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by andresp 6y ago
That is fine when done at the individual level. What people are complaining about is when the platform makes that decision for you. It is fine to block a phone number from calling you, it is not fine to block people from being able to use a
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by andresp 6y ago
People with no legitimacy trying to make blanket statements like this is an anti-pattern. Frontend is massively different from the backend. It appeals to very different people. I care about scale and performance, not UI work. For me BE is m
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by andresp 8y ago
Exactly. The manipulative and unproductive nature go hand in hand and were the two things that made me quit all social networks except for LinkedIn (where I see the value that I get is higher than the time that I invest there). I think some
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by andresp 8y ago
Maybe with the exception of the old JS callback hell I have never seen any other language deteriorate code into spaghetti projects more quickly than Go with channel and duck typing abuses. I think if it does a very poor at keeping "the
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by andresp 8y ago
Lots of different things go on in Google, that's why they use Java, Python, C++, JS and yes also a bit of Go amongst probably several others.
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by andresp 8y ago
From generics to sets and several others, I think there are enough reasons to consider that go does not "come with batteries", especially when you compare it with almost any other modern (>90s) language.
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by andresp 8y ago
What is most worrisome is the absolute lack of ideological diversity. Google might want to consider tackling this on their diversity policies and work groups. In the light of this video and James Damore reports I can imagine that the compan
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by andresp 8y ago
Exactly. The EU has lost any contact with reality and is drowning in their own ideological echo chamber. It seems that fear is making them adopt such a defensive approach that it is stopping them to see how their efforts are actually sucess
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by andresp 8y ago
How can we message you?
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by andresp 12y ago
This was the clearest explanation in my opinion. I'm still a bit confused regarding how much information have we actually got and what mechanism is behind "passing a test" to influence the amount of information when the test