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by deckard1 6y ago
> the formula that maximizes engagement that benefits them and ad revenue The algorithms have only settled down on the extremes which we've already known sell: sex, violence, fear, outrage. Fox News was selling fear and outrage long
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by deckard1 6y ago
> just set a "deleted" flag in a database somewhere this has been a thing since the 1980s, at least. It's not new, and it's often important for auditing purposes and because mistakes happen. What's new is the eas
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by deckard1 6y ago
I'm surprised that the most obvious example of platforms getting in the way and real life imitating Idiocracy has not been mentioned: the Boeing 737 MAX. This is a plane where the engineers cut corners all so the business could beat th
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by deckard1 6y ago
no one that lived through the SGML/XML days would describe it as anything close to "simple." That's why the world has developed countless ways to get away from it all... JSON, yaml, markdown, etc. etc. The world prefers
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by deckard1 6y ago
That's impossible. You're going to need a backend, which at that point it stops being HTML+CSS and becomes LAMP or something. The only thing I can think of that can be done in pure HTML+CSS that would drive any sort of revenue and
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by deckard1 6y ago
Yeah, he lost me when he compared Linux file access to MS-DOS. Really now? Even 1995 Linux was nothing like MS-DOS. Sure, POSIX is nothing to be admired. But it had some security for fucks sake. Users generally can't see other users&
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by deckard1 6y ago
A result of people not understanding how public/private keys work. They just want it to work, and copy everything over to get what they want done. These same people probably also joke about the marketing folks down the hall leaving pos
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by deckard1 6y ago
it's a bit odd to defend the new kid on the block, journald, and then go and link to fluentbit. I feel like we're missing the elephant in the room, which is that almost everyone is going to forward logs over the network completely
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by deckard1 6y ago
There are literally hundreds of competitors out there. But first you have to describe what you like about it. 10-15 years ago everyone would have used something like Request Tracker (RT). There is Redmine, Pivotal Tracker, Trac, Bugzilla. T
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by deckard1 6y ago
They filter for memorization. Most leetcode problems you will not be able to solve in the allotted time without first being familiar with the problem or one very similar to it. Because most of those problems (and many CS algorithms) hinge o
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by deckard1 6y ago
again, you can do both of these in vim/Joplin/Obsidian/Google Docs or probably a hundred other tools.
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by deckard1 6y ago
No alternative... to a note taking app? Am I missing something or is everyone crazy here? I use Joplin (with Syncthing) which fits the bill. But I could literally use vim and a folder on my drive. I'm baffled by the productivity "
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by deckard1 6y ago
e2e is the number one productivity killer at my org, by a long shot. If there is such a thing as a non-flaky e2e test, I have yet to see it. That, or the test does nothing. Selenium seems fine for the most part. It's a solid tool. Wher
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by deckard1 6y ago
The "don't touch it if it's not broken" philosophy is fundamentally at odds with an internet-connected machine. You either need to upgrade or unplug (from the internet). There are still places out there that are running
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by deckard1 6y ago
Slightly tangent, this reminds me of the story of the game developer that would allocate a few tens or hundreds of megs of RAM early on in the project and not touch it. He knew that as the project was nearing completion, they would get sque
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by deckard1 6y ago
I think JWZ may be one of the few people that can criticize Perl and I'll be like "fair enough." Most people have never used Perl and just parrot the standard line about it being write-only without actually having used it. &g
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by deckard1 6y ago
to be fair, the email RFC is a silly document that does silly things. The user part of an email address "may" be case-sensitive. But in practice, no one does that. Because imagine grandma on the phone with her bank not remembering
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by deckard1 6y ago
I have a OnePlus 7 Pro. When I bought it, having a screen without an ugly notch or hole was the benefit and having a pop-up selfie camera was the trade-off. Or so I thought. And then one week I caught my camera quickly popping up and down w
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by deckard1 6y ago
> truly effective spam filtering I don't recall it being that much better than the competitors. And even today it seems like a coin toss as to whether an obviously spam email lands in the spam folder or not. Not to mention the see
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by deckard1 6y ago
and you really have to thank Slashdot for that one. They really put the pressure on Google to stay lean. It was a backlash at the time against search engines that looked like these: https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/sta
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by deckard1 6y ago
> it was a revelation of what a web mail client could be you and I have a different recollection of what Gmail was at the time. Their sole differentiator was unlimited storage. Oh, and they were Google. Google has relied on their reputat
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by deckard1 6y ago
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" Tesla might just be the next MySpace or Friendster. They're coming in, figuring out how to get the technology to work, paying for the infrastructure (or getting others to pay), and s
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by deckard1 6y ago
...you're really going to compare Amazon at 91 P/E to Tesla at 1224? And you think this is helping your argument, do you?
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by deckard1 6y ago
This is basically what Steve Jobs was talking about, with sales/marketing gaining traction in an established company and driving it into the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1WrHH-WtaA
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by deckard1 6y ago
> You can tell someone who is not trained in science when they claim you should 'trust science' or 'just believe in science'. The layperson should trust science. Because the alternative is some QAnon cult bullshit.
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by deckard1 6y ago
> They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language Certainly not when they are spending hundreds of hours writing the next great LRU Cache or Bubble Sort so they can pass interviews every other year.
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by deckard1 6y ago
> The world of Java development has a lot of bad taste and questionable practices enshrined as best practices. I've never seen a "best practice" that wasn't horrible dogma parroted by developers that can't do the
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by deckard1 6y ago
> What would be the explanatory thesis for Clojure programmers being the most highly paid? I couldn't find a breakdown of the stats by state or city, but here's my guess: Clojure is only used at companies that can take the risk
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by deckard1 6y ago
I shudder at the thought of hundreds or thousands of Uber engineers banging out a rewrite together. I've been through a number of rewrites, and every single time it always meant the same thing: get your resume ready and look for the ex
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by deckard1 6y ago
you probably have widevine installed. https://github.com/proprietary/chromium-widevine And I really can't believe I have to explain this at Hacker News of all places (jesus christ), but this is the difference

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