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by 015a 5y ago
You are conflating the Court of Public Opinion with the Court of Law. The Court of Public Opinion is the court that drives teens to suicide through internet bullying, that accused the wrong man of bombing the Boston Marathon, and killing st
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To some degree I understand the cop's position. The internet is an insanely dangerous echo chamber. The vast, VAST majority of police interactions are not that. The vast majority of police interactions are well-meaning officers maintai
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by 015a 5y ago
Many behaviors which are healthy and beneficial at human-level scale can easily become unhealthy and unethical at industrial automation scale. There's little universal harm in cutting down a tree for fire during the winter; there is si
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by 015a 5y ago
Multiple reasons. First, the DateTime type in a typical database isn't even an RFC-3339 string; its a unix timestamp. That's it; an unsigned integer. This is very space efficient; far more-so than a string. So, then, why the indir
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by 015a 5y ago
I've personally worked on issues stemming from this; situations where the date is important, but not the time, such as correctly reporting when it is someone's birthday. One of the earliest axioms we drill into programmers is &quo
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Sure, its 20s tech (WASM), 10s tech (Web/PWA), 00s tech (Java), 90s tech (Java), 80s tech (Erlang/BEAM), jeeze even 50s tech (Lisp)... There are people who complain about how the industry is moving in cycles and how what's ol
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by 015a 5y ago
I don't think Google is in a position to "replace" Android. They simply don't control the hardware; they can ship Fuchsia to their Home assistants and thermostats, but when it comes to phones and personal computing devic
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I think that statement from Intel has to be taken in context; that technology is for enabling Android applications which are not otherwise executable on Intel CPUs to successfully run on Intel devices. Its not an assertion that Java-based
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It seems to me that: the title they used is accurate, and if you want them to clarify it in order to diminish the reader's perception of the amount of power someone in that position has over policy, the issue is not with the article, b
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by 015a 5y ago
Then again, global warming is going to flood huge coastal areas, killing or displacing millions, which is a pretty uncool thing we're doing to ourselves, so maybe Second Moon will counter-act that? There's literally no way of know
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Let's send some boosters out there, redirect it to earth, and make a second moon. Come on people, what ever happened to doing shit cause its fuckin' rad, do you know how cool another moon would be?!
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I'm with you. Here's what it comes down to: I use an internet browser maximized, usually. All monitors are wider than they are tall. Thus, vertical screen real estate is at a higher premium than horizontal real estate. Thus, contr
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by 015a 5y ago
I understand it can be fun to point stuff out like this, laugh at it, etc. Personally, I think this is actually good. Consistent and Productive Design, especially on the level of patterns across an entire operating system of both first and
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A significant number of websites ignore Safari on mobile; not because its Safari, but because its mobile. Not necessarily with a big banner that says "Please use a desktop", but rather a half-assed layout. Within the US, Safari an
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While at first glance it would be strange to expect Apple to make these changes; I don't feel its unreasonable from any perspective. Apple should hold a long-term interest in keeping the web diverse; Safari will never reasonably hold a
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Since Amjad has so much to say about ethics, quick pulse-check, lets rank these in terms of their ethical foundations: building a love-letter open-source hobbyist alternative to a large application; shutting down this alternative with poten
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by 015a 5y ago
Apple has literally said, under oath, that they do not track App Store profitability (as, I assume, a separate entity from their much larger "Services" slush fund). [1] Well, we can argue until we go blue about how maybe he's
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by 015a 5y ago
Right, yeah. There's just so many unknowns when it comes to "how profitable are App Stores" that any conversation about it is seriously pointless. Like, I don't even want to guess; I refuse to believe that iOS is more pr
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by 015a 5y ago
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I've suspected that this often-quoted disparity has something to do with China, and how Apple still controls iOS app distribution in China but the Play Store has much lower usage. So, you get weird a
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by 015a 5y ago
That's reasonable, but the issue here clearly isn't the workplace; its the commute. They're sometimes, maybe even usually, intertwined. But we can't make sweeping decisions based on a subset of people who both (1) have l
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You're effectively asking for the government to legislate screwing over customers. Yes, shipping can be used as an opportunity to milk customers for a few extra dollars. Let's flip it and build it into the price of the item. You b
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Because there are tons of people who cannot pay for services like this (lower class, students, third-world countries, etc), and learning how to build and deploy technology is powerful leverage to improving their quality of life.
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1. Go to {insert-seedbox-website-because-there-are-so-many-like-seriously}.com (I'd share my favorite, but you know, don't want to break any rules, suffice to say there's a great search engine named "Google" that wi
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The LTV point is interesting, and depressingly true. The LTV of a customer is a metric that, before maybe a few decades ago, most companies simply did not calculate. But because today we can use computers to track, correlate, and analyze pu
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by 015a 5y ago
I once, 30 minutes into what was supposed to be a 1 or 2 hour phone interview, had an engineer at Google cut me off in the middle of their standard "write code in a Google Doc" with a "oh, I have a meeting I have to run to, g
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"Native" doesn't mean anything. Everything is native; I mean, at some point, its making syscalls and running bytecode on the processor, its not running in a Virtual Machine, that seems pretty "native". Or, nothing i
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I agree; especially when you combine a possibility like cognition-altering gas exposure (CO, etc), the brain can do some weird shit; connecting disparate strands of thought between movies you've seen, things you've heard, etc. Whe
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I tend to think that; if you look at the landscape of ultra-successful triple-A game studios, they almost all started with Passion before Money. This seems obvious, but there are examples to the contrary (Zynga, etc). Assassins Creed was a
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by 015a 6y ago
What's worse, Apple will insist that the "open web" is the alternative the app store on iOS. Apple controls the portal to that open web too! And either through intention or incompetence, its a non-starter for developers! Even
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by 015a 6y ago
> if I have an app open, voice search works within that app This is not how Siri or the Google Assistant works on iOS, Android, or Apple TV.

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