juunpp

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   by juunpp 3y ago

   I agree that M libraries x N languages is an absurd reality (and why I still write C), but "lock-in" to me suggests intent, and the situation you describe is more accidental, at least if you exclude corporate languages like .NET a
2. 242.▲
   by juunpp 4y ago

   And "employee ignores the threat despite being told repeatedly about it". I don't know where some HN folks get their logic from.
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   by juunpp 4y ago

   Call it whatever, but executing arbitrary code on an employee's system should trigger all the alarms in any org. The two guys responding to the email are basically "doing their job". "Oh, it's not a bug in the softw
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   by juunpp 4y ago

   I don't even know what the argument is either. Vendor lock-in on behalf of Apple, Google, and Microsoft, sure. But then: > but all frameworks are guilty. Electron, Capacitor, Tauri, Xamarin, Qt, NativeScript, the lot. Well, these al
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   by juunpp 4y ago

   Side topic, but the maplant website design is great.
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   by juunpp 4y ago

   1:58 is the guy who runs their PR.
7. 247.▲
   by juunpp 4y ago

   Odd af. Why not just link to the TikTok from HN? I want to assume good intentions on OP, but this looks like farming Tweet hits.
8. 248.▲
   by juunpp 4y ago

   Heck, you would even understand what your candidates are talking about.
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   by juunpp 4y ago

   "Distribute" means distribution to an end user.
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Not a lawyer, but there is an existing lawsuit against CoPilot, and Github might have some leverage from the fact that the code is hosted there (I have not read their TOS). Scraping code from a different provider and spitting verbatim copie
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Considering how corporations are often allergic to the GPL variants, you can consider them non-commercial for most practical purposes.
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Github is a great alternative to Codeberg. It is for people who have no problem having a corporation use your code to train a neural network to spit verbatim copies of its inputs stripped of a license. Which is the same as being against peo
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    You seem to get defensive. The management deciding to go the illegal route (and yes, "morally flexible" is appropriate) doesn't say anything about you. I just don't understand how you can defend the older management, whi
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Ok, so this is fake news from The Wall Street Journal to amplify the idea that remote workers are slackers. That and union-busting is what is going on here, and it's clearer now from everyone's responses on the thread. Also sounds
15. 255.▲
    by juunpp 4y ago

    "Journalists"
16. 256.▲
    by juunpp 4y ago

    That's probably what it is, then. And Wall Street Fake Journal is amplifying the signal.
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Are you an engineer?
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    It's not just a symptom, also allegedly a cause: > Keith Rabois, an early PayPal executive and venture capitalist, has accused large tech companies of seeing hiring as a “vanity metric,” deliberately hiring talent to keep them from
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    I know, right? It doesn't parse.
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    > Others blame what they view as a permissive corporate culture in Silicon Valley that creates environments where it’s possible to stay employed without working hard. I mean we aren't farmers working the sun-baked land, but where is
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    > She added that she was paid $190,000 a year and was told she wasn’t expected to hire anyone in her first year, given that she was still learning the ropes. Meta declined to comment. How can you work at one of the most desirable (by oth
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    What is your argument? What's written about the company is pretty clear. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/10/uber-investigation-...
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Hey, but at least she's getting claps on Substack.
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Well, in this case it was much closer to an actual mafia, given how "fucking illegal" they all were. CEO's words, not mine.
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    I think we're nitpicking too much here, but the main takeaway seems to be to not assume normals and to actually measure things. Seems pretty straightforward advice, but if you've worked anywhere, you'll know how often people
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    I think he's saying that since the distribution follows a log-normal, the mean is harder to pin down than if it were a normal due to the higher variance. From the CLT, the variance of the mean statistic is var(X)/sqrt(N) -- the va
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    > The ckd_* macros steer a refreshingly sane path around arithmetic pitfalls including C's "usual arithmetic conversions." A 7 letter function to add two numbers and that returns a boolean... not entirely sure I'd cal
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Tell Blizzard about it. With WoW "classic", they are literally selling the same series of games... twice. You thought loot boxes were the cash king, these guys are on a whole other level. Or all the "remakes", a testamen
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Did they have "malware development and distribution" on their resume?
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    by juunpp 4y ago

    Damn open source! Those guys aren't living to their paychecks, I foresee staff cuts...