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therealtomsmith··on How do you approach a coworker in a different department?
I'm going to do this. May God have mercy on my soul. Any advice on how to meet her aside from creepily waiting for her somewhere?
therealtomsmith··on How do you approach a coworker in a different department?
But I'm just trying to figure out if she is okay with me even trying. You can't even asking that question, though, without spilling the beans. I just have very little direct contact with her and I wish I could get more exposure to her to get a better feel for what she thinks.
therealtomsmith··on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI
The act of them doing that alone shows that they either dont get it or that complexity within the organization has brought productivity to a hault. I'd assume it's the second one.
therealtomsmith··on NSA ‘Systematically Moving’ All Its Data to the Cloud
Moving All OUR Data To The Cloud
therealtomsmith··on Around the World, People Have Surprisingly Modest Notions of the ‘Ideal’ Life
psychologicalscience.org has not been on any dating sites lately.
therealtomsmith··on LemonGraph – A log-based transactional graph
This is what my tax dollars are going to? Another shitty software library. ...I mean, wow this thing is awesome. Good job NSA!
therealtomsmith··on Ask HN: “Expert Level” JavaScript questions?
Senior level JavaScript I would imagine it to be entirely about frameworks and ES6 shims a.k.a. things you don't actually need. I recommend using as many buzz words as possible.
therealtomsmith··on Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt
Now all your information can go through government-ran hubs!
therealtomsmith··on DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed
I love when people say "dabble in ai". The mathematical foundation to even begin truly understanding ai isn't something you can dabble your way through. - so am i being downvoted because im wrong or because i hurt your feelings? jesus fucking christ.
therealtomsmith··on Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
lol an engineering feat.

It's just software. My experience with git was about a month long phase where I devoted a few hours a week to learning it. Now I can use it but I still have to google commands for anything other than the basics. That's the problem with git. Git without google would be unusable. That's why I consider it to be extraordinarily poorly designed. You've seen git commands, I'm not going to go look up some esoteric command just to prove a point to you. The point is a good program would not force you to google everything, it would just work.

I consider git to be more of an advertising feat. It fascinates me how many people drank the kool-aid.

therealtomsmith··on A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U.S. Customs took it
> but the government is smart enough to not do that

you're talking about our government?

therealtomsmith··on Google Won't Renew Contract for Project Maven, Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program
Agreed. I used to think google wasnt helping develop killer drones. Them deciding that eventually stopping their killer drone project for the military would be better for business doesn't impress me.
therealtomsmith··on Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
As someone who has always despised git for its complexity and being a movement more than a new technology I have been waiting years for this. Let git fracture and die. Maybe then we can get tools that work for us instead of the other way around.