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by a_imho 8y ago
With such a rapidly growing user base and wide array of capabilities, Python might seem destined to become the lingua franca of coding, rendering all other competitors obsolete. I realize it is weasel worded not to mean what it implies bu
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Ask HN: How much of the AI/ML hype is warranted?
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by a_imho 8y ago
This is exactly what people have been voting for with their wallets though.
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by a_imho 8y ago
What if we don't call it a human | engineer it just so it does not meet some agreed criteria for human | offers their organs voluntarily* | ... ?
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by a_imho 8y ago
No, but we pretend it is.
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by a_imho 8y ago
I claim no one gets to the top for being a hard working developer. Also claim quality engineering is only loosely correlated with advancement, it is one of the less efficient ways to secure a promotion/raise. In fact, managers often ha
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by a_imho 8y ago
I mean the blue collars sitting with other developers at lunch. We can pretend there is a meritocracy out there, but that's simply not true. Sure, in theory it might be possible to progress as a developer but in practice the roi of put
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by a_imho 8y ago
Land a major deal or create a new product line that doubles revenue? You're getting to the top. From my experience this does not happen at all. Not to underclass developers at least.
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by a_imho 8y ago
The fact is that it takes effort to launch a new programming language beyond just writing some code and the long term commitment should be there if you are going to let other people run their production systems on what you throw into the w
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by a_imho 8y ago
Well, Europeans in theory have Right to Erasure.
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by a_imho 8y ago
I had the same feeling when Google accidentally gained access to medical records from the NHS. Everyone involved acknowledged they need to do better, yet no one ever suggested to delete the illegally obtained data. https://www.
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by a_imho 8y ago
More probable you gave up access to your account six months ago. Imo it is worth considering keeping it around and actually obfuscating its content.
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by a_imho 8y ago
It would be really surprising if that was a facebook only thing. For starters Google pesters me at least as much to add my phone number to secure my account.
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by a_imho 8y ago
When people suggested phone 2fa was a data collection scheme they were hushed and called tinfoils.
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by a_imho 8y ago
You don't have to sit passively, you don't even have to block passively, consider using / contributing to services like AdNauseam or Noiszy.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Dark patterns are misleading, like highlighting the opt-in box for GDPR. No one is tricking users here, there are no options, they are told to suck it up.
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by a_imho 8y ago
The cat is really and truly out of the bag. Google did the same with Gmail/youtube/etc ages ago, even creating a new profile if you did not have one for a particular service. No one bat an eye.
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by a_imho 8y ago
As a Firefox user: it might be less of a spyware than Chrome, but with the Google funding Moz://a can't even plausibly deny they are not controlled competition on the browser market.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Because in the case of the EU it is against the regulations of the market they want to operate in.
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by a_imho 8y ago
There is nothing dark about this, they are doing this in plain sight, there is very little people (who wants to use Google services*) can do about it. Even GDPR looks more and more toothless as days go by and nothing happens to obvious viol
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by a_imho 8y ago
An obvious counterexample is students.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Personally I'm at the other end of things, I routinely ask people to look at my code multiple times even before submitting it for code review. Chances I could learn about some edge case I did not consider before.
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by a_imho 8y ago
defacto standard for professional traders and finance What do professional traders do nowadays? My impression was it is already bots talking to bots and/or index funds outperforming/on par with actively managed funds.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Absolutely not. In fact, security was a differentiator for competing products when WhatsApp did not have it. Just not one people would care about. It fits nicely.
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by a_imho 8y ago
To further thicken the plot imo NSA and other TLAs are a red herring in a world where WhatsApp was acquired for ~20B. I don't believe for one sec that messaging app peddlers just want to make sure users' conversations are secure.
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by a_imho 8y ago
At a time when people are questioning the impact of technology on their lives and looking for leadership from independent organizations like Mozilla
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by a_imho 8y ago
Never met a great manager, the least harmful were smart/dumb enough not to interfere with the day-to-day work too much and let the people do their job. I'm still skeptical of the value added by m&ms.
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by a_imho 8y ago
tldr; the author uses the copyright directive to go off tangent and cry about GDPR a bit more
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by a_imho 8y ago
Business folks: please create parallel technical and managerial career paths. Technical people are pretty much second class as it is, the last thing needed is to cement the status quo.
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by a_imho 8y ago
tldr Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa, 42.

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