j_barbossa

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by j_barbossa 4y ago
As long as homeless people have to spend the night in tents in cities like SF or LA, I wouldn't talk so big as an American.
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
> Due to Microsoft Windows' dominance in desktop operating systems, Windows is the platform most targetted by spyware, viruses, and ransomware. What a stupid reason is that?! It really sounds like the Head of IT at Gitlab just doesn
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
You just can't trust any Google product anymore. They shut down your account by mistake and it's almost impossible to get it back. Or they shut down an entire service and all value you had in there is gone.
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
If you know Accenture you also know that they love to hire fresh graduates and put them on projects as quickly as possible. Needless to say as a developer coming directly from university or a bootcamp you rarely have experience with writing
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
Azure has an excellent product support, at least compared to GCP.
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
Wait, so all that text just for telling us that a company - driven by capitalism - is not giving away cloud compute power for free? What a surprise! And AWS is better in that regard because...? Sometimes I wonder how articles like these can
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
Media productions are daughters of their time. We currently have a situation where the elite in Hollywood are desperate to bring diversity and blackwashing into the stories. When a new LOTR series is shot in 50 years from now, this will no
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
Because it was mentioned in the article: I looked at the resumes on the Forbes richest people list and found not a single person among the top 100 who came from poor circumstances. The opposite was the case, many of them became rich only th
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
> Believe me when I tell you that I could have worked on the entire software myself in 5 months. I find this way of thinking very short-sighted. It may be true that this application can be written in net time in 5 months, but much more i
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
That blog post doesn't state that _all_ collected data through Crowdsource will get published.
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
Crowdsource by Google aka "Help a billion dollar company to create datasets for free"
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by j_barbossa 4y ago
I really hate when fellow devs say things are "simple" like Casey Muratori said in the first place. Nothing is simple in the software (and hardware) world! If something seems simple then most likely because smart people have writt
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
A pretty one sided view. I use Windows terminal because it supports multiple tabs - multiple cmds and some WSL bashes. I don't care at all if this or that terminal uses a bit more RAM or is a few milliseconds faster.
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
Agree, pretty unfriendly tone. I would expect from a more senior developer that he or she has a high enough social intelligence to understand how to confront others with their findings in a clear but friendly way.
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
On the one hand you have idealists who think the most important thing in the world is getting the last bit of performance out of every program. On the other side you have businesses who don't care too much about performance of their ap
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
Product manager, influencer or data scientist
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
One argument critics bring in I don't understand is that Bitcoin is too volatile to be a currency. If a zoned market solely accept Bitcoin and a good costs say 1 BTC, why does it matter if the BTC-to-USD price is increasing or decreas
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
Nothing is democratized here, this is pure marketing.
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
Every time I see posts like this or about Taiwan I'm happily upvoting. I'm a big fan of the Streisand effect.
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
I claim the opposite. I believe that people who "make most senior devs of FANGAM feel clueless about programming and engineering" absolutely are able to quickly install tools like Node.js because they most likely have done somethi
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
Amazon treats employees like soulless robots. This already starts when you apply there (as a SWE) and instead of talking to people you get an automated coding test.
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
Imagine this would be the case for physical stores and only 2 companies in the world could decide what products you are allowed to sell. You start a coffee shop and 1 day later a representative of company X walks in and shuts down your enti
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by j_barbossa 5y ago
As still so many people don't get it: 1) Don't make your business dependent on Google 2) Don't make any of your data dependent on Google (don't use Gmail, Workspace etc) 3) Don't make applications you build dependen
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by j_barbossa 6y ago
Maybe it was the intern's fault to set a weak password but it is the CEOs fault for setting up an organization where things like these can slip through security review or monitoring.
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by j_barbossa 6y ago
I think the biggest problem about Google is not privacy. It's their way of ruining all sorts of businesses by offering services for free which only works because they cross-subsidize everything through their advertising business. Consu
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by j_barbossa 6y ago
It seems like big tech companies live in a bubble where they think society is in fact an algocracy and everything is an engineering problem that can be solved with an algorithm.
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by j_barbossa 6y ago
Sorry for the rant but Google has time and money to build things like this and yet they don't have customer support for people whose account got suspended for no reason?
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by j_barbossa 6y ago
This seems to be a very one-sided view. I personally know a guy who makes ~3000 USD month with a book about worldly wisdom. I know about it because he pitches his book on every occasion. And I guess that's true for everything: Just wr
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by j_barbossa 6y ago
> The contracts claim the company was the only “responsible source” to build the tool. Looks like the CEO of Deloitte and the director of CDC played a few rounds of golf together before...
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by j_barbossa 6y ago
While we have found a way to establish and execute rules in the real world (legislature and jurisdiction) we have completely forgotten that we need something like that in the digital world as well. And now a few VPs of Google and Apple dict

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