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by ethbro 6y ago
> Instead of stuffing everything into a monolith with plugins, split it out into individual composeable units with minimal features. This feels like microservices-for-everything as a product. Then you've designed a platform, with
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by ethbro 6y ago
Because reconciliation across sessions and platforms is non-trivial. Especially with browsers become increasingly adversarial (aka pro-privacy). https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-reconcile-Facebook-advertisi...
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by ethbro 6y ago
Maybe it's an unchecked, all-powerful evil that hoards people's data, ineffective at making people buy or believe in things they don't want or need?
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'd sum up my feelings on intro Java as requiring too many "except when..."s. I understand why (now), but at the time, it just added unnecessary cognitive load on top of already learning hardware models. C and Pascal requir
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by ethbro 6y ago
> "here's a bunch of noise that you don't understand, but that's OK, just copy and paste it" Sounds like excellent training for a long and successful career in enterprise Java.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Pass by reference / pass by value is so syntactically batshit insane in Java that it shouldn't even be considered as an intro language option. And before someone points out that, actually-technically, Java is always pass by value,
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by ethbro 7y ago
My perspective, having worked with both good and bad PMs, is that a PM is a communication line aggregator. In the example, every one of those lines consumes resources: time, context switching, misunderstanding, synchronization with the rest
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'm curious what the end effect of reducing retail trading fees to $0 at online brokerages will be. I think (?) retail isn't much of the overall market, but it certainly seems like it would increase the agility of retail investmen
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Which they do, because that's their job and they do it all day long. With varying degrees of success. Let's not pretend an encrypted-everywhere world (which includes e2e, onion routing, and other options) opens up like an oys
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think it's because anyone qualified to interview is probably qualified to do valuable work. And so companies turn that around and say "Let's take our best and brightest, and have them interview candidates! Then we'll s
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by ethbro 7y ago
> You don't want to shut it down because once you know it exists it's a honeypot That's supposing law enforcement has viable ways to leverage knowledge of its existence into investigation and prosecution. In a future whe
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by ethbro 7y ago
Parent presumably means if the person in the moderator position ignores new cases. To which it seems like a fair response would rely more on free speech perspectives. Essentially, can it be said that the majority of the platform is used for
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'd agree that an app store may be a solution. But I would vociferously disagree that an app store can be the only solution. Giving anyone that much power over a platform is antithetical to the promise of computing. Ergo, as GP not
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by ethbro 7y ago
> To which, I'm pretty confident [other products] don't all share these problems I am not confident of this. I would assume that anything that isn't actively being sold into the large enterprise market has Zoom-level pro
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by ethbro 7y ago
Not in practice, unless they're signed to a guaranteed, multi-year, cross-org contract. Fixed price has so many issues. Hourly has its own Pandora's box. The incentives (mostly turn time) are just too misaligned to create good sol
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's the difference between "the business" being tech, vs everything else. Kind of hard to lock down everything to personal environments, when the majority of the company are developers!
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by ethbro 7y ago
> But the business folks we met with said that's how it is at Apple That's how it is at most companies. Split orgs (IT & business) result in only work of sufficient size, scope, and impact being able to cross the barrier.
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by ethbro 7y ago
From experience internally (not at Costco, but other t20 retail), here's what happened, from most to least likely. 1. Your order type fell into an edge cast that an incomplete batch system -> system transfer job choked on. Naturally
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by ethbro 7y ago
What's your definition? I would argue that's a false dichotomy. In your terms, there can be no purpose of me without purpose of action. And purpose of action requires selection from multiple viable options.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I agree there's no universal definition of purpose in this context. I was using purpose in my sense. Daseiner1 may use the same definition, or they may be using another. As with you. It's useless to debate anything else until we f
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by ethbro 7y ago
Granted, but to me those seem like side effects. The virus has no intentionality in doing them. They're a consequence of replication. In contrast, I think a much stronger case could be made for a chimpanzee, duck, mosquito, or even amo
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by ethbro 7y ago
True, but in the same way that all engineering can be complex. Which is to say, you can use quantum mechanics to augment Newtonian physics, but the latter dominates results in most usages. Biology does have the quirk that sometimes (I guess
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by ethbro 7y ago
No. I'm pointing to the relativity of the term. Anything can be said to have, or not have a purpose, depending on how broadly or narrowly you scope the definition. For use in this conversation, I think it's self evident that the l
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by ethbro 7y ago
Would you not say they each have more purpose than a virus?
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by ethbro 7y ago
(Morally) Because reproduction without purpose is not life. Necessary but insufficient.
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by ethbro 7y ago
IMHO, biology is most easily looked at as a recipe for order, from whatever ingredients happen to be laying around. Essentially, everything is in the service of increasing order. And maintaining it. Polymerase creates more genetic code out
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think Slack's lack of emphasis on feed-style interfaces is because the company thinks it's a communication tool, but its core value source is as an unstructured store and feed of business communication data. Being a highly used
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by ethbro 7y ago
You mean on the FAA side? I don't have as much a problem with that. There's always been tension between regulator access and proprietary corporate information. In order to get the former, you have to design a scheme to protect the
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by ethbro 7y ago
The killer feature is not a Slack client deciding that something intentionally directed at you can be ignored. It's the Slack server generating a realtime stream of things you probably should be involved in. I.e. Enterprise Twitter for
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by ethbro 7y ago
There are an infinite number of tests that could be performed. That this test could have been performed does not mean that all possible tests could have been performed. Which is really what we're talking about here. Is "able t

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