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by cottsak 6y ago
Intersect with PG's old article? http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by cottsak 6y ago
The new Tesla one :p
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by cottsak 6y ago
def not. if Apple built on the bitcoin cloud we would never see this mess :p
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by cottsak 6y ago
Alex, you are so funny!
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by cottsak 6y ago
I don't mind if it's a proxy. I value my privacy more than whether DDG is maintaining its own entire search stack.
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by cottsak 7y ago
> More RPA and NoCode. Noooooooo! sadface Interestingly, this kind of mess probably keeps ~50% of us programmers employed. So ... yeh.
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by cottsak 7y ago
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by cottsak 7y ago
I guess Arrived make a conservative bet on the pool and offer the "renter" a fraction of their calculated profits over iterative re-valuations.
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by cottsak 7y ago
This is so kool. I wanted to make this some years ago
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by cottsak 7y ago
That must be humbling. Props for identifying it and adjusting course tho.
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by cottsak 7y ago
Don't ask me how to solve a problem that doesn't need to be solved in the first place! :p #deletefacebook
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by cottsak 7y ago
There's such an "ego load" associated with this investment too. I find that even when a developer comes to realise that the SPA mess is largely unjustified, they're rarely willing to admit or change anything.
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by cottsak 7y ago
Dude! #scrollhijacking is the worst!
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by cottsak 7y ago
Agree. You can write terse, maintainable, well encapsulated, testable and readable code in most any language. The problem is about the humans not the language they select. But yes, complexity is also a major problem.
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by cottsak 7y ago
This will be largely lost on most practitioners of software delivery... Unfortunately.
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by cottsak 7y ago
Then the problem here seems like the lack of drive towards intention-revealing naming. It's burdensome, but worth it when the intention is revealed and prevents the navigation to the implementation. But like the author said, the reuse
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by cottsak 7y ago
That's possible but unlikely. I'd be willing to bet there are engineers who are experiencing a lot of guilt about this right now. Not many.. but maybe even a handful. These are people who might not have been able to do anything ab
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by cottsak 7y ago
That is true, but at some point it's hard to distinguish between parts of the FAA and parts of Boeing, owed to the simple fact that Boeing have so much influence over the FAA. Statements about how Boeing more or less "certified it
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by cottsak 7y ago
I tend to agree. And if this can be traced to someone with influence, how was it possible for the company to be structured so that a single point of failure was possible - that speaks to a larger problem and then puts the senior exec on the
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by cottsak 7y ago
Yes but not in an absolute way. I think we can only assume that MCAS uses this as one of it's many inputs in order to determine it's flight control logic.
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by cottsak 7y ago
> failure mode is discovered and eliminated Maybe. But it won't be. That's not how corporate engineering works. And there's no appropriate pressure to change this. Boeing have far too much influence over the governing devi
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by cottsak 7y ago
I'd say it's somewhere in between. It can't incompetence because there will absolutely be engineers and designers who knew of the risks inherent to moving the CG and CoL and the deeper concerns of replacing these risks with a
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by cottsak 7y ago
> "they didn't seem to join the dots" is what it will be made to look like. IMO, there would have been engineers and even some of the management chain who knew these risks, but for whatever reason, would have been pressure
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by cottsak 7y ago
It's not for us mere mortals to try understand the HN home page algorithms .. but there are a couple of lines here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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Effective teams: When you’re an emotionally challenged developer(hammerproject.com)
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by cottsak 7y ago
I only skimmed the code, but when it's encrypted, is the only key/input that iv that you've got in the source there?
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by cottsak 7y ago
Agreed. It seems more plausible that the "injected code" would be limited to (1) the WhatsApp app, and (2) the infrastructure outside of the Signal Protocol implementation. If true, this still poses a problem to comms/calls s
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by cottsak 7y ago
Largely agree with this except the initial objection "Data structure and functions should not be bound together" and the "Why was OO popular?" which is missing the response - because using the notion that "objects&q
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by cottsak 8y ago
Apple have routinely demonstrated more action to protect the security and privacy of uses than any other mainstream vendor. Plus this 4" form factor is magic.
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by cottsak 8y ago
Totally!

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