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by adunn 5y ago
Alternate take and apparently unpopular opinion: the US government can simply force Apple to give them a back door to access iCloud photos directly. What Apple has done here is both way more complicated and way more visible than necessary,
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by adunn 12y ago
The article makes it sounds like they are replacing PageRank. According to the paper it's orthogonal to PageRank. It's just another signal to consider. The other assumption seems to be that this will cause site authors to fact-stu
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by adunn 12y ago
"...but it's society as a whole causing this rather than government(s) specifically" It sounds like you are claiming that state surveillance is actually a subset of social pressure surrounding what's socially acceptable
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by adunn 12y ago
Good points, I think it's not really the right tool for what you are doing. It's more for large teams and big code bases.
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by adunn 12y ago
This is correct. OO codifies the pattern of having a struct and a set of functions that operate on it. The syntax does help humans reason about that pattern. But my understanding is that the goal is more about the human limitations of manag
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by adunn 12y ago
"For example, we now know that 35% of the variation in a team’s performance can be accounted for simply by the number of face-to-face exchanges among team members." As someone who lives in a rural area I see a distributed team as
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by adunn 12y ago
Well, yeah, I agree that the SPL types are nice to have. My complaint is that PHP's only first-class array type is a weird array/map combo. Have you ever seen anything like that in another language? The SPL types are definitely a
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by adunn 12y ago
You're right, thanks for pointing that out.
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by adunn 12y ago
This is great news. PHP doesn't have many structured data types, so arrays (aka maps) are basically used for everything. Any improvement to them will impact the entire application. It would be nice to have separate types for arrays and
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by adunn 15y ago
Well, I don't see Carrier IQ in the list ;)
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by adunn 15y ago
There's a slight chance that the government doesn't care about the bigger issue. I guess this would be like nailing a mobster for tax evasion.