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by alephnan 5y ago
Non-truths/falsehoods and lies aren’t the same thing, unless you’re in an Intro Philosophy logic class.
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> There are plenty of passionate software engineers who think those problems are actually fun. There are plenty of passionate software engineers who don’t. Competitive programmers maybe. I like writing naive code that does something us
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by alephnan 5y ago
> Complaining about what is wrong with each device incentivizes companies to make them better Not really. Financial incentives incentivizes companies to make devices “better”. Additionally, adding more complexity and adding low level hoo
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by alephnan 5y ago
> Many have fallen for Apple's shiny marketing Has Apple marketed iOS as a self-hosting software development device ? > This is a forum for technologists who are often interested in this functionality Are people who are intereste
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by alephnan 5y ago
Why should Apple be obligated to make their hardware open? You have the option of not buying Apple products. Apple is not forcing anyone to buy their products. Apple is a private company. The vast majority of their customers don’t need to w
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by alephnan 5y ago
Reminds me of Emacs being an entire OS
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> marginal buyer and seller Yeah, but are end consumers actually buying wheat at the margin ?
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by alephnan 5y ago
Reminds me of the promotion site for The Batman where you solve Riddler riddles. Just checked it out again, but apparently it's been seized by Gotham police https://www.rataalada.com/
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by alephnan 5y ago
> performance or memory sensitive Depends on what you're measuring as performance. Server request throughput? Being middleware API server to relay data between a frontend and a backend?
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by alephnan 5y ago
> It seems to inhabit the nether realm between high level productivity This is where you're wrong. What would you consider "high level productivity" then? Java? Ruby? Ruby on Rails?
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by alephnan 5y ago
> The basic template is the same It’s obvious you are a tech person who did not study fashion design and don’t know what you’re taking about. No one would use the term template. There are silhouettes and there are patterns (that’s a tech
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by alephnan 5y ago
How well respected is The Economist when it comes to covering the global economy truthfully ? I’ve noticed there is a growing anti China sentiment from The Economist in recent years.
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by alephnan 5y ago
Right, so when an agency like the FTC flexes their muscle, I’m a little bit cynical. Are they reminding BigTech that hey, they have political power and some palms needs to be greased.
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by alephnan 5y ago
I worked at Amazon, too. People look down on Amazon, especially relatively to Google. But Amazon had their priorities straight when it comes to frontend. I worked on the team that made shares UI widgets, and it was forking off of Bootstrap.
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I'm curious how independent the FTC is from political pressure and lobbyists? In the way there is a revolving door with the SEC, is there a revolving door at the FTC?
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by alephnan 5y ago
I studied computer science and have been software engineer for almost a decade. Before college I came from a design background. I also went back to design school after I already became a senior engineer. One thing I've noticed is that
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> I bet insider trading is not as fun when you're unemployed and bankrupt. They wouldn’t have done if it they expected to be caught.
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by alephnan 5y ago
> people want to be good but debt and financial problems can negatively impact judgement. people take risks when they are desperate. Tech ( corporate ) pays well enough that anyone with reasonable cost of living and lifestyle shouldn’t r
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by alephnan 5y ago
What’s the nearest nuclear plant to San Francisco or is it NIMBY?
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by alephnan 5y ago
This. OP’s username checks out though. I’m around people who spends thousands on a single garment from brands that the unacquainted wouldn’t know about, but the trained eye can tell the difference. There’s a saying in fashion, “if you know,
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by alephnan 5y ago
> Crazy Eddie stores stayed open on holidays and Sundays, at a time when many retailers still followed a Chick-Fil-A schedule. Wait. Retailers weren’t always open on Sunday?
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by alephnan 5y ago
Are you suggesting it is the Prime customers or the investors who are being scammed ? I don’t think it’s fair to compare a growth company to this: > There was just one major problem... Crazy Eddie had been lying about its numbers since i
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by alephnan 5y ago
> marshall arguments, send a message, wait for the reply, decode the result In the case of Protobuf, Google considers Protobuf as merely being focused on marshaling arguments then decoding results, and is otherwise decoupled from gRPC wh
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by alephnan 5y ago
A.I. can generate a million art pieces or a love song, but it won’t feel the same as a just one from a human. At least not yet.
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by alephnan 5y ago
> what happens when rich people are not only richer, but also fundamentally smarter and more efficient? Even right now, people who are fundamentally smarter and more efficient are likely to be richer. This is just an extension of capital
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I’m mostly lost on the discussion of RPC. This article delves into the historical and more abstract / academic ideas of RPC. By the time I started working in industry, I only know about RPC in practice rather than theory. I’ve never bo
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by alephnan 5y ago
Can someone please provide an example of a large-scale distributed state machine? I can’t think of any. Maybe a train / rail network?
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> sorry bad writing and need too much effort may I say. I’m sorry but his writing was much more intelligible than yours. This writing is an academic critique by an academic. Some context is expected and they’re writing for their audienc
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> The reason why I could never become a blackhat is my need for affirmation. People who can do great intellectual work in the dark without anyone around them understanding or fully appreciating the effort involved have a different psycho
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> given $1 millilon to mine ..who does that Venture capitalists? Musicians like Nas invested in Coinbase. They may have capital, high level technological knowledge, interest, but not the domain expertise to implement the code. The claim

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