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by diebir 9y ago
Is this really practical for small time items? Does this happen at scale, or there's some other mechanism to create fake reviews? Seems like the practice is widespread, all real purchases?
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by diebir 9y ago
Could somebody explain the mechanism for creating "verified purchase" fake reviews? Somebody actually bothers to go through trouble of doing a purchase and creating a fake review? Anybody has any factual examples? Any pay for serv
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by diebir 9y ago
Isn't this the same old news from a week or two ago? Something about a letter from lawyers of guy that worked at Uber, that contains various allegations, some of which the guy now refuses to acknowledge. Very confusing.
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by diebir 9y ago
Your public lands? Under attack. Your Internet? Under attack. Your government funding? Under attack. What do you get? Nothing. Prepare to get f$cked over by your friendly republican majority.
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by diebir 9y ago
At this point I normally assume that if Google does something a certain way, or uses a particular proprietary technology, then it likely should NOT be used. I work for a place that tried to model itself culturally after Google and Facebook
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by diebir 9y ago
"Go is a better* C" It seems like Go is propelled into popularity by people discovering the joy of C/POSIX programming for the first time. Some of us remember, however, why we left C behind (it does not work beyond a certain
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by diebir 9y ago
Billings, MT is a horrible shithole. I don't know of any other town along any major road between Colorado and any other place west, where I would have less liked to stop. Pollution, chemical industry, grim setting, run down downtown...
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by diebir 9y ago
Meh. The sons of bitches will do whatever they want. Bend over, America!
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by diebir 9y ago
There's definitely an element of jealousy about Uber. It's the largest startup, still not public and very selective in hiring.
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by diebir 9y ago
That's silly. Uber has a revolving door with Google and Facebook. Nobody is getting screwed, or it would not work to hire people away.
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by diebir 9y ago
That concealing was a year ago. Now discovered by an internal investigation and disclosed. CEO has been different for a few months too.
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by diebir 9y ago
Good for us. Thanks, Google.
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by diebir 9y ago
The thing about Go I do not get is why somebody would go back to essentially C to develop modern code? The tools are lacking, the language features are lacking, the libraries are lacking, so why? Go is still garbage collected language, so i
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by diebir 9y ago
Not sure about using Spring for creating Web services (most use JAX-RS), but otherwise Spring is great. Not sure what we would do without it. The two major aspects are the dependency injection and just sheer number of service libraries to d
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by diebir 9y ago
The fact that the old Uber HR did nothing to prevent sexual harassment clearly puts the blame on (upper) management. Yet, the specific cases involved people lower down the chain, and it is indeed a revolving door between Google, Facebook an
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by diebir 9y ago
What happens to all those "older developers" when they reach the ripe old age of 50? (or 40) Surely, not everyone makes enough money to retire at 50. There can't be enough management positions for everyone either. So, where?
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by diebir 9y ago
The scariest part here is that surgeons are concerned with being "marketing experts". Single payer.
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by diebir 9y ago
This is a fair point. What I meant is that I think the usability niche for Go is similar to that of C. Is that a fair statement? I was unfair to Go and this is because I seem to see many cases where Go is brought to where it does not fit.
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by diebir 9y ago
Wow, who uses Office these days? I thought everyone has migrated to the cloud docs. Have not seen a Office file in years now...
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by diebir 9y ago
Cool! A variant of C language, makefiles... Now all I need is a tower PC with Windows NT 4.0 on it and I'll be all set! On another thought... no. I'll stick in 2017 with modern tools and languages.
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by diebir 9y ago
Sounds doubtful. Worst Internet is not on the Navajo res (UT, AZ)? Not in Hanksville, UT or a bunch of other small towns in Southern Utah? I am not even talking about ranches in places like Robbers Roost canyon complex. Nothing in Colorado
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by diebir 9y ago
Yep. Just look at Fox News front page: only crime and scare mongering, everywhere, from politics to everyday life. People wired to be afraid of life and looking for a strong figure in politics end up being Republicans. These and the religil
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by diebir 9y ago
I thought Waymo thing has essentially fizzled, no? http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/07/waymo-drops-most-paten...
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by diebir 9y ago
If I am flying to Austin I am not going to bother with "local competitors". I just want to know whether "Uber is in Austin" or "Uber is in Russia". Yes? I will factor this into my travel plans. No? Not going to
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by diebir 9y ago
Nothing there. The article says "maybe they will fire CTO and Graves" and then goes on to discuss how bad it would look. The initial premise however is that the firings would be done to make the company look better. Makes zero sen
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by diebir 9y ago
Ah, Gila! Everything that I have seen on the ground makes me think that livestock can't be beneficial for an ecosystem, be it a desert or a forest. All I have seen from cows in the west is damage. The times have changed. The economy is
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by diebir 9y ago
In western states (like Utah) if you hit a cow on a highway you are going to pay for both, the car repairs and the cow. People die all the time: black cows, open road, after dark, the cows are invisible.
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by diebir 9y ago
Ranchers are free to buy their own grazing land have their own rules there. On the federal land, the fed makes the rules.
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by diebir 9y ago
"I honestly don't think people understand how important rachers are to the ecosystems, a thousand times more important than wolves." All right I'll bite. Where in Arizona? Mogollon Rim? Arizona Strip? The Kaibab? Aside f
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by diebir 9y ago
RMNP has to cull elk because we lost the natural top predator in the ecosystem (the wolf). With this comes the chronic wasting disease (which has now spread across the west). We don't have wolves because of the rancher and hunter lobby

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