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by gundmc 6y ago
IMHO, comments should never describe what the code does. We're engineers, we can all read code and see what it does (or refer to the Javadoc). Comments should be used to describe WHY the author is doing something non-obvious in the cod
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by gundmc 6y ago
It reminded me of Jeff Bezos's infamous question mark emails.
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by gundmc 6y ago
> Google will not be required to charge Australians for the use of its free services such as Google Search and YouTube, unless it chooses to do so. > Google will not be required to share any additional user data with Australian news b
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by gundmc 6y ago
I just created a new firebase database for a personal project a couple months ago. They recommend using firestore now, but as far as I can tell there is nothing stopping you from using firebase and it still works fine. This seems to be the
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by gundmc 6y ago
> Fun fact for you - if I get promoted this year at Amazon to L5, I'll _still_ make less than a new grad at Google. This doesn't appear to be close to true based on levels.fyi, unless you're severely underpaid for an Amazo
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by gundmc 6y ago
Was wondering the same thing. Alibaba? IBM?
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by gundmc 6y ago
This is why I think Waymo got it right that they were never going to market with level 3 self driving. You can't reasonably expect people to pay attention all the time when it works on its own 99.7% of the time.
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by gundmc 6y ago
IANAL, but I don't see how you would have standing to sue if he simply passed you on the road. If he crashed into you, sure.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Threads about Apple have been getting torpedoed to the second page all day. I suspect it's because the moderators don't want the entire front page to be posts on the same general topic, but it is frustrating when there are multipl
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by gundmc 6y ago
This is the problem with assigning weight to subjective, hand-wavey categories. It becomes an easy way for bias (conscious or unconscious) to creep in. The same thing happens with "culture fit" evaluations at tech companies.
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by gundmc 6y ago
What specific aspects of the design do you consider to a "privacy nightmare"? Typically on-device computing is lauded from a privacy perspective when compared to cloud equivalents.
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U.S. Appeals Court Throws Out Antitrust Ruling Against Qualcomm(wsj.com)
4 points by gundmc 6y ago|1 comments
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by gundmc 6y ago
Out of curiosity, I tried searching a number of "$X Net Worth Queries" to see how it looks today. Snoop Dogg, Mike Trout, Will Smith. For each I got an infobox sourced from Wikipedia or a news article and Celebrity Net Worth was s
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by gundmc 6y ago
Lawyers are expensive. Court cases take a very long time. It doesn't matter if you win the judgment if you run out of money in the process.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Yes. Here is their trademark notice of opposition. It's as ridiculous as it sounds. https://www.scribd.com/document/471822364/Apple-s-Notice-of-...
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by gundmc 6y ago
Yes, this is their notice of trademark opposition: https://www.scribd.com/document/471822364/Apple-s-Notice-of-...
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by gundmc 6y ago
Rebranding is extremely expensive.
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by gundmc 6y ago
I don't quite follow. Are you suggesting Apple is not pursuing legal action against this company? Or that they are using the fact that they are being sued to raise their own profile? The second is clear, but it's probably their be
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by gundmc 6y ago
Move somewhere cheaper I suspect.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Where did the title come from? "September" doesn't appear once on that entire page. There are a number of dates - August 2020, May 2021, October 2021, December 2021, but the September date seems pulled out of the air. Could w
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by gundmc 6y ago
To be fair, linear code is often totally sufficient for most types of data analysis. Biologists don't really need to understand design patterns or polymorphism, they just need to not make computational mistakes when transforming the da
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by gundmc 6y ago
$150 - 250 MM is more like 4-7 % of revenue than 10% based on their 2019 figure.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I can see that now after rereading, that makes sense.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Contrary to popular HN opinion, it's not uncommon nor a user-trust catastrophe for large corporations to turn down products, services, and features over time. https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-m
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by gundmc 6y ago
It feels like a code smell (law smell?) to name specific corporations in the text of a law. It's the legislative equivalent of hardcoding.
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Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content(apnews.com)
2 points by gundmc 6y ago|1 comments
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by gundmc 6y ago
Google Fi was widely praised for excellent customer service when they first launched, but I think that reputation was lost as they scaled out in the last few years. Edited to make past tense more clear.
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by gundmc 6y ago
It's politics. This wasn't for any actual investigation or enforcement (that's what the DOJ and FTC are doing), this was for the re-election campaigns.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Previously discussed 13 days ago - 160 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859548
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by gundmc 6y ago
Twitch streamer MoonMoon has been playing this for a few days and I highly recommend watching the VODs. The videos are entertaining but the AI is extremely impressive. There were times when I was sure it was a mechanical turk on the backend

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