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by cmiles74 6y ago
If someone was preventing my paper from being published, pretty much at the deadline, I would also like to know who they were and address their concerns directly. If everyone at Google is a grown adult, I think they should be willing to def
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by cmiles74 6y ago
Indeed, these arguments on Twitter aren't a lot of fun to read and seldom go anywhere useful. That said, this certainly strikes me as one of the more restrained such exchanges. In my opinion, Yann LeCun wasn't being bullied here.
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by cmiles74 6y ago
Could you outline what content in the email as an "outright violation of Google's policy"? Having read the email, it did not strike me as a fire-able offense.
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by cmiles74 6y ago
I have to say, this idea that we should assume the best of the large corporate entity to the detriment of the very real human person until "we know more context" strikes me as shockingly and painfully naive. Is the assumption here
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by cmiles74 6y ago
If Google doesn't have the time to provide comment to the New York Times on the story, I think it's pretty clear why we are only hearing the one side. They had the opportunity to state things from their point of view and decided n
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by cmiles74 6y ago
I've seen this exact text in at least five responses to this and similar articles, all without any substantive information. Sad and embarrassing, HN.
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by cmiles74 6y ago
I have to disagree with this idea that Apple Computer is concerned with performance on hardware that's being shared through a service like AWS. If Apple has any concrete concerns, it's that developers would prefer to pay Amazon fo
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by cmiles74 6y ago
Isn't that more a history course and less a computer science course? I've always thought a little history makes the lecture more interesting. Yet dry and boring lectures seem to be the norm.
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by cmiles74 6y ago
I think it's meant to be reminiscent of the TRS 80 100. Even so, I agree: being entirely flat will cause many stiff necks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
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by cmiles74 6y ago
This is funny but I think it strikes at a real truth: what Git is trying to do is legitimately difficult. I can see where the author of the article is coming from and I agree that Git has a lot of commands and it's hard to pull it all
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by cmiles74 6y ago
It's not easy to get JavaFX working for development and it's tricky to get it bundled properly for deployment. I can see why they wanted to split out big parts of Java but I think it does discourage developers from using the libra
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by cmiles74 6y ago
I remember Karsten Lentzch working in this space on the JGoodies project. I used some of his custom look-and-feels in a couple of projects... I think the had some tools to make layout easier as well. http://www.jgoodies.com/
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by cmiles74 6y ago
You can't see it as this person from Facebook being unaware of the OP's tool and, just by coincidence, implementing a tool with the same name. They knew of the tool and actively used it. I think it's clear their intent was to
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by cmiles74 6y ago
There's a commit in the React Native project where they switch from the OP's tool to their own, which has the same name. I'm not sure there's any other way to see it.
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by cmiles74 6y ago
At the very least, they took the time to replicate the YAML format of the other tool. Clearly they were aware of the other tool's of my existence. If you look at the Facebook React Native project, you can see the commit where they swit
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by cmiles74 6y ago
I'm not sure that's the case here. It sounds like their apartment caught fire and now they are homeless. In my opinion, this sounds more like a desperation move than anger; this developer really needs money ASAP in order to keep a
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by cmiles74 6y ago
In this case it may actually be how it works. When Glenn Greenwood co-founded The Intercept, he wrote some degree of editorial freedom into his contract. "The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of
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by cmiles74 6y ago
As hospitals around the country race to the bottom, I'm not sure where a qualified IT team to manage these systems is going to come from. I don't think hospitals can afford them anymore. I worked in hospital IT and it was a tough
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In my opinion, "patient risk" is often used as an excuse by vendors (and some hospitals) to slow walk patching and testing. I can understand the motivation, it saves them money and they can wait until there's more patches to
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by cmiles74 6y ago
My question is why would they perform better at the office? In your example their performance is the same and they become labeled as "slackers" by their co-worker and management. If we allow these people to perform poorly in the o
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by cmiles74 6y ago
The quality of management will be the same regardless of if the employee is working from the office or at home. The person who was allowed to "milk the system" in the office, surely, will be allowed to do the same when they are wo
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by cmiles74 6y ago
I agree; a big part of the problem is that the whole concept of what an API is and what it does has really grown in the last 40 years. The original IBM PC BIOS exposed an API but it was far simpler than the Java API. When we draw an analogy
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Yes, I am sure Amazon will be happy to license their S3 API to help their customers migrate over to Oracle's cloud product. I think not! :-P
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by cmiles74 6y ago
Is that it? I think it might be "no matter how many times we legalize torture, it will never become truly useful". Studies show torture is simply not effective. Similar to how surveilling all communication is not effective. https
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by cmiles74 6y ago
This gun and murder analogy strikes me as being in bad taste, in this instance. Julian Assange is not being accused of murder by the US government, the particular charges in this case revolves around a hash of a password and alleged attempt
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There's no proof, at this time, that Assange is one using this Jabber account to talk to Manning.
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It's not clear that the person who agreed to decoded the password hash was, in fact, Assange. This is another US allegation but it is by no means proven.
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If the people who install the application are not aware of how invasive the tracking is, I believe that would be the problem.
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by cmiles74 6y ago
I think the issue here is that the <sql> tag is embedded in a larger XML document. IMHO, XML is no fun to work with by hand.
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In my opinion, the best place to implement the ability to rollback a schema change is in the database engine itself. In terms of how that would actually be implemented that's outside my wheelhouse. I think the ability to have some _sta

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