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by bfung 5y ago
How did not doing these things sink the company? The problems stated are bad, but did something actually happen as a result, like a rogue script deleting things and the company no longer in business?
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by bfung 5y ago
I agree that there's no attribution to probably piles of software that is used to get https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/xbox-cloud-gaming-... to work. However, flatpak is only mentioned twice, both as
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by bfung 5y ago
It’s def a good positive reinforcement to give people a good feeling that they know their own neighborhood. Having the next 1.5 neighborhood is also valuable: if you live so close, it’s not a stretch to go learn the neighboring neighborhood
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by bfung 5y ago
At least they're on a relatively updated version :) https://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html
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by bfung 5y ago
Trying to give some constructive criticism: the author of the substack has a few points, some good and some naive, about data standards and good/nefarious incentives of sharing data. The article is a bit rambling and could get to the
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by bfung 5y ago
Speak for yourself, I’m also a night owl and I wake up when my alarm wakes me up. Then I read on my phone which shines enough glow on me that I can’t get back to sleep. </sarcasm> don’t care about it one way or other. Glad that j
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by bfung 5y ago
While I don't disagree with the article, I don't fully agree with it either. The article cites a study on (USA) GDP as a metric measuring of productivity, however, GDP is a poor proxy measure of "things being produced".
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by bfung 5y ago
Same - I sign in once and all the other apps is a click away. From the author’s gifs, it looks like their SSO is setup incorrectly AND being incorrectly used. The 1st gif is really bad, the subsequent ones are more typical SSO setups. Also
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by bfung 5y ago
I empathize with this, as this was true the first several years in my career. Self-doubt then crept in: if I rely on the IDE as a crutch, do I really know the programming language and tools that well? Then I put myself through the grinder a
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by bfung 5y ago
Very bad title, the tweet has nothing to do with regional hiring market and is only about company salary levels. Salary levels at companies != US & Europe & India’s hiring market.
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by bfung 5y ago
Seems like the underlying problem is that YouTube is 1 generic platform that contains news, entertainment, random home videos, etc. Perhaps the right answer is to “divide” it up and set requirements for each category of video, similar to ho
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by bfung 5y ago
One of the features is Nazism is antisemitism, basically hating the Jewish people irrationally. So yes, being a Nazi is basically anti-Jewish. Ukraine is not like the Nazi’s since their leader is Jewish, the opposite of being a Nazi. Hence
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by bfung 5y ago
Agree - the site focuses a lot on build, but ignores scm tooling. At a certain size, git no longer works well as a pure monorepo w/o submodules and these mega companies have teams of people optimizing code time vs build time checkouts
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by bfung 5y ago
Automate that process that you find tedious; if you find it tedious, ask your coworkers if they do as well. Make the right time/automation trade offs. https://xkcd.com/1205/ Yes, work is tedious.
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by bfung 5y ago
s/old/experienced/ It took a realization myself that my 20 year accumulated knowledge, insights, skills, mental models is not something most college grads can grasp (there are very, very few exceptions). And telling them verb
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by bfung 5y ago
lol, how else would zuck do it? (given his past, straight-faced public speaking events that don’t really change in delivery) ;)
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by bfung 5y ago
^^^ this. For all the other comments, as an employee, would you really care? It might sound dumb, but it’s also fun, self-deprecation humor if one worked there.
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by bfung 5y ago
The REAL web3. Sorry, couldn’t help my inner troll, take my karma.
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by bfung 5y ago
Agreed - end of day, code formatting is not that important in the context of how end users utilize the product. Read a lot of different code and programming languages. They all look pretty much the same after awhile, formatting and syntax.
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by bfung 5y ago
I wish I found this post before commenting in other threads on HN last night.
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by bfung 5y ago
> never saw a single ad That cannot be true; brave cannot block first party ads. I’m saying something very simple: 1. Brave is a browser like any other, in fact, built on top of chromium. 2. The ad blocking can be achieved with ad blocke
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by bfung 5y ago
> How are you seeing ads in Brave I don’t, I’ve never used Brave. From https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ Brave Ads do not replace current web page ads. By default, Brave blocks privacy-invading web ads and track
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by bfung 5y ago
Use a different browser that’s not chrome. Problem solved. Disclaimer: I don’t use Brave because I don’t want to see more ads. In the 90s, there were little banner ads that ran on your pc in the same app that helped you connect to the int
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by bfung 5y ago
This is the norm in Hong Kong ~ High up residentials, Large malls and offices mid level, MTR (subway/metro) underground. No need to drive, noise isn’t a problem built w/the right technology/materials, super convenient. Here’s
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by bfung 5y ago
Like many others, one of the first things I thought of. This ain’t Mr. Spolsky‘s first rodeo, he must know of this specific xkcd! The naming, given 2022’s technology landscape, is also super confusing. Block… no chain, but is it related? O
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by bfung 5y ago
The goal in wordle or hangman is to guess the word within a set number of guesses. > minimize average number of guesses Yes, and it’s def much better than binary search, but the algorithm to arrive at the solution is optimal in that way
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by bfung 5y ago
No need to “entropy maximize”. There’s only ~12k-13k five letter English words in the dictionary. Check /usr/share/dict/words file (if you use Windows, go find a dictionary file elsewhere). The first word should be a wo
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by bfung 5y ago
Lastpass incidents are so (in)famous, it’s on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass 2011 2015 2016 2017 2019 2021 Those are just the famous ones. After 2014, their plugins and UX were so bad, I switched m
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by bfung 5y ago
Very zen (and not zen). I’ve said too much.
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by bfung 5y ago
A jurisdiction with sufficient desire (political will) and market power will say “if you want to sell cars in this state, you need to follow my rules.”

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