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OliverSteenbuck

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OliverSteenbuck··on Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games (2013)
really, what isn't easy given those capabilities... ;)
OliverSteenbuck··on The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist’s View
Looks duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766756
OliverSteenbuck··on What Google+ needs to do to be awesome
imho set operations on circels are missing. Think:public but not family or extend but not people_i_dont_like
OliverSteenbuck··on What I learned today: Never apply for a job
I'd think that it would be the used car nobody who knew it wanted...

When jobs show up in those sites, the company already failed at filling the position through trusted references. (or so is my impression)

Doesn't have to be bad ofcourse, but propably warrants more due dilligence on the job seekers part than a good reference.

OliverSteenbuck··on What I learned today: Never apply for a job
sounds like a good strategy, at every job I've worked the first question following a statement of "We need more people" was "Does anybody know somebody who would fit in here ?"
OliverSteenbuck··on I don't understand why anyone would use Node.js
For example, you don't have to write validating logic for inputs twice.

That somebody can do both things should, in my opinion not mean that he has do both things.

OliverSteenbuck··on Proof of work - an unobtrusive alternative to captchas
Isnt't the idea of a captcha that only a human can solve it ?

This sounds like it could just (handwaving here) be given to a bottnet for solving.

OliverSteenbuck··on Programmer salary in mainland Europe?
I made around 45K with 2 years experience at a big company in Hamburg, Germany.