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by adambatkin 5y ago
That would make Rust no longer Open Source according to the OSI definition, and incompatible with most other OSS.
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by adambatkin 6y ago
This is fascinating. Do companies actually reach out to references these days? Most places I have worked have policies stating that no one other than HR is allowed to give a reference for an employee, and HR will only confirm dates of emplo
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by adambatkin 6y ago
Maybe that says something about the company culture. I interview a LOT of candidates, and I make sure that there is always time at the end of the interview for the candidate to ask questions (even if that means running over on my time). Reg
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by adambatkin 6y ago
I think there are two reasons why people haven't moved beyond Java 8: 1) There is nothing really compelling (despite what the article says, the performance improvements aren't that important for many real-world applications) 2) Fo
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by adambatkin 6y ago
There are no subtleties. The post contains a specific example in Google Meet, which is used by "the general public" and not by anyone "already trained to see this pattern in all other software". It's confusing for a
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by adambatkin 6y ago
I don't think this is any way similar to gun legislation. If you lose a bunch of money investing in a scam startup, you might lose your money and be sad. If you buy a gun, you can use that to kill me and my family. Believing that the g
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by adambatkin 6y ago
...which is entirely reasonable. Laptops are heavily customized/optimized for power/heat, whereas off-the-shelf CPUs (like the 5800x) are very much general-purpose devices but can absolutely be customized to be fit-for-purpose (an
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by adambatkin 6y ago
This particular store happens to be the only store in town.
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by adambatkin 6y ago
Linux on the desktop and Linux on the laptop (heh) has definitely improved. It _sometimes_ needs a little tweaking to get it right, but KDE/Plasma also happens to offer that level of "tweakability" that should satisfy almost
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by adambatkin 6y ago
Just keep in mind that early in a product's lifecycle, it is those Power Users that are the cheerleaders for your product (driving adoption), and sophisticated enough to offer (potentially) valuable feedback. For example: One could arg
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by adambatkin 7y ago
The InboxSDK website does not work in Firefox (tons of JS errors, and visually it looks like it vomited a bunch of oversized images all over my browser window). How could anyone trust a company to do a good job working with really complicat
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by adambatkin 7y ago
No one questions that there are bugs in software. The issue raised here is that users were unable to perform searches - even for local files - and the cause (apparently) inexplicably involves a network. In other words what could Microsoft p
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by adambatkin 7y ago
Or their face looks different from faces that you are used to seeing (since all people are different) and the person is in fact not smiling.
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by adambatkin 7y ago
Stack Exchange as an organization might (somehow) be prohibited from releasing all of the background information that they have used for their decision making. But I am surprised that they haven't released any information, given the
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by adambatkin 7y ago
Publishing to Maven Central comes with a bunch of requirements ( https://central.sonatype.org/pages/requirements.html ) may be seen as a burden to packagers, but is certainly a delight for end-users of those packages. Al
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by adambatkin 9y ago
Azul also ships builds of OpenJDK. https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/
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by adambatkin 9y ago
The article has nothing to do with who you want to work with. The allegation is that Google was systematically dismissing candidates who fell into a certain (protected) class, from being even considered at a certain stage of the interview p
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by adambatkin 9y ago
Many years ago (just after I left for college) my parents decided to build a brand new house. The plan was to include a computerized lighting system where every light was individually addressable and all "light switches" were actu
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by adambatkin 9y ago
I disagree that UUIDs are generally preferable over integers. For one, they take up more space (on disk and in memory). And for something like a key, it is likely that there will be multiple copies of that value stored, since it will exist
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by adambatkin 9y ago
The amusing thing is that although Android theoretically allows you to change your default map application, no one would do that since Google Maps is installed by default, and it's so much better than anything else out there (as illu
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by adambatkin 9y ago
Is this designed to be a test of (lack of) net neutrality or something? Verizon now owns Tumblr. AT&T e-mail addresses will suddenly be blacklisted from logging in to Tumblr. Maybe I am reading too much in to this? Edit According to T
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by adambatkin 9y ago
Modularizing the JVM has many benefits. Unfortunately, as part of that process they ended up with a much bigger scope than we had all anticipated. Enforcing a new [mandatory] module system for all third-party code - with significant compati
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by adambatkin 10y ago
Nowhere in the article is it even implied that "mass surveillance wasn't such a good idea". The author mostly seems bemused that despite a large number of video (and other data) recording systems being available, no one in th
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by adambatkin 10y ago
You missed the rest of the paragraph though: "If you’ve used them, you know that they’re not as nice as the applications available in macOS and Windows." I used Thunderbird for about 10 years on my Mac laptop and every time I trie
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by adambatkin 11y ago
While it's true that it may not be a legal requirement (in some jurisdictions) to post a privacy policy, it's probably not a good idea to trust a service without one, particularly if said service is designed for posting potentia
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by adambatkin 11y ago
This article gets it all wrong: The ls command does one thing well (LiSting files) and it isn't optimized for terminal size, it's optimized for PROGRAMMER productivity. The ls command gives you a default view that is exactly what
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by adambatkin 12y ago
This is why you should have repository manager like JFrog Artifactory or Sonatype Nexus which can transparently proxy third-party repositories (like Maven Central).
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by adambatkin 12y ago
What other keys should they pre-install? Let's face it, most motherboards will run Windows, so it makes sense to ship Microsoft's keys (also they have to do that to get certified by Windows). Do you really expect OEMs to go hunt
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by adambatkin 12y ago
We definitely throw our weight around and interfere with Iran's domestic affairs. But this is definitely a case of "we think our morals are better than yours" (and we have bigger guns so we're gonna enforce those morals)
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by adambatkin 12y ago
That all makes a lot more sense now.

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