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by TACIXAT 8y ago
This site is accurate for my level - https://levels.fyi
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
I had one in my left ring finger for a while. It was neat, totally impractical, and way too sensitive to touch. I could feel EM fields. This might be really useful if you work with electricity, but as a developer, it was only every so often
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
>There are no non-competes in California, There are intellectual property assignment agreements though. These basically say "we're a giant tech company and work in a lot of areas, so if you work on a side project in any of thos
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
I came to the conclusion too. I was working as a reverse engineer and realized my job was basically just reading. Modern scribe.
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
I've always wondered if the salaries in the industry are just keeping pace to what all salaries should be at. What if they're not the bubble, but instead everything else is just lagging? I guess that depends on if you think worker
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
Those things don't stop companies from collecting information on you. I wish that stuff was stored locally. >Most websites and web services, including Google's, don't change their behavior when they receive a Do Not Track
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
I feel it's come a really long way. Maybe I'm just buying machines with supported graphics cards now, but I have not had any catastrophic failures since getting on 18.04.
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
>where anyone contract for the hacking of any target Unfortunately, the law does not reflect this. Governments still have a monopoly on these sorts of attacks. If you do it without the government blessing, you usually end up in a cage.
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
NSO Group sells exclusively to governments. There is a quote from them in the top section of their Wikipedia page. [1] >According to the company, it provides "authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
I get that there is no expectation of privacy in public, but there is a huge difference in someone maybe snapping a picture of me in the background of their Snapchat story, and the city recording my license plate on every block. One may pla
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
With this quick hack I drained my bank account! I set up an Instagram bot to browser for 30 minutes a day. It had a 2% chance to click any of the ads I saw. This aggregated URLs of products I wanted. To simulate bad late night purchase I se
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
Yes, it means having all of your data available for any criminal or civil court case. It means that any data breach will likely also include details about your life that you would like to remain private. Sure, it's not abused by the go
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
The complaint isn't that they are showing us personalized ads, it's that you can't participate in modern society without sacrificing a ton of privacy or being incredibly inconvenienced.
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
That's a weird example. A team that makes a library probably doesn't share too much data with other teams. I think this directive is more like, don't share a spreadsheet of your quarterly stats.
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
What if the "customer" is trained through gamification and other psychological tricks to come back? I hated Facebook and still had the muscle memory of <ctrl>+<t> face <tab> <enter>. I still do that sometim
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
Aren't you the product on DDG? Like they still sell ads and do marketing. Just less invasively than Google. An argument could also be made for Linux, that the users are the product. Like why does all this development get done on Linux?
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
The weight one is really interesting. If we were to see a drop in the rates of overweight and obese people, I wonder if an increase in bias would be a precursor. Not in the sense that everyone hates them and they change their habits out of
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
>seems to understand what makes a good challenge, what makes a challenge hard, and more importantly, what DOESNT make a good/interesting challenge Any tips in this area?
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
Any links on what the Bird founder did?
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
>The prolific commenters are molding every discussion in their image. This is actually why disinformation works so well. Many people are consumers. A handful of people create content. Everyone has an expected behavior in a rather fragile
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
I think there is a difference between allowing ads to target an area and selling someone's real time location. I'm against the collection of data generally because that data can always end up in court, but Google has never given p
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
Wow, exactly like last time.
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
Yes, you can get fat on rice, but it's much easier to get fat on sugar. Sugar messes with your body's signaling causing you to consume more than if you were just eating carbs. If we outlawed sugar today, I would place all my savin
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
The conventional (or what I consider conventional as I see all the YC propaganda) advice is you shouldn't "play founder". There are hundreds of events that can jerk you off and make you feel like a star. That said, conference
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
The stuff listed as conventional advice, I've never seen anywhere. Mixpanel, the biggest player in the space says just focus on a few key metrics. >You should track “dozens of metrics” without fail. >You should A/B test ever
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
Context on his comments? Edit: http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove I don't see anything awful in here. There are absolutely people in the bay area who wish to silence other opinions. I'm a pretty liberal pers
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
What is particularly impressive about his portfolio? The whole idea of venture capital is placing many bets. In fact elsewhere in this thread people used that same logic to excuse his bad bets. So if you put money into just about every comp
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
This stuff makes me so mad. It's to the point I don't want to carry a phone anymore. Why is it that people aren't allowed to record my conversations but they can record my real time location? It's a problem at every leve
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
Yes, it absolutely is. Learn full stack and go work at one of the web tech giants. (There are obviously other options, but I mention the tech giants because the salaries are very lucrative.) This usually means understanding data structures
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by TACIXAT 8y ago
This blog is gorgeous on mobile. Nice PWA features too for adding to the home screen.

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