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by arbie 8y ago
Biometric authentication and banking fraud detection are two more areas where there has been a step-function improvement in accuracy with little pomp.
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by arbie 8y ago
Then I've been writing true AI all my life!
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by arbie 8y ago
Material Design standardizes visuals and mini-workflows that you can stitch together. The spec is easy to approach and every major JS framework has an implementation.
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by arbie 8y ago
It's a combination of the tooling getting better, and expectations/parceling for a product solidifying at a higher level in the org chart. "Engineers" are devolving into technicians as a result.
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by arbie 8y ago
Absolutely. Netflix in 4k is, what, $13? And Spotify is $10. Amazon Prime is getting to be a better deal every year, but not if you subscribe only for shipping speed.
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by arbie 8y ago
Have you considered a cloud abstraction that let's you change providers with less effort?
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by arbie 8y ago
Never noticed this before, and now can never unsee it. Thank you.
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by arbie 8y ago
> I recently quit a job because I wasn't allowed to escape aggressive antivirus software that made compilation insufferable. This seems a drastic response.
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by arbie 8y ago
Having deployed Plack and Mojo in production, I would say Mojo's documentation is hard to digest. If you stray from a simple web-server with routes, you are relegated to reading Mojo source code to identify how to integrate esoteric mi
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by arbie 8y ago
> I set apt-get upgrades to go every month or so automatically. Kernel upgrades happen on reboot. Doesn't even notice! From experience, this is a terrible idea. ChromeOS is the only one that I have never had issues with when it come
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by arbie 8y ago
"Move fast and expect broken things"?
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by arbie 8y ago
Where can I find such non-software projects?
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by arbie 8y ago
Why would they sabotage the Pixel's pricing strategy like that?
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by arbie 8y ago
> Most of what you describe has little meaning or use at a few months old. Sure you might want to collect detailed awareness of individual drivers over say a month, generic traffic patterns over six months, and little or nothing beyond.
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by arbie 8y ago
Is there a source for this claim? In major cities, there are multiple cameras at every traffic light intersection, and some even focus on the pedestrian crossing.
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by arbie 8y ago
Not parent, but in every successful project I have been part of, the technical challenges were always a small slice (perhaps less than a quarter) of the main effort. Getting organizational approval (which usually boils down to acquiring buy
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by arbie 8y ago
Why shouldn't they make positive impact with their choices?
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by arbie 8y ago
An Electron wrapper around the web app will do wonders for productivity and RAM utilization.
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by arbie 8y ago
TS;DR: Speed up server, reduce weight of page and external dependencies, test speed from different locations.
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by arbie 8y ago
What is the threshold at which this payment must be reported in either company's earnings?
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by arbie 8y ago
And then they add Exchange support and the whole thing slows to a crawl.
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by arbie 8y ago
Crazy that they turned down a $100M+ offer from Google in their first year.
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by arbie 8y ago
Are you referring to the Google Search Appliance?
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by arbie 8y ago
This is why you only buy items that are both "shipped from" and "sold by" Amazon. They are very good about accepting returns.
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by arbie 8y ago
From https://duck.co/help/results/sources : > DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler)
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by arbie 8y ago
Do you have a source link where I could read up on this? It would seem that DuckDuckBot is still alive and well.
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by arbie 8y ago
> Babylon 5 [...] the best writing in all of SciFi This is where you lost me.
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by arbie 8y ago
Because making a new build automation system is akin to making a new standard. Or trying to build a better mousetrap.
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by arbie 8y ago
Microsoft seems to be using UserVoice rather well.
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by arbie 8y ago
Every bug is secretly a feature?

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