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811.
by abraae 9y ago
I think if the engineer had an email from management telling them "it's all good" then the engineer would probably be off the hook.
812.
by abraae 9y ago
Maybe they adopted the same strategy as those Nigerian 419 scams. The tortured grammar drives away rational punters, leaving only the patsies.
813.
by abraae 9y ago
I respect your suggestion, but sadly have found myself moving in the opposite direction lately. My wife's parents are strongly religious. When my 5 year old son stays over he gets a good dose of creationism. I've always thought th
814.
by abraae 9y ago
Yes, not quite sure who's ire I raised, but I'm in the older quadrant myself and I do need my computer glasses to work.
815.
by abraae 9y ago
Wait until you're a bit older. 110PPI and retina display will both look equally good (or bad) to you.
816.
by abraae 9y ago
Perhaps a strain gauge ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_gauge ), a primitive sort of accelerometer that has been around for donkey's years.
817.
by abraae 9y ago
I was just looking for something like this. Googling led me to Charles proxy, which seems a pretty capable tool, and I'm growing fond of it though the Java UI is jarringly ugly. Does anyone have any experience with charles vs mitmproxy
818.
by abraae 9y ago
All of those examples you give are a) easily identifiable (e.g you are transmitting on a particular frequency) and b) scarce due to very high barriers to entry (e.g betting a power utility). Web sites are different. Facebook is just one end
819.
by abraae 9y ago
> Most services complain of complexity from "the monolith" but upon further inspection, what we're usually see is poor architectural layout. These teams feel that microservices solve this, but really just make the entire b
820.
by abraae 9y ago
That's a great idea but "tooth and nail" doesn't even begin to describe how hard Facebook will fight against that kind of transparency.
821.
by abraae 9y ago
The article clearly calls out only the US. Since this announcement would have been carefully vetted by Facebook management and legal, I have to presume that means that they are only taking action over US elections.
822.
by abraae 9y ago
Both TFA and the embedded video reference "US election ads" which I find pretty shitty as a citizen of a country not the US (though thankfully our election is now behind us).
823.
by abraae 9y ago
From memory Facebook popularized this approach way back when.
824.
by abraae 9y ago
I still remember seeing Netscape for the first time. Seeing web pages was astonishing enough, then I suddenly realised you could browse the web in multiple windows, at the same time. Blew my mind.
825.
by abraae 9y ago
Perhaps he is an unrealistic dreamer (though one who has achieved an incredible amount) but I can't think of any other individual who is doing as much for the planet.
826.
by abraae 9y ago
I was working back when CASE was the next big thing. People have always loved the idea of programming with pictures. But after decades without success I think we have to acknowledge that paradigms like spreadsheets, Trello etc. are the real
827.
by abraae 9y ago
Red flag if asking this question courteously causes offence.
828.
by abraae 9y ago
Good luck! Even within recruitment there are many subfields, e.g. hiring developers has almost nothing whatsoever to do with hiring baristas to work in your cafe. So much goodness waiting to be tapped!
829.
by abraae 9y ago
My suggestions: 1. Don't sell to techies. i.e. ignore any ideas about software testing, cloud base load testing, etc. 2. Pick a solid business domain you know really well. There is no substitute for domain expertise. Sometimes things
830.
by abraae 9y ago
> You are saying it like there's something good in extorting money from foreign companies because we own the territory, so damn it if you're going to do business here without paying us protection money. This is how the world wo
831.
by abraae 9y ago
That sounds pretty cool. I guess there will be a lot of mining for lithium in the future.
832.
by abraae 9y ago
I don't know why it astounds you. Facebook is a business. I doubt they spend much time in the board meetings pondering what they are doing for the planet. Instead I'd guess its all about mobile clickthrough rates and ROI on recent
833.
by abraae 9y ago
Although it sounds outrageous when you say it like that, its pragmatic, and fits us as a species. I'd like petrol to be 3 or 4 times the cost it is now. That would greatly reduce emissions, but fossil fuels could still be used in situa
834.
by abraae 9y ago
That's amazing, I need to watch TV more. Have never seen any of those.
835.
by abraae 9y ago
No, I didn't say either of those things.
836.
by abraae 9y ago
Are you saying a country with 4M people that emits the same as a country with 100M people is doing OK? Per capita is a useful measurement (but not the only one).
837.
by abraae 9y ago
Thanks somewhat to US domestic politics, China seems to be gradually edging from global enemy towards saviour status. With regard to climate change, they are now more progressive than the US. Perhaps the chinese emphasis on long term thinki
838.
by abraae 9y ago
If its allowed in NZ, its rare, and limited to headache medicince, asthma remedies and the like. I'm always astonised when I'm in the US at the medical ads on TV. It seems bizarre that companies target advertising at the consumer
839.
by abraae 9y ago
We have a similar situation in New Zealand. Stoats were introduced by European settlers (ironically, to deal with rabbits, which themselves were introduced, and quickly ran wild). The stoats soon started decimating the native bird populatio
840.
by abraae 9y ago
That's a fascinating concept, but I don't think all growth is of that sort (even if much of it is). Facebook as one example has seen enormous growth. Was it bad for the planet? (apart from the incalculable cost of being an attack

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