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by gonyea 8y ago
I don’t get your point. These are third party extensions that you opt into. The alternative is giving a third party your password and letting them use IMAP. This seems like a better compromise that Google can actually log.
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by gonyea 8y ago
I don’t get this. Features complicate products and require maintenance. By your logic, features would never get built because they’d carry a lifelong burden.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Well, they’re from villages all across China. They need somewhere to live and it might as well not have a commute. Nearly every large employer in China has employee housing of some sort, including government agencies. Every single manufactu
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by gonyea 8y ago
This is some A+ bah-humbuggery. You want companies to parse sql and translate that to backend api calls? What a nightmare. Data isn’t always co-located, and not all data is allowed to be fetched together (eg, protecting user privacy in Goog
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by gonyea 8y ago
this = a sound/strong type system: https://www.dartlang.org/guides/language/sound-dart
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by gonyea 8y ago
I mean, Dart offers this. The difference between Dart and the other strongly typed options is that a massive pile of funding (and production apps) drive Dart and its direction. So it’s quite stable, if a little too risk averse. That said, I
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by gonyea 8y ago
And this is why I love TypeScript: It's just JavaScript, with a type system. If it's not in the standard then it's not in TypeScript (by default). There's no risk to adoption.
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by gonyea 8y ago
More than 1 in 10, iirc.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Why? It’s not like they’re using slave labor. Google will reveal their plans if and when it suits them.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Problem: Almost every SFH has an easement in the rear of the lot. And cities like Mountain View are using that as the basis for denying ADU applications. If there’s telephone wires (not even a pole) then there’s an easement.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Why the hell would Google offer a free service, and publicly commit to privacy in this way, just so they can lie and put the rest of their revenue at risk when a big law suit hits? That’s bananas.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Baseless fear mongering from a concern troll.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Dart is really interesting. It's a cool programming language, managed by some incredibly smart people. It could have been what TypeScript is today, but failed dramatically due to a lack of pragmatism and an outright loathing for JavaSc
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by gonyea 8y ago
It's not xenophobic to exclude people who are citizens of a country with no extradition treaty from working on sensitive projects.
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by gonyea 8y ago
The open-ended problem solving question is a coding question.
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by gonyea 8y ago
This endless interview question is really stupid. If you’re in an interview saying “OK, NOW!” then you’re a huge waste of time. Ask specific, probing questions to assess knowledge in your ideal areas, in some combination with an open ended
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by gonyea 8y ago
This post is downright bonkers. “We don’t need ML/AI! Proof: list of things you wouldn’t use ML for ” There are so many problems you can solve with a neural network. Should Waymo ETL sensor data and do a WHERE NOT IN for bicyclists? T
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by gonyea 8y ago
I don’t think you can really do that. Jamming mostly targets a receiver. Disrupting the signal that’s emitted by a tracking device would make you really easy to triangulate and find.
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by gonyea 8y ago
My expectation was that the car would start to have issues gradually. Eg, you can generally hear when an engine starts to misbehave. I got the Pacifica b/c it was a quiet, comfortable ride and accepted the higher cost of ownership. Now
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by gonyea 8y ago
I have this car and it’s done this 4 times so far. Really scary. You’ll be driving and all of a sudden the engine stops, and the dash says to place the car into park to turn it on. Imagine making a turn and your engine dying mid-way; that’s
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by gonyea 8y ago
Yes, there is such a thing as a full-stack engineer. They'll cost you a lot of money (or equity), but will spare you from herding an entire room of specialists early on. As products and teams scale up, cross-stack expertise becomes far
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by gonyea 8y ago
Where “certain MacBook and MacBook Pro models” means every single one? Ok.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Driving the highest traffic sites in the world, and the backend systems that power them for 2 decades, is just marketing? Weird.
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by gonyea 8y ago
“modern systems software” Lol, no. Modern, professional software development uses a load balancer to manage a canary/red-black deployment strategy. Zero downtime deployments to a live server, outside of telecom/finance, is a sign
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Trump Readies Sweeping Tariffs and Investment Restrictions on China(nytimes.com)
50 points by gonyea 9y ago|44 comments
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by gonyea 9y ago
You didn’t read the article, did you? The landlord destroyed the artwork before the courts resolved the case. This has nothing to do with artists; these power plays happen periodically and they’re subsequently beaten like a dog by the court
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by gonyea 9y ago
The entire South Bay is incredibly dumpy. One nice thing about the Chinese system: No NIMBYs. Central planners keep the housing stock really high, and that's great for social stability.
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by gonyea 9y ago
Amazon is wildly expensive compared with Target and Costco. Its success is convenience and extensive product reviews.
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by gonyea 9y ago
This seems like a lot of scaremongering. You have to balance a good UX with good security, and Google has done just that. If shared photos require a 10-step process for Grandpa to see them, he’ll never see them and you’ll be angry that Goog
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by gonyea 9y ago
It’s incredibly old tech and costs you maybe $5 in most countries.

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