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by jameson 1y ago
> being built to extract microtransactions. Right. Company's finance is based off on 1) letting game devs sell loot boxes freely to children. It's a legal slot machine for kids 2) paying developers with their own currency whic
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by jameson 1y ago
> The LLM undeniably reduced the friction involved in answering participants' questions compared to the Search Engine. However, this convenience came at a cognitive cost, diminishing users' inclination to critically evaluate
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by jameson 2y ago
I ask about any insights into what's happening between managers and upper management, and if there's anything I can help. I stopped expecting meaningful career growth at a company. It's easier to grow by jumping ship, plus it
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by jameson 2y ago
I found it funny that the idea of blockchain, which, the system trusts no single entity but trusts transaction consensus, yet one trusts a single entity who holds your wallet and risk of losing if they get hacked while there's no media
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by jameson 2y ago
Stack overflow also has a ton of misleading answers too. Yes, the popular ones are exemplary ones with depth. The "struggle" is where the most knowledge is gained. While one struggle, they look inside, outside and around the probl
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by jameson 2y ago
I wish US implement a similar system but I wonder how its going to work when housing prices are astonomical especially in the Bay Area Getting paid 250k/yr with 20% downpayment isn't enough to afford a house with 2 kids, so provid
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by jameson 2y ago
Could someone clarify on how it can achieve exactly-once processing with idempotency key? Using the example they provided: 1. Validate payment 2. Check inventory 3. Ship order 4. Notify customer I'm curious about case when one of the o
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by jameson 2y ago
Right "presumption of innocence" Otherwise we are no better than a mob
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by jameson 2y ago
very interesting read
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by jameson 2y ago
> I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different kinds of engineers True. Also it should be the managements'/team leads' role to act as a midiators. It's a waste of time to cons
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by jameson 2y ago
what I learned from shipping APIs: 1. Clients will do whatever they need to do get their job done, even if it's not the publisher's intended way 2. Clients don't read documentation 3. Bugs will become part of API once enough
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by jameson 2y ago
Dumb question Isn't live streaming at scale already solved problem by cable companies? I never seen ESPN going down during a critical event
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by jameson 2y ago
"I got all the time in the world" I never felt that so literal and scary
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by jameson 2y ago
Great point. The H-1B receipts total[1] is probably what most are looking for 2020: 427,200 2021: 398,300 2022: 474,300 2023: 386,600 [1] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/f.
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by jameson 2y ago
Exactly Title would've been better fit "How I climb the ladder at big tech companies"
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Duckduckgo.com is down(downdetector.com)
2 points by jameson 2y ago|1 comments
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by jameson 2y ago
> Meta introduced a feature known as Tag Suggestions to make it easier for users to tag people in their photos. According to Paxton’s office, the feature was turned on by default and ran facial recognition on users’ photos, automatically
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by jameson 2y ago
> Why are cars different? Safety
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by jameson 2y ago
It's hard to say Llama is an "open source" when their license states Meta has full control under certain circumstances https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meta-llama/llama-models/ma... > 2. Additio
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by jameson 3y ago
It would be nice to have users opt-in to save in Google drive (or any other cloud file storage like microsoft one drive or dropbox)
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Betteridge's Law of Headlines(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jameson 3y ago|2 comments
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by jameson 3y ago
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by jameson 3y ago
* Price discrimination is not illegal * Google has been claiming they aren't monopoly because Apple exists * Clearly knowing such secret deal pisses off other customers and yet there are no alternative market for the Android platform I
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by jameson 3y ago
> in practice these ransomware groups are pretty reliable Hard to say... You're effectively trusting the liar they wont lie again Its possible they leak it to high profile customers without publicly announcing it Business should mak
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by jameson 3y ago
“Incentive structures work, so you have to be very careful of what you incent people to do, because various incentive structures create all sorts of consequences that you can’t anticipate.” - Steve Jobs My current employer has similar probl
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Shopify deleted 322,000 hours of meetings(npr.org)
2 points by jameson 4y ago|0 comments
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by jameson 4y ago
I used to commute to SF for a year and it was shocking to me how the home to one of the wealthiest companies and residents are overwhelmed with homelessness and crimes. The scene of downtown was something out of a dystopian movie where you
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by jameson 5y ago
Probably not for the most of the tech companies nowadays, but there are still large companies who still uses Oracle products, so they might pay Oracle Java support as a package deal most likely. I think it'll be very atypical for a com
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Budapest Memorandum(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jameson 5y ago|0 comments
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HTTP: //dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/ is down (Error 503 Backend is unhealthy)(dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org)
14 points by jameson 5y ago|8 comments

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