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by ddalex 7y ago
Not having worked at Google yet, but having plenty of experience with other big companies: things are not black and white. There is no "evil" per se, it's just a shit load of conflicting interests, different priorities and di
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by ddalex 7y ago
the problem with just one is that US will insist having a deadswitch on it, just like it did with Galileo. so you must have your own if you don't want US to have a Damocles sword over you
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by ddalex 7y ago
I live in London, and I don't get your point. There are OFSTED Outstanding-rated schools both in Croydon and Golders Green.
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by ddalex 7y ago
no VC money anylonger, now it's stock market money, i.e. our pension funds
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by ddalex 7y ago
What's the difference between an NPM dependency chain and a black hole? We can measure the depth of a black hole.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Try the umatrix extension
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by ddalex 7y ago
The net add people know it was invented by a brit at a major European project. You're welcome.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Perhaps whitelist just the bleu-marine ones?
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by ddalex 7y ago
But Meredith was not making things happening for their employer, at least not in the way that they hired her to do.
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by ddalex 7y ago
So make it not bullshit. It may feel bullshit because it's bullshit or because the exec deciding your project had bad info and you have good info, or you have bad info and not getting the context... go out there, talk to people, find i
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by ddalex 7y ago
I don't browse r/all, I use the front page with a curated selection of subreddits (programmer humor, aviation, android, various other interests)
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by ddalex 7y ago
But it's not dismissing criticism. It's acknowledging that other big companies that have pretty similar issues are not coming under fire for the said issues.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Awesome recognition! I just wish people weren't such dicks to Turing in his lifetime.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Absolutely brilliant point. In the same vein of avoiding bubbles, I browse reddit by 'Top Of The Hour'. Filtrated enough to be decent quality, very fresh content, and not yet subverted by bubble affiliation or mind hiveing.
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by ddalex 7y ago
I was like "oh no, not another JS engine", and then I've seen it's on bellard.org... and I thought to myself, ok, this is the future!
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by ddalex 7y ago
Is there any sane element to that Patent? I tried to follow the explanations, but reeks of magic thinking to me... which is indistinguishable from high level technology.
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by ddalex 7y ago
I'm not comfortable sharing details because they can be traced back to specific people and events, but I've seen people doing highly-skilled high-demand tasks under alcohol influence "to calm their nerves". MH17 was shut
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by ddalex 7y ago
Growing up in an Eastern Eu country (former communism), nobody there underestimates the professionalism of soviet military. They are many, but not brilliant - see MH17 and so on.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Go to Settings, and search for Bixby Key. I don't know how to guide you through the menus, sorry.
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by ddalex 7y ago
You can reassign the button in settings - mine opens up whatsapp, but you can easily configure it to open the camera.
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by ddalex 7y ago
I remember that at some point there was wine port to Windows, so you could run windows while running windows...
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by ddalex 7y ago
The fine is not there to repair the damage made to individual customers. The fine is there to punish the Corp for its bad practices, and to scare other Corps into having good data protection practices. It's a punishment and a deterrent
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by ddalex 7y ago
At my company, we used fixed dependency version numbers for external libraries. The libraries are tested and we do take sample traffic snapshots from browsers using automation to see what our users see. But this approach only takes care of
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by ddalex 7y ago
I agree that getting directly payed by users is a much better outcome. But the reality is that people don't want to pay us directly (in the US markets; we charge directly in other markets and it's working beautifully)
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by ddalex 7y ago
> publishers actually vetted the products I work in ad technology for a publisher. We put in a lot of effort to make the tech fast, lightweight and secure for our visitors - we hate bad ads too. We screen our partners, use whitelists and
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by ddalex 7y ago
If it's working, why break it by adding new stuff? I'm very fond of old software that has been battle tested, rather than jumping on the bandwagon of the newest thing which is invariably rough around the edges. Just look at the te
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by ddalex 7y ago
Some things such as google docs text documents do not count towards your quota - so people converted data to base64 and uploaded that as docs to get free storage - bit of a dick move if you ask me, as it forces google to take steps like thi
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by ddalex 7y ago
I think your analogy misses the point that a core scope of engineering is reducing cost. Firing a weapon in a crowded area is not a scope of anybody, bar terrorists. If Bob would be a humanitarian terrorist, him firing the gun in a crowded
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by ddalex 7y ago
> it probably wouldn't if you cut corners on engineering to reduce costs and nothing bad happens, that good engineering actually
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by ddalex 7y ago
> It's not Are you going to back up your argument or just state it like it's a fact?

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