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by cbolton 6y ago
It's how they fund the products, and their users choose to use them knowing that they are being tracked to be shown ads. So yes.
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by cbolton 6y ago
Not working at Google, but I guess many Google employees share my perspective: 1. I find most criticism of Google on HN either wrong or overblown. To clarify this point, I suggest you name the 5 worst things that come to mind about Google;
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by cbolton 6y ago
> I've gotten in the habit of adding "assert(x != null)" in all of my methods Is this not useless most of the time, since you'll usually get an exception (with stack trace) when the value is used?
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by cbolton 6y ago
The same can be said of most non-scientific articles, blog posts, and many other texts that are nonetheless valuable. Even for scientific papers, this is not a sufficient reason for dismissal. Here is Einstein's original paper on Speci
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Humans will never be better than mammals.
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My comment was not meant as criticism, I just thought it was nicely ironic. But I guess you're actually consistent: you often lament about people ignoring or reinventing approaches that proved themselves in older languages. Here are pe
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by cbolton 6y ago
What about the irony of pjmlp dismissing something because it's based on an obscure language going as far back as 2001? :-)
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by cbolton 7y ago
> > Expect people you know to die. > Aside from this likely being inaccurate, is this language even remotely helpful? If it is accurate I appreciate someone informing me in brief and plain terms.
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by cbolton 7y ago
Does someone know if this new version uses fast generated code for (de)serialization? The previous version was pretty slow (because based on reflection I think) so many people used https://github.com/gogo/protobuf for
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by cbolton 7y ago
Next thing is lack of utf-8 and TrueType fonts supports (I know there is XeTeX and LuaTeX) UTF-8 is supported by all modern engines. It's just that it wasn't the default for pdfTeX so you had to add one line to enable it. But th
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by cbolton 7y ago
Change of basis is covered in section 5.3 on "similarity". See in particular the subsection "Geometry of Similar Matrices".
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It uses a radar device in the phone, so it's probably due to airwave regulations.
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by cbolton 7y ago
The radar chip is especially interesting. I remember being intrigued when it was presented by the ATAP team years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0 The team showed an impressive amount of cool stuff back then
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by cbolton 7y ago
Speaker is the standard term. Amazon describes the Echo Dot as a "Smart speaker with Alexa". And this is how Apple describes the HomePod: "HomePod is a breakthrough speaker that adapts to its location and delivers high-fideli
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by cbolton 7y ago
Any device like this is an intrusion in the user's home (that the users agrees to), and it seems to me that Google is one of the companies that has the most respect for users' privacy. Yes they collect a lot of data, but 1) that&#
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by cbolton 7y ago
What are you suggesting exactly? Presumably the buyers are happy to have a product with the described features, which include "Google Assistant", which answers to your voice.
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Shouldn't you make regular backups of your emails anyway, whichever alternative to GMail you use? And then what do you gain by switching in practical terms? I do find these account suspensions terrifying. It's the biggest issue I
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by cbolton 7y ago
By scheduling you mean schedule a reminder to do it by hand?
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by cbolton 7y ago
For those reading the comments first and getting confused as I did: This is not about a NewPipe developer getting their Google account suspended due of a ToS violation (which would already be a disproportionate sanction, considering the pra
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by cbolton 7y ago
> It's interesting you think JVM support is just marketing I never said or implied that. I think maybe Dart is a liability from a marketing point of view because I saw many negative comments on HN which had more more to do with Dart
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by cbolton 7y ago
Not sure about Flutter being held back by Dart. From my experience the language works really well for Flutter. For example Dart has first class support for asynchronous streams, very useful for a reactive framework. Flows in Kotlin are stil
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by cbolton 7y ago
That page actually lists flatpak and snapd as recommended solutions...
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Ask HN: What happened to the print quality of science books?
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by cbolton 7y ago
Where the values comes from and where they go? When? How and why? Could you give a couple of examples how this is made clearer in other languages?
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by cbolton 7y ago
Linux apps are run in an unprivileged container, inside a VM that uses a stripped down kernel. By default all apps run in the same container in the same VM, but that can be controlled by the user (through the command-line, there's no G
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by cbolton 7y ago
Not that hard since it's a simple switch by the administrator in the company device policy: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/1375678?hl=en (See "Virtual Machines") Such a step was alr
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by cbolton 7y ago
This is implemented using Wayland, not X11. I just checked on my Chromebook, GTK+ apps use Wayland by default, Qt5 apps use X11 by default (through Xwayland) and look ugly when told to use Wayland. I guess X11 is going to stay as a compatib
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> But it won’t be secure, because the whole point of Chrome is to feed your data back to Google. I trust Google more than other companies to handle my data with care. Pragmatically speaking, I think it's more likely to get hacked wi
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Companies can disable the support for Linux apps, and the security measures taken to isolate Linux apps from Chrome OS are excellent (Linux apps are running in an unprivileged container inside a VM that has a stripped down kernel). There&#x
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by cbolton 7y ago
Maybe Pinterest is a poor example, but there are Android apps that offer functionality unavailable in Linux and Chrome. For example I used Word for Android to edit a Word document with suggestions and comments (could not do that in Office 3

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