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by MarkMc 7y ago
Can't you already do that using your browser's incognito mode?
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Interesting that an unmarried guy with no kids can be in charge of a product that is so popular with kids.
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I suspect it knows the correct choices for some of the little pictures it shows you, but for others you are training it.
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OSGi is what killed Eclipse. Instead of focusing on producing a fast, modern IDE, Eclipse became a design-by-committee monster that had to support just about any use case on the client.
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This is exactly my experience. Go to Thailand, see ads in Thai. Go to France, see ads in French. Go to Indonesia, see ads in Indonesian. Google has paid thousands of engineers billions of dollars over 20 years and somehow they have faile
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> I'd rather have proximity to co-workers so we can easily share ideas in informal ways. Yes I agree. This informal communication is an under-appreciated aspect of an open-plan office. I wonder whether remote teams can be structure
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You make it sound like the 'current trend' is a new phenomenon, but before the rise of Facebook newspaper and TV companies were self-policing and it was essentially impossible to publish a message to millions of people without go
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My preferred solution is for Facebook to assess whether a video is presented as accurate but has been altered with intent to deceive. If so, it is tagged "This video has been flagged as deceptive. Click here for details". Yes, fro
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Just so you know, about a month ago I signed up to twitch looking for live coding. Couldn't find the appropriate category so I gave up. Is it really so difficult to add such a category?
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Even worse for China is if they are blocked from both US and EU markets. Like the US, Europe has found its IP and technology appropriated by China, so with the right strategy Trump might convince EU leaders to also take a hard line against
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Interesting to compare this 'unprecedented jobs boom' with forecasts made in 2011: https://buzzmachine.com/2011/08/05/the-jobless-future/ Jeff Jarvis said, "We’re not going to have a joble
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It's very easy for people to convince themselves that they are not contributing to the problem. "It's the government's fault for not liberalizing and regulating the drug trade"
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The iPhone has a user interface and a very strong network effect - more users means more apps, which means more users. Self-driving software is fundamentally different. A self-driving Tesla would have no significant UI or network effect, so
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It's strange that this article mentions the increased risk of internal bleeding but doesn't mention the reduced risk of cancer. Here's a study which suggests that if 1,000 people aged 60 took aspirin daily for 10 years then
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I suspect that the primary purpose here is not to uncover bias or censorship on social media platforms - it's to get people to identify more strongly as Trump supporters. This is the classic psychological 'consistency' princi
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Here's an article with headline, "Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-repo... And yet it says,
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Or maybe just clever software trained to filter the video feed so the person's gaze is shifted up.
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It also reinforces the point that there is a trade-off between reliability and security. When you encrypt something you are slightly increasing the chance that you will lose access to that data. Our accounting software offers end-to-end enc
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Hi Avneesh - I'm looking to hire remote developers in India. Please email me at mark.mclaren@mclarencollege.in or add your email address to your HN profile. To answer your question: I see a lot of Indian CVs that are just filled with
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Title should be, "This Is How Google Will Collapse (2017)"
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You might be interested to see a graph of Android, Flutter and React Native questions on Stack Overflow over time: http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=[ionic-framework,react-native,f... Short version: Flutter is growing nicely
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I dislike almost everything about Trump, but in this particular case his policy might be better than his predecessors. If the trade agreement results in low tariffs and a more level playing field for US companies who invest in China, maybe
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The Trump adminstration has abandoned the fiduciary rule by not appealing the federal court's ruling. And Congress has abandoned the fiduciary rule by deciding not to pass a new bill that would be acceptable to the courts.
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Keep in mind that it's possible to develop Software as a Service by selling software that the user has to install - we have done it with our accounting software Solar Accounts. This approach is probably more painful to develop than t
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McLaren College | Online Software Engineering Teacher | Indian Timezone | REMOTE | Full Time | INR 35 lac | https://mclarencollege.in I'm developing a live online course to teach software engineering to people in India. I&#
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Most of the people who are accessing the web for the first time are from poor countries like India and Indonesia, so the effect on Google's revenue is much smaller than the number of people would suggest. Other drivers of Google'
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Putting aside the EC fine, operating expenses grew 19.2% year-on-year while revenue only grew 16.7% year-on-year. This is clearly not sustainable - if it continues expect to see some belt-tightening at Google.
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It's not doubling every year. Revenue is up 17% compared to Q1 2018
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> The median salary for a software engineer in the US is $100K I don't think this is a fair comparison because it includes people with 10 years experience, and people with a 4-year computer science education. It would be better to l
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Medicine Man [0] is a 1992 movie about a researcher who discovers a species of ant which has cancer-curing properties. As a teenager at the time I thought, "Why doesn't some pharmaceutical company simply test every ant species to

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