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by asuffield 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics means something different. "Creating jobs" is not "trickle-down economics".
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by asuffield 10y ago
It's how you run a company that has a high-margin (aka "premium", "expensive") product with a small userbase. This is your expected outcome when you are wealthy.
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by asuffield 10y ago
Sure, I can find that section of the article for you: "Which brings us to the most important question still facing Project Ara: what the hell kind of modules are people going to build? Woolridge and his team took their user research to
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by asuffield 10y ago
I find it entirely reasonable that research shows consumers don't want products that don't work very well. The text I quoted explicitly called out that it would be a software compatibility nightmare.
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) > It's not that "many" of the components aren't available, it's all the components anyone cared about. It seems lik
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, with no particular insight into Android.) > No, I'm not, but clearly old-style permissions could have been reimplemented as forwarding c
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) I distrust me by default, and you should too. Humans cannot write correct code, and the way to keep high code quality is to maximise our abilit
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, not in ads.) I am very carefully not going to comment on this beyond linking to public documentation on the issue. This article appears to claim
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by asuffield 10y ago
If the plane is still on the ground and a passenger says they are too sick to fly, the plane goes back to the gate to let them get off the plane. That's normal. A passenger said they were too sick to fly, so the plane went back to the
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by asuffield 10y ago
Perhaps you wrote this before American Airlines added more details to the article, but: none of the aircraft crew were aware of what was going on when the plane returned to the gate. The woman in the seat next to the victim lied to the air
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by asuffield 10y ago
> GiveDirectly has been running UBI programs in East Africa for years now. They have an all-star cast of economists examining their performance. Their pilot programs were very successful, which is why they are scaling out further. Possib
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google) I recommend reading page 2 of the paper, which discusses the specific set of features that XRay offers. How do I get perf or DTrace to give me t
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by asuffield 10y ago
This is an incomplete description of what is happening here. The world of academic research is undersupplied in funding, but massively oversupplied in researchers. There is no need to add more researchers; we can't fund the ones we alr
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by asuffield 10y ago
I used to do most of the dev work on freenode for a while, years ago. I said no to the ssl plans, for pretty much the reasons you describe. After I moved on, some people built the bad thing anyway, and we saw how well that worked out. The l
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by asuffield 10y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google) Building reliable services out of unreliable dependencies is a part of what we do. At the lowest level, we're building services out of indi
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by asuffield 11y ago
There is no particularly strong legal basis for "freedom of press" in the UK. While recent history has had the press being largely unhindered by the government, our history is one of strict restrictions that have been gradually re
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, and I'm oncall for this service.) The reasons why this happens are complex and difficult to debug. Please contact your ISP and ask them to
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by asuffield 11y ago
As far as I can make out, the answer this article offers is just "same reason everybody else struggles: it's hard".
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by asuffield 11y ago
Look closer at that data. Both the 62 richest people in the world and the 3.6bn poorest own a tiny tiny fraction of the world's wealth. All you're really doing here is observing that the 3.6bn poorest people are really poor. This
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by asuffield 11y ago
Sorry that happened, it's not perfect and sometimes things go wrong. If this was several years ago, things have improved a lot since then.
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) I can't tell you about other companies, but ours is pretty straightforward: you tell us what your strongest areas are, we'll give you
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) You did not have a phone screen. What you are describing is the initial contact with a recruiter, to establish what roles you're intereste
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by asuffield 11y ago
Indeed, but the statement remains true. If it takes one week of labour to produce something that one week's wages won't buy, the price is clearly too high to sell. The correct price will have to be somewhat lower than this, for th
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by asuffield 11y ago
Sure, it's certainly possible for affordable manufacturing at wages everybody is willing to accept to still manufacture products that nobody wants to buy. Getting the manufacturing right does not excuse making a bad product.
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by asuffield 11y ago
It's certainly possible for unions to prevent manufacturing that pays less than a living wage. It's not clear to me how they could ever cause it to happen. The big problem that hasn't been mentioned so far in this thread is t
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, and I'm oncall for this service.) On the understanding that I can't tell you any more than what it already says in the paper, the key
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, and I'm oncall for this service.) Well, it's "not new" in the sense that this system's been running google.com for abou
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, and I'm oncall for this service.) No. Edit: expanding on this a little, it's not something that's been released so we can't
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by asuffield 11y ago
This feels like it's playing games with words a lot. What they've built here is a service which is perfectly cacheable: the same content is served to every user, and can be precomputed in advance. This allows them to run their pag
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by asuffield 11y ago
One of the biggest things about the "harder" sciences is that there's usually a whole engineering discipline behind them as well. Nothing reproduces a result as effectively as a host of engineers building real things on the b

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