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harryjo··on An insider's look at what he gave up to create a classic game
4-5 weeks vacation per year, tracked, and an option for unpaid longer leave, sounds great.
harryjo··on An insider's look at what he gave up to create a classic game
Are you eating large heavy meals? Try more, smaller, lighter meals.
harryjo··on The truth about deep learning
and if it's not a continuous function?
harryjo··on “Most of the time, I don’t feel like a girl, I feel like a programmer”
"rehearse" ?
harryjo··on “Most of the time, I don’t feel like a girl, I feel like a programmer”
IOW: "Why can't a woman be more like a man?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-jAY

harryjo··on Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books
Sure but why add EXTRA legal risk by incorporating in an X-factor state?
harryjo··on Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books
My employer told me "Our last round valued us at $XXXX for YYY shares. you have ZZZZ options at $WWWW strike price."

Is this unusual?

Of course this can be diluted, but it seems I had the numbers. I guess I didn't know the updated numbers for future rounds, until buyback offers came around or people quit and exercised and filed their taxes and shared numbers.

harryjo··on Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives
That meeting featured the leading right-wing clowns. The sad thing is that they are the most popular "conservative" pundits.

Facebook could do better to engage with less shrill demagogues on all side of political spectra, instead of promoting clowns.

(Note: a clown is a smart person who plays for a dumb audience.)

harryjo··on Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate
not pro or anti NRx ideas, but GWB is better described as a favored son of a political aristocracy -- his MBA and CEO are more a form of inherited wealth than business success of someone like Morgan or Thiel (or even Gates, who certainly to a leg up, but was also a successful businessperson)
harryjo··on Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate
You have a good finger on what makes Trump successful, but why do you think Trump cares about the masses's enemies, after you so thoroughly explained how well he fights only for himself?
harryjo··on Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate
A lot of Democrats stopped liking HRC's actual politics in 2000 and have cognitive dissonance about the complexity and change of her whole career.
harryjo··on Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate
It won't be a clean slate. It will be a very dirty slate, with the detritus of millions of ruined lives spattered around it.

A lot of what people hated about GWB was how he tried to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into a clean slate, and made a huge mess. Why would you want to do the same to USA (except out of some sense of radical fairness...)

harryjo··on Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate
> welfare queen

is a deeply offensive term, and even undermining to the point you are trying to make about Musk.

harryjo··on The Americans of the Panama Papers have been exposed
> Not to be confused with "shell corporation".

which is nearly identical but one key difference.

harryjo··on The Americans of the Panama Papers have been exposed
The ratio of HK to China is fascinating, considering their population, even wealthy population.
harryjo··on On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe
I don't think anyone believes that Go is somehow more complex than the universe it is a subset of. The point is that enumerating all cases of Go is impossible and always will be, so more sophisticated analysis is required.
harryjo··on Weeding the Worst Library Books
Looks like a difference in demographic -- urban v suburban, adult vs child
harryjo··on Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
plus a good controller
harryjo··on Dolphins as a model for alien intelligence
Intelligent individuals can be very quirkily selective with who they mate, dooming otherwise viable genetic lines to non-reproduction.
harryjo··on Study: people who grow up poor have a harder time regulating their food intake
Can we get a mod practice to rewrite WaPo's clickbait titles into proper summary headlines?
harryjo··on He Always Had a Dark Side
The additonal 'x' was added cosmetically, to disambiguate form (a person named) "Exon"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon#History

There's no particular reason to believe they wanted to change the pronunciation as well.

harryjo··on He Always Had a Dark Side
https://stallman.org/articles/exxon.html April 1 2013
harryjo··on Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
Higher-quality version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o
harryjo··on Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
That's got nothing to do with trademark one way or the other. The question is whether you can maintain a proprietary interest in something created with tools appropriated form others.
harryjo··on Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
Two things being different doesn't make one of them irrelevant.

Consider if you made ... something to sell. Something great, that you know people want. But no one bought it. But they want it, they just waited you out until you gave up and threw it away, and then yoinked it from your trash.

It's a violation of social decency, as much as pilfering something from your home -- maybe more so. The mere act of physical appropriation can't be the most important thing, since we don't complain about stealing some dirt or water from your property, and we don't complain about, say, chopping down a tree.

Perhaps a better word for copyright violation is vandalism, not theft. It destroys the value of someone's work, the taking isn't the important part.

harryjo··on Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board
Schmidt seems a bit like Bloomberg in that his main interest, now that he has amassed wealth and power, is to use it to hang out with powerful people, more than accomplish anything in particular with them.

(For Bloomberg, it was an obsession with becoming British aristocracy)

harryjo··on I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to
I am shocked, shocked to learn that the iSuper iRainbow001 brand is being tarnished by a substandard product.
harryjo··on I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to
IoT isn't the issue, cellular and long-range wifi networking is the problem -- there is no network boundaty anymore.
harryjo··on The Lawlessness of Medicine
Yes, if you also got the credit for saving him from the car!
harryjo··on The Lawlessness of Medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concierge_medicine
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