iamaelephant

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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Counterpoint yes it is.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
This is just an ad for NDepend.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Jesus. If you're having to split your application across multiple machines at just 1,000 users you are poked by the time you have to properly scale.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> The problem was caused by a bug in the code that transmits results data into the state party’s data warehouse. The amount of data we're talking about here would fit comfortably in an Excel spreadsheet. Why on Earth was there a dat
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Most articles I can find put MacOS at 9-15%, about 5-8 times greater than Linux.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> One issue not discussed enough is all this push for automation really needs road marking guidelines pushed down from the Federal level Yup especially because every country is USA.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
So it operates under the conditions that we expect the commercially available product to operate under? Yeah cool thanks for the caveat.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Can you go out and buy a fully self driving Tesla today? Because that would be the relevant comparison.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
"Just". Pro tip, these guys work on these problems all day every day. If you think you've solved one of their major problems after 18 seconds of consideration then you're probably missing a large amount of context.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
What the hell is this? This is not the calibre of content I expect from HN.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Building a chat app without notifications is a good way to get exactly zero users.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Please explain what this has to do with 5G. Be specific.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
In this analogy the "cable customer" would be the ad purchaser. I don't know enough about that industry to know if the analogy works, but just saying.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Pick a palette from flatuicolors.com Wow those are some gaudy colour schemes that all look the same.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Ads on this webpage https://imgur.com/11hpqgN
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
The first half of the article contains a huge amount of gloating about the size and reach of Stack Overflow. Then the second half of the article has gems like > in order to continue to fuel our growth Why does it have to be this way? SO
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Ok man if it works for you then keep on keeping on. I have chosen to leave the service due to a huge drop in reliability and several major security and service incidents.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> I'm not familiar with "theregister.co.uk" Then you're not qualified to be discussing software or the tech industry, frankly.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
LastPass is riddled with problems, and the quality has dropped precipitously since their acquisition by LogMeIn. For a sampling of their problems I suggest searching this site for their name. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lastpa
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
One of the best things I've done in my personal software life recently is getting off LastPass. The only other piece of software I have seen decay in quality so rapidly and markedly is PocketCasts.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Best of luck with that.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
What's your point? That was already immediately clear from the comment, the tweet and the chart. So what's your angle?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
That's comparing tracking advertising with bad data to tracking advertising with good data. Where's the comparison of tracking to non tracking advertising? Tracking advertising costs the advertiser more (and makes the ad provider
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
None of the touch scrolling or gestures are as smooth as the old Edge, it's a real shame.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
If you can't handle data reasonably then you can't handle data. I don't see why the company size is relevant.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
All this invasion of privacy and still little evidence that user targeted advertising is substantially more effective than simple content based advertising.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> I don't mean for this to be a diatribe against regulations I don't know how to tell you this, but it definitely is a diatribe against regulations.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Of course not, because it's absolutely ridiculous. The theory doesn't pass the basic smell test, it utterly defies common sense. I don't know if this user is a shill for some retailer or just extremely gullible, but this kind
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
There's no reason to conflate "advertising" with "user-targeted advertising". There's nothing inherently privacy-breaking about advertising. A regular billboard doesn't track users, a print magazine ad doe
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> I am not saying they strike the right balance or not, but doesn't there have to be SOME balance? No, absolutely not. User-targeted advertising does not need to exist, a priori. Plenty of empires were built on privacy-friendly cont

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