benjaminjosephw

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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> There’s too much to do and nobody knows what works yet. As long as you still believe this is true for the problem space you are working with then this means startups are still going to be the better bet. If you're interested in le
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> it's also the only way their code is going to see widespread engagement Wow, what a claim! I can see how this may have some anecdotal evidence behind it since programming has had such a strong English bias but it's conjecture
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> fracturing the software world into multiple competing linguo-spheres would destroy economies of scale There is a very visible pattern in most Open Source projects where a small group of core maintainers will do most of the work even if
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
The availability of alternative commercial keyboards is possibly not the best metric to use to judge actual need/desire. There are a large number of non-ASCII layouts that can be mapped on top of a standard QWERTY[0] which show that AS
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
But "everyone" doesn't have the same keyboard nor does everyone speak the same language. ASCII is not a universal character set and treating it as such is nothing short of cultural imperialism: "If it's good enough
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Does social engineering count? Facebook hacking the human condition has to be the biggest data exposure event in history.
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Possibly beneficial and useful features can still be dark patterns. Whether or not there is any potential user-value is irrelevant to the ethics of design decisions like these. If you're dealing with user data you should never compromi
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Governments may have a legitimate role to play here only because of the impact the Internet has on markets and competition. Perhaps the inevitable ossification/fragmentation will precipitate a bigger shift. I think we will see a return
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
There are a number of companies who use scraping as a core data source for their services. Try looking at the job descriptions for companies like that but be aware that job titles and responsibilities can vary massively. Two UK based exampl
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Have you tried asking for feedback from people you know? That and/or real, live walk-through sessions with people you've reached out to. Tracking tools have gotten more sophisticated but they could never beat the quality of insigh
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They are building a platform where other companies are clearly just selling a product. Identity verification is definitely something that gets better with more data as more people use it. Pricing low to gain market-share is the obvious move
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
But the argument isn't static. GitHub has become much more of a target to large-scale attacks as it's grown in popularity and has become mission critical to so many companies and projects. Security risk isn't a one-and-done d
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
You are denying the legitimacy of democratic public spending because you think it's not productive enough. Your position undermines democratic structures of governance. If the problem really is with how governments spend money, you sho
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Expecting "freedom" without anticipating any kind of societal responsibility is exactly what I'm talking about. Participating in society is about mutual responsibility, not just choice. Anti-social individualism permits this
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
It's insightful to see how many comments are about avoiding tax. Companies with an anti-society, screw-the-poor, not-my-problem attitude are exactly the kind of companies that make the world a worse place for everyone - except sharehol
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Add to that a conservatism that treats the constitution like a religious text designed to curtail any kind of societal evolution or transformation as circumstances change.
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
From a tech perspective, here are a few ideas that are part of the accepted orthodoxy that often go completely unquestioned: - Worse is Better - Many contributors make open source projects higher quality - Modern programming languages shoul
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> It’s Easy to Switch Why would you list this along with the negative points? It implies that vendor lock-in is a reason not to switch providers. Surely this should be the expected norm and not something to call-out as a reason for lea
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
This isn't "better search" it's entrenched market domination from the only player with enough smarts, data and (crucially) users to make this work. While Google is building a bigger and "better" Behemoth we sho
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> until now the emphasis of efforts to curb plastic pollution has been on the individual choices that consumers can make. "But we need to go after the tap, to turn off the tap of fossil fuel plastics and we need to create plastics f
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Is dwell time a meaningful/valuable metric to track? I consistently open links in tabs I keep open for a long time and I suspect other people might do the same. Like you said, it's really hard to interpret this data, so why bother
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
I know visitor stats has been a long-established expectation of the web publishers but, silly question, why? Is it primarily curiosity or are there genuine operational concerns which aren't possible with stats from the server itself?
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Social groups, whether in academia, industry, civil society, or anywhere else are never as able to maintain the level of objectivity they think they possess. Group think isn't (just) a structural failure but a intractable bias all hu
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
I really should have said that this appears to be a violation of International Law. The question should really be "How are the international community going to respond?" The UN have taken a stance that says that Israel is an occup
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Isn't this a clear and unambiguous violation of the Geneva convention? > Article 53. Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons, or to the State, or
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
I'm enjoying the irony in the fact that the "Iron Ring" can be made of either iron or stainless steel. The symbolism and principles represented matter more than technically correct naming conventions. In the same way, the j
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
"New" jobs - what about the jobs displaced because of Amazon. Is this really a net gain?
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
I think the WSJ is confusing the concept of working hard because you value hard work (work ethic) with working hard because you can't afford not to (see Iron Law of Wages[0]). [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Office renting firm says that "good" employees like working from offices. What a headline for WeWork to land in the WSJ. This, right here, is proof that clever spin and intelligent marketing is always going to be more effective th

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