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by jryle70 9y ago
It is news the same way you get frequent news about evil corporations or brutal police, or SF housing bubble. I didn’t see any one arguing those aren’t news. I don’t feel outrageous at this at all. The US have arguably done something simila
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Space X was a Falcon failure away from shutting down. Isn't that risking reputation enough? He's selling the world the vision of Falcon Heavy, BFR, Mars colony. Any of that fail and he will be known forever as an ambitious but fai
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by jryle70 9y ago
Maybe. Maybe not. Those who chose to work for that firm know full well what they're getting into. They hope to make it. 20% of them won't. Not much different than startups?
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by jryle70 9y ago
They ARE deadweight as far as the employer is concerned. Nothing disrespectful to them. They may be very good in some aspects and decent human being, but they are at a wrong place. Parting company should benefit both side. Layoff often come
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by jryle70 9y ago
I don't know if OP meant stack ranking, but I've definitely seen approx 20% annual turnover at a well known consulting firm, by design. Either you go up or you are out. Not stack ranking, just performance review. Cut throat enviro
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by jryle70 9y ago
US has trade deficit to most of its largest trading partners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa... There is no such thing as completely free trade, as long as tax and regulation exist, US or
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by jryle70 10y ago
This is disingenuous at best. Before Uber, how many of those "independent contractors" were in the market? It's fair to criticize Uber's aggressive and shady practices, it's also fair to acknowledge the enormous cha
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by jryle70 10y ago
No, the proper analogy is to vent against Java multi threading complexity in a Go concurrency topic, which serves nothing but distraction to the discussion. To illustrate that, how about we talk about the brutal crackdown of illegal immigra
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by jryle70 10y ago
One solution can be to show the news that conform to one's bias, but have some sort of "score", measuring the sentiment of those of the opposite view, and the general public. There should also be the option to dig deeper on t
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by jryle70 10y ago
This is not a moral issue, ambiguous or not. CIA and its counterparts elsewhere will be here as long as there are nations. Event if every countries were on friendly terms, which won't happen, there would still be conflicts of interest,
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by jryle70 10y ago
Stupid question in general. Given how long it takes for a spacecraft's signal to reach earth, I suppose we can use the time difference to calculate the distance from a spacecraft such as New Horizon to earth. But how do we know its exa
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by jryle70 12y ago
Are you sure there have been no attempts that were disrupted because the communication was intercepted? those that haven't been disclosed to the public? Also, just because the suspects in the cases you mentioned were well known to the
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by jryle70 12y ago
The question is, why is it unsustainable for Uber drivers? can someone else disrupt Uber down the road and give the drivers a better option, if it's indeed Uber who drives down the earning potential for individual drivers?
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by jryle70 12y ago
Unbearable? We all know TSA and PreCheck was the result of 9/11. Remember the public outrage of the terrorists being allowed to sneak in knives to hijack the planes? Little less known is how common hijacking was in the 1960s. Back then
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by jryle70 12y ago
> Every visitor to the U.S. needs to inform the authorities where s/he will reside for the duration. With the exact address, not something vague like state or city. You're talking about foreign visitors. That's very common
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by jryle70 12y ago
I know it's fashionable to bash NSA, but as someone who grew up in a communist state in the Cold War, such comparison is really an insult. Forget about living condition, corruption or censorship, let's talk about police state. Fir
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by jryle70 12y ago
What would happen when the aforementioned emergency weather broadcast app fails to notify users of a tornado coming their way, because it was given the wrong locations? What would that do to the app's reputation? How many people would
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by jryle70 13y ago
I fail to see how making sure your code doesn't crash is related to OS X being restrictive. We've just experienced Heartbleed, a prime example of a poorly-reviewed piece of software, in one of the most entrenched OSS libraries. I&
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by jryle70 13y ago
Java certainly moves very slowly. I recall reading debates on how to support Lambda long before Java 7. The reasons, IMO, are twofolds: 1) The huge install base in enterprise: changing language feature is a big deal, and like it or not, ent
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by jryle70 13y ago
IDE for Scala sucks, mostly because Java developers are spoiled with Intelij IDEA and, to some degrees, Eclipse. It is still very usable. If you don't care about IDE, that is a non-issue. What other Scala tools you're referring to
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by jryle70 13y ago
I'd say you're right if the OP moved to something like Haskell (which is an excellent language, by the way). Scala enjoys all the benefits of JVM ecosystem, which is arguably more familiar, predictable and popular than C#/.NE
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by jryle70 13y ago
Of course it doesn't get less complex. If anything the opposite is true. And that's precisely the point, if I got his points right. The sheer complexity of modern computing devices and infrastructure, couple with the abundance of
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by jryle70 13y ago
Most of the comments seem to assume TouchID as implemented today will remain the same in future. Here are a few scenarios that I imagine it may evolve to: 1) Unlock using multiple fingers; 2) Unlock using the same finger repeatedly, but wit
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by jryle70 13y ago
You seemed to imply that SGI, Sun, etc are gone because they were full stack. I just offered counterexamples of non full stack companies that are also gone. There are simply no evidence that full stack is inherently bad, or vice versa. It&#
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by jryle70 13y ago
You're right that low price is a great competitive edge, but one can name many now defunct computer makers that were anything but full stack -- Compaq, Gateway, eMachine, Packard Bell, Siemens (the PC maker), Olivetti. As a matter of f
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by jryle70 13y ago
>The same review that notes the increased power consumption of the CPU? That one? What's your point? It's a beefier SOC, and possibly more power hungry. Nobody disputes that. You've tried to frame rebukes of your posts as
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by jryle70 13y ago
Of course Apple tries to maximize the profit. I fail to find any business that doesn't try to do the same. It's called for-profit after all. The question is, why doesn't Apple try to earn even more money by keeping the same A
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by jryle70 13y ago
So iOS 7 plays no part in power consumption? only the CPU? how about apps? This is AnandTech's iPhone 5s battery review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/9 The 5s outperforms iPhon
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by jryle70 13y ago
So what do you think if US wages war against Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Lybia, at the same time? As a US citizen, do you approve of that? How about the US public?
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by jryle70 13y ago
The difference: MS's competitors are not named Sony and Nintendo this time. Apple and Google move faster than MS; enjoy huge brand name recognition; have as much resource as MS does. One may only look at Google vs. Bing to see it. Wind

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