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by Shebanator 8y ago
I think its a good article, but I'm confused about the author's implication that the state government is consciously choosing to depend on income and capital gains tax revenues. California does depend on those taxes, but not by ch
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Google's tech track does go all the way to VP equivalents.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Well, my wife and I always say that when it came to tech companies, we were "lucky but not that lucky." I worked for one startup whose IPO was filed the day before the bubble burst, and after that had a job offer from pre-IPO
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Ambiguous != misleading - the latter implies intent
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by Shebanator 8y ago
I must be missing something. Where do they say they send data to google? Are we talking about the Assistant/Alexa integration, which sounds fairly focused? I guess the key question is whether or not they are sending data when you aren&
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by Shebanator 8y ago
That reply was pretty bad as well. But at least he didn't tell someone to shove things up their butt.... :-)
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Yes, exactly. Thanks for chiming in.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Servers have logs, which can have a lot of personal data in them. Not all of that logging is under your control, especially if you rely on 3rd party services like AWS. This is a simple example but there are many more.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
These kinds of responses are unhelpful. Yes, data protection is incredibly important. That doesn't mean that GDPR as written is a well-done regulation - in point of fact its insanely complicated and its pretty much impossible to know
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by Shebanator 8y ago
On a related note, if in NYC I highly recommend the walking pizza tour: http://www.scottspizzatours.com/
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Heh. I just posted this at more or less the same time as you. But I deleted my comment to clean things up.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
I'm baffled how the author could look at these code samples and say that the Rust and Javascript versions were mostly identical.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
This. I left Adobe in 2008 (involuntarily :-) ), and it boggles my mind that they haven't done this sort of fuzz testing and fixed the issues in the last 10+ years. Sure, putting the code in a sandbox covers a multitude of sins, but I
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Also, even though Taligent was a monumental disaster, it wasn't all bad. There is a lot of stuff you use every day that came directly out of Taligent's work. For instance, the i18n libraries for Java and ICU ( http://sit
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by Shebanator 8y ago
I wrote one of those books, specifically "The Power of Frameworks". Like I said, I was definitely deep in the hype cycle at the time. https://www.amazon.com/Power-Frameworks-Windows-Os/dp/020148...
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by Shebanator 8y ago
It isn't fair to blame Taligent for that hype. Several of these systems existed before Pink/Taligent project was ever discussed publicly. Heck, we used to talk about how our stuff was better than COM and CORBA all the time. And Op
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by Shebanator 8y ago
I agree that the OO hype at the time was crazy, and I was extremely guilty of that mania at the time. But from my POV (as a Pink/Taligent employee) the failures of Taligent had little to do with that. It was much more a problem of cons
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by Shebanator 8y ago
It wasn't actually proceeded by Pink. Copland and Pink were going on in parallel, and the competition between them (and the original MacOS folks as well) was intense. Pink was the first to lose that battle, and got spun out as a result
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Peter is a director, and Urs is a senior VP. As such, they are now both on the management ladder. I think the article was discussing only people who were on the eng ladder.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
all this fuss over 10 google employees?
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by Shebanator 8y ago
FYI, according to The Verge, the new MB Ev will have 200 mile range and 4.9 second 0-60. https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/4/17818836/mercedes-benz-eqc...
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by Shebanator 8y ago
The i-pace is a very nice car, but their sales challenges make it unlikely to be a serious competitor. I thought about buying one myself, but Jag's reputation scared me off. https://autoweek.com/article/luxury&#x2F
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Q1 2019 is still at least six months before MB will have a viable competitor available to purchase. Probably more like 12 months before MB has it available in quantity. Too soon to say what availability will be for the Audi and Porsche comp
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Yes, Tesla's profitability is an entirely different discussion, and IMHO one that really isn't all that relevant to how it will compete with MB, VW, etc. over the next few years.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
They have already sold a lot of Model 3s, and they have 16 months to sell a lot more of them. Personally I don't really care all that much about when they hit 5k/week, 6k/week, or whatever. Even if they stayed at 4k/week
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Meh. MB are planning to start production sometime in 2H2019, and no real details about the capabilities of the car. Meanwhile Porsche's Taycan will cost more than the Model S while having Model 3-like specs. The new Audi e-tron will
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by Shebanator 8y ago
I agree that this is mostly how Apple views things, but what you said doesn't contradict the post you replied to at all. He is a developer whose livelihood is dependent on Apple, and he is tired of being jerked around. Just because App
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by Shebanator 8y ago
"At this point, the researchers also realized that the heat could inadvertently melt the adhesive cellophane and cause the flaming SPTs to suddenly eject from the toaster. Unfortunately, this did not occur." QOTD!
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by Shebanator 8y ago
For me, the trackpad is the thing that got me to get rid of my MBP and replace it with a Pixelbook. I was getting false positive clicks all the time while typing, which would move the cursor and destroyed my productivity. And I was not hitt
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Good recommendation! Big fan of his work...

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