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by azov 14y ago
> knowingly violating TOS Writing something and calling it a TOS does not automatically make "violating" it illegal. Say, you can make yourself a t-shirt saying "Photographing me is prohibited", yet people still have a right to take pic
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by azov 14y ago
It effectively lets the government block any site that allows any kind of public submitted content. All it takes is to post a few offending comments and then blacklist the site for hosting them. You don't even need a court order to do it.
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by azov 14y ago
Well, you need a list of seats occupied by all other passengers so that you can pick yours. The names probably happened to be in the same data set (and yes, of course it's sloppy coding).
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by azov 14y ago
Facebook - yes, but calling Google "dumb luck"? I mean - the only difference between FB and many other social networks is that everybody happened to be on FB. Of course it takes enormous amount of skill to operate on this scale, but if all
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by azov 14y ago
Google is sitting on an enormous pile of semantic data that dwarfs anything that any AI project could possibly use 20 or even 10 years ago. Of course it does not guarantee that they won't fail as well, but it sure gives them an edge.
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by azov 14y ago
What Apple is doing seems to be completely legal and completely disgusting (and not at all new). Given that there's no ground for legal action, here are a few things we, developers, can do: 1. Don't work for Apple . This one is really the
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by azov 14y ago
2 weeks pay? How is it supposed to work? I believe you are basically stuck with a bad hire for at least one performance review period, plus some time on top of that. Anything less and you have a potential wrongful termination lawsuit on you
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by azov 15y ago
Not really. After all I want my developers to write code that is, almost above all, simple (next only to working ). So, showing a little appreciation for simplicity is a better way to impress me :)
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by azov 15y ago
I do my fair share of hiring and interviewing, and I agree with alain94040. I have very hard time imagining that the rock star developer I'm trying to hire will spend $100 (or hours of their time) to add fancy styling to their resume. Why w
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by azov 15y ago
Indeed. Pagination is one of those things not broken. Please don't fix it!
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by azov 15y ago
> So how can we go about writing code that is least coding? In general, when one works out the design (as has been apparent many times from personal and anecdotal experiences) well in advance before writing code Can't agree with this a
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by azov 15y ago
Check the URL is not a solid advice, there are many ways to trick you (e.g. google.com vs goog1e.com). Enter the URL yourself is a better one.
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by azov 15y ago
Probably over 80% of shiny content that users consume on Apple devices is served by Linux servers. Ever heard of that little thing called cloud ? It's powered by Linux for the most part. By making operating system a commodity Linux changed
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by azov 15y ago
People most definitely still use older phones. I use my iPhone 3G when I travel overseas because there's an easy unlock available for it (unlike the baseband on my current model). And password manager is one of the things I really want to w
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by azov 15y ago
Try a simpler example to understand the value. Imagine employer asks you in the interview "what's the minimum salary you are willing to accept for this position? Come on, just be honest - tell me what you want to make" PS. In a perfect worl
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by azov 15y ago
> Be sure to lean on the word “imagine”, as you’ll get more sincere answers as a result. I think imagining things just liberates the candidate from the scripted answers Of course smart people you want to hire will never recognize this
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by azov 15y ago
Wow! Just wow! So, he's reading about 500 emails per day, and writing over 100 emails per day, and spending about 10 hours per day on the phone, and has an average of 10 meetings per day... those numbers just don't add up. The meetings are
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by azov 15y ago
"It's not hard" is not good enough. There are many capable coders that don't even know where to start. "Pick your favorite open-source app"? Not everyone has a favorite open-source app. Not all apps worth helping are open-source. With thous
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by azov 15y ago
It would be great to also add a short human-readable (i.e. non-legalize) version of each document. Something along the lines of what Creative Commons folks do with their licenses (e.g. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ )
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by azov 15y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that Google results are actually relevant ? Resort's own website does not say a single word about the disaster. Justified or not, I can imagine lots of campers who would't want to pitch their tent and spend the
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by azov 15y ago
Because they don't have to. Because they can screw you as much as they like, and you will still be developing for their platform, buying their hardware, paying for their developer program, etc. Because you have no choice - they are a monopo
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by azov 15y ago
Hm... I briefly glanced over the graphs, and the results don't make sense to me. Every single server he tested must do a C accept call at some point, plus some (a lot of) extra stuff. If those servers take less time then plain accept call,
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by azov 15y ago
Post-push reviews don't make sense to me - it's like checking movie tickets after you already watched a movie. Pre-push is much better because: 1. There's a clear outcome - the change is either approved and carries the name of the reviewer,
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by azov 15y ago
I don't expect progress bar to accurately predict time - it's there to show progress . The obvious way of implementing it is to split the task into milestones of some sort and display how many are completed. It helps if there's enough mi
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by azov 15y ago
It is not about communication, it is about function. "You have to constantly pay to keep your car alive. If you leave it alone for a few weeks, it will die". This is the way I read it. PS. If the battery management system won't allow the c
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by azov 15y ago
> Is that a bad thing? It is a very bad thing. I agree that it looks like this is where the industry is going, and I really, really, really dislike this direction. Files are an incredibly useful abstraction. Sure, there are programs
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by azov 15y ago
Hashing data from address book doesn't work because people write the same addresses and even phone numbers in many different ways. Normalizing it on the client is not really an option either because it requires a lot of data to do decent no
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by azov 15y ago
So, the gist is: "I spent $2K developing an app, recouped about $1K. And then I won an Apple lottery".
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by azov 15y ago
The question is not simply pointless and irrelevant, it is potentially illegal. Border agent may be giving you grounds to claim discrimination on the basis of national origin, which is illegal (similar to asking applicant's age on a job int
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Amazon starts $6M fund to boost Kindle’s indie authors and publishers(venturebeat.com)
1 points by azov 15y ago|0 comments

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