kunglao

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by kunglao 7y ago
There's also Qwant. I've been using it a for a while on PC and found it to be not bad. On Android I kept running into no results a few times, I don't know what that was about.
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by kunglao 7y ago
What's wrong with FOO? It's fun to say and can use it almost anywhere when you need a random word. Has saved me seconds here and there when I didn't need to think of a word because I have FOO :)
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by kunglao 7y ago
Hmm, there are many companies where what you proposed make sense. But there are also many that I think it's hard to debate that SaaS doesn't offer value. Running the mail server is simple enough, but then you need to set up storag
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by kunglao 7y ago
Something that really surprised me is how anyone has issues with git work flows. Git is one of my favourite software and I think it solves version control and collaboration issues beautifully. I can unhesistently say only one of the teams u
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by kunglao 7y ago
In addition to what you said, I feel that may be Google's view of a viable project (business-wise) is different from many others, hence any real drive to continue these POCs long term. If we look at main projects/products at Googl
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by kunglao 7y ago
This is Google we are talking about. I would imagine they started working on competing strategies even well before Microsoft announced officially they are going to use Chromium. You people seriously undermine the tech awareness of marketing
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by kunglao 7y ago
This is a naive view of how things work in big corporations. They work hard on many levels to make sure different teams are aligned under the strategic interests of the company as a whole. Sure, different teams might get in the way of each
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by kunglao 7y ago
What saddens me about the threads here is that it seems that some paint a very deliberate picture of Brave as a bad actor worse than other browser vendors. I was using Firefox and then I switched to Brave. None of their featyres/busine
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by kunglao 7y ago
Considering how software development has become relatively lucrative and so many want to throw themselves at this, it's bound to create a large pool of incompetent engineers. Specially because this isn't an industry that is regula
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by kunglao 7y ago
Link to the actual image: https://images.app.goo.gl/HgaapxCmCdiTrRKw5
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by kunglao 7y ago
https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=qwant+bot+detection&prmd=... . Usually the challenge i get is like may be 6 squares and one circle and I need to click on the circle. Apologies, I thought its easy to look this up becau
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by kunglao 7y ago
That's one lousy excuse for a corporation like Google. This has nothing to do with them being PhD-heavy or engineering-first? (what engineering-first are you referring to btw?) The reason for this is the nature of their business. It&#x
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by kunglao 7y ago
I like the way Qwant search engine deals with this. It gives a small challenge to solve which is a lot less cumbersome than finding traffic lights on photos or far less invasive than the fingerprinting technologies others use.
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by kunglao 7y ago
This is so true man! I've seen this first hand both ways.
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by kunglao 7y ago
My observation has been is that most users who use Firefox aren't the kind to be controlled by their PC. Someone who can use Firefox (specially because of privacy concerns and have installed extensions) should easily be able to switch
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by kunglao 7y ago
First let's get the space suits and things that actually matter ready this time eh? :p
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by kunglao 7y ago
The problem with trying to be "define any assumptions" and using "a clear chain of logic" is that, if you do this right, you will realise that there's really very few things you can actually say about anything at al
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by kunglao 7y ago
I've found C# to be one of the easier languages to do multithreading with. I think this is owing to the capabilities of a Visual Studio like parallel stack viewer. Also, anyone working with an OOP should really read Java Concurrency in
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by kunglao 7y ago
I think a large number of people can't tell a browser and the search engine apart anymore. They are so entangled, internet to people means something that when they click on it, it shows the iconic Google search page. Wonder how that ha
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by kunglao 7y ago
Boeing's 737 MAX, despite heavy regulations, designed the software to depend on just one sensor. Didn't put any limit on how far down the plane could be pushed. These are not any individual who would do deliberately. I bet these c
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by kunglao 7y ago
Try using search engines like Qwant. Give others a fighting chance.
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by kunglao 7y ago
I think that's because before this whole cloud thing came about, Microsoft already had built the image as an enterprise software vendor. They provided hosted cloud solutions long back, then they invented hybrid solutions like Azure Sta
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by kunglao 7y ago
1. Navigation: subjective so gonna let that slide. 2. Downright bullshit. You are starting to whine. 3. Subjective but far from something that makes the IDE a "piece of crap" 4. You are starying to sound like you are in the wrong
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by kunglao 7y ago
Haha. Would love to hear also about: 1. We're releases and code changes as common as it is now or once you finished writing it's more less that except for bug fixes? 2. Nowadays a lot of non-technical people are also involved in t
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by kunglao 7y ago
1. If you broke a code, don't generalise it as an inherent problem of clean code. Just find what exactly you did wrong. 2. If the only reason you refactored it was because you felt it's not clean, don't do it - that code does