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by kyrra 7y ago
Vanilla server (run on private servers (pservers)) is actually a rather popular niche. This is bringing that experience back. How it does at-large will be interesting to see. The other argument is that Blizzard tends to do remastered rele
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by kyrra 7y ago
For those interested, they at least have a medium size write-up how they created this technically: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22646759/restoring-hi... Here is a live blog of the Blizzcon talk: h
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by kyrra 7y ago
One point that WSJ that NYTimes calls out too is that Markopolos is working with a hedge fund in releasing this report (that I believe is shorting GE stock). He's doing this so he can get paid up-front and not have to wait for potenti
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by kyrra 7y ago
Google contributes to Mercurial as well.
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by kyrra 7y ago
This post and other top-level post in this thread have issues with account recovery. Google tends to follow a playbook when it comes to account recovery, and if you can't check one of the boxes to get through, they won't let you b
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by kyrra 7y ago
It's still very much in there. From: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ > And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up! The problem w
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by kyrra 7y ago
I had bad data apparently. It looks like some businesses (for business use cases) are charged that amount potentially, but it looks like the service ended up mainly being free. My bad.
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by kyrra 7y ago
Btw, the Apple Card does have a magstripe. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18281071/how-apple-credit... > The physical Apple Card, of course, has no number. The app displays the last 4 digits of th
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by kyrra 7y ago
As someone who's done work on payment systems for both countries (online payments only). In the US: Credit cards have a bit better protections than bank accounts do. For example for bank transfers[0], if you wait a few days after find
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by kyrra 7y ago
Google has ~100,000 employees at this point. This is the story of a single manager within the company. When you have that many people at the company, there are going to be people that make bad choices, and then the story will fall under t
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by kyrra 7y ago
At Google Payments we tend to operate in micros. It makes it so we never have to worry about floats. https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/reference/gl...
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by kyrra 7y ago
From the article, there are a few other company names listed in the screenshot (caveat: these are just based on filenames, it's not 100% clear that these are the exact companies, they just seem to match): 42lines.net, apperian.com, glo
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by kyrra 7y ago
But the those 140k and 80k number are their own bullet points that I feel make them stand out more then the bold line. I feel like this is clear enough.
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by kyrra 7y ago
If you poke around the files ending with .go2 here[0], you can see some examples of contracts/generics being used. This linked review is a prototype of the implementation for the proposal. [0] https://go-review.googlesource.
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by kyrra 7y ago
Workmail and Alexa for work seem to be the beginnings of this. https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/ https://aws.amazon.com/alexaforbusiness/
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by kyrra 7y ago
As did lots of awesome materials. The material science advancements that happened with WW2 and the space race (fueled by the cold war) are pretty amazing. Nylon among many others came out of those drives. Edit: someone corrected me about
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by kyrra 7y ago
The issue is that academic research doesn't always translate into a product that can be useful. There are many things that can be done at small scale that look awesome, but once you try to apply it at a larger scale or trying to accou
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by kyrra 7y ago
https://newrepublic.com/article/147364/verboten-germany-law-... Not filtering, but censorship.
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by kyrra 7y ago
From the arguments at the time when dragonfly was leaked, it was brought up that there is censorship, though in a different form, already in the EU. Be it right to be forgotten, or filtering of information related to things unsavory to the
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by kyrra 7y ago
It's not just ML, but the people that provide the labeling for the ML. Google pays some large number of people to do search and grade the various results they get to see if the answers are good, which then helps feed back ML. Heck, acc
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by kyrra 7y ago
He says the easy thing is to use the Google drive sharing model, which only works with other people that have Google based accounts that can be authenticated. The sharing model in Photos is meant to lower the barrier for sharing with people
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by kyrra 7y ago
As someone who works for Google (opinions are my own) on the payments team, I disagree. :) Due to P2P, and disbursements we do for Play developers and AdSense, we are heavily invested in KYC. And we have to comply with the regulations of al
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by kyrra 7y ago
To add my own story. I have made comments about other teams services on hacker news before. I've been contacted by the SRE responsible for the service I commented on asking me to correct what I said. Luckily no reports for leaking info
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by kyrra 7y ago
It's a fine line. We are not allowed to represent Google in any kind of public discussion. But we can talk about some things we do, as long as we state it's our own opinion and we don't represent Google's views.
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by kyrra 7y ago
If you don't mind blocking everything hosted on GCP as well: > dig TXT +short _netblocks{,2,3}.google.com | tr ' ' '\n' | egrep "(ip4:|ip6:)" Gives you a full list of all of Google's IP blocks. Yo
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by kyrra 7y ago
PGP for pre-shared keys is exceptionally useful still. In the payments world, we use it regularly for both interactive application/message level encryption, and also when moving files between companies. It could die for email, but sti
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by kyrra 7y ago
When did you use it last? It has had some large changes for the backend 1.5-2 years ago I believe. I definitely had some syncing issues with in the past as well, but I understand it has improved.
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by kyrra 7y ago
The thing is... the "try" proposal doesn't stop people from using the existing error handling. To me, 'try' is there to simplify the simple cases where you don't need to do anything special except return the &
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by kyrra 7y ago
panic() and recover() are a built-in function, so there is already some precedent for doing this.

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