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by EZ-E 8y ago
Looking at what China is doing is gonna give them more ammunition. I used to love digital payment but I'm getting increasingly wary of it. Look what big private companies did with our data, what will happen when they have all your purc
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Depends where, the world is not USA Europe has a real shortage in some countries
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I have a bit of an hard time articulating what I mean (ESL), but what I mean is that these days depending on what profile companies have on you (your assumed interests, income, education etc), your experience on the internet, apps will diff
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by EZ-E 8y ago
It makes business/economical sense, and some of the algorythm's rules were logical (ie : have people of same country/language meet), but I think the way we discriminated on assumed income and race to be a bit more questionabl
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I previously worked for a company in internet dating and I implemented a matching algorithm that actively segregated people according to their language, country, income, race and education. For example we would match people differently if t
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> The interview questions need to be objective and have a clear right answer Then it's a test, not an interview. I don't think interviews were ever supposed to be perfectly objective. If the interview is only based on CS textbo
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by EZ-E 8y ago
If you ask in-depth questions about their past projects, the challenges they faced, the decisions they had to take, I think it's very possible to find out whether they were major parts of it, or if just small code-pushers who just impl
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Why do interviews for dev jobs increasingly becomes a game beaten by "grinding" leetcode or other websites listing questions? It's like many companies have given up trying to rank applicants based on actual job experience and
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by EZ-E 8y ago
This app works by connecting to a VPN. From experience, user experience on these kind of apps using a VPN is pretty poor (for example, ad blockers) I believe keeping VPN connected drains the battery because some of the device's chips c
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I was also surprised by the vacuity of the article
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I only agree with the third point the author makes > Smaller apps will become part of social media and mobile wallet ecosystems. I find actually unbelievable that Apple and Google didn't crack down on it yet as it takes considerable
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> So the author proposes that most apps will be consolidated onto platforms such as wechat, messenger or aliexpress. With each new app, comes new requirements of the platform to produce better and more functional API's for the sub-a
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Meanwhile in the rest of the world outside USA...
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I believe the "hey Siri" wake up works locally. For the rest that seems complicated as many of the questions you ask Siri requires Siri to fetch something online to find the response
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Related opinion : sometimes it's best to let the worst performing coworkers fail (if you don't have high vested stakes in the company)
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Some of their practice does suck, but it does work nonetheless since nearly everyone end up finding a decent paying job after graduation. You could find bad things about the public institutions too (some people complaining about coding on p
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> I'd say that it seems like it's easier to make it as an average/mediocre person if you're doing epitech, 101, 42, etc. You could just as well learn all the theory by heart, do not know how to use it in practical sit
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by EZ-E 8y ago
This kind of discussion will end up being the typical (French) disdain between people learning engineering in the public schools v/s the ones learning in these "practical teaching" private schools and vice versa. There are go
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by EZ-E 8y ago
We had the same exact problem with Firebase Realtime Database. Our product uses it heavily and is dependent on its latency so we notice anytime an issue appear. The unacceptable thing is : not only outages are fairly common, many smaller,
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by EZ-E 8y ago
I don't believe 4chan is "moving" all the opinion by itself, it's just reflecting the contrarian's opinion and has some influence which expose their opinion to other more mainstream groups
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by EZ-E 8y ago
4chan is a fantastic way to see where opinion will go in the future in my opinion. 4chan is very contrarian, usually against the leading opinion. The narratives discussed in its boards usually slowly starts to influence more mainstream targ
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Ironically the way they insist it's "privacy friendly" and has a physical camera cover included might get people thinking "hold up, should I trust this for privacy" while they wouldn't think about it otherwise.
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Try to know how many hours of "deep work" you can do before losing steam. Usually it's ~4 hours, once you get past that point, do some tickets that are not too demanding, and preparation for the next day. That should be aroun
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Does this affects Facebook's "Account Kit"? (toolkit that provides login/register by SMS to third party apps)
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Lots of talented people end up working in another country, especially top talent. Would you rather have a glass ceiling at 40k or start at 100+k in SF? Not to mention, low salaries garantees that not much international talent will relocate
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by EZ-E 8y ago
My opinion : the low salaries of engineers, high taxes and bureaucracy hold back the startup scene. Also, the mentality toward technical positions, in France if you didn't go from engineer to manager by 35 year old people wonder what&#
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by EZ-E 8y ago
> It might not be like the black lung, dirt-faced dangerous mines of old, but if you end up working 10 or 12 hours a day, are caged, distracted, annoyed (but fed!) at work, go home to a meager existence, have zero friends, zero romance,
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by EZ-E 8y ago
The article confuses the Sesame score (credit score computed by Alibaba to be used within their app) and the social score (government project which isn't really deployed yet but intended to rely on multiple private sources like Alibaba
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by EZ-E 8y ago
The number seems to be the social credit score The videos are not a real camera feed I believe, it seems to be there to illustrate the article
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by EZ-E 8y ago
Real talk here : what makes an iPhone slow after 2 years? - the battery aging? - the apps using more ressources than before? - the newer OS version using more ressources than before? I've started using my old Android phone again after

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