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by estebarb 5y ago
Now it's very difficult to search for an exact match. Seems like the inverted index is not used at all, and instead just encyclopedia like results are returned. Which is fine sometimes, but not when I'm looking for a phone or an f
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by estebarb 5y ago
I feel the same. Looking for specialized topics with Google is now very difficult. Now is impossible to look for phones, uncommon words or looking for anything that is not the mainstream result. I'm not sure if the culprit is BERT or u
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by estebarb 5y ago
Technically it relies on the TIAR (interamerican treaty of reciprocal defense). Edit: fixed acronym. Thanks
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by estebarb 5y ago
I'm not really convinced. Code reviews are a great opportunity for learning, improve and share knowledge. Are extremely useful for onboarding new members on a project. You can learn a lot seeing others code, asking questions in place o
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by estebarb 5y ago
I'm thinking that this will be a entry barrier for new global startups. How are a self funded entrepreneur supposed to support any country tax at day zero? Taxes where business takes place is nice, but an easy way to pay taxes globally
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by estebarb 5y ago
Every function can be made continuous if you add one dimension in it's output for defined/not defined.
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by estebarb 5y ago
I don't get the article. It suggests that the virus originated in a chinese virus lab doing research on behalf of the US? And honestly, how knowing the origin is useful other than flamming sinophoby? I don't remember the world bla
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by estebarb 6y ago
I'm concerned that judges make statements about topics they are clearly not prepared to do so. In how many areas they intervene without proper knowledge? Incognito was always a way to avoid storing visits and sessions locally (mostly f
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by estebarb 6y ago
I always though that Google would do this, but with gVisor instead. Why they would prefer a new development instead of an existing one that they already control?
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by estebarb 6y ago
I worked with code generators that use extensively `.format` or `%`. The code of those generators is too difficult to follow. In my previous job I was able to rewrite from scratch over of those generators with saner jinja2 templates. But fo
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by estebarb 6y ago
Maybe a lot of people is developing in Python, Ruby, PHP and others traditionally interpreted languages and aren't aware of it. Using C or C++ for some domains would be painful, but regarding speed, memory usage or energy usage those l
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by estebarb 6y ago
For our own sanity I hope it gets shorted to zero...
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by estebarb 6y ago
Spanish is the second language with more native speakers in the world (and FB is banned in China). It is the main language in Latin America, Spain, Guinea Ecuatorial and other places.
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by estebarb 6y ago
I find interesting that at least in spanish facebook does NOTHING to prevent fake news, calls to assassinate local leaders, fake elections fraud and other content to spread. Even those comments are always promoted as "the most relevant
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by estebarb 6y ago
F* is a great idea for writing libraries that cannot fail. But setting up the environment could be better documented.
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by estebarb 6y ago
Translation https://cjxek2vinfos4bcwvqugruwmcu-adwhj77lcyoafdy-observado...
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Costa Rica will tax any service including '%Uber%' in its name (Spanish)(observador.cr)
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by estebarb 6y ago
Youtube Music is the worst music player I have ever used. Is impossible to use without internet connection: even playing downloaded songs need to wait for the album picture to be downloaded. And a lot of other bugs...
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by estebarb 6y ago
Some antivirus seems to be just an allow list for programs. So least used software (like, a program that you have compiled 5s ago) are always marked as suspicious.
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by estebarb 6y ago
It remembered me the BeOS icons! Nice job, btw.
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by estebarb 6y ago
No, actually is more complex: banks may share data so the amount moved can include several transactions, across several banks and time. I triggered the system once, just for moving my own salary to another bank and then to another account i
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by estebarb 6y ago
Honestly I don't get it. Media made a lot of money publishing dead bodies, but they don't pay a dime to victim's family.
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by estebarb 6y ago
Nice to see more work in this direction. I used coccinelle a lot for automating changes/bug detection and I immediately missed it when working on anything that is not C.
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by estebarb 6y ago
This lawsuit is absurd, and it should be rejected with a "please learn to use a computer before owning one". So, what is next? lawsuits against car companies because emergency lights didn't invoke emergency responders?
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by estebarb 6y ago
Languages are tools, so it depends on your problem. Go shines when you have a lot of parallelism, and not a lot of concurrency (although sync package is fantastic). Web servers, data processing pipes, task queue consumers... Also the langua
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by estebarb 6y ago
I work in embedded software for network switches and almost everything is written in C. And most of the code is pretty new. C++ fired back because integration was ugly (the SDKs are designed for C usage) and a lot of C developers that doesn
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by estebarb 6y ago
Sadly some companies joke with firing people. For example, announcing layoffs soon but delay actual execution by weeks. So people actually resigned by pure stress.
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by estebarb 6y ago
I think that the issue is not bad code: having to deliver asap, sometimes writing shit happens everywhere, from University homeworks to big fortune 500 companies and everything in between. The biggest issue is not knowing your problems. If
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by estebarb 6y ago
Materialize is based on differential dataflow, that is based on timelly dataflow. The abstraction works like magic: distributed computation, ordering, consistency, storage, recalculation, invalidations... All those hard to since problems ar
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by estebarb 6y ago
Altavista started in a DEC mainframe. Google architecture (and Amazon) was forced because a powerful constrain: some time ago they didn't have enough money.

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