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The human-assisted aspect of AI development in general seems to be getting a lot more (well-deserved) attention recently. Google along with everyone else has depended on cheap huma…

Congrats on your launch! Seems like a really slick product. Have you taken a look at https://cloud.google.com/ml/ ? I assumed you would have but didn't see anyone mention it in the…

Not my experience at all. Video quality as far as I can tell is equivalent, and the Skype UX is miles better. Full screen with the little self-view monitoring window at the bottom …

LeapMotion might be the missing piece. Doesn't have haptic feedback, obviously, but it would be better than trying to type.

What are you talking about? I have never been in a car that did have this little arrow. I just thought it was something you had to know. (Now I'll have to check my car tomorrow mor…

Great point about not hiring jerks, and those are some excellent ideas about how to avoid it. Having worked with, and currently working with, that kind of jerk I've seen how destru…

I barely even have time for the 3-6 technical interviews most companies want to do, let alone multiple days/WEEKS of "try out" period.

No, it isn't. Unless you're saying you gained weight again while still eating the same diet , you solved the problem, you just failed at implementing the solution.

Ok, let's read this closely. It doesn't seem to me like Larry and David are really denying much of anything. "Indeed, the U.S. government does not have direct access or a “back doo…

All the older people are, in fact, at Google. The average age of software engineers there is much higher than you might think.

Nice pivot. I had the same idea myself about two years ago, and saw swole.me but thought it looked way to focussed on weight training users for a general audience. This looks much …

No. This is something you have to stop. Speaking from experience I know it is hard not to define yourself by the people around you, but it's deadly. What helped (and continues to h…

Yeah, that's awesome. What's so unusual about it to me is that when he was discouraged she didn't tell him to do something easier that would make him feel more immediately satisfie…

"See it through to completion" != "iron out bugs"

> Put another way: for self-direction to work, the culture needs to rank improvements as highly as novelty. Possibly higher. Which it never does. At least, I have yet to experience…

> It's more about using previously tested blocks of language. Here's a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya_clause Right; there's some cargo culting in legal writing…

There's no "right" or "wrong" about NK doing nuclear testing, although for convenience we might phrase it that way. We don't want them to have nuclear weapons because we believe th…

Absolutely. The alternatives -- OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Docs -- are all broken in many subtle and not-so-subtle ways, especially if you're a long-time Office power user. There rea…

> Do any of you have any experience with this? Um, YEAH. And just started seeing a counsellor about it. I don't think there's anything wrong with me (or you) but I want someone to …

And showing data for the week ending Jan 11 2014. CDC staying one step (year) ahead of Google.

I hope his analysts are better than he is. This is shockingly insubstantial analysis coming from the CEO of Stratfor.

I have to say, I think asking someone as deeply depressed as the OP to find the perspective to hear the stories of struggle amid the trumpeting of success is asking an awful lot. T…

I thought it was just me. Really bugs my wife when she's trying to read something over my shoulder.

Seconded. 20% time is still real, if you ask/push for it. If your idea fits somewhere under the broad umbrella of your group's mandate, so much the better. I have to disagree a lit…