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by Hokusai 6y ago
> when you know the codebase Yes. When I was younger I worked in solo projects. I knew my code almost line by line. In my last decade, in middle sized companies, nobody knows all the hundreds of micro-services code. And code changes whil
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Look at the image: https://cfmadvocates.com/k-shaped-recovery-robust-for-haves-...
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> That seems like short-sighted thinking on the part of Amazon though. I Amazon makes 1 billion extra each year, it can use it to buy a few of the "vendors" later on. Profit now has more value than profit in 10-15 years. Also,
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> fake seeds to completely nonexistent plants Amazon is the embodiment of "caveat emptor" because "seeds on Amazon" just means "seeds that show up in Amazon search engine, and Amazon get a cut". Of course, t
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> You just need to use var properly. That is a very good point. I find the diamond operator more of my taste as it requires you to think if you want to expose ArrayList or List. List<String> list = new ArrayList(); But, as you poin
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Did you spend any significant time working with C#? I have no experience with it at the corporate level. There, I have seen, it mixes a lot with .NET. So, I guess that the corporate equivalent to Java is "C#/.NET". I spe
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> local type inference (var) made the language pointlessly verbose for ages I guess that this is a question of taste. What for you is "less verbose" for me is more confusing to read. I like to see the types as they complement v
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by Hokusai 6y ago
That seem impressive numbers until you look at the total numbers that companies they move: https://fortune.com/2018/01/18/apple-bonuses-money-us-350-bi... You are taking the statement literally. In that sense
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> not provide that service for free You are right there. We are the product, we give our data, we give our attention, it is not free. > unopposed monopolists that acquire or destroy any business that might pose a risk to them Good poi
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> I couldn't do my job with out it. Yes. That is the point. The need exists. European companies will offer that services creating high quality jobs in Europe and they will follow European cultural norms instead of American ones. &gt
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by Hokusai 6y ago
I am going to talk about one that I have colleagues that worked here in Sweden: Skype It was a successful startup but $8.5 Billion is a lot of cash. I heard that developers were not happy with Microsoft way. Promotions/Pay/etc. be
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Why is it the US's fault that they consider tech to be valuable to their economy and national security and we don't? USA has created monstrous monopolies that are very heavily subsidized by the government. Amazon, Apple, etc.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> The cost is low for the student but it's pretty high for the taxpayers. That is a supposition that proves to be false. The same happens for health care. To have a centralized state sponsored education or health care system allows
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Used to many 2 pager papers, at 86 pages this paper feels more like a book than a paper.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> the family thinks it’s Spanish. They think it is Spanish, because it is Spanish. Hector (/ˈhɛktər/) is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish given name. The name is derived from the Greek name of Hektor.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> THANK you google for stopping this total abuse Changing one abuse for another is barely an improvement. Regulations is what will force ISP to behave correctly and stop hijacking DNS queries. For me, as European, it is worst to be spied
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Problems linked to this: - Developers wanting the last shinny programming language instead of mastering one. - Developers wanting the last shinny framework instead of sticking to one and learning it inside out. - Developers wanting to start
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by Hokusai 6y ago
>Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we just said "that sucks" and required a full postmortem instead. I see that attitude working with individuals. Most people takes their responsibilities seriously. But for cor
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Long-term That is the trick. If short-term Amazon accumulates enough money it can later on purchase businesses with a better reputation and repeat the trick again. I have seen this done by General Electric. It purchases a medium size c
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Physical stores should do this too. Gets rid of the liability for what you sell. That is the only way to compete with Amazon. It is a race-to-the-bottom of quality and safety for the consumers. Amazon takes what are common rules with
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> the owner told me their delivery guy was swaping fake ones for the real ones That seems a scam scheme. They send fakes and for the people that complains they send the real deal. > my review never saw the light of day Amazon does no
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by Hokusai 6y ago
I really appreciate this kind of courses. And I would like to see more produced from public institutions. As good as Google or now Amazon courses are, I have seen too many colleagues that instead of engineers are Google extperts or Amazon e
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Weak atomics give you the same kind of performance as benign data races but they have well defined semantics. That is a great argument. Self-explanatory code make it easier to understand what are the design goals and usage of that code
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> The private corporations will quickly increase prices while reducing services. > This is fairly simplistic It is a simple view that summarizes really well what happens when public services are privatized. There is more nuance to it,
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by Hokusai 6y ago
If you look at the numbers Apple has a higher profit from Spotify revenue than Spotify itself. That makes one think.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
I agree (not a youngster). I guess that Microsoft has also changed business model. Nowadays they are way more into hardware, cloud and services than just selling software. Still a nice move. Other similar companies (Oracle, Amazon) are less
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Well, let me be the first to say I won't be shedding anguished tears for a multi-billion dollar Chinese tech giant known for it's close ties to the CCP. Me neither nor for a USA backed company owned by one of the richest man
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by Hokusai 6y ago
We are not in 2001 anymore. App Stores are a growing part of the real economy and Apple 30% makes no sense. Big tech has been under the radar of many because it started small and had little impact on the economy. To let tech companies grow
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> and co-ordinated to me Except the part were Epic goes to court. To involve the legal system for a stunt would be largely unwise, unethical and punishable.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Apple has removed Fortnite from the iOS App Store. So this is the hill Apple wants to die on. It makes sense. 30% of all the apps economy is a lot of money. I hope that antitrust and other government agencies take note. The ability to

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