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by geuszb 7y ago
Golang, as a garbage-collected execution environment, suffers from lousy tail latency
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by geuszb 7y ago
My theory on this is that it is easier for designers to empathize with users who are the same age or younger, since in these situations they've had the experience of the user's age, whereas very few designers have had the experien
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by geuszb 7y ago
It's kind of funny to point out issues with SQL's composability, and in the same breath spec out a language in which "a set (including an empty one) cannot be an element of another set". There are many real life problems
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by geuszb 7y ago
This was 2007. Is this used in production these days? If not, what else is used instead?
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by geuszb 7y ago
That strategy is dumb because in practice people don't mind or prefer using distinct apps for each of their subnetworks; and when these networks start overlapping in the same app, they start posting less (Facebook's problem), crea
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by geuszb 7y ago
This gives me an idea... Even in fullscreen, I believe hovering the mouse near the top of the screen will also bring back some controls into view, but temporarily... So there's already some kind of "peek mode" for the control
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by geuszb 7y ago
Thanks. This is a great reference indeed! The challenge is preserving ability for content to control all pixels; without it, the content ecosystem ends up developing single-purpose, generally crappy apps, which isn't necessarily a bett
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by geuszb 7y ago
Hmm not if your users are trained to press Ctrl-Alt-Del again... The login screen would also allow them to order the OS to log off the current session too.
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by geuszb 7y ago
An API usually embeds significant design decisions that are hard work to come up with. That said, there is some precedent for companies reimplementing competitors' API verbatim in order to get customers to port their applications more
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by geuszb 7y ago
In large companies, there's another factor to consider, which is that if you're a few years into the company, the stock grants that you received a few years back and that are still vesting now are now possibly worth a lot more...
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by geuszb 7y ago
You can negotiate for a reasonable increase but if an offer comes in at half of what you're making, negotiation is a waste of time for both parties.
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by geuszb 7y ago
Education is no doubt one of the problems underlying credulity but it is not the only one. I have seen very well-educated people repeatedly fall for misinformation on social networks that played to their preconceptions.
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by geuszb 7y ago
> Protected from prying eyes Yes but only by law, which allows exceptions, notably law enforcement, national security, etc. And I wasn't saying this causes fake news, but it does pose a moderation challenge when done at scale
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by geuszb 7y ago
> What exactly is it about the platform that makes it so "evil"? Off the top of my head I'd personally nominate Ads on WhatsApp Password breaches affecting both fb and ig Forced homogenization of the product offering via S
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by geuszb 7y ago
Ad-nominem!
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by geuszb 7y ago
Big companies know that every one of their binaries gets torn apart by people eager for a scoop and have exploited this in the past. See for example https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/08/06/google-just-rickrol
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by geuszb 8y ago
Excellent research. I wonder who the artist is who drew the typeface and whether they realized at the time that it would have such significance that somebody would still be studying their work so many decades later
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by geuszb 8y ago
Thanks. I thought this was about the gaming industry, which also has a tradition of crazy crunch time.
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by geuszb 8y ago
Opening up the site, I saw the headline load up, then something asking for notification permissions, then I'm not sure exactly what happened but many elements came on screen at the same time and the browser window became unresponsive (
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by geuszb 8y ago
I definitely felt on the wrong side of a gazillion popup banners after that click
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by geuszb 8y ago
Ah yes sorry fixed that
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by geuszb 8y ago
I'm sure nano/pico and the like are nice but to me there's two things a terminal editor can try to solve for: being nice, or bring ubiquitous. The nicest ones (say emacs) are way nicer than nano in terms of features, extens
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by geuszb 8y ago
Thanks for sharing the insight... This being HN, it doesn't necessarily read to me like a disadvantage for QUIC the protocol as much as an opportunity for someone to come up with a way to do hardware-assisted QUIC in the networking int
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by geuszb 8y ago
Because the consequences of claiming these things but actually not doing them would be both prohibitively large and impossible to avoid in a large company with a history of whistleblowing employees.
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by geuszb 8y ago
This is where GDPR would help. They wouldn't be able to keep your account and personal info.
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by geuszb 8y ago
This is a badly designed survey. Why would I give you my name before even knowing what for?
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by geuszb 8y ago
Middle of the road?
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by geuszb 8y ago
If the main point is that we moved from a state of information scarcity to a state of information abundance, one piece is missing in this article: abundance is not, by itself, utility — to turn abundance into utility, you need one of a very
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by geuszb 8y ago
How is there more coupling between a company's profit and negative social externalities resulting from its actions when the company is privately-owned? If anything, I would think there's rather less coupling in privately owned com
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by geuszb 8y ago
> [Sundar Pichai views] the censorship as a worthwhile trade-off to gain access to the country’s more than 800 million internet users Citation needed. Alternatively, Google's mission of "organizing the world's information&

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