Shish2k

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by Shish2k 7y ago
Do you think any other platforms are doing better, or is all social media inherently doomed?
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Facebook could be ~100% accurate at separating real and fake accounts if they exchanged data with the government to make sure that every user had a passport / social security number / other equivalent associated with their account
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> I'm going to argue they can't type They push the buttons and letters appear on screen. That's typing - everything else is optimisation :P
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by Shish2k 7y ago
The Facebook www code is written in Hack, which started off as a PHP-compatible language / stdlib, and then dropped PHP compatibility when it was holding them back. Having worked with both, any one of the major additions (XHP, good typ
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Are you suggesting that the number should be higher or lower? As someone who still has functional PC hardware from the 90's, calling 6.5 "a few years" sounds about right...
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by Shish2k 7y ago
You can yell whatever you like, but nobody is obligated to sell you a megaphone
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> they renamed and republished that app multiple times Do you have a source for that? I'm only aware of Onavo code being shared with another FB survey app which was running in parallel (ie, not the same app renamed and republished)
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by Shish2k 7y ago
F14 has been open source for over a year already...
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Python gets 20% faster if you use `__slots__` on the Vector class which is created and destroyed millions of times. It's still the second-slowest, but it's a nice improvement :P
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by Shish2k 8y ago
At facebook, a virtual filesystem ( https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden ) + change monitor ( https://facebook.github.io/watchman/ ) = source control operations run in O(files I have modified)
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by Shish2k 8y ago
C had some typing, but I'm not going to call it "solved" until "numberOfHats = distanceInPixels + weightInKg" is considered a compile-time error due to the three "int" values being incompatible; but "
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by Shish2k 8y ago
My three priorities are convenience, comfort, and noise-cancelling (call me a heretic, but for me A2DP is "good enough" quality-wise, so I don't care about that). I already have a pair of super-comfortable noise-cancelling he
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> Because you will go to jail if you won't. Firstly, please don't put words into other people's mouths, it is very disingenuous. As to the actual point - I'll also go to jail if I murder someone. But I wouldn't s
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by Shish2k 8y ago
"Taken by force" is a strange (very American?) way to put it. As a European, I'm happy to pay taxes because it's a convenient and efficient way to get money out of my bank account and into the hands of people who need it
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> If I move the cord at certain angles, the phones voice control switches on, podcasts skip, pause, or run at 3x speed. It is incredibly reassuring to hear somebody else find these symptoms - it took me weeks to narrow down the cause to
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by Shish2k 8y ago
AFAIK FFXV had a much better story planned out; but they were pushed to release it half-baked, so they cut out a bunch of content to make it smaller-but-semi-coherent, planning to add all the extra context back in the form of DLC. But then
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by Shish2k 8y ago
Planet money just released an episode explaining why that doesn't happen: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis... tl;dr: All the infrastructure is in place and ever
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> Making the friend/family graph portable would allow others to compete with Facebook It's also the exact feature that allowed Cambridge Analytica to happen ("Push this button to share your address book with this third-par
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by Shish2k 8y ago
It is WYSIWYG. I'm not sure why the article mentions markdown in the title, because the only clue about using markdown behind the scenes is that somebody found a "markdown help" pop-up buried in the code...
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by Shish2k 8y ago
POSIX seems like the kind of API that it shouldn't be necessary to "recover" portability from...
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> shouldn't vote for something you don't know what it is Isn't the whole point of democracy "a large enough volume of ignorance will average out to something sensible"? :P
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> With a bunch of print statements you can see the state of the system in multiple spots at once. With a debugger you can see the state of the system in multiple the spots at once, except that you don't need to guess in advance whic
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by Shish2k 8y ago
Programmers and non-programmers have very different ideas of what is "decent". Examples of things non-programmers want in a group chat app: - persistent chat history - mobile client - a sane registration / nickname reservatio
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by Shish2k 8y ago
For me: Last I checked, debian had a lot more packages which worked together (Wikipedia says it's currently ~70,000 to Fedora's ~20,000, and RHEL's "3000 + 9000 from EPEL"). Notably after running Debian on my server
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by Shish2k 8y ago
I used to get depressed thinking that I wouldn't live long enough to see the sci-fi future where we're all immortal cyborgs with minds in the cloud. So in a purely selfish sense, I guess "right now is the peak of human civili
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by Shish2k 8y ago
I think at this point discord is the new IRC, a generic chat platform for communities, organised by interest - nearly all the same benefits of IRC vs Messenger apps, with the additional benefit that somebody cares enough to make it user-fri
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by Shish2k 8y ago
What do you think / hope that the outcome of this experience would be?
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> I’m not sure I really understand why big companies feel it’s there job to censor the world Because that's what the users and the customers both want. Facebook is popular and profitable BECAUSE it provides a mostly-safe (compared t
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> only to just resubmit it under another name The facebook paid research program existed for years before the onavo shutdown
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by Shish2k 8y ago
Which reminds me to wonder - does anybody know why the cost model uses constants from a config file? Compared to all the amazing things that Postgres does, it seems like "measure the value of a sequential read and a random read at ru

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