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by akie 4y ago
> But I can't imagine Google would know how to do anything useful (to them) with my random JSON blobs. They're not interested in the blobs, but in the people accessing them. Their whole suite of "free" developer tools
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by akie 4y ago
I love their aggressive privacy choices.
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by akie 4y ago
I am firmly convinced we need a "War on Climate Change".
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by akie 4y ago
Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cKimjW...
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by akie 4y ago
If anything, the banner indicates that the site is tracking you. The site chooses to do that. The GDPR doesn't force them to.
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by akie 4y ago
I think the key takeaway here is that people are allergic to that word.
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by akie 4y ago
I like privacy. And I distrust Facebook and other big tech companies. I'm generally very happy that our democratically elected governments makes an effort to protect the citizens that elected it. I trust the government more than I trus
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by akie 4y ago
These 2.5 billion euros is almost nothing for a country the size of Germany. I mean, it’s 0.1% of the total budget (€1762.4 billion last year). It’s nothing. Are you really getting all huffy & puffy about paying for a scheme that provid
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by akie 4y ago
You should read Steve Jobs' biography for another example of someone with these characteristics.
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by akie 5y ago
Not necessarily. In some ORMs you can have scopes that can be used to append common sub-queries or conditions, such as "WHERE is_deleted=0", and some allow you to specify default scopes that should be appended to every database qu
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by akie 5y ago
It seems to me that you are actually the one who doesn't understand how extreme concentration of wealth has the potential to steer and disrupt societies.
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by akie 5y ago
Now every time you run a database migration, you have to adjust N tables - and in Atlassian's case, N is 200000. Is that better? It depends. There is no "best" way of doing multitenancy.
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by akie 5y ago
We don't even understand ourselves.
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by akie 5y ago
I understand the need for constructions like this, and I understand the limitations you work with when dealing with older languages such as C or C++, but does anyone else think that this is just incredibly hacky? I mean, this is the kind of
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by akie 5y ago
I wonder what the advertising company in charge of the world's most popular browser would have to say about that.
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by akie 5y ago
Thank you. I always click on the GitHub links, and they are really extremely revealing. If you just send me your GitHub and it's good, then you're in the next round.
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by akie 5y ago
We're using libraries like this to try to guess the language of a book based on title alone (in case no other information is readily available), and trigram-based algorithms get it wrong often enough for it to be noticeable. I will loo
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by akie 5y ago
There's trash projects in every language, and I'm not defending any of them. The terrible projects you have seen are written by terrible programmers, of which you have a lot in any popular language. But modern PHP, with Laravel, S
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by akie 5y ago
What you can do is the following: 0. Use Firefox, not Chrome 1. Install an ad-blocker ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... ) 2. Install ghostery ( https://addons.mozilla.o
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by akie 5y ago
I try to avoid them wherever possible. There are quite a few decent alternatives for many of their core services.
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by akie 5y ago
But how can we trust what you say? Google is not necessarily a very trustworthy company anymore. Case in point, the subject at hand: people who said they did not want to be tracked, now have to find a setting and say it again. That does not
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by akie 5y ago
If you're confused (like me) and don't know what "neural search" is, here's an explainer https://medium.com/jina-ai/what-is-jina-and-neural-search-7a... (scroll down a bit)
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by akie 5y ago
The GDPR has a provision that requires that the same level of access to the service has to be provided regardless of your privacy/tracking choice.
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by akie 5y ago
Seriously, how did you get to the conclusion that a) she's abusing it and b) that she's doing that without a prescription?
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by akie 5y ago
> It's nice that a government program actually ever solved the problem it was meant to address and shut down This site can be so exhausting. Government is not necessarily the enemy. Stop seeing everything through those glasses, ple
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by akie 5y ago
Seems like you're right - there's one parked on (indeed) Whiteman Air Force Base right here https://goo.gl/maps/x8738SicBvtSPqmR6
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by akie 5y ago
The way I read the article, this will only work if the EU entity is legally able to tell the parent US entity to "get lost" in case the US government has decided it wants something from the EU entity. So it needs to be truly indep
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by akie 5y ago
> Just like those guys who march through middle management up to the exec floor within a few years. If they can do it, so can you. If both the response to the corona virus, and the presidency of Trump have shown us ONE thing, it's t
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by akie 5y ago
As a very long time PHP developer I say this with love, because for PHP it's actually a blessing to be moving away from the "purity" of the original "design".
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by akie 5y ago
Also my first thought though, reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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