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litzer commented on Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? danluu.com/bimodal-compen... · Posted by u/signa11
litzer commented on Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? danluu.com/bimodal-compen... · Posted by u/signa11
I'm partial to the O-ring explanation. Software engineering is uniquely multiplicative because it's possible for a software engineer to create software that does software engineering.
Chemical/electrical/mechanical engineers can't use their field to automate their field. Doctors and lawyers are almost exclusively service jobs, unlike the manufacturing nature of engineering.
Automation is a force multiplier, and software engineering benefits from being able to create automation, apply automation to others, as well as being able to apply automation to itself.
> Software engineering is uniquely multiplicative because it's possible for a software engineer to create software that does software engineering.
I think you misunderstood the O-ring explanation by citing that idea as an example. It doesn't mean building AI. It applies to any of those fields you mentioned. Good people in field X work together with other good people in field X in top firms -> multiplicative productivity.
litzer commented on iPhone 8 Plus: The best smartphone camera we’ve ever tested dxomark.com/apple-iphone-... · Posted by u/uptown
This feels like groundhog day. New iPhone [insert model] has the best camera ever! Fast forward two months: new Google [insert model] has the best camera ever!
I think we're getting to the point where the incremental gains we're seeing with each new phone cycle are almost unnoticeable to the average user who just wants to take photos of their kids to send to Grandma.
Notice that none of these images are zooming in on pixels to get the comparison. The fight for quality among high end DSLR's is nearing the description of unnoticeable difference, but phone cameras are benefitting immensely from new tech.
In fact, it's probably the area where we see the most gain compared to any other improvements in iPhone versions.
Perhaps your feeling is from the fact that new phones are released in rapid succession. If that's the case, just compare quality in phones a year or two apart instead of a few months.
For anyone else like me who was overwhelmed by all the information and just looking for summaries:
"In one sentence, how does it work?
Payment Request API enables a user to complete a transaction more easily by reusing information stored in the browser or third party payment apps."
I think Vue is great but I wish Aurelia would show up in more of these comparisons as well:
You have a number of comments that advertise this but never offer any reason alongside it.
It seems to be a mistake on the author's part to allow himself to be exploited at first (working without having any of the promises in legal writing). It's unethical but not uncommon and alone wouldn't produce the outrage for an article detailing it.
The missing piece is why he doesn't feel pressing criminal charges and suing for IP is an option. The language seems to imply that the answer is for his physical safety. If he's writing this article because he feels safe enough to, then maybe he thinks battling in court requires people to be present and closes the distance safety net.
He's able to list pretty concretely his contributions but is suspiciously vague about the cause of his fear. I'm inclined to believe that it's because he might not think the public would unequivocally agree his fear is sound.
Indian food doesn’t have some weird mystery replacement I find on almost every vegan or veggie dish. I had a conversation with and Indian colleague who lives in the states and she agreed a lot of veggie/vegan food is just plain weird.
It’s not ready yet, and phase 1 was the really weird stuff. I think Beyond Meat is like phase 2 of “pretty close”. In the near future, you won’t be able to tell the difference