BLanen

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by BLanen 7y ago
Only slight related: Google's last big search update has been a complete disaster for me. Very naive and arrogant assumptions of the semantics of my search. I can't search anything more than a few words strung together. If you try
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by BLanen 7y ago
Completely irrelevant to the point you're replying to. He's mostly saying the employee shouldn't be punished for saying this in some internal chat(but the CEO should). > Someone at one end thinks the values and ethic is o
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by BLanen 7y ago
Yea but you'd literally be leaving your private key everywhere you are.
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by BLanen 7y ago
When the corporations are the ones lobbying for the bad laws... It is well placed criticism. >It's always been a derelection of duty of governments when these loopholes exist in the first place. Who do you think is keeping the looph
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by BLanen 7y ago
Or just a pdf uploaded to wherever. Even google Drive.
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by BLanen 7y ago
>It's standard industry practice for companies to claim ownership of everything a software engineer comes up with Well, because it's standard industry practice, I guess you're not allowed to complain about it. Your whole a
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by BLanen 7y ago
I think this article about Instagram turning off Python's garbage collecting is somewhat relevant and interesting: https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...
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by BLanen 7y ago
This is the guy that thought you could do Shor's algorithm by emulating a quantum computer and having it be faster than a classical solution.
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by BLanen 7y ago
Microsoft workers added $850b while Satya Nadella is CEO.
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by BLanen 7y ago
Terrible. Horribly ineffective for co2 reduction, but politically palatable by the upper class because they'll be the ones most benefiting from it.
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by BLanen 7y ago
The search results are ddg pages suggesting search terms based on the input? Why can't I just search normally and the list is a list of the actual results of my query. Now you navigate to the ddg search results page and have to then br
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by BLanen 7y ago
Yep, same. Was thinking it was going to be a parody of another minimal - project management tool.
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by BLanen 7y ago
> The moral compass of the company Neumann seems like a black hole of arrogance.
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by BLanen 7y ago
I find it interesting that it's always called "infrastructure as code" but then everything is basically "infrastructure as config files" where any control flow is application-specific constructs for a language not b
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by BLanen 7y ago
Without criminal charges, there's no justice.
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by BLanen 7y ago
She reported that her adviser fabricated data. Thereby she's alleging her adviser fabricated data.
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by BLanen 7y ago
> she reported her adviser, Dr. Elizabeth Byrnes, for allegedly fabricating data Is way too cautious of a wording. She reported her advisor for fabricating data, not for allegedly fabricating data. You can't report someone for alleg
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by BLanen 7y ago
I mean... There's many many products like this already and I don't understand the point of this article.
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by BLanen 7y ago
How is this even a counterargument? You concede the point and then post a hypothetical that's not relevant. And that hypothetical (meritocratic social mobility) is even dubious.
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by BLanen 7y ago
Yep, his example was pretty shady.
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by BLanen 8y ago
8K is such an insane waste of processing power.
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by BLanen 8y ago
As soon as he drops the promised Russia documents, I'm sure!
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by BLanen 8y ago
Or just a pdf.
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by BLanen 8y ago
Yea, seems like a great oppertunity for a re-branding around this domain.
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by BLanen 8y ago
Snapchat?
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by BLanen 8y ago
Is it worse than reddit?
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by BLanen 8y ago
Concerning nr.1: Maybe find areas where people use excel sheets/ or word/pdf forms that they email around to each other. Always seemed like an idea to me. Disclaimer: just a wantrepreneur.
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by BLanen 8y ago
That's good. Prevents your customers getting fake products if you, as a seller, don't intent to. (Excluding warehousing mistakes, etc). This way a reputation system is more effective.
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by BLanen 8y ago
Do they also mix inventory geographically?
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by BLanen 8y ago
This just says to me that MongoDB's defaults should be changed. It's happening too much. A somewhat random password would at least provide some protection and minimal inconvenience for devs.

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