awesomepantsm | 7 years ago | on: Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time
Buddha lived literally over 2000 years ago. Please go read a book.
awesomepantsm's comments
awesomepantsm | 7 years ago | on: Did Google Fake Its Big A.I. Demo?
This reminds me of the advice: Don't write articles that can be answered with a single word "no".
Unlike startups, it's not like Google's business depends on investors supporting lofty goals. There would seem to be no benefit to faking a demo like this.
Not revealing the business location is likely just because they consider their business partners to be business data that they don't want to give away to competitors. Clean auto could easily just be done via a simple noise filter, just for the sake of the demo. When you have a little noise in your ear, it's not bad. But when you need to broadcast sound to an entire stadium, you need to rebalance it. This story is a load of nonsense.
awesomepantsm | 7 years ago | on: Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time
"Ego" is a European word so why would Buddha use it? Please try to stay on topic.
awesomepantsm | 7 years ago | on: The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization
Differential privacy is basically a buzzword. Don't believe the hype.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew
There was a case I read which said roughly that, yes, if you clear your cache, and are not technically savvy enough to know the files could be recovered, then as far as you knew, the files were actually gone, and you no longer "possess" them legally.
Of course, proving that you are an idiot is always a great start to a trial, but it's worked in the past.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
I got the feeling there was more stuff he said that never leaked but who knows
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
It's not though, because it wasn't withdrawn it was rejected.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
Are you implying the lawyers in the case didn't read the citations? Please.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: A man accused of cheating at video games may lose his Guinness World Record
With only 5.1 seconds of input, you could brute force it if you really wanted.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Scenes from the First Rare Digital Art Auction
Except the value of a CryptoKitty or Rare Pepe is unlikely to continue to be worth anything in a few years, because let's be honest, it's not very interesting art.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Serial Swatter Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes
Haha, my sweet child. No one says on 9/11 "Those guys did a great job showing us a vulnerability in our security!"
Being indifferent to death of innocent people is the opposite of maturity.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best way to recover from burnout?
> take a couple months off
Yep, as with many people, usually the role is still a good fit, you just need a break from it. That time will help you figure out your next steps, which likely is some variation of what you're already doing, but with a clean slate that a new position provides.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet
>brought down the internet
Oh bugger off with your clickbait.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community
That's nice, why should I care what you think about how some random person in the 7 billion people in the world should dress.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Gmail Launches Add-ons
You probably think "I'll love you forever" to means someone is promising to be around for you until the heat death of the universe.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Style2Paints: AI colorization of images
This is the result of the brightest minds working on advertising.
Who do you think made TensorFlow? Hint: it was Google.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story
Things that happened 6 years ago aren't really considered news...
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: I'm young and I'm already burnt out on tech work. Could I get some life advice?
>do internship
>no conversion hire
the purpose of the internship is to let the company consider hiring someone who normally wouldn't qualify. So, yeah no conversion is similar to getting fired.
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: I'm young and I'm already burnt out on tech work. Could I get some life advice?
> I’ve been working and adulting for years
Also, lol, you are in your teens (17-19) and are tired of "adulting". Let me laugh a little more
awesomepantsm | 8 years ago | on: I'm young and I'm already burnt out on tech work. Could I get some life advice?
>the more I have a realization that a lot of the corporate speak they’re telling us at these companies is for the company’s interest.
Are you joking? Who's interest would it be in? Do you think the world revolves around you?
>in reality they’re just using me for money
Not to sound pedantic, but... why do you think they pay you?
>But I’m just really good at this
Citation needed. You said you get fired every 3 months. If they don't hire you back, you're not "really good".
page 1