Lendal

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by Lendal 7y ago
Sometimes I do have time constraints fixing a bug. In fact most of the time that constraint is imposed by me, because I have pride in my work. But at the same time I hope my manager understands that staring over my shoulder for 45 minutes d
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by Lendal 7y ago
Personal attacks now. You're out of intelligent arguments. Attacking both intelligence and rationality. I've given my reasons and they are rational. If you can't see that you can go f-k yourself. What an ass.
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by Lendal 7y ago
My evidence is that they are a publicly-held company which means they're obligated to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. If they have something of value, (your purchase history) they must make money off it. Giving y
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by Lendal 7y ago
They said they weren't using it to personalize ads. To me, this means they're doing something worse than ad personalization. They're selling the data to third-parties or they're allowing third-parties to analyze the data
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by Lendal 7y ago
This is what it's really about. If you talk to police, they don't want to invade people's privacy. The push is coming from some tech company pushing a product to siphon the taxpayer. Politicians want to make a buck too, so t
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by Lendal 7y ago
Grand projects like TVA and Tesla Inc are what will solve global warming. Carbon tax is just money. More money doesn't solve global warming. In fact I would say money is the reason we have global warming in the first place.
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by Lendal 7y ago
What's interesting is that your observation directly relates to the article. "We've turned over our perception of what's real to algorithmically driven systems that are designed not to have [paid] humans in the loop, bec
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by Lendal 7y ago
Facebook?! John Carmack doesn't have a blog? :(
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by Lendal 7y ago
So 60% of male managers admit they aren't good managers. Good. Step aside then, and let others more capable than you have a chance to prove themselves.
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by Lendal 8y ago
I came to the same conclusion after throwing away three bricked inkjet printers in a row. All different brands. None of them lasted more than 400 printed pages. They're shit. Laser from now on.
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by Lendal 8y ago
Read the article.
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by Lendal 8y ago
Exactly. Google also sends all the data from all your contacts back to Google so they can publish it to the entire world including to China! (To that portion of the world that knows your Gmail account and password, and if you were traveling
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by Lendal 8y ago
The reason the location history is not local is because the data is for Timeline, a feature of Google Maps which has its own web site. If the data were only local, I wouldn't be able to use a web browser on my computer to peruse my Tim
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by Lendal 8y ago
The location history setting is for Timeline, a feature that lives inside Google Maps app. I use Timeline often and find it useful. I hope all the FUD you people are spreading about it does not force Google to get rid of the Timeline featur
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by Lendal 8y ago
Am I the only person in the world that uses Timeline? I don't use Google's search but I do use Timeline frequently and find it useful enough that it's worth the risk. So I understand the difference between these different pri
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by Lendal 8y ago
Yeah, it was a pretty good article with good ideas. But Facebook and Google can't do everything about this issue. The fear and anger which give rise to conspiracy theories are part of being human. We've always been a violent, dece
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by Lendal 8y ago
Logitech's Romer-G keyboards are my choice, because they have no sound but they do have the tactile feedback and longevity that I want. It sounds like you're forced to work with some annoying people, but that doesn't make the
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by Lendal 8y ago
That's not what a non sequitur is. Massive layoffs at a company that hypes its AI and is actually named after that same technology is called "irony", not non sequitur. I'm disappointed for having to explain this.
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by Lendal 8y ago
No need for employees when Watson can do it all. Unbeknownst to these people, they renamed it Watson Health due to the fact Watson is going to run the entire division itself. Amazing! The future of AI is finally here! Watson has spent the l
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by Lendal 8y ago
I'm 49, still working, still learning new stuff all the time. You can't assume that someday you'll stop learning and start being productive. There is always something new to learn. Always. The next project is going to have ne
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by Lendal 8y ago
If you showed the ability to steal his position, that means he made a good hire which means he's going to move up himself. So why would he care if you had ambitions on his position or not? All the better if you did. Your working harder
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by Lendal 8y ago
Fist, I don't want to work with a group of people who have only been selected by their ability to solve stupid, meaningless puzzles. That's something you do in college, which I hated. Second, once you get past a minimum level of i
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by Lendal 8y ago
I couldn't read the article, because they want me to whitelist Facebook trackers. I don't use Facebook, I don't have a Facebook account, and I never have had one. Why do they want me to whitelist Facebook trackers? No. Last t
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by Lendal 8y ago
I remember when Microsoft .NET came out and I hated it because they named it something that had no relation to what it was. The product had nothing to do with the Internet, but the Internet was a big new fad back then and marketing wanted t
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by Lendal 9y ago
I was with this article until the last paragraph, "Millennials rightly demand more from their products and services than any generation before, and are increasingly skeptical toward disingenuous brands like Walmart and McDonalds. They
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by Lendal 9y ago
Yeah I agree. So much waste, plus it doesn't really solve the problem we were trying to solve which is time. Preparing the meal is still time-consuming. It wasn't saving us much time at all. Add to that the guilt of having all the
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by Lendal 9y ago
I'm happy to pay for good journalism, but I'm not paying separate subscriptions to every decent newspaper. If they had some sort of alliance with the Post and the Tribune, or something like that it would be very cool. As it is, I
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by Lendal 9y ago
And it takes years of education and training to become a nurse. Why do people think that nurses shouldn't be able to prescribe medications? Is it because of the gender they're traditionally associated with?
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by Lendal 9y ago
Regarding the paywall, it's really annoying. I know journalism isn't free. I have a paid NYT subscription and The Guardian as well, but these companies have to realize that you can't ask people to pay a subscription to every
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by Lendal 9y ago
Was Carl Sagan aware of just how many nuclear weapons had already been detonated in testing by both countries, as well as by India and China? I don't know the exact number but I do know it's over a hundred. If his models were corr

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