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   by aserafini 8y ago

   I live and work in Germany but I am not German. I believe the work culture here is: if you are having to work outside core hours, you are ineffective and should have managed your workload better. Consequently I believe there is greater focu
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   by aserafini 8y ago

   But how do you know that the build you verified yourself is the one that is running on their server? It would be amazing to solve this problem - are there any solutions?
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   by aserafini 8y ago

   There are good, honest use-cases for this technology though: for example a food ordering platform that needs to gather holiday openings hours for hundreds of thousands og restaurants globally. These restaurants are not tech-savvy: so the on
4. 154.▲
   by aserafini 8y ago

   They can have a cost if they dilute the core intent or message of the email: the reader has a higher cognitive overhead before understanding how to reply or what action to take. I spend a lot effort stripping out fluff and filler fron my ma
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   by aserafini 8y ago

   Yes, paying a few % on every transaction to move kilobytes of information over a network is absurd. The true cost is less than pennies but the EMV cartel led by VISA has successfully kept the price many orders of magnitude higher, employing
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   by aserafini 8y ago

   Agree: passing the request with the full context as parameters to the handler function seems like a more explicit approach.
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   by aserafini 8y ago

   aiohttp + pee wee async is the best combination available right now IMO. A fully asyncio app with pleasant non-blocking ORM and migrations.
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   by aserafini 8y ago

   There's a bit of magic in Flask - the global object is an example.
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   by aserafini 8y ago

   This is what I expect from Google. They are not customer-centric and no-one is really prioritising or cares about customer feedback.
10. 160.▲
    by aserafini 8y ago

    I love that Peter Norvig left an improvement to the __post_init__ method in the comments section of the JetBrains blog. I wonder if he uses PyCharm?
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    I'm not sure the Fed needs to decide if Bitcoin can replace the dollar. Did someone 'decide' that html, http and smtp would become a worldwide standard for citizens interacting with governments and business, covering ~95% of
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    If cryptocurrency replaces the dollar, there's no reason it can't replace the Euro, so maybe a valuation should be extended to the likelihood it replaces all global currency.
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    I'd like to see the 'Wikipedia' of social media emerge: a centrally managed, decentrally moderated, non-profit, 'nagware' funded social media. Most users don't care about federation or decentralisation. They wa
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    Why does selling information mean 'large amounts of data must be shared'? The explanation is in your point (4). Let's expand on it: I click an ad targeted at African-American, Christian homosexuals, over 40 years old, living
15. 165.▲
    by aserafini 9y ago

    Another example of charitable sanitisation: referring to personal data being 'monetized' rather than 'sold'. Information is sold when advertisers can target sets of users based on their personal data.
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    Delivery Hero | Python Engineer | Berlin, Germany | Full time | Onsite, with option of relocation Lieferheld.de and Pizza.de are the leading food ordering websites in Germany and part of the Delivery Hero group operating in 40+ countries. W
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    Thanks for clarifying this: personal information does not mean personally identifiable information. Personal information can be sold without uniquely identifying individuals and this is exactly what Facebook's core business model is.
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    It's relevant because we're discussing a Facebook employee that wants to screen hires for integrity. Given widely known scientific evidence that FB causes anxiety and lowers self-esteem, which is a direct consequence of its core b
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    Facebook sells ad targeting based on gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, location, salary, education, musical taste, purchasing behaviour, device usage, interests, hobbies and the list goes on. Without 2B users' worth of p
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    It's breathtaking isn't it? Facebook sells personal information to advertisers. And this employee worries there might be 'smart people who lack a moral compass' working there? It would be funny if it wasn't also ter
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    The equivalent framework in Python is probably bottle.py: https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    Your reversions resonate with me very strongly, even down to the exact tech choices. While the industry seems to chase ever increasing complexity, I believe 90% of web applications would be served more than adequately by jQuery, intercooler
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    I respectfully disagree with this. Doing something cool in your day-to-day work can still be depressing if your personal values are not alligned with the organisation's. For example, I was once offered the opportunity to work on low-la
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    I think it's valid in both!
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    Ironically the site itself breaks the 3rd listed law, Jakob's law that states "Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.&qu
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    Isn't the more interesting statistic in the article that 2.4 million Americans consume more electricity than 159 countries?
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    by aserafini 9y ago

    I'm not sure banks would have an easier time recovering. Bitcoin's entire blockchain history, and therefore the balance of every wallet is replicated on thousands of hard disks in every country of the world. It's the ultimate
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    by aserafini 10y ago

    Bingo. They run a lot of experiments. Their culture is, try a lot of things, we know a lot of them will fail but some of them (we don't know which) will be home runs (Kindle, Prime, AWS). Failure of an individual experiment is acceptab
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    by aserafini 10y ago

    Probably. And they also won't always sell an item as soon as they receive it, which eats into free cash flow. But generally speaking, they get paid for goods by customers before they need to pay the supplier, which creates free cash fl
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    by aserafini 10y ago

    Ukkonen's algorithm for linear time suffix tree construction. Knuth called it 'the algorithm of 1973'.