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by 2devnull 4y ago
“ was it encrypted XML in JSON? Does it matter which?” I’m sure there were meetings where it was discussed at length and the stupidest idea prevailed, because other peoples’ failures are more useful than shared successes in such an environm
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Rule of three. That’s why it’s always 2 weeks notice, or 2 months severance etc
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by 2devnull 4y ago
My thought about the parent was the same, that it was sort of a truism. So I was trying to probe for what conditions or parameters would make the statement more meaningful, basically some prinicpals to assess how much big brother is the rig
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Seems pretty tame compared to the Amazon shopping lens thing they did, what’s it been like a decade ago iirc. Seems like this will be even easier to fix.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Until it’s not?
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by 2devnull 4y ago
The important part of your post, “If that’s true…” Is it true, or not?
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by 2devnull 4y ago
“You can be a very good software developer without ever touching a command-line interface or having a working knowledge of C” No disrespect but that isn’t true. Touching the command line is required for sure.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
I think many hn randos are capable of understanding the piece, but those people will probably not make comments because the thesis here is not exactly non-obvious.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
We’re broken by the language: work vs play is a bad distinction. When you apply criterion from “work” to “play” it appears as though there are many failures and false starts. We should do both, and at the same time.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Knew it!
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by 2devnull 4y ago
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Must be a wonderful experience for the other person! Being someone’s point of stability for “societal carve-outs” instead of having your love and affection reciprocated.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Musk seems like an odd choice of boogeyman to me.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
In all due respect nobody needs an explanation for such flip flopping. It’s merely human nature. We all want freedom for ourselves, but not our enemies who will use their freedom against us. You have become an authoritarian, which is the na
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by 2devnull 4y ago
If you work locally there is no problem. Buy a personal computer.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Selection bias. People read “learning is memory” and choose not to waste their time reading the piece. If the headline is silly, usually the rest is too.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
After controlling for that I meant. But smoke and wildfire could have exacerbated Covid in certain areas too.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
I wonder if this could help explain the sudden increase in excess mortality that has come about in the past year or two?
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Nobody in this thread is making any international comparisons. Being tough on crime has worked to a measurable extent in other nations, what about Chicago makes those policies that work elsewhere around the world, suddenly stop working when