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by flipgimble 6y ago
"ideas in question are racist" is presented without evidence or a convincing explanation. I agree that racism has no place in government, so this quote, among many, from the president is very troubling: "You have good genes,
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by flipgimble 6y ago
Have you read the executive order or the article? From the article: "agencies are directed to initiate adverse action proceedings against managers who continue to hold CRT trainings" This does not sound like a dispassionate fundin
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by flipgimble 6y ago
What do you imagine a treasury employee does all day, sits in a locked room and counts coins without any connection to the outside world? These are the people that are directing monetary policies that affect people's lives, well being
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by flipgimble 6y ago
At first I thought this was a news article, but looking into the author's writing this looks more like political ideology and propaganda wrapped in a pretense of pointing out the opposing ideology. Banning ideas and research as "p
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by flipgimble 6y ago
The fact that Zenimax corporate, and likely some unknown exec in that machine, had a long standing grudge against John Carmack made me loose so much respect for them. I may not always agree with Carmack from what I've read on twitter (
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by flipgimble 6y ago
Luckily there are a multitude of computing platforms where people with such uncompromising and dismissive views can take their business and let the market sort out the rest. Can't help but think of parallel to programming languages as
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by flipgimble 6y ago
I agree that Apple does not have a reputation beyond reproach and your criticism is valid on all points. However they do have a consistent track record of putting more power and control in the user's hands in terms of privacy, security
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by flipgimble 6y ago
I could give you a quick example but do you expect the answer to this repeated question changing the fact that this is a real issue for responsible and engaged parents? I was going to write more details, but I don't feel comfortable re
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by flipgimble 6y ago
Sure, but it also an increasingly common pain point, especially when combine with e-commerce dark patterns. I see a clear market demand for solving it. Busy parents may not have a comprehensive understanding of what the technology enables a
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by flipgimble 6y ago
A quick story to illustrate why Apple will likely keep doing its thing despite Epic and any other criticism: My neighbor has two young teenage sons who are into PC gaming, also Android tablets. They sometimes come to me with questions knowi
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by flipgimble 6y ago
Could you explain the connection between this feature and a possible side channel attack?
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by flipgimble 6y ago
I agree that having a political opinion is not a basis for firing anyone, and likely illegal. However as a manager, and a CEO of a company, your biases and prejudices regarding the rights of some of your employees are more likely to affect
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by flipgimble 6y ago
I had to look up on wikipedia the details of the Brendan Eich resignation. It sounds like he donated money to California Proposition 8, and politician supporting it, which wanted to pass a state amendment banning same-sex marriage. So he su
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by flipgimble 6y ago
It may not be significant to you, but to an epidemiologist this means a certain fraction of the overall population is going to die.
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by flipgimble 6y ago
Facebook is a dying platform, and due to its enormous size and momentum it may be a decade before its downward trajectory is fully appreciated. Facebook will also fight like all hell to remain relevant, and the cheapest way is making empty
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by flipgimble 6y ago
Let me throw in an anecdote that may amuse some: I was working for a now defunct large game company when Epic and Tim Sweeny came in to demo Unreal Engine 3 very early before the PS3 and XBox360 were launched. This was about 2004. Their dem
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by flipgimble 6y ago
Its interesting that they call this a "Contact Tracing app" even after changing the naming to ExposureNotification.framework I think these restrictions are meant to win confidence with a somewhat skeptical public. This will also c
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by flipgimble 6y ago
You're right that nobody is blameless. But we can't abandon everyone to destructive whims of the minority. In the US only about 23% of the possible voting public won the last presidential election. It's not just voting. I&#x2
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by flipgimble 6y ago
This article has an unexpected resonance for me after several weeks of pandemic lockdown. Just three months ago I would have laughed it off. Now I am increasingly pissed off. In the US, but I see reflection of this in Europe as well, has al
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by flipgimble 7y ago
I’m not telling you to switch. I don’t think the S4TF team is telling you to switch anytime soon. At best you might want to be aware and curious about why Google is investing in a statically typed language with built in differentiation, as
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by flipgimble 7y ago
you may have replied to the wrong thread. But I'd like to point out that while Google has some of the top C++ experts working for them, is heavily involved in C++ standardization and compiler writing process, in 2016 they claimed to ha
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by flipgimble 7y ago
I think my point stands that the criticism on this thread is mostly a surface level reaction and hung up on meaningless slogans like "software 2.0" or "breakthrough". You use of the word "seems" is very apt her
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by flipgimble 7y ago
Reading through the top level comments, they are all a form of surface level aversion to the unfamiliar. It really highlights that many industry trends are based on hot takes and not any sort of deep analysis. This makes sense why Javascrip
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by flipgimble 7y ago
My day job is leading teams that build native and web versions of applications for clients, so it’s strange how much I agree with the sentiment, except for the world “replace”. Steve Jobs’ original iPhone announcement gets brought up a lot.
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by flipgimble 7y ago
Google is now starting to feel the economic impact of being a known "mercurial company" that cannot be trusted with any long term strategic partnerships. see https://gcemetery.co As a customer, why would I "buy&q
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by flipgimble 7y ago
While I agree there is an even chance that Google will allow S4TF to fade away after Lattner's departure, that is more of a reflection on the company having no commitment or consistency to good ideas: ex: https://gcemetery.c
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by flipgimble 7y ago
These executives have no one to blame for erosion of trust in Google but themselves. Here is a company that appears to be driven by transient market share in their decisions while appointing itself the caretaker of the open internet and the
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by flipgimble 7y ago
I found it informative to research the author and his background: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Krein For some reason my mental image of the messenger behind the article was that of a well studied and neutral
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by flipgimble 7y ago
What you describe is called the Expression Problem [1] in programming language design and there is no simple formulaic answer on which method is better. I think you have to consider many aspects of your code's current design and possib
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by flipgimble 7y ago
Compensation may be lagging but still being pushed up by national competition and a mobile workforce. However the 2x cost of living premium over the national average in the Bay Area doesn’t seem to have any downward pressure. Then the cutti

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