1971genocide

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Comment · 10 years ago
I agree.

But I do not have the time to go back and do another degree on design. Try convincing people with money to shell out extra for someone with good design experience.

I guess once we have millions of customers we might have to think about it - but small companies without much resources its hard to justify spending a lot of resources on good design.

Comment · 10 years ago
Even though Ed has a really cool project I am guessing since he does not have a business model it must be hard for him to work on it :(

Unless he figures out how to convince people who are :

1| C# Developers

2| Interested in OS development

To give him money for his work its going to be a tough sell - sadly.

Comment · 10 years ago
Babel has way too many errors.

I do not care if I am a grandpa for using 2014 tools - but I am not pushing ahead until things calm the fuck down.

Comment · 10 years ago
"Set of Standard Resources"

Check out Material Design by google - its been a lifesaver to me who is from a very technical background. Best part is with very little work you can really impress your bosses !

Good Luck

Comment · 11 years ago
I have been seeing a lot of talk about JSPM.

How is it different from NPM ? since I just use it to do everything.

Comment · 11 years ago
Found the brit !
Comment · 11 years ago
You can always see biases in each case.

Bill Gates, Musk, etc are going to lose a fair bit of their power, prestige and wealth when someone does finally create super intelligence - Windows and Space X are great but those achievement will be dwarfed by whoever comes up with "superintelligence"

Ray Kurzweil's optimism comes from the fact that he will be unemployed if the govt bans A.I research.

And someone who works as a day journalist needs to make sure they meet the daily quote of generating clickbait traffic - its easiest to do it by writing something that is counter to whatever viewpoint is trendy this month.

Looking at history and how humanity dealt with technology - its fairly impossible to enforce any form of restriction on AI research.

We cannot stop >100,000 individuals from taking over an area larger than ireland in the middle east - good luck stopping the maths whiz with a pen.

Comment · 11 years ago
I find it funny that we leave it to the economist to decide the fate of research.

I remember in uni I found EE topics much harder and boring then Software topics. Anything below C is a big nope. Verilog, VLSI, FPGA, anything to do with embedded IoT.

Yeah america wont survive if kids today stop valuing EE topic just due to some misguided economical models/interpretation.

The rockets that will land on mars wont be designed solely by software guys - it will require a lot of EE innovations - if america gives up then some other country will take its place.

Reminds of the movie Interstellar.

Comment · 11 years ago
This is so annoying.

There is no shortage of things for people to do - especially if you are young.

On one hand the government cannot figure out how to pay for rising education cost, healthcare cost, doing simple fixing of roads, etc.

On the other hand young people who are more than qualified for all sorts of work are unable to find work - or make ends meet.

Something is terribly gone wrong.

Comment · 11 years ago
I agree strongly with this - its the same flawed logic when it comes to "idealistic democracy in the middle east".

Once the poor have some access to social media - it will automatically generate demand for more and better services.

Comment · 11 years ago
Richard Hamming ( the person who came up with hamming distance ) has an interesting insight - based on the rate of sub-fields being created in mathematics - he concluded that by the year 2000 there would be 1000 different sub-fields for every mathematical subfield !

Do the people in power expect everyone to know everything ?

Knowledge is important - but society will stop working if everyone spends their lifetimes studying.

I read it in hacker news a while ago - the amount of new information we are introduced daily in 2015 was equivalent to what humans received in their lifetimes - for most of human history.

We need better methods to organize information - ( this is why google has its insane valuation - and no its not a bubble )

It should not take me 20 years to understand mathematics at the level of newton - how am I supposed to understand another 400 years of maths before I am homeless ?

Its a difficult question to answer but I think its a question my generation has to find an answer - and fast.

Comment · 11 years ago
Sublime Text 3 works really well for what I need.

I tried atom editor / shell / electron ??

But it seems its in constant flux. I am waiting for things to settle down and then move on to using it since its open source.

I think the creator of sublime text took a long vacation and he deserves it.

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