hnbroseph

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by hnbroseph 7y ago
> such stories wouldn't psychologically trigger/racially divide people and so being profit-seeking corporations, american news is pursuing eyeballs and clicks. truthiness, accuracy, bias, etc. are all variables in the profit e
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
> a dose of medicine for the consumer seems like there's a risk of: higher labor and materials costs leading to higher prices, leading to lower sales, leading to reduced revenue, leading to workforce reductions, leading to lower sal
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
On the one hand, sales people dazzle managers, and the lowly tech workers are not asked for their input (or it's not valued). On the other hand, software/service contracts allow you to dodge various responsibilities and blame othe
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
For one, nobody wants to use C++
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
what about parentheses has turned you into such a fan?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
"easier" than what? and is it particularly noteworthy? if malicious code has write access to any given app's constituent files, there's effectively no app that's hard to subvert.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
if you have malicious code executing that has the access and opportunity to modify files, a modified electron app is likely just the beginning of your troubles.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
You could say the same about (for example) a Python-based QT app. Or any scripting-language based application or framework. It's also true to say something like "Rails can be back-doored by modifying the code and redistributing i
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
it would also be some contributory negligence if someone is shipping a service that just grabs and includes unsigned/unvetted/untested code from the internet as a component...
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
sure, it's just sampling.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
> I trust these people why?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
why is it "so hilariously wrong"?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
wow. someone really took comic sans and started charging $100 for it.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
if i can get your customer records, and charge you substantially less than a fine to not release them... i think the applications of fines of this sort will further empower those who extort and blackmail.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
blockchain is just a data structure; money laundering is mostly related to a public/decentralized cryptocurrency (though money laundering existed long before bitcoin, probably over a thousand years)
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
i presume it's offered because more tax revenue is more tax revenue. it's also worth paying to avoid irs-instigated legal issues.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
rather than refusing to testify, couldn't you just answer with "i don't recall" to every question (or variations as appropriate)?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
is "because he likes it" a "good reason"?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
it is not now and never was racist, and the expression vastly predates the word "spade" ever being used in a slur sense (by centuries).
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
marketing purposes being a non-technical thing, which isn't a very meaningful support to saying something like js/webassembly are replacing the jvm.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
javascript is named javascript for marketing purposes. your example is an almost stereotypical misunderstanding by people unfamiliar with java.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
afaik c#'s "true generics" as you call it imposes a runtime cost due to code generation because the compiler doesn't necessarily know all specializations aot. haven't looked into it in a long time though. as far as
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
llvm is not a vm. describing llvm as something that is replacing the jvm doesn't really make sense. mentioning javascript or webassembly is also a bit strange and would seem to demonstrate some kind of misunderstanding.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
what do you mean?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
what percentage of repos on github would be legitimately considered "active"?
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
i can imagine that you're right. however i was there for business twice, and saw some very depressing things. the seeming ubiquity is hard to shake.
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
i visited the webpage once, and one of the shady advertisements was one of those pseudo-native-ad fake download-button things. just seeing it really pissed me off. between the shitty ads spread everywhere and the whole drama over source an
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by hnbroseph 7y ago
> Why mess around with Paint3D? that's the button available in the snipping app.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
> one of them went to Russia, the other didn't i really don't understand how this can possibly be seen as some kind of knock-down argument by some. what gives? are people being intellectually dishonest?
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
"innocent" of what? i'm sure prosecutors will have ten thousand pages of varied charges. the us wants to make an example of him very loudly and very publicly.

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