drb91

8 ms·

91.
by drb91 7y ago
Why are people so lazy at naming? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software) What ever happened to meaningful names that described the particular, not the meme?
92.
by drb91 7y ago
Hey, at least I don't sell snake oil.
93.
by drb91 7y ago
> There is no value in trying to redefine it after, what, 70 years? That implies any meaningful definition to begin with. That is entirely an illusion and people are using this to mislead investors (not that I'll ever shed a tear fo
94.
by drb91 7y ago
Sure, just make it illegal to say you're selling AI technology. Problem solved. I'm absolutely fine with the use of the term in the context of regulating its abuse. Real-world usage would imply people use it in a meaningful way. I
95.
by drb91 7y ago
> Image recognition, natural language processing, self piloted vehicles Obviously none of these are AI and I don't see how you're helping anything by insinuating they are.
96.
by drb91 7y ago
> I just don't see why you would give out a discount without ensuring the use of the property is doing something that provides a public benefit. Public benefit and the profit margin are inversely correlated. The idea that you can en
97.
by drb91 7y ago
Somewhere in between real-time chat and email. I'm not sure how threads would help keep track of things though—they're unnamed and you have to scroll through them at an absolute glacial speed, and there's no way to bulk unfol
98.
by drb91 7y ago
I am finding hard to imagine not seeing the difficulty here, so instead I’m just gonna point out simple operations like stripping whitespace, splitting strings on a character pattern, changing case, dealing with character encodings, regex m
99.
by drb91 7y ago
Oddly this is also true for go....
100.
by drb91 7y ago
Catching up quickly is not something I associate with slack—mostly missing things, actually. This is obviously a hard problem to solve without just making it back into email. Muting apps that spam notifications for someone else’s benefit wo
101.
by drb91 7y ago
What does a good experience with slack look like? Just not getting annoyed by anything?
102.
by drb91 7y ago
I can’t speak for the others but Jabber allows you control of the client. The notification settings in chat apps for enterprise are, as a rule, terrible.
103.
by drb91 7y ago
If you’re expecting Slack to meet your needs as an end user, it’s never going to happen.
104.
by drb91 7y ago
The threat you mentioned is still there in the shape of an automated nuclear response system. It is just a matter of time until it malfunctions and kills us all.
105.
by drb91 7y ago
I stopped writing C because string manipulation sucked.
106.
by drb91 7y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong but micro-transactions have never been built into a browser people actually use. How do you figure that they have been tried before in any meaningful way?
107.
by drb91 7y ago
Unless Zuckerberg is immediately about to sell I don’t see how this incentivizes any behavior at the company. It’s a trailing indicator of performance, not a leading one, and seems to reflect public opinion more than anything.
108.
by drb91 7y ago
> by increasing their market cap $20 billion Is this actually meaningful to any company that isn't IPOing or releasing new shares? I am not pro-facebook by any means but it's not clear this means much aside from how much their
109.
by drb91 7y ago
They can really do whatever they want and get away with it. I can't say I'm surprised.
110.
by drb91 7y ago
> If everyone uses either of your suggested options the publishers go broke and there is no content to view. This is absolute bullshit: people will pay more than they realize for content, and people will produce it for free. One way or a
111.
by drb91 7y ago
I was under the impression you could also pay the content producer directly to bypass ads, which is IMHO the ideal solution. Is this no longer viable?
112.
by drb91 7y ago
> There are bad neighborhoods Poor people are forced to live there because that is the only affordable place. These places require better public housing and public service rights.
113.
by drb91 7y ago
> I am still wondering why you don't consider moving there The commute sucks. We need public housing closer to public transit and employment centers.
114.
by drb91 7y ago
The issue with the housing projects isn’t the poor people, it’s underinvestment in public housing and services.
115.
by drb91 7y ago
> And to anyone who loves talking about how enlightened they are, ask yourself if YOU would choose to live next to government housing for 500+ low income people. Of course you wouldn't. ...why not?
116.
by drb91 7y ago
My point is that it’s the existing that contributes to culture, not knowledge that something once existed.
117.
by drb91 7y ago
Who was talking about forgiveness? I thought we were discussing ethics here. No amount of good intentions will make Zuckerberg's actions moral... at least the actions of which I'm aware.
118.
by drb91 7y ago
This is a very specific, narrow interpretation of the dark ages. It is not a good term to use in any circumstance, which the article illustrates well. Secondly, in the event of societal collapse, I'm not exactly looking for a great wor
119.
by drb91 7y ago
> Erlang can even do a harder thing, which is update the code handling a given socket connection or something live, in a principled manner, while never dropping the connection. I imagine that runtime type errors is what makes this possib
120.
by drb91 7y ago
Well, manufactured consent at least.

More ›