Smart guy, but a bit of a windbag. Expressing himself clearly obviously isn't one of his strong suits.
And TBH, betraying a confidence and humiliating people in public also rates as unethical. I normally don't give a damn about muslims, but that's pretty rude.
Let the goddamned savages murder each other, and then Allah can sort them out. The more they're fighting and slaughtering each other like animals, the less they'll bother us. We should only intervene to keep the fighting going, and to ensure that no faction gets overwhelmingly strong than another.
Syria is currently perfect -- it's a self-cleaning oven.
I am slightly irritated with the stupid barely-graduated Dunning-Kruger dimwits out there, who seem to think that if you're old enough to have accumulated the responsibilities of an adult (as opposed to burning yourself out and wasting your youth working 70-hour weeks for stock options), then you're some kind of shirking cunt.
The Peter Pan syndrome is alive and well, it seems.
The OP quotes a single data point of somebody with a few years under their belt (and a bad attitude), and then with very broad brushstrokes, paints anybody who isn't junior and wet-behind-the-years a waste of space.
Accumulating know-how in pointless brand-new hipster technologies when you're a graduate (and have nothing better to do) is one thing. It's quite another to have the experience to know how to most efficient devote your limited time and energy.
The reason is that while both sides of that squalid little war are a bunch of murderers, the Syrian government are the good guys. They are secular, non-sectarian, believe in women's rights and the rights of minorities.
The other guys are a bunch of terrorists with big filthy dirty beards, who take money from Wahhabi extremists in the Gulf states, and would rape and/or cut the throats of anybody who does not live up to the utterly extreme brand of conservative Islam.
They're both fighting like animals. The secularists are fighting like animals because their lives depend on it. The other side are fighting like animals because of their religious fervour and political ideals -- they ARE animals. Our enemies are Al Qaeda, the EXACT same monsters Assad is fighting in Syria.
Frankly, I think we're backing the wrong horse. I think that nerve gas and cluster bombs is too good for the dirty bearded terrorists they're fighting, and we should be thanking Assad and kissing his arse for taking out this Wahhabi trash for us.
Why are we backing the terrorists in this war? Because a bunch of undereducated, illiterate idiots in the "Arab street" root for the terrorists? Fuck the Arab Street, let's not bow to cheap populism, and just do what's right for a change.
'Ideas people' suck. Anybody can come up with some idea and a half-baked business plan. It takes somebody unique and special to sift through umpteen different ideas and apply enough technical know-how and real-world experience and wisdom to build something that people want (and will pay for).
'Ideas people' dilettantes are a dime a dozen, and certainly the ones I've seen and heard of tend to be douchy Dunning-Krueger victims.
Yet, many geeks, when confronted with a potential 'business partner' business school grad, who wanst to make all the money, take all the credit and do none of the actual work, are too naive or polite to tell said parasites where to go.
Media is a soft option for cultural elites, and for people close to the establishment, who aren't bright enough to do anything harder and more socially useful. A disproportionate number of people who find themselves working in 'media' or as journalists tend to be pampered rich kids who can get in, because they can afford to work for free as interns (mummy and daddy paying the bills), and gives them access to the corridors of power.
Worse yet, the Murdoch press and the tabloids attract cuntish personalities. It's just the nature of the business -- it attracts posh scumbags.
My own family's brushes with the media, has shown them to be consistently egotistical, nasty and clueless.
The flipside of this, is that it isn't hard to manipulate the media if you know what you're doing: people who are exceedingly vain and clueless are putty in the hands of clever and ruthless people.
So what barriers do you see in engineering/building a scaled up molten-salt reactor, and what important design choices and tradeoffs need to be made? What _are_ the major challenges as you see them?
Everything that we're taught is illegal and unethical, the del boys in the City of London and Wall Street will do anyway.
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, if the same sort of self-entitled white collar criminals who brought us Liborgate, arranged for the AP Twitter feed to be hacked, and then primed their HFT bots to start shorting like mad?
It might be amusing to have a plant rights movement, where the supporters refuse to eat, wear or use all plant products, or plant-derived medicine; eat nothing but animals; and firebomb and threaten people who experiment on plants.
I'm going right now to register the name "Plant Rights International", start an international grass-roots (heh) movement, and get all indignant and outraged. It's what people live for.
Dumb people think that (maximising hours) == (maximising output), knowing nothing about how productivity tails off when hours worked in a week exceed ~ 40 or so.
There's a VERY good reason why people work 35-40 hour weeks. To maximise individual output.
The exceptional people I've known can not only assimilate enormous amounts of knowledge in a short time, they can also pick up wisdom faster. Wisdom is definitely an edge when starting and running a business.
For conventional small businesses, about half fail in their first year. The fact that he's managed to achieve so much at his age makes him an EXCELLENT person from whom to seek out advice.
All the biggest innovators I have worked with in my current gig are married with kids. One has teenage kids.
Hiring kids and brogrammers, you end up with a shitload of very clever people (or 'clever', since many have intelligence, but lack knowledge and wisdom). And a mountain of garbage. What you're looking for is people who _aren't_ wet behind the ears, but who actually give a shit about what they do. If they hack Lisp in their spare time, but have a family, they stand a decent chance of being a good hire.
And there's nothing common at all about "common" sense. Duffy is a genius, so you'd expect him to show common sense even at his age (he's only 26).
What he seems to have stumbled upon too, is our industry's ridiculous Peter Pan myth, that youth and rudderless energy trumps experience and wisdom.
A lot of people start startups to flip them. The failure rate is exceedingly high. Conventional businesses that aim to grow organically are less sexy, still fail, but don't fail nearly as often as "startups". I would like to build a serious business once; I don't think I would like to start a "startup".
Maybe we should ditch experimenting on animals, declare scum like you as non-human, and vivisect you instead? That's the only way filth like you will EVER make yourselves useful.
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Looks like a pretty blatant act of political corruption to me.
The only REAL problem here, is that in the US, this kind of corruption is perfectly legal.
Greed makes you stupid.
And rural backwaters are full of stupid, greedy people. I knew because I was forced to grow up in one.
Smart guy, but a bit of a windbag. Expressing himself clearly obviously isn't one of his strong suits.
And TBH, betraying a confidence and humiliating people in public also rates as unethical. I normally don't give a damn about muslims, but that's pretty rude.
Nice to see the good guys get ahead for once. A world run by the likes of Russia, China or the Muslims would be hell, and we need to be prepared.
Bah!
Let the goddamned savages murder each other, and then Allah can sort them out. The more they're fighting and slaughtering each other like animals, the less they'll bother us. We should only intervene to keep the fighting going, and to ensure that no faction gets overwhelmingly strong than another.
Syria is currently perfect -- it's a self-cleaning oven.
Fuckwit OP is big-noting himself.
Only a minority of practicing developers truly get good enough at concurrent programming to brag about it.
You haven't ever been forced to use ClearCase, have you?
I am slightly irritated with the stupid barely-graduated Dunning-Kruger dimwits out there, who seem to think that if you're old enough to have accumulated the responsibilities of an adult (as opposed to burning yourself out and wasting your youth working 70-hour weeks for stock options), then you're some kind of shirking cunt.
The Peter Pan syndrome is alive and well, it seems.
The OP quotes a single data point of somebody with a few years under their belt (and a bad attitude), and then with very broad brushstrokes, paints anybody who isn't junior and wet-behind-the-years a waste of space.
Accumulating know-how in pointless brand-new hipster technologies when you're a graduate (and have nothing better to do) is one thing. It's quite another to have the experience to know how to most efficient devote your limited time and energy.
I'm quietly rooting for the Assads.
The reason is that while both sides of that squalid little war are a bunch of murderers, the Syrian government are the good guys. They are secular, non-sectarian, believe in women's rights and the rights of minorities.
The other guys are a bunch of terrorists with big filthy dirty beards, who take money from Wahhabi extremists in the Gulf states, and would rape and/or cut the throats of anybody who does not live up to the utterly extreme brand of conservative Islam.
They're both fighting like animals. The secularists are fighting like animals because their lives depend on it. The other side are fighting like animals because of their religious fervour and political ideals -- they ARE animals. Our enemies are Al Qaeda, the EXACT same monsters Assad is fighting in Syria.
Frankly, I think we're backing the wrong horse. I think that nerve gas and cluster bombs is too good for the dirty bearded terrorists they're fighting, and we should be thanking Assad and kissing his arse for taking out this Wahhabi trash for us.
Why are we backing the terrorists in this war? Because a bunch of undereducated, illiterate idiots in the "Arab street" root for the terrorists? Fuck the Arab Street, let's not bow to cheap populism, and just do what's right for a change.
This guy is deliciously bonkers.
'Ideas people' suck. Anybody can come up with some idea and a half-baked business plan. It takes somebody unique and special to sift through umpteen different ideas and apply enough technical know-how and real-world experience and wisdom to build something that people want (and will pay for).
'Ideas people' dilettantes are a dime a dozen, and certainly the ones I've seen and heard of tend to be douchy Dunning-Krueger victims.
Yet, many geeks, when confronted with a potential 'business partner' business school grad, who wanst to make all the money, take all the credit and do none of the actual work, are too naive or polite to tell said parasites where to go.
There's no shortage of STEM graduates.
There's most _certainly_ a shortage of _cheap_ STEM graduates.
Media is a soft option for cultural elites, and for people close to the establishment, who aren't bright enough to do anything harder and more socially useful. A disproportionate number of people who find themselves working in 'media' or as journalists tend to be pampered rich kids who can get in, because they can afford to work for free as interns (mummy and daddy paying the bills), and gives them access to the corridors of power.
Worse yet, the Murdoch press and the tabloids attract cuntish personalities. It's just the nature of the business -- it attracts posh scumbags.
My own family's brushes with the media, has shown them to be consistently egotistical, nasty and clueless.
The flipside of this, is that it isn't hard to manipulate the media if you know what you're doing: people who are exceedingly vain and clueless are putty in the hands of clever and ruthless people.
Thanks for the thoughtful rebuttal.
So what barriers do you see in engineering/building a scaled up molten-salt reactor, and what important design choices and tradeoffs need to be made? What _are_ the major challenges as you see them?
There are plenty of problems with LFTR, mostly to do with metallurgy, chemistry, toxicity (e.g. beryllium), the core freezing, etc etc etc.
If there weren't, somebody would've built one by now. LFTR is no silver bullet, at least until all these problems are ironed out.
Everything that we're taught is illegal and unethical, the del boys in the City of London and Wall Street will do anyway.
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, if the same sort of self-entitled white collar criminals who brought us Liborgate, arranged for the AP Twitter feed to be hacked, and then primed their HFT bots to start shorting like mad?
I wonder where all the plant rights people are?
It might be amusing to have a plant rights movement, where the supporters refuse to eat, wear or use all plant products, or plant-derived medicine; eat nothing but animals; and firebomb and threaten people who experiment on plants.
I'm going right now to register the name "Plant Rights International", start an international grass-roots (heh) movement, and get all indignant and outraged. It's what people live for.
Commie.
Maximising output, perhaps?
Dumb people think that (maximising hours) == (maximising output), knowing nothing about how productivity tails off when hours worked in a week exceed ~ 40 or so.
There's a VERY good reason why people work 35-40 hour weeks. To maximise individual output.
"Common sense" is basically wisdom.
The exceptional people I've known can not only assimilate enormous amounts of knowledge in a short time, they can also pick up wisdom faster. Wisdom is definitely an edge when starting and running a business.
I think he's qualified.
For conventional small businesses, about half fail in their first year. The fact that he's managed to achieve so much at his age makes him an EXCELLENT person from whom to seek out advice.
Obviously not hiring the right people then!
All the biggest innovators I have worked with in my current gig are married with kids. One has teenage kids.
Hiring kids and brogrammers, you end up with a shitload of very clever people (or 'clever', since many have intelligence, but lack knowledge and wisdom). And a mountain of garbage. What you're looking for is people who _aren't_ wet behind the ears, but who actually give a shit about what they do. If they hack Lisp in their spare time, but have a family, they stand a decent chance of being a good hire.
It's common sense.
And there's nothing common at all about "common" sense. Duffy is a genius, so you'd expect him to show common sense even at his age (he's only 26).
What he seems to have stumbled upon too, is our industry's ridiculous Peter Pan myth, that youth and rudderless energy trumps experience and wisdom.
A lot of people start startups to flip them. The failure rate is exceedingly high. Conventional businesses that aim to grow organically are less sexy, still fail, but don't fail nearly as often as "startups". I would like to build a serious business once; I don't think I would like to start a "startup".
Maybe we should ditch experimenting on animals, declare scum like you as non-human, and vivisect you instead? That's the only way filth like you will EVER make yourselves useful.
Piss off, idiot.
I hope the anti-terror police are watching you.