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by dirkgently 8y ago
This is an interesting comment. My guess is that fb is directly or indirectly paying these shills here and in other tech forums to defend fb and/or smear Google. (Of course, Mark wouldn't know anything about it.) BTW, does HN make
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Not sure if I understand you here. Google, for all the negative press and bashing they are getting lately, has not hidden what they collect, how they collect. They also do not sell user data (that's not their business model). Sure, the
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Key takeaways: 1. Before Ms. Sandberg’s Senate testimony, Facebook lobbyists pushed lawmakers to refrain from questioning her about privacy, censorship and other issues, and to stick to election interference. The committee’s chairman, Senat
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Not only WSJ, but a lot of anti-google articles by other publishers are doing rounds of YN and most of them get upvoted right here. The only balanced coverage I find is nytimes. Sure, they are critical of Google when there is a reason to be
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Good on Google. Besides the kernel contributions, Google has a long list of open source projects: https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured For all the hates Google gets on HN, they have been at the for
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Ugly Black Slab over Shiny Aluminum Thing any day.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Right on. In other words, fb measures were correct for "people watching videos for 3 seconds or more". But they didn't: 1. Qualify their numbers with that. 2. Disclose how many people were NOT watching videos. Without these t
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Typical HN reaction - smug intelligent-sounding question to doubt the validity of a hypothesis backed by data and detailed analysis, by completely ignoring the details in a given linked article. Your question is answered on page 15 (How Do
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by dirkgently 8y ago
And another discussion where Facebook does something wrong and HN immediately starts talking about Google.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
AOSP is completely open for anyone to work. It's as simple as that. Nobody is forced to use Google apps. They are free to fork and come up with a way for people to install apps from their own app store.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
> What would they accuse Apple of...using their dominance in iPhone operating systems to force themselves to include their own store? Yes, why not? Or that rule only applies to Google?
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Google Music does that already. But I know, Google isn't fashionable on HN. In fact, there will be another revolt - Google is creepy!
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by dirkgently 8y ago
1. The problem isn't Google. It's those companies that make your details available on internet. 2. Your personal data is already collected meticulously by companies like Acxiom and Equifax for anyone who is ready to pay. You would
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by dirkgently 8y ago
After upgrading every older family member to Chromebook, I have had zero calls for support. Apple isn't the only game in town.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
> surplus Define surplus. Why having 3 or 4 companies in 1B plus market is surplus?
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Like that guy Elon accused of being a pedophile in under 30 seconds?
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by dirkgently 8y ago
> I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true. Why? Because Elon is a special snowflake and deserves a different treatment than other white-collar criminals?
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by dirkgently 8y ago
T9? Yes, that's exactly how Android dialer works.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
But it wasn't _your_ fallacy.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
> But TV shows, films, books, games... they've all got many examples of works which either start out terrible and get much better But for one good example, how many bad examples are there? You are willing to sink your cost by bettin
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by dirkgently 8y ago
> I miss phones that let you dial the letters of the contact name to pull up that contact. Not sure if I understand this. If you mean start dialing by name or number, I can do this on my Android.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Unless companywide guidelines are agreed upon, and published. E.g http://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html https://github.com/google/styleguide/blob/gh-pages/pyguide.m...
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by dirkgently 8y ago
YN is so full of Google FUD. How is this comment not voted down to oblivion is beyond me.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Neat, but.. > Cause it turns out, hey, a join is really simple! All it's doing is basically computing the Cartesian Product of your two tables, and then filtering out rows based on how you specified the query. No big deal. Was this
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by dirkgently 8y ago
That's true, but my comment was more about the HN crowd which is primarily (or exclusively) from programming background. Professionals will always go with a well-marketed and popular option and they don't care about paying 500-100
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Simple answer is that those bitching about lack of features want GIMP to provide exact same features as Photoshop with exact same workflow. I wonder if these same people also bitch about learning new languages or frameworks when technology
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by dirkgently 8y ago
And here they are. Every time. Without fail. Without any data to backup FUD. The Apple fanbois. The Google haters.
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by dirkgently 8y ago
> I've seen MySQL do a lot of fairly dumb stuff with temp tables and order by. I too have seen front end of an application do a lot of dumb stuff with state of my requests. The point is, don't confuse PEBKAC with an issue with
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by dirkgently 8y ago
You are only thinking of just an application. No offense, but this is a classic case of app devs not realizing that databases exist for more than just storing data. Ever thought that databases are so used to generate reports, dashboards? Wh
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by dirkgently 8y ago
Because enums only work for the simplest use cases. If you replace status_id with country_id, where each country_id has more than one property (country name, ISO alpha 2 code, ISO aplha 3, currency_id etc), you can see why enum isn't g

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