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by d3ckard 9y ago
Wrong time to chicken out. That will probably have serious consequences for FB in Europe and will help with convincing people to regulations like revenue-based taxation.
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by d3ckard 9y ago
104 MB at the moment. For me at least, Slack really got their shit together sometime last year and improved the issue significantly. I still remember having to restart Slack twice a day, but it ain't issue anymore.
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Slack already signs DPAs when they declare they will be GDPR-compliant when the law comes into practice.
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Quite the opposite. I have terrible sight, buy my hearing is very good. The building I live in is just very well isolated, but in most of the buildings you cannot hear your neighbours unless there is something pretty loud going on.
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Not living in Paris, but in Poland we have similar living style. I don't understand a problem. Noise isolation is usually very good in modern apartments. I can organize a party, have 15 drunk people in my apartment talking loudly and a
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Because even if I didn't like it, I could accept it as an opinion on future human interactions. Once he made it obviously clear that he himself considers it bullshit, while still selling the vision to the masses, I realised the man has
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by d3ckard 9y ago
None of course, but I don't believe they will get them all.
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by d3ckard 9y ago
I remember reading a book on Facebook in 2010 or so. I remember distinctly quote from Mark Zuckerberg that "privacy is the concept from the past". Then, a couple years later I read he bought houses surrounding his house to ensure
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Or you could just use Erlang/Elixir and be done with it. Presented approach to message bus has its own share of problems, like mentioned in the article message-type explosion.
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Well, you're right, I misused the term a bit. I used 'leaky', because it well describes that abstraction cannot hide implementation details(and in the second example those implementation details are used to achieve new functi
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by d3ckard 9y ago
If I knew, I would do it myself and wouldn't be afraid ;) Probably the best advise is to learn as much as possible, but focus on basics. I feel people often mistake knowledge for skill and that harms them in the long run. If you learn
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Nope, that's pretty much it. It just have very far reaching consequences. To illustrate, let's use a simple example. Let's assume you need a logging feature in your application and your language/framework doesn't pr
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Don't agree. Metrics you provided allow to compare two projects. They also allow to see progress in the project(or regression). What they don't allow though is assessing code quality in terms of single project(i.e. judging if it&#
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Good point. I would like to point out however that all of your examples appear to do well in abstracting mostly technical problems, not business problems. Technical problems are problems common across our field and natural areas of interest
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by d3ckard 9y ago
I'm not trying to impose that one is more "noble" than the other. As you said yourself, businesses usually run on plumbing. I'm trying to understand the industry, as it appears to be(at least to me) different than what I
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by d3ckard 9y ago
I'd put it differently. Software development severely lacks any objective metrics of performance and quality. We just haven't invented any(at least any practical enough to become mainstream). As a result, we quite often misjudge o
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by d3ckard 9y ago
That's the point. Now they take most of the profits from the content because they provide monetization and infrastructure. Once they are providing only infrastructure, they can only charge for infrastructure. They will still make money
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by d3ckard 9y ago
For a while now I've had a feeling that all the comments about lack of engineers(especially in software) are vastly underestimated. Probably around 10% of us is capable of doing actual software development. The rest writes plumbing and
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by d3ckard 9y ago
I was seriously surprised how popular VSCode has become. I know it's good, but for MS to win IT crowd that fast... kudos.
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by d3ckard 9y ago
You're missing many advantages of self-driving. 1. Better safety - I find it very likely that self-driving cars will reduce the amount of traffic incidents. Algorithm will likely act more stable than human driver. 2. Better fuel consum
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by d3ckard 9y ago
I agree with people blaming whole situation on ugly format of IPv6. I also believe that increase to 128bit address was unnecessary and harmful. We could have just added another two segments, have 48 bits total and it would probably be enoug
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by d3ckard 9y ago
It is not a sequential perfect information game. Information is imperfect, actions can be taken by both sides at the same time, there probably will be action limit per time/game frame and the network will have to determine not only its
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Yeah, not really. Ask anybody working on distributed systems. When AlphaZero plays Go with itself, it can basically go as fast as it can calculate next move. With Starcraft that's not the case - both networks have to work in sync, prob
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by d3ckard 9y ago
While I wouldn't exclude possible breakthrough, it's definitely a different case. Go was feared because of an enormous number of possible states, but AlphaGo circumvented the issue by not caring about it. It didn't "solv
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Totally disagree and as of now I only dabbled in Haskell (though it's first on my to-do list). 1. Immutability works when everything is immutable. Otherwise you're never sure and you lose benefits. 2. Syntax is a non issue. Honest
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by d3ckard 9y ago
I live in Poland, which is more expensive as Romania (as far as I know), but close enough. My first salary as a developer was 750USD net per month and I was able to live out of it easily, partying a lot and not cooking much (and I'm a
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Exactly! It's super annoying that Apple started discriminating 3rd party services in Siri support. I tried Apple Music, it's ok, but I support Spotify for a reason - I do not want to live in a world of conglomerates in power of ev
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by d3ckard 9y ago
That one is just becoming true I guess.
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Most awesome thing is that everything is opt-in. You don't want the channel mechanism? No problem, just write a handler yourself with your own logic and quirks. Here is a short tutorial on this: http://benjamintan.io/bl
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by d3ckard 9y ago
Well, I disagree. Bitcoin is purely speculative market right now. Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency - thing you pay with. Right now constant deflation means nobody uses it to pay, which defeats its purpose. Bitcoin is also not gold. It h

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