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by johansch 10y ago
Thank you. This reassures my faith in you in this area. Regarding the favor in return: I think like 80% of our encounters have not been regarding "false insinuations about the moderation here" but rather, relatively speaking, more
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by johansch 10y ago
Yes, it was there for at least two hours, I think I can attest to that. In a full day. You guys really made a brilliant job of showing the moderation here isn't partisan. Edit: I found an hourly mirror of the HN front page. The story i
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by johansch 10y ago
Well, yes. "Deep technical experience" is a superset of "A modicum of tech experience". :)
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by johansch 10y ago
Why "of course"? Did you set it specifically so that it would be on the FP? It certainly wasn't within an hour of you writing that comment. (I'm in Europe, so I was checking the frontpage many times while you guys were a
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by johansch 10y ago
Options: 1. He directly manipulated the production db (seems like they use Cassandra). Definitely doable for someone with a deep technical background, even if they spent 99% of the the past couple of years working "via other people&quo
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by johansch 10y ago
It looks more like a chat with what I assume are external/non-paid sub-reddit moderators.
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by johansch 10y ago
"It set off the overheated discussion detector (a.k.a. flamewar detector), which lowers the rank of a thread. We do turn that penalty off for particularly substantive discussions—which, though this may surprise you, I'm not sure t
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by johansch 10y ago
The bad part of Flash was the Adobe binary which besides needing to use the messy plugin interface (separate process using an ancient interface, ugh) seemingly always contained tens/hundreds of unresolved security issues.
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by johansch 10y ago
Facebook engineers also declared Mark Zuckerberg dead the other week. Maybe there's no deeper lesson here? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/11/facebook_zuckerberg_...
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by johansch 10y ago
Sounds like a suitable problem for Musk to address after he's done with cars, space and solar.
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by johansch 10y ago
Oops, may have been. I wasn't paying full attention to the TV at the time, just heard the english translator say "something something prime minister Abe something live statement something something" and then saw a small box w
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by johansch 10y ago
A week, they just said, I think. That seems manageable. The cooling system stopped operating because of the odd water movements, but wasn't reported to be damaged. "TEPCO expects the cooling system to operate normally in 1-2 hours
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by johansch 10y ago
I have been watching this (through their great Apple TV fourth gen app) for the past hour. They have been excellent at doing live-translations of the primary NHK domestic broadcast. About 45 minutes ago the tone of the japanese language spe
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by johansch 10y ago
So this is apparently offensive in HN-land. Since I have no idea why, how about if you also leave a comment with your next downvote, deal? I'm honestly really curious.
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by johansch 10y ago
For every 1 user they spend $25 on not losing they could get another 10 users in emerging regions that will make them lots of more money in a few years. The tyranny of being a customer to a company that has 2-3 billion "customers"
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by johansch 10y ago
Sure, messy, but would generally work. I guess they could also move this checking to the user agent (because they control Chrome) to have the check performed before the user is actually waiting for results and milliseconds matter. Introduce
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by johansch 10y ago
If only v6 is available there is no point for them to include the site in their general index. If both v4 and v6 access is available, what is the extra value of doing the indexing using v6 rather than v4? (The indexing process itself would
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by johansch 10y ago
You mean they should prioritize ipv6 over ipv4 if a DNS lookup returns records of both? Why?
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by johansch 10y ago
Because web sites won't be moving to ipv6 (only) any time soon, and the limiting factor here is residential connections, not Google? Are you proposing that Google should crawl ipv6-only web sites? And then serve those results to whom,
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by johansch 10y ago
So all it takes to get stuff like that resolved is to get on the HN and the /r/android front pages.
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by johansch 10y ago
I've learned that on this forum you need to sugarcoat it.
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by johansch 10y ago
Just a note: I was referring to both people doing manual testing and doing development of automated testing in the case of Microsoft. My understanding (from the outside) is a that substantial number of people at Microsoft who worked in thos
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by johansch 10y ago
He/she did address an interesting and touchy subject of software development. It could have been more diplomatic, but then also, I'd say, needlessly watered down. A challenge in software development has long been the division betw
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by johansch 10y ago
I guess I never really "trusted" Google as much as I trust most (rich and leading) nation states to handle my identity trustfully, providing a suitable mechanism (this is often quite expensive) for dealing with clerical or automat
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by johansch 10y ago
The car industry is 100+ years old. Many stable industries are run like this.
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by johansch 10y ago
The roomscale VR that let's you walk around in cities as a giant is really the killer feature of this tech demo.
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by johansch 10y ago
Just tried it on my Vive for ten minutes. So, of course, it's essentially Google Earth ported to VR. There's some obvious Snowcrash vibes to this. :) The left hand touch pad is used to switch between perspectives (top or "bei
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by johansch 10y ago
A really amazing (and not likely to happen) photo story would be "how Canon make all their world class L lenses". This story, while interesting, was just a matter of.. yes.. it's manual, they are all wearing white robes, they
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by johansch 10y ago
I take a fundamental issue with the core thinking behind this post. It seems to be: "the voters should not be allowed free communication between themselves - it needs to be policed and curated for them. They should preferably get most&
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by johansch 10y ago
Your account is five years old, not nine. Anyway, good night.

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