Nebasuke

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by Nebasuke 6y ago
Would you mind giving some context/source for the third remark? I tried to search for the statement that MIT would not hire someone like Jerry, but I could not find it myself.
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by Nebasuke 6y ago
It can be installed, but I still spent 3 or more hours debugging before I got everything to work on Windows. I had to spend some time reading obscure GitHub issues to find some of the underlying problems and fix them (this included manually
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by Nebasuke 6y ago
Google has a stronger incentive to not let them. Google's advertising business is built on trust. The moment there are a few scandals involving fake/robot ad clicks, big advertisers will remove their ad campaigns.
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by Nebasuke 7y ago
The parent comment could have phrased it better, but still made a good point. The grandparent comment dismissed any tricky situation with children, blaming lack of motivation to the person rather than the situation, so I think the sentiment
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by Nebasuke 7y ago
I think that's a naive view. It's not just academics optimising for money. It's academics optimising for a balanced relationship, or a family, or even just friends (since the current academic system will also often mean displ
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by Nebasuke 7y ago
I think this is indeed a key point often missed in the conversations here. Just because there's a better (privacy) alternative, it still requires a time investment to find one. The alternative will likely require another time/skil
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by Nebasuke 7y ago
Thank you for posting this, as I had similar thoughts also when reading the last knowledge bank post. I love learning and will regularly do courses to pick up something completely different, or something applicable to my career. However, I
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by Nebasuke 7y ago
I think one big difference with DRM for PC games, is that piracy of PC games is normally not a money making activity for the pirates. It might prevent companies from selling a game to certain people, but there is no clear cut evidence that
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by Nebasuke 8y ago
I asked a few questions (working from home due to a long commute) like this during an interview and had my potential manager react like you. This was a great way for me to know I will never work there, until that culture element is changed.
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by Nebasuke 8y ago
Re-reading the story, it seems to me they had a manual solution, linking personally made Google email accounts to serve as a corporate email (rather than using GSuite), which is probably why all the accounts were seen by the automated bann
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by Nebasuke 8y ago
For some reason uBlock Origin blocked all the images for me. I had to temporarily disable it.
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by Nebasuke 8y ago
Just made a suggested Google edit to change this.