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by erdo 5y ago
Except of course Google is not a search engine company, Google is an advertising company
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by erdo 5y ago
> although there is a lot they don't know I think that's exactly the problem. Re top students I assume we're talking about things like a deep knowledge of algorithms, implementation details of relevant languages, the lates
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by erdo 5y ago
I've encountered a fake candidate before (recruiter with a fake linkedin profile applying for jobs to scope out the market and build contact lists). I don't think they went as far as actually turning up to anyone's interview
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by erdo 5y ago
Hmm, we did actually start using a CI product that we hadn't heard of before, because two people we interviewed mentioned it (after checking it out obviously)
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by erdo 5y ago
Although still a press article, anyone have a link to the actual draft?
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by erdo 5y ago
That's probably related to the risk of accidentally facilitating money laundering? The exchanges are all forced to implement various "know your customer" processes
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by erdo 5y ago
Yes that's a great point, I was trying to remember when it happened and I think I was about 23 which would make it 21 years ago. It's much more fun for me to think of that as "in to the 3rd decade", rather than just over
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by erdo 5y ago
I once got a marketing email from British Airways with no "unsubscribe" link, I emailed back telling them to take me off their list as I never asked for marketing emails when I booked my ticket. The crazy thing is they replied, bu
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by erdo 5y ago
That's interesting if true, because my gym in France (Neoness) just made me turn up in person to cancel my rolling monthly subscription, despite the fact that I signed up on line. (Obviously I will never, ever be giving them my money a
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by erdo 5y ago
Same (44) phone calls are for recruiters and marketing spam, so if I'm not currently looking for a job, the phone doesn't get answered
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by erdo 5y ago
Yep that's been my experience too (UK lawyers). A few emails, a quick look at my contract (client was in breach by terminating without notice). The lawyers explained exactly what the legal situation was and told me that I would probabl
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by erdo 5y ago
> Good code is code that can be understood by a junior engineer. Great code can be understood by a first year CS freshman. The best code is no code at all. Couldn't agree more
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by erdo 5y ago
I publish an open-source android library called fore: https://github.com/erdo/android-fore A big part of the motivation was so that I didn't have to continually explain the same concepts to new android teams like:
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by erdo 5y ago
Thanks for that link, I was aware that Stalin was responsible for a famine resulting in millions of deaths, but had no idea of the details
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by erdo 5y ago
Oh that's true, I'd forgotten about that - (cannibalism is not something I generally think about much at all to be honest!)
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by erdo 5y ago
Weirdly the name of this tribe happens to be an exact match for the name of an android library that I publish - needless to say it didn't come up when I googled potential names :)
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by erdo 5y ago
I'd never heard of cannibalism outside of "eating your enemies" this explanation is really touching and quite sad
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by erdo 5y ago
Quite impressed with the level of scepticism and experience of the android devs on hacker news. In my experience it's not the norm - the android world seems to have more than it's fair share of cool juice drinking newbies that han
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by erdo 5y ago
If this is the result of some kind of weapon, I just can't believe it's a foreign government. You couldn't find a more stupid, risky place to test such a machine than yards away from the actual White House - surely not even N
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by erdo 5y ago
"common solutions are frequently dogma" tell me about it. Developers who don't (or won't) engage their brain and think about _why_ they're doing _what_ they're doing is the bane of my life
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White House investigates unexplained health incidents similar to Havana syndrome(theguardian.com)
27 points by erdo 5y ago|9 comments
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by erdo 5y ago
Given he seems to have a pretty low tolerance for boredom, I'd expect any potential employer to worry about this: What if he starts working for me, and a few months later (after having started some big refactor job for example) he deci
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by erdo 5y ago
I'm in France, possibly I don't use the localisation feature much. (I actually do use it occasionally to find specialist retailers so I don't have to use Amazon, as it's easy to buy from any other EU country here. German
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by erdo 5y ago
This was a bit confusing for me to read at first. DDF is of course a search engine and doesn't need to be installed. DDG now also has an extension which blocks FloC (a feature which the uBlockOrigin extension seems to not have full sup
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by erdo 5y ago
I'm honestly ok with ads, I am not ok with "personalised" ads
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by erdo 5y ago
Even without privacy considerations though, duckduckgo seems to give me better results, I've been using it as my default search engine for years
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by erdo 5y ago
I presume a firefox extension along the lines of Social Fixer would be able to filter all the likes/comments that come from pages rather than personal accounts. (But of course, a user needs to be aware of the issue in the first place,
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Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations(theguardian.com)
341 points by erdo 5y ago|149 comments
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by erdo 6y ago
I see heavy influences from the video for Take On Me by a-ha (except that was in black and white) https://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914
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Spending on an Amex card charged to MasterCard(theguardian.com)
3 points by erdo 6y ago|0 comments

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