duckfang (u/duckfang)

duckfang commented on LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator twitter.com/paulbiggar/st... · Posted by u/bqe

dang · 5 years ago

What is this "lie" you speak of? Actually, can you please list the other ones too? It's not fair to readers to make a tantalizing claim like that and then not give them enough information to make up their own minds. It's practically dripping with duck fat.

Re Bookface: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Re YC founder usernames- it can't be secret if it's in the FAQ, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#yc.

None of these things are secret and to the extent you or anyone is curious about them, all you need to do is ask.

duckfang · 5 years ago

switch the letters of my username.

that's what I think of you.

duckfang commented on Is Euler’s Identity Beautiful? and If So, How? mathvalues.org/masterblog... · Posted by u/vo2maxer

susam · 5 years ago

In my opinion, the truly beautiful concept involved here is Euler's formula:

  e^(ix) = cos x + i sin x.

It unifies algebra, trigonometry, complex numbers, and calculus. Euler's identity is only a special case of Euler's formula, i.e., Euler's formula with x = π gives us Euler's identity:

  e^(iπ) = -1.

This is cute but Euler's formula is truly beautiful. In fact with x = τ = 2π, we get another cute result:

  e^(iτ) = 1.

From Chapter 22 of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I:

"We summarize with this, the most remarkable formula in mathematics: e^(iθ) = cos θ + i sin θ. This is our jewel. We may relate the geometry to the algebra by representing complex numbers in a plane; the horizontal position of a point is x, the vertical position of a point is y. We represent every complex number, x + iy. Then if the radial distance to this point is called r and the angle is called θ, the algebraic law is that x + iy is written in the form re^(iθ), where the geometrical relationships between x, y, r, and θ are as shown. This, then, is the unification of algebra and geometry."

See the bottom of the page at https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html for the above excerpt.

duckfang · 5 years ago

> In my opinion, the truly beautiful concept involved here is Euler's formula:

> e^(ix) = cos x + i sin x.

And that right there, is the mathematical basis for a quadrature mixer... And all of software defined radios.

https://hackaday.com/2017/05/16/if-the-i-and-q-of-software-d...

duckfang commented on Why workers are calling BS on leaders about returning to the office fastcompany.com/90639348/... · Posted by u/aseerdbnarng

phkahler · 5 years ago

The problem with fully remote work is that once you accept that a job can be done from anywhere, you have to compete on a global level. It can be done from India, China, Pakistan, or any other place where they have smart people willing to work for less than you! So don't get too excited about it ;-)

duckfang · 5 years ago

But that's always been true. And companies are going to do that if they can, regardless if we WfH or WfW. More than a few of us have seen the mass firings, and training some barely-comprehensible foreign workers, whom wreck the place, and then the company calls and begs us to come back.

That's literally the same argument about the "Fight for $15" - the argument is 'yer gonna get automated'. That's going to happen no matter what.

duckfang commented on Amazon Ring’s neighborhood watch app is making police requests public reuters.com/technology/am... · Posted by u/underscore_ku

MaxBarraclough · 5 years ago

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edit: This is mistaken.

duckfang · 5 years ago

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jaywalking-arrest-black-...

https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/stopped-...

https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-poli...

https://www.redmond-reporter.com/news/redmond-police-arrest-...

duckfang commented on Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces businessinsider.com/kamau... · Posted by u/wonderwonder

Dah00n · 5 years ago

One of the reasons I use HN is because of the No Political or Ideological fights rule (because I know I can't stop commenting from time to time even though I'd rather live a life without this crap). I wish rules were here to be enforced, not as guidelines hardly anyone follow.

duckfang · 5 years ago

EVERYTHING is political, when involving more than 1 person.

The DMCA is political, and is the basis in which most orgs allow public comment. Copyright is political. Patents are political. Cryptocurrency is explicitly political WRT being against governments. Most startups are political, in the way many break laws that the incumbents have to follow.

The people who "dont want to involve with politics" are primarily the ones whose needs are met, and don't care about others' needs. I would claim it's for selfish reasons.

duckfang commented on Microsoft Teams Calls will soon include end-to-end encryption techplanet.today/post/mic... · Posted by u/JassicaB4

Clewza313 · 5 years ago

I'm not going to complain about Teams in a world where WebEx still exists.

duckfang · 5 years ago

I've refused going on WebEx calls and claim technical reasons why it doesnt work.

ANYTHING is better than Webex. Even smoke signals over IP is better.

duckfang commented on Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mancerayder

achow · 5 years ago

I miss the office for..

- Social chatter.

- Making friends with old employees who I didn't know, and connecting with new employees.

- Work Life separation (balance).

- Sense of belonging.. team outing, weekday after hours beer.

- Intra company sports and games, and then teaming up with office colleagues to play inter company tournaments.

- (Not me but others) Meeting potential dates

- Office facilities for breakfast, lunch.

duckfang · 5 years ago

     - Social chatter.

I associate with my friends and a few groups I frequent. I've never felt the compunction to do this at work or with work people for the most part.

     - Making friends with old employees who I didn't know, and connecting with new employees.

Too true; there is this. I've a small handful of people whom I met at work and would call friends. But I usually try to maintain work as work - having friends tied up at a workplace can make for some really bad times when you leave or something happens. I think it's like a work-conditional friend.

     - Work Life separation (balance).

If you can master working on work stuff during the day, once you log out of $workchat and vpn, you're off. Set a schedule when you do everyday and work on being predictable.

     - Sense of belonging.. team outing, weekday after hours beer.

To me, "hanging out with the team" is definitely work. It has to be work-appropriate talk, on and on. That's enforced team-building activities. My sense of belonging is the paycheck I receive. I will seek elsewhere, not tied down by a job, to get a sense of belonging.

     - Intra company sports and games, and then teaming up with office colleagues to play inter company tournaments.

Again, for me, this seems to unhealthily attach a jobs' modus operandi to your own. In reality, unless you're the owner, you are as expendable as any other machine or cog. And I try not to intertwine work relationships with friends. Only rarely do those actually cross.

     - (Not me but others) Meeting potential dates

Yipes.

     - Office facilities for breakfast, lunch.

My counter is that I have health issues that restrict my diet. At home, I can control exactly what I eat. At work, is what is provided. Its usually good, but sometimes I don't have anything. I would much rather have control of what I eat, by being in my kitchen cooking with my own foodstuffs.