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nehushtan | 5 years ago | on: People expect technology to suck because it sucks

Don't get me started on my mother-in-law's tech problems. It never ends... almost anything she wants to do requires three things to work together that simply won't.

Even a simple issue like "which remote control do I use" is a disaster that keeps happening, pointlessly, again and again.

Yesterday we tried to get her iPhone to operate the Spectrum app on the Roku device connected to her Sharp TV - just so she could change channels by number. It can't work.

Can we all just get along?

nehushtan | 8 years ago | on: What Restaurants Know About You Before You Walk In

It's going to be like eating at L'Idiot in Steve Martin's LA Story. There was a screen showing tidbits of live data about celebrities as they entered - how much their last film grossed, their sexual orientation, etc.

"You think with a financial statement like this you can have the duck?!"

nehushtan | 8 years ago | on: ‘Their Spirits Were Trapped in Those Masks’

Not to absolve the whites for their (our) crimes in the new world, but please recall that the native american tribes were at war with each other and often initiated war with the whites. It wasn't all one way. Further recall that the great preponderance of the loss of life on the native american side was the result of lack of immunity to diseases brought - without malice or even awareness - from europe.

nehushtan | 8 years ago | on: Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

Like others have said, there's unethical deception involved in inserting arbitrary errors - especially to make it "look like it’s been generated by a human".

But my feeling is that in addition to paying the OP to "do a job" the company is also paying him/her (him from now on) to "be on call". Yes, they want X results but they also are paying a salary so that they can tap him whenever they need to. This aspect of the job is referred to when he says there "might be amendments to the spec and corresponding though email".

To some companies (especially those with very little other in-house expertise) having "the computer guy" on call to handle all of that mysterious stuff is worth a great deal of money. The company could consider it their insurance against catastrophe.

Nevertheless I would say the OP should come clean at the next performance review.

nehushtan | 9 years ago | on: The Risk of Discovery

But... isn't it true that at Newton's theology was at the foundation of his physics? The idea of a single deity whose intelligence crafted a rational world, the laws of which it is man's duty to uncover, is certainly not incidental to his discoveries.
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