I was pushed out of Microsoft just for accomplishing a task that was supposed to be impossible "because a senior engineer said so." In other words, I did my job (I wasn't aware it was supposedly impossible) and then a management chain became incredibly uncomfortable and dumped me.

You might say I'm the problem...I point to the stack of clowns that said it couldn't be done and go...yeah sure.

At some point an inflated sense of experience is necessary to succeed in starting your own company. You have to literally believe you are capable of having a real impact. Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, etc. All were told at one point "you don't have the necessary experience for that." Or "are you fucking crazy?" Or something meant to challenge their experience. The hard realization is that none of them had the experience...but boy did they sure earn it.

Point is: arrogance isn't the curse you might think it is.

... that sounds like a bad thing.

It has also been shown that alpha makes, in business, tend to lose money owing to short sighted thought processes.

In fact, the guy who originally coined the idea that humans have an alpha male concept pulled back on the notion, saying that he was mistaken in comparing human hierarchy to wolves.

Humans aren't actually hierarchical. We believe in equality and because of this can form many different kinds of social structures (which is where political struggle comes from, i.e. democracy, Communism, socialism, etc.)

It's nice when someone steps up and volunteers to do all of the work though.

As a problem solver, Facebook looks very attractive to me right now. Imagine the shit they're going through right now. Not just damage mitigation but they probably need to revamp their business strategy which will turn in to serious engineering work.

This became Service Fabric

Support companies that care for their employees. Turn your back to those that exploit.

I think it's called capitalism.

I disagree. I was unemployed for a few months and I could not get myself to do the things I needed to in order to get the jobs I was interested in. There was so much anxiety associated with this that it triggered avoidance anxiety. What saved me is that studying the things I am naturally drawn to that have a lot of tangential offerings. My advice: find the biggest tree of knowledge that you're interested in and hope that the branches that you can reach will take care of you.

Neural networks will make humans obsolete. How could they not? They're just connections of mathematical objects...kind of like the way we describe reality. If we can accurately describe reality, then we can accurately instruct a computer to perform real life tasks.

Exactly this. If one hand taketh away...the other better give something equally awesome.

Brb gonna go play more overwatch.

There is no real evidence that something substantive is coming out of this feature. It definitely seems to be doing more harm than good.

I can analyze the data and discern real from false information pretty quickly. The thing about massive amounts of data is that patterns emerge pretty readily.

... that's not absolutely right. There is way more than simply "don't let go."

Right? Man, I was wincing reading through that. This sounded like he intended to slam a handful of people. "That'll show them," is what I imagined he said to himself as he finished writing that post.

Cliques within large companies like Microsoft are common actually. From a higher perspective, it is a subset of people who agree to a particular fiction, and they live by it.

So, for example, there is the "Indian Brotherhood" within Microsoft (NOT being racist, it is THEIR term). There are people who send in doubles to interview for them (to help you understand: at Microsoft you interview with a team you won't be working on, and on top of that, several months to a year may pass between the interview and when you actually start work). Such that, it becomes the case that the guy who shows up on day 1 is not the guy who passed the interview a few months ago. If you are a manager, and maybe you came from India and were hired in by the same route, you may feel an overwhelming social obligation to protect persons like this. It becomes the case that anyone who shows disgust, or judgement whatsoever is now a threat to them. On top of that, you have an incredible amount of leverage over this person. They have demonstrated that they are willing to lie, cheat and live a totally false life in order to impress family that lives across the seas. That person is your bitch now, and they'd better do whatever you say, or you will reveal them as a fraud/fire them (or so they think).

Reality sucks so hard.

I get you. Very similar experiences.

Could you elaborate?

Microsoft adapted this versioning http://semver.org/ standard.

So, 1.0.0-previewX < 1.0.0.

Semantically this should be read as "1.0.0-previewX is preview X of version 1.0.0"

Can I see an example? I get shifty when I see people saying things like 'factory pattern not strictly needed'. For example, there are moments where an API may need you to construct an object with a certain set of 'default properties'. I believe that rather than making developers generate 'boilerplate' there should just be some kind of 'boilerplate' factory.

So, these boilerplate factories are not strictly necessary but they make the API user's code simpler, more comprehensible, isolate responsibilities, etc.

Their intentions are interesting to me. Is this a money thing? Why would Schmidt want to use his life to do this?

Hahah there is though, at the bottom. Take note Hacker News Web Devs. The word we're looking for is "discoverability."

It is IDENTICAL to mine as well. Even down to the information theory bit. Very bizarre, but reassuring.