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by doktrin 13y ago
It's important to not gloss over Apple's role in this. Based on the emails that I have seen, they were the driving force behind these agreements. Yes, Google's "don't be evil" mantra is tempting low hanging fru
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by doktrin 13y ago
> People are free to make agreements if they want to, just as employees are free to not work for them. No, they're not. This is anti-competitive wage suppression. It's illegal. > Are you free to use the power of the state
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by doktrin 13y ago
> These emails[1] (not the commentary around them) seem to say that the big tech companies in the valley agree not to recruit employees of other companies My first reaction when reading this was "well, duh". However, I just n
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by doktrin 13y ago
What stands out about this promotion is same-hour delivery. Implementing and scaling even same-day delivery is a serious logistical challenge. It's also quite possibly the future of retail. I guess my standards for 'hacker'-i
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by doktrin 13y ago
Then we're back to money == power, which is a premise the show argues against.
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by doktrin 13y ago
This is one of the axioms of the show, and it's utter nonsense. It doesn't stand up to rational analysis. Political "power" is incredibly ephemeral and brittle - just look at Chris Christie.
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by doktrin 13y ago
This might as well be a comedy sketch. Can someone explain how this is even remotely possible?
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by doktrin 13y ago
Excellent suggestion. Not the OP, but this suggestion allowed me to sign up.
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by doktrin 13y ago
Agreed. I have mixed feelings on this issue, but the argument that he should have reported internally is laughable . Right or wrong, the only way he could have feasibly remedied the situation he perceived was to go the public route. The on
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by doktrin 13y ago
> If raytraced scenes were hard to control, why would every single animated movie be raytraced? That's a bit of a stretch. Pixar didn't use ray-tracing until Cars [2006]. Even then, it was only applied for secondary effects.
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by doktrin 13y ago
I think it makes more sense for them to aim towards some sort of unified platform. NaCL is cool and all, but it's very Google specific. WebGL is now even supported in the latest versions of IE.
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by doktrin 13y ago
> I was repeatedly asked if an engineer was around to explain the product before I had a chance to say more than hello. > let's focus on the other assumption: that because a person has a non-technical role, she is fundamental
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by doktrin 13y ago
> When you allow a power vacuum to emerge someone will fill it, and it’s usually the people who have traditionally held power I've never really given this issue much thought, but it sounds reasonable. Illusions can be dangerous, i
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by doktrin 13y ago
I found the entire article unpleasant to read. It felt servile and sycophantic. For instance : > "...The iMac banished complicated, hard-to-use PCs from our desks and made computing easy." > "...the two men set out on t
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by doktrin 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure why this question was downvoted. How exactly would a DDoS attack help attackers compromise the target system?
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Could you link the study that you have in mind? Why do you feel a study is needed in order to form an opinion on this? What logical arguments would you make against sobriety checkpoints? In any case, turns out that at least one study
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by doktrin 13y ago
> I think a world with whatsapp is less oppressive than a world without whatsapp, even if people can spy on it, tap into it, etc- because it allows people to communicate where they previously might not have been able to. That's a
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Security is not even a main selling point. Didn't the founder specifically cite growing up under an oppressive regime as a key motivation behind WhatsApp?
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by doktrin 13y ago
You conflated statements. You were (and still are) putting words in my mouth. This statement [of mine] : > Application level tools do change quite fast. The fundamentals of technology do not. Was in response to your blanket assertion
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by doktrin 13y ago
> You are asserting that [older] people have timeless knowledge making them more valuable employees than younger people without that timeless knowledge. I never said that.
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by doktrin 13y ago
> I would argue that the number of people needed for older technology is finitely limited not that they are no longer needed. There may be demand for older technology, but the majority of new jobs won't be for older technology Obv
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Then mission accomplished! Wait, so companies really were not hiring the best people who give them the most value and now suddenly are thanks to people speaking up? When did all of this happen? being addressed != addressed This discu
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by doktrin 13y ago
> When they have a lot of experience but nothing useful to contribute they blame things which do not factor in at all in hiring. You're relying on make-believe scenario to argue a point. > I think you are mistaking my snark fo
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Technology changes fast and what is useful to know now won't be in 15 years. This claim is bandied about way too carelessly. Application level tools do change quite fast. The fundamentals of technology do not. Knowledge of net
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Unless of course if this isn't about age or sex. I'm female and not getting any younger by the way. But I still don't buy the bull others try to sell. You're rebutting a straw man. > No startup is a sure thing
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Claims of age discrimination is like claims that there is untapped cheap labor in hiring women in first world countries. If the claims were true anyone could hire up all of the cheap labor and stomp their discriminating competitors.
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by doktrin 13y ago
> Replying to leobelle here since the thread got too deep. FYI the thread isn't too deep. HN disallows rapid-fire back-and-forth exchanges within a certain timeframe.
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by doktrin 13y ago
Is this satire? We're talking about $19 billion here. In either case, your statement is almost completely incorrect. The WhatsApp founders were turned down before WhatsApp even existed. Therefore, it was not some bold tactical decision
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by doktrin 13y ago
I wonder if we as an industry will continue to practice almost blatant age discrimination as the current generation of engineers grows older. If we continue to obsess over youth, the job market will be remarkably unpleasant 15 years from
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by doktrin 13y ago
This appears to be fixed, but I did like the alert text in your stored XSS. Probably the first XKCD comic I ever read.

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