jarjoura

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by jarjoura 5y ago
I'm not whitewashing anything, I used that expression to dramatize the reckless way in which neighborhoods were torn down in the name of progress. Obviously, there was a lot of very careful thought that went into every project. Public
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Can we stop the name calling, it's really not productive to the conversation. How many *IMBY's did you just throw out there?! There's a couple really good books that delve into this complex issue [1], [2]. The TLDR is that ea
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Metrics is insanely useful to help inform all kinds of product decisions. The most basic example I can think of, detecting when people aren't using a particular feature you've built. I think where it gets tricky and where even FAA
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I promise you both companies have very well defined and strongly worded ethical policies against collusion. Plus, budgets for things like the OP would involve multiple layers of an organization with lots of required sign-off. So if true, th
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Yea I was just going to say, the only reason you think more fondly of Google's than Facebook's image is a clear example of one company having a far superior PR department than another. It might be true at the very beginning when G
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This sounds good in theory, but when Microsoft did just that in 2011 with Windows 8, it ended up backfiring on them big time. It's pretty clear Windows has organizational and structural problems. Mainly because every product they relea
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"load of crap" seems like the perfect synonym to me. Less provocative of a title, but there's other words that can convey the same.
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Since we can't realistically ask everyone to succumb to background checks we at least have to put in some safety checks along the way. It's by design that it's annoyingly slow to get through airport security. It prevents peop
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IMHO, moral outrage is just a consistent human trait. I don't think there was a time or era in known history that we didn't shame the other side. If you want to look at TV entertainment, even something as "wholesome" as
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100% agree, but the problem I have with the economist is that it requires serious mental commitment to engage with their articles. The meat of the story is buried deep. The only times I find myself capable of reading are when I'm trave
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by jarjoura 6y ago
| In the US, you get to keep your house no matter how much anyone - including the government - would prefer you didn't. That's not accurate. The US, state and city governments can most definitely take private land and convert it t
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by jarjoura 6y ago
The article mentions self-awareness as the number 1, but I disagree. | Creator mindset | Having a creator mindset over a victim mindset is great for leadership. The victim treats situations as if they can’t change them, while the crea
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by jarjoura 6y ago
Why is no one concerned this is going to become a platform for spreading misinformation? The way a conversation turns into a set of people who become the authority on a topic, vs. the followers is just way too easy. It's sort of like Q
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by jarjoura 6y ago
Win32 is the consistent branding Microsoft has used to describe its C/C++ API for the last 20 years. It's many things though, GDI, User32, NT, DirectX, etc.
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There is a performance penalty when accessing APIs over WinMD and that is acceptable when you're only using them sparingly. I'd be curious how using Win32 APIs over WinMD performs instead of using PInvoke or FFI. Edit: Here is th
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by jarjoura 6y ago
beta 10 also bricked my DTK unit as well. Total paper weight
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Pretty sure if he made it to the steps, he would have crossed through a police barricade. That means he was protesting on restricted grounds w/o lawful authority and plenty of others have been arrested for that same violation. Not sure
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Crossing a state line on a federal highway to commit an illegal act is a federal crime. Parler was given the opportunity to police itself, and they defiantly said, no. What other choice do these companies have? They can't just leave it
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by jarjoura 6y ago
If it wasn't Twitter, YouTube or Facebook, it would have been something else. MySpace could have very easily turned into the same thing. The 2000s and 2010s were a massive worldwide experiment of what happens when you give easy access
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by jarjoura 6y ago
Influencers are just people that have a sizable fan base, that they earned fair and square. Now, what they choose to do with that fan base, is another story. Just like a startup can lose its soul when bringing in VC money, an influencer can
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by jarjoura 6y ago
I don’t believe in generalists. Everyone has interests and strengths that over time move them in a direction to specialization. To say one codes both the front end and back end of a web site is about as general as I’d accept. Example, game
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I mean, just look at California's history. If people were willing to upend their lives since the 1800s to move their families to the other side of the country on vague things like the promise of striking it rich somehow, those people p
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by jarjoura 6y ago
William Shockley graduated from CalTech, and his connections from CalTech, more specifically Arnold Beckman, funded his new venture in silicon transistors. It's true that Shockley picked Palo Alto because of his mother, but it would be
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Most of the core functionality of VSCode is powered by native extensions written in C++. It's essentially only using HTML and JS as the UI engine.
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Don't get your hopes up. All the creative heads at HBO have left and HBO Max is on the way to become way more Netflix like than ever.
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Just FYI, this is mostly the content creators doing this. They pick the frequency and places in the video where they want the ads to play. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6175006 The reality is it takes
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Flamethrowers and Fire Extinguishers: A Review of the Social Dilemma(librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com)
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It's hard to know exactly what about Quibi failed. Argument 1: No one wants short-form video. YouTube has been the master at this market, TikTok too! I think there is plenty of space for more short-form content. Argument 2: No one want
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by jarjoura 6y ago
So first, C++ in a small codebase with a small team, is a very powerful language that really does produce the best code. That's what you want in a professional, top tier code base and that's what you get. Unfortunately, once a pro
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by jarjoura 6y ago
You're telling me!!

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