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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:53PM (#12183486)
Generally speaking I only read 3 star reviews.

5 star and 1 star reviews are usually garbage - either fluffed fake reviews, or reviews outraged about something unrelated with the quality of the product itself.

Great info thanks.

It is entertaining how the stalwart protectors of free markets oppose them when it becomes too inconvenient.

Re:Automated Testing for League of Legends on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:09AM (#11609458)
This is not reddit. If you don't have something meaningful to contribute, please feel free not to post.
Re:BYOT: Bring your own team on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:55AM (#11569719)
Also known as consultants, who get hired full time if the company likes them and viceversa.
Re:Developers, Being Treated Poorly? You Are Not Alone on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:08AM (#11429690)
1) Find me a profession where people don't have grievances

2) Considering that so many companies slavishly build their whole culture on servicing engineers, color me skeptical.

Re:London’s startup scene is getting more sophisticated on Monday March 14, 2016 @11:31AM (#11283397)
As always, there's a happy balance. It is probably bad to be a social recluse, unless you are in crunch mode and not looking for hiring anytime soon, but at the same time it's probably bad to be out for events every night and spending too much time socializing.
Re:Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI on Monday March 14, 2016 @11:24AM (#11283346)
Wouldn't that be a self-supervised learning? Yes, as the brain lears, it gets rewarded or not, but not by any external organism - rather by itself (or a part of itself). The "learning instruction manual" is in there somewhere.

So if you are able to code an AI so that it can run experiments over itself and gradually build this "learning instruction manual" eventually it will become able to do things you never though of in the first place.

Re:Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:35AM (#11166547)
Well, after the Snowden reveals, everyone was talking about it every day for more than an year.

Did that actually lead to companies choose EU providers over USA ones? Not sure, but it certainly was a factor that many considered.

Especially in areas where client data is very sensitive (like healthcare), EU companies are extremely paranoid about it.

Re:Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:13AM (#11166424)
IANAL, but I believe the burden is on Apple, not individual employees.

Apple will have however to show that they are doing their best effort, and so will be forced to fire/transfer them to other positions and hire engineers willing to do the job.

Well, debatable. Last major war before WWI was in 1870, however there was an arms race and escalation of military preparation since the last years of the 1890s. So you really only had a couple of decades of peace, then people started preparing for war again.
Re:Interview by a 15 Year Old on Sunday November 08, 2015 @03:02AM (#10527909)
Philosophy is a mandatory schools in Italy's lyceums.

Really, there are many reasons that I left that country, but the high school education it provides (on average) is absolute world-class when it comes to the "soft" skills.

Re:YC Fellowship on Monday July 20, 2015 @02:47PM (#9918126)
Thank you for answering.

The same way students can take a semester off, could employed people take a sabbatical to focus on this?

Cheers

Re:YC Fellowship on Monday July 20, 2015 @02:25PM (#9917977)
Hi Kat.

Two questions:

1) If we are still looking for / selecting technical co-founders, can we apply?

2) Does the entire team need to dedicate itself full time to this? Alternatively, if the "paying bills" job is quite light (2-3 hours per day), and we are willing to forego some sleep, can we still apply?

Cheers