Hokusai

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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Problematic lies in the eye of the beholder. You are right. I guess that it would be more accurate to talk about xenophobic and racist content providers instead of 'problematic'. Naming them for what they are makes it way mor
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> ... judges decided that the US constitution's First Amendment did not apply to YouTube, a private company. The legal system sides with you. Platforms are not forced to accept members that go against the platform core values or ec
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by Hokusai 7y ago
"Europe’s solar orbiter begins its journey to the Sun tonight". Has the title changed just to make the joke? I like it. :)
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I have added from pictures to missing places into Google. For me, the tit for tat is to help other travellers to find interesting places, to not get lost or to know what to expect when in a foreign country/city. But, I always contribut
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by Hokusai 7y ago
There are good ideas in the post. For me, it shows the different understandings of the current politic climate. Some people things on creating a common ground where everybody has the same value. Other people want to have a clear hierarchy t
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by Hokusai 7y ago
People do not protect harassers. People protect their own jobs and status. Let someone unimportant to have the same behaviour and it will land in prison. It is the system that rewards the people protecting the harassers. Think about Human R
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by Hokusai 7y ago
>, leave your politics at home, If you accept sexual harassment, abuse of power, support of dictatorial regimes, etc. at the workplace you are going to live in a hell hole for the lest of your life. I will recommend being smart about pol
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by Hokusai 7y ago
Welcome to the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3GzYcb1g8 Tech companies are an oligopoly with a few actors. Competitions do not offer enough pressure to make them change. Regulation is the only way forward if we d
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Because of Amazon’s vast scale, inscrutable algorithms, and capricious enforcement of its own rules, unscrupulous sellers and paid shills largely get away with it. The only solution for it is regulation. Without regulations, asbestos w
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> ATMs are secure because banks would lose money if they weren’t. Not because of regulation. Banking is heavely regulated. I agree that security is good business practice. But, to disregard regulations without proof is a big leap of fait
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The gig economy is not about freelancers but about misclassifying employees to negate their rights. > Naturally, Uber and Lyft have already announced they have no intention of changing how they classify their drivers. My point. > big
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Very interesting. I have some questions thou. How well does this play with web searches? Do I will be able to find a Qt application searching for words on its interface? Do we need a store like https://addons.mozilla.org/ t
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> Telling stakeholders a longer timeline than necessary I understand what you mean, but this only creates a escalation problem. Everybody has to lie to get anything done. So, it is impossible to know if the decisions taken in the company
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> I really want to work at a startup. Also the things that are really important to me are: work/life balance, high salary, gold benefits, stability, working from 10 to 5 on the dot, never being on call, never needing to think or ca
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by Hokusai 7y ago
I do not get from where it comes that it is a rogue developer. I have worked in many companies where developers make mistakes. And, it is always the ways of working, giving more priority to features than quality, and similar cultural attrib
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My anecdotal experience is that people, in general, are less engaged with Facebook. What used to be news about friends are now shares of some political news source. And the number of people liking or commenting has gone down. In my circles,
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A green economy will create a lot of local jobs to any country that wants to adopt it. It will make countries more energy independent so oil exporters will have reduced influence in green-countries politics and their military budgets. It wi
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> It's concerning how typical the hype machine is in IT. Software engineering is still a young discipline. Probably half of the people have less than 4 years of experience. They learned from other employees that also had less than 4
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> Is that really an advantage of C over C++? You may find that not all C++ features are supported for the least popular processors or for old ones. Standard C++ threads, for example, were not supported by GCC for Windows for a long time.
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Some points: > All my solo project games I've been making recently have been written in 'vanilla' C. The author is talking about solo projects, not big projects where dozens of teams may be collaborating. It is good that h
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> However, no one person owned the architecture or design. The experienced developers did drive this. The lack of formality does not mean a lack of the role. If "experienced developers" are the ones doing the design. They are d
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> The same argument works in the other direction, except then it’s 9 to 1. Will not be better to let them choose? (For real without pressures). > I’m just aware that people are projecting their own values onto this situation in ways
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"It all centers on Zhengzhou, a city of six million people in an impoverished region of China. Running at full tilt, the factory here, owned and operated by Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn, can produce 500,000 iPhones a day. Loca