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by jdm2212 7y ago
Another problem with banning WPD is that that stuff now shows up in previously harmless SFW subs like catastrophicfailure. Edit: another commenter mentions HoldMyFeedingTube, which is basically all WPD material and regularly makes the front
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The idea got killed because it's really hard to measure value added as opposed to just graduates' earnings (students who appear identical on paper self-select into schools and majors and later on careers based on non-measurable st
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Thank you! I've been wondering about what the heck Salesforce is for ages :) Seems like a lot of enterprise software boils down to integrating enterprise data for a some domain, mapping it to an ontology, and then building a plugin fra
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Google is a huge organization. It is possible for Larry or Sundar to have a 30 year plan that involves Maps making money while every engineer working on Maps day to day (including Director and VP-level people) cares deeply about product qua
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Are the records all of the following: 1) structured 2) available via web API 3) consistent across jurisdictions 4) reasonably up to date I'm guessing they're not. Google has had hundreds of really smart engineers with an effective
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Google is fine with expensive (they sunk many billions into Maps over 10+ years and only just started monetizing it). But humans don't scale. If you want to have ten thousand data points about every business on Earth, you can't
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Copied from another comment of mine: > The Maps mobile app has had this for at least 3 years -- they ask you questions about places you know. You can also suggest edits on Google Maps which are sent to others for review But not that many
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Google Maps is not optimizing for "percent of listings that were completely accurate at time of submission". That's how paper maps (and to a lesser degree, the Yellow Pages) mostly worked. There's a reason we stopped usi
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The Maps mobile app has had this for at least 3 years -- they ask you questions about places you know. You can also suggest edits on Google Maps which are sent to others for review But not that many people use either feature.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The Maps folks played (and are almost certainly still playing) this game of cat and mouse with the spammers. Google comes up with better defenses, and the spammers come up with cleverer spam. I just found the cron job iteration of that cycl
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Xoogler here... my favorite Maps spam story is how there was a cron job that ran every (I think) 6 hours to analyze and clean up suspected scam listings [1]. The scammers figured out when the cron job runs, and set up their own cron job put
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Just my two cents, but I have to kill and restart the Slack app every morning because if left alone too long it starts eating 100+% of CPU and then becomes unresponsive (while still pegging the CPU). No other vanilla Electron app I've
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by jdm2212 7y ago
There aren't a whole lot of businesses or transit stops inside Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village [1]. Barcelona, in contrast, is apparently planning to encourage multi-use development. [1] I considered moving there, but much of it is
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by jdm2212 7y ago
You can lose weight eating any given thing (if energy in is less than energy out, something's gotta give), but it's not psychologically sustainable to keep weight off by eating just Twinkies. For most people, the eventual goal of
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by jdm2212 7y ago
This is a (correct) view that is frustratingly underreported.
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It wasn't totally random. They were mostly ok with assholes as long as they were good engineers -- my manager and skip-level manager were two of the ten or so loudest far-left types at the company. But both were very good engineers,
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by jdm2212 7y ago
10MM might be on the low side. I'd be surprised if Ian Lance Taylor, Russ Cox and Rob Pike are making less than a million dollars a year each. They're all L8+, and even by that standard they're notably famous/distinguish
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by jdm2212 7y ago
I've worked at Google and Amazon and they would never fire a developer for a buggy release. All engineers write buggy code. With mentorship, code reviews, and reliable test infrastructure, they write fewer bugs. With strong QA and moni
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by jdm2212 8y ago
Yup! https://github.com/palantir/conjure-python