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New comment by thwy12321 in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?"

thwy12321 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:45:10 +0000

Zarathustra by Nietzsche, "Nietzsche's teaching" and "The mask of enlightenment" as companion texts

New comment by thwy12321 in "AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened?"

thwy12321 — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:11:32 +0000

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080227/antidepres...

New comment by thwy12321 in "AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened?"

thwy12321 — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:10:43 +0000

There's scores of evidence and studies about this. Don't feel like looking all of them up.

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080227/antidepres...

New comment by thwy12321 in "The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best"

thwy12321 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:48:21 +0000

Why is the highest purpose in life children? Of course he had a responsibility for another human being, but why is that the highest good? Are we not allowed to strive for more? Or consider other higher goods?

New comment by thwy12321 in "Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon"

thwy12321 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:17:43 +0000

I always wonder if the other projects are just retainer projects. They dont really care as much what happens, they just dont want those engineers on the open market.

New comment by thwy12321 in "Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon"

thwy12321 — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:52:04 +0000

Google's main problem is that they only promote people for releasing new products. So all the engineers and product people are highly incentive to only work on new launches. Doesn't even matter what it is. So now they end up with all these garbage products laying around, none of which make them any money.

New comment by thwy12321 in "Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon"

thwy12321 — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:50:54 +0000

Only promoting people who launch new products, so they end up with a ton of useless new products.

New comment by thwy12321 in "Code2vec: learning distributed representations of code"

thwy12321 — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:35:44 +0000

JIRA could be parsed to do this, specifically when git commits are tagged to tickets. Quite an effort to get all that data in the right form though

New comment by thwy12321 in "Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System"

thwy12321 — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:27:39 +0000

Is this true? Mind speaking on which types of projects it was mostly used?

New comment by thwy12321 in "Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data"

thwy12321 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:28:47 +0000

this is what people in this thread dont really understand, investors want the raw feed. Theres nothing to be gained from an aggregated, cleaned feed that everyone has

New comment by thwy12321 in "Quora User Data Compromised"

thwy12321 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:14:43 +0000

Really? Do tell

New comment by thwy12321 in "NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015)"

thwy12321 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:43:41 +0000

OOP meaning React.Component, functional meaning immutable html state, property inheritance, render(), etc

New comment by thwy12321 in "NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015)"

thwy12321 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:10:04 +0000

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike"

When did computer science become about hand holding? has it always been this way? Look at react. It was designed to force functional programming concepts in an OOP manner. Is the future of programming the implementation of tightly controlled interfaces with extreme type safety? I would argue thats where we are going. Things are becoming less expressive, not more.

New comment by thwy12321 in "The Friendship That Made Google Huge"

thwy12321 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 06:34:40 +0000

"Interesting to see the genesis of the myth of the 10x programmer."

How could it be a myth? Ever see a professional sports player compete against a non professional player? Why wouldnt this dynamic exist in programming?

New comment by thwy12321 in "Quora User Data Compromised"

thwy12321 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 06:17:06 +0000

The big companies, Google/Fb/etc hire that way but they also bring on niche experts. Leet code at those companies is for the code monkeys. They hire the people writing the ML/distributed systems/security code out of PhD programs and targeted hiring. Theres more to it, dont feel like typing it all up

New comment by thwy12321 in "Quora User Data Compromised"

thwy12321 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:02:41 +0000

My take on Quora and business like them:

They are hiring people based on leet code questions and school prestige and not based on real technical knowledge about systems. Their business people are top school MBA grads with no security domain expertise. They then proceed to build massive data collection programs using open source tooling that non of them fully understand. Their business model depends on that data and monetizing it in various ways. An so the complexity of their application goes through the roof with regards to user data. Their user facing web apps are the tip of the iceberg for a massive surveillance scheme.

New comment by thwy12321 in "China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks"

thwy12321 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 07:41:08 +0000

Write China scare article -> Get more page clicks.

Are we done with this yet?

New comment by thwy12321 in "Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview"

thwy12321 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 06:08:24 +0000

For the most part a software engineering job at google is pretty mediocre from a coding perspective. Most people hired there will never work on cutting edge tech. For the enlightened few its amazing. This is speaking strictly about the work, and not the money/prestige/perks.

New comment by thwy12321 in "‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’"

thwy12321 — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 23:44:45 +0000

"It is misogynist in its worldview"

How can something that's an accurate description of reality be misogynist? Unless you are claiming what I said to be false.

New comment by thwy12321 in "‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’"

thwy12321 — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:10:48 +0000

The weird thing is most people will call you a misogynist for bringing this up. I would argue that in most major US cities there is already a large "harem" dynamic. It's mostly invisible to the general population, but quite obvious if you're friends with men in the top 1 to 2% of dating potential.