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811.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> It's a lot easier to screw up a text based format than a binary format. I don't see a single instance where this is true.
812.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
When you absolutely need that "tar xf" to take 23900 times longer.
813.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> But I don't like to criticize without showing a better way, so I decided to immediately start fixing the most glaring issues that I had observed during my initial contact with the micro-service I had been working on. Hmm ...
814.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Very apt. But I'd really like to know why a medical degree means "can perform real medical work" while we're OK with a CS degree meaning "well, she has successfully completed the degree requirements, but hey, actua
815.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Apart from getting a candidate to actually pump out some code, even trivially, we don't really have a way to de-facto verify that the person says they can do what they say they can do, short of a personal reference from someone, s
816.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Seems true for academia in general. Most CS papers are utterly useless drivel, too (speaking from my own stuff; nice projects, but completely useless from an academic point of view).
817.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Time for a Facebook browser, I guess. Circumventing the middle man is the next logical step.
818.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
I've come to see the rise of Electron not as a shortcoming of other UI tech, not a problem with Electron. OSX, Windows and Linux failed to have any viable cross-platform UI solution[0]; Electron is what we deserve for this failure. [0]
819.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
I think people would be less upset about the teenager going to jail if the chain of highly paid Peter principle executives responsible for the files being accessible would also have to face any investigation at all.
820.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine biased models, will unbiased answers come out?"
821.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
My point is that there might be kickbacks from pipe operator to content mill.
822.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Contrast with the US which keeps it's NSA spying and data collection private. Until it isn't. I think the USA is a bit behind China and the UK in applying surveillance technology to target individuals for petty things. Sure ,
823.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> until ISPs start offering subsidized plans for Facebook, Gmail, Spotify, Twitter, and expensive plans for everything else. Is priced content worse than the current situation, where services are monetized exclusively by essentially runn
824.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Quality at any cost is easy. Quality at low cost is hard.
825.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> The bigger question is why are China advertising this Striking fear into citizens; literally state terrorism.
826.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
That's my favorite horror story to tell the "autonomous driving is ready for deployment" fanatics (not that it helps).
827.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Typical prototype-gone-live scenario. A.k.a. 90 per cent of projects where prototypes are used at any stage ...
828.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Never heard of them (well, probably in passing); will look into is. Thanks!
829.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> I don't touch submodules. What's the alternative? Managing all dependencies by an external dependency manager does not exactly reduce complexity (if you're not within a closed ecosystem like Java + Maven that has a matur
830.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
pull == "just fuck my shit up"
831.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Can someone explain how the problem of not being able to get successors causes issues in practice? I don't doubt it does, but I've never personally had a situation where inspecting the graph did not give the information I required
832.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> a panel of actual experts reviews the project Except, as these things go, what is being reviewed is whether the projects meets its arbitrarily nonsensical, self contradictory requirements and whether all 1528 required process artifacts
833.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
ReiserFS flashbacks.
834.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Nintendo is the last company in the world that would be interested in this. My point was that Steam should have been interested in it.
835.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Domestic dispute, huh?
836.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
There exists a world where the Switch is the Steam Machine. It would have been very well possible if Nvidia had chosen Steam instead of Nintendo as distributor for its Shield. We'd have an open handheld platform for indie games.
837.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> I don't really like Musk but sending positive messages in Investment relations is the key to keeping the company afloat. Let's see how the SEC will like this line of argumentation.
838.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
What irks me is that they think it's OK for them to advertise it as auto-pilot, with an asterisk pointing to the fine print that says "aw shucks, not actually, haha".
839.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> After the logs from the computer inside the vehicle were recovered, we have more information about what may have happened. Why does Tesla have access to the car after the accident at all? > The driver had received several visual and
840.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Anyone know whether this turned out to be an acquihire or not? I suspect a pure patent acquisition.

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