alwayshasbeen

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by alwayshasbeen 5y ago
I was contacted by an Amazon recruiter some month back. The experience was so unpersonal, I felt like a soulless robot: I just got a link to a HackerRank test and solved some automated puzzles with no one but me and the clock ticking. How I
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by alwayshasbeen 5y ago
Well, if a country if full of people believing COVID is a hoax and wearing a mask is useless - what do you think you will get? You get exactly what's happening now.
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by alwayshasbeen 5y ago
Is there a study that tells if the current wave is related to Kumbh Mela that was celebrated extensively?
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by alwayshasbeen 5y ago
If a business makes very little profit - why not closing it? It makes no sense to keep something alive that only works out when you pay your employees basically nothing.
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by alwayshasbeen 5y ago
The best argument against GCP is indeed the unpredictability with which Google turns down services. On the other hand you have Microsoft which still supports - let me give an extreme example - Silverlight (!). If Silverlight would be a Goog
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by alwayshasbeen 5y ago
Reminds me of when the president of a warring nation once won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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by alwayshasbeen 5y ago
Teams was present long before the pandemic.
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by alwayshasbeen 5y ago
This is a classic form of propaganda: The title suggests clearly that Huawei has spied on a Dutch mobile network when none of this is true, so single evidence is given that they really did it.
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by alwayshasbeen 6y ago
One of the big mistakes we the OSS developers made is to give people the impression that software is not associated with costs. Be it personal time you put into developemnt, be it the time you spend fixing problems someone else has. All the
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by alwayshasbeen 6y ago
Now that you mention it, this is a pretty evil strategy. It may seem that developers and businesses have all freedom to create and run their sides and apps as they wish but if they don't comply to Google's view how the web and app
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by alwayshasbeen 6y ago
In a lot of rows they claim "No equivalent" available. If a company tells me that there is no competitor equivalent for one of their products, I would say thank you and resesrch on my own.
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by alwayshasbeen 6y ago
For me it would still be questionable how quickly they react when some of their algorithms wrongly classify one of the applications I host as malicious. And given how easy it is to e.g. trick the Youtube algorithm to believe a video is hot
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by alwayshasbeen 6y ago
Why should I trust Google to compare GCP, AWS, Azure? If I really want to compare services, I would do it on my own, look for independent websites or pay an independent company to does it for me.
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by alwayshasbeen 6y ago
Working in one of the companies OP mentioned. Don't assume that work at FAANG is automatically "interesting". You will do work others think is required for the company, "interesting" is never the key someone higher
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by alwayshasbeen 6y ago
Those cookie warnings are a classic ill-conceived solution. No user reads it, everyone is just clicking "Accept". So what privacy gain do we get?