cynoclast

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by cynoclast 10y ago
Only lawyers win class action suits.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
>'It’s not clear why LinkedIn — which has out of its 467 million users, only 5 million registered in Russia — was targeted in this case. ' Probably because they keep getting fucking hacked: http://www.wired.co.uk&#x2
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by cynoclast 10y ago
Boeing has been feeding on the teat of the American taxpayer too long. They've gotten fat and lazy. This isn't going to happen.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
I like Ian Banks' extrapolation of the post-singularity universe.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
So list some?
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by cynoclast 10y ago
>Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Bill Joy surely know that machines cannot have desires Bullshit. An AI without desires isn't an AI. It's a tool.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
>Bottom line is many women just don't want to do this and for reasons that have nothing to do with it being a male dominated industry. Does that make it more difficult for the minority of women who are drawn to this profession? Yep!
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by cynoclast 10y ago
>I personally think the heavy PR push towards women in code over the last couple of years It's not been 'the last few years' It's been about 30, now. I can remember them pushing when I was in elementary school. Also,
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by cynoclast 10y ago
I've not been convinced that 'the gender diversity problem' is a problem. The only 'solution' I see is to force women who don't want to work in tech to work in tech, but since I believe in female agency - and t
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by cynoclast 10y ago
>[0] commenting because I don't want "craft beer software" to become a joke. Some of us actually work in that industry. So make good craft beer, and it won't last as a joke. Trying to police people's words doesn&
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by cynoclast 10y ago
I've now used several relational databases, Cassandra, couchbase, and dynamoDB and here's what I've learned: They all suck. Every one of them in their own special snowflake ways, but they all suck.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
The thing I find interesting is that I bet the authors are reading this.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
This is why I stopped giving a shit what the courts rule when their ruling obviously disagrees with the spirit of the constitution, or bill of rights. I don't stop having rights because some corrupt former lawyer says so.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
Imgur had to pay its investors by shitting up its service. Imgur would have been dead because they were running out of money.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
Let's not forget that every single warrantless search is a violation of the 4th amendment. Every. Single. One. Yet we let them do this, because they're holding our ability to move freely about the country hostage.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
I loved the part about the "friction required to enact choices" bit. Like how it's outstandingly easy to get a bank account, and how as a part of the law regarding privacy, they're required to provide a method for you to
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by cynoclast 11y ago
And what, 80% of the income? Nationally they have like 80% of the wealth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
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by cynoclast 11y ago
Treating your customers as customers rather than cash cows engenders positive feelings toward your company, and ensures continued subscription. There's your business case.
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by cynoclast 11y ago
I think this is the reason EVE online just gives everyone each expansion free. Everybody's playing the same game, and it's included in your subscription.
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by cynoclast 11y ago
I can't get over the fact that Microsoft's cloud product is the color of sky without clouds in it.
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by cynoclast 11y ago
No, DuPont does not have an employee first attitude: https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti... https://theintercept.com/2015/10/08/dupont-found-liable-in-c
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by cynoclast 11y ago
Was anyone super annoyed by the gigantic unnecessary top menu that moves with you as you scroll?
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by cynoclast 11y ago
The future of dieting is burning more calories than you consume. Just like it has always been.
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by cynoclast 11y ago
I used to work in it, and this guy's right. The short, layman explanation is: They change their minds very quickly, and very frequently. Hence the H in HFT.
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by cynoclast 11y ago
You're not wrong, but storing binaries in a VCS system seems a perversion of the concept to me. I don't miss working for a company that stored binaries in perforce. It's a symptom of bigger problems.
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by cynoclast 11y ago
Nailed it. You know what Perforce is? An overcomplicated, shittier version of SVN that's harder to use, and uses a bunch of the wrong words to describe thing so as to separate it from SVN and boost vendor lock-in. Git is hard to unders
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by cynoclast 11y ago
"HERE WAS A SIMPLE AIM at the heart of the top-secret program: Record the website browsing habits of “every visible user on the Internet.” Jesus fucking christ.
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by cynoclast 11y ago
Because we average citizens have no voice in public policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
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by cynoclast 11y ago
Let's hope so. It's so blatantly unconstitutional I don't know how it ever got greenlit in the first place.
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by cynoclast 11y ago
1. Click link. 2. Page loads. 3. Immediately blocked by nearly full page ad for a book or some bullshit...closed tab instantly. This is a deplorable trend that needs to die.

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