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   Companies are turning to personality profiling to find the right candidates(bbc.com)

   1 points by bigato 9y ago|0 comments
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   The algae that terraformed Earth(bbc.com)

   2 points by bigato 9y ago|0 comments
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   by bigato 9y ago

   Trying to catch up with webassembly, huh?
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   Welcome to peak stuff(medium.com)

   3 points by bigato 9y ago|0 comments
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   by bigato 9y ago

   never trust input
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   by bigato 9y ago

   > It appears that they want a mono-personality in their halls. I think it's more precise to say that they are selecting for productivity. Maybe more than one personality type is productive? It's not necessarily one single type.
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   by bigato 9y ago

   They could select for the personalities found on the "top-innovators" group if they deem innovation important
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   by bigato 9y ago

   Or you could just sidestep the DOM completely and render something else without JS/HTML/CSS
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   by bigato 9y ago

   Because not all websites need all the complexity built into a browser. And wasm does necessarily imply that we need to leave html and css behind. But we get the freedom to choose and build better options.
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    by bigato 9y ago

    > But it doesn't stop there: the worst possible outcome of WASM is that entire custom browser runtimes are being pushed to you [1] If we ever come to the point where all you need to develop a web browser is a wasm vm, don't you
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    by bigato 9y ago

    > the kind of application it enables (near-native speed) can be had with ordinary native apps as well. Why does something like that have to run in the browser? For the same reasons all the other kinds of web applications are not develope
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Skype didn't have unbreakable privacy as a main concern, this comment is not very fair
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    by bigato 9y ago

    How would a GUI install help you with your router install? I mean, it's not impossible to create one, but given that routers usually don't have video outputs, this is a very specific requirement. You won't even install X11 an
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Now I really want physical loaded dice which follow the gambler's fallacy! Is it too crazy of an idea?
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    by bigato 9y ago

    hmm, i need a software to alter my voice for me: secretary voice, sales voice, support voice, etc :)
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    by bigato 9y ago

    I was thinking exactly this as I was reading the message. Linus was the one voice that could probably have prevented systemd from taking control. This comment strikes me as too little, too late. I just hope that the transition back to a san
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    by bigato 9y ago

    I just received yesterday a Jawbone UP4 wrist band. I switched it on and it upgraded its own firwmare via cellphone without asking. Now it just doesn't work at all unless it is connected to a usb port or charger. I read through all the
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    by bigato 9y ago

    > Also, look into enterprises, it will take them an eternity to get new WASM-enabled browsers to their users and even then I could imagine their admins to disable it. I work at a 100k+ employees enterprise in the financial sector and our
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Just as it is in the desktop: you have loads of languages, libraries and runtimes. I don't really see the problem with the same happening on the web. If there is openness to diversity, chances are higher that quicker evolution will hap
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    by bigato 9y ago

    If the only options available are granting all requested permissions at once or not installing at all, they'll often blindly accept, yes.
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Consider the possibility that you may have your personality built in a certain way that led you to structure your business to depend on you? Maybe deep down you kind of like it to be this way, only that now it's being increasingly too
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Are you the aforementioned co-founder by any chance? Geez
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Wow, finally we have <input type=date> and <input type=time> in firefox. Thank you!
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    by bigato 9y ago

    The test doesn't
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Well thank you, but the test in that link doesn't work. Anyway, I searched for some high sensation seekers tests, but the graph in the article has far more detailed results than any test I could find. It measures several interesting pe
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    by bigato 9y ago

    What is the personality test that this article about Alex mentions? The one that generated that bar graph. I'd like to take it myself.
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    by bigato 9y ago

    tcl/ttk is all i want
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    by bigato 9y ago

    That only means that for now, languages will have to provide their own garbage collectors, like Go initially implemented their garbage collector in C which is a language that manages memory manually.
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Now you can just run the command syspatch to install all pending binary updates on amd64 and i386.
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    by bigato 9y ago

    Isn't it semantically wrong to call it alpha if it is being used in production in one of the most used websites in the world? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle