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I am increasingly convinced that Haskell only exists so that people who know it can pat themselves on the back for being wonderful.

Good to hear - building a project on Ember now and it (Ember) is an absolute joy to work with. Keep it going!

A blog post is neither "verbal" nor a "contract", no matter how many times the word "will" is used.

Napkin ways to completely blow this up: 1) Write a script to answer requests without ever intending to pick up. 2) Get out of the car, don't transfer the other half. 3) Sign up as …

"you require each user to use a valid credit card" Who is "you"? Someone, somewhere would be creating a system that verifies unique identities, aggregates ratings, etc. Even if the…

Crown mechanisms worked well for a completely different purpose. They are the easiest way to set and wind a watch that is not on your wrist. Totally different use case than control…

My issue with the watch is the crown control. It just feels lazy to me to take a control mechanism made 100+ years ago for winding mechanical watches off your wrist, and repurpose …

Not quite. I would define common sense as "a reasonable fallback solution given that the current situation is unfamiliar." This is something AI systems have a LOT of difficulty wit…

You can't compile a list of edge cases for this kind of thing, because it is impossible to know the comprehensive list of all the situations the car won't handle correctly. In the …

I'm with you here. You could essentially build from scratch a traffic setup for autonomous vehicles, instead of retrofitting the autonomous vehicles to a current driving system. An…

You just described the problem nicely. The "magic" that turns 3 lane roads into 2 lanes etc, is a situational awareness that is really, really difficult to impart on a learning sys…

I've been saying this for years, as I took Thrun's class when he was at Stanford. Google's dirty little secret is that self driving cars are still mostly smoke and mirrors. Given r…

When an engineer uses the word "trivial," what you should hear is "There are some complications that I'd rather ignore, so let's just hand-wave the answer".

Sad. Project Euler is pretty much useless without the problem checking feature. Anyone know a good alternative?

Yes, she could exert influence. Just like every other SO of every other hiring manager in the world. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I hire people, and I talk to my wi…

Completely agree. The outrage over hula hooping triggers a giant warning siren that this is a person who is working very hard to be angered and offended. I don't know the proper wa…

As many others have said in this comment thread, Github's actions do NOT mean any claims are "likely to be true". It just means Github is taking proper steps to investigate the sit…

By your logic, hiring managers should not be allowed to be married, lest they give a non-employee "defacto" hiring power. Before we string up the cofounder's wife, let's actually l…

This is an unbelievably stupid request. Nobody writes bug-free code - people in the comments on SE talking about how this can be done with automated testing are utterly delusional.…

So are you admitting that your original point about single payer healthcare is totally BS? Because the UK has single payer and apparently you think they do a decent job with this s…

Even your own data completely undermines your point. All those other countries have very comparable preterm infant mortality rates when measured against the US. You say the girl "l…

The government is so evil and incompetent that it should never be allowed to provide broadband, because it will do so with such low rates and great service that it will put cable c…

It should be noted that healthcare.gov might be the highest traffic website launch in the history of the internet. With millions of visitors on day one, I certainly can't think of …

As a resident of SF, this makes me furious. I hope our city attorney just demolishes them in court. WTF Nevada.

This person sounds completely insufferable. He basically is declaring himself too good for interviews (except for C-level execs, whom he apparently tolerates). Heaven forbid you do…