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by la_barba 7y ago
If Tesla is making such shitty cars, how do you explain why more and more people are buying them?
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by la_barba 7y ago
At some level, it looks bad because of bad PR and the manner of how people report on it (clickbait or otherwise). At another level, we can fill the blank in various ways. "it personally looks bad to me because ____". One way to f
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by la_barba 7y ago
In a way Google probably fears addressing these issues because once they take ownership of them, they are going to be forever saddled and blamed when bad ads get through their review system or when shitty videos get promoted on youtube or w
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by la_barba 7y ago
That is true, I guess I was thinking more of a "stole $10 from the kitchen drawer to buy candy" kind of child, not a "impersonated dad, and wired entire life savings to russia" kind of child.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Its written in a click-bait style (what news story isn't these days?) but the only take-home here for parents is that smartphone==credit card. The other issue is that usually for physical credit cards, its easy for a parent to keep it
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by la_barba 7y ago
Personally.. I don't really like the idea of an application developer knowing my age or gender or any other personal details.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Giving a smartphone to an underage person is also like giving them a credit card, a phone that can be used to call any tolled number, a way to access inappropriate content, etc, etc.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think its any different than devs thinking they need to "future proof" (a silly idea anyway) their database design for millions of transactions , or needlessly fretting about scale problems that their tiny company is
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by la_barba 7y ago
I believe some networking equipment let you go to "www.routercompany.com" that loads up the router's config webpage without having to remember its lan IP.
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by la_barba 7y ago
It was IE. I'd have to hand my nerd card in if I couldn't tell the difference :P They probably did some hacky shit like CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run "cmd /k C:\Progra~1\Intern~1\iexplore.exe" & Bl
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well the WINE folks have their heart in the right place, but its not really a good idea to re-implement a proprietary API for the purposes of binary compatibility. In any case, it makes sense for Windows Version N+1 to ensure compatibility
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by la_barba 7y ago
Our industry is regulated so if you run the software using anything other than the vendor sanctioned way, the vendor will not validate your system, and without validation you cannot use it to produce or test any clinical material. Well you
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by la_barba 7y ago
You are discounting a very very large professional worker segment that relies of domain specific tools. We need more than a netbook with a browser. For e.g. In pharma, we wouldn't get any work done if we didn't use Windows. All of
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by la_barba 7y ago
I've seen IE launch itself at times after a reboot. When the OS updates & reboots, a lot of apps take this opportunity to update themselves, or maybe its the default behavior on system boot, who knows. After the update they decide
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, its hard to feel any sympathy for Google here. Google forces their android partners to include Google's own apps and keep them updated. They could also have made Android security updates mandatory. MS still got the blame when Win
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by la_barba 7y ago
Okay? Comparing click-bait ads to child exploitation still makes no sense. It is incredibly insensitive to draw any kind of analogy between the two.
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by la_barba 7y ago
> Selling cigarettes to children works. No, it doesn't work at all. That's illegal. >Come to think of it, putting children to work in factories works. Dumping pollution in drinking water sources works. Nope. That's ille
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by la_barba 7y ago
>The AMP team saw a problem (websites take a stupid amount of time to load on mobile, even on nice phones/networks) and devised a solution The simplest way to do this is to boost the rank of small-foot-print/fast-loading websit
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by la_barba 7y ago
AFAIK You have to advertise the position with the prevailing wage for the region and the position. And you have to keep a copy of every resume received for legal reasons.
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by la_barba 7y ago
That boat sailed when google chrome launched 10+ years ago. Users don't care that applications come built-in with the ability to download a binary and execute it without the users permission. The market has chosen convenience over secu
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by la_barba 7y ago
That's a bit harsh. How many HN highly voted articles have we seen about a dev excited about caching, bloom filters, CPU timing, arcane C++ trivia, fuzzing or other basic concepts without doing any original research of their own?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, to turn the question around, how much money are you personally willing to lose on a failed project? And how many times will you back a artist that has failed? The natural human tendency is to only back 'all star' teams when
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by la_barba 7y ago
I've observed the 1-2 second delay in multiple 'eco' mode automatic transmissions. I just did a roadtrip in a kia sportage and the lag was brutal on the freeway, especially when trying to pass. I drive a stick so maybe I&#x27
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think its "completely different". Its only a minor difference in my view. We'll just have to agree to disagree. IMO repository maintainers are not going to code review every patch in every package, and logistical
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by la_barba 7y ago
>But the issue is that you effectively building in your assumptions about what is 'representative' into your sample. Even if I agree with your premise, Google is not going to build a custom voice model for every individual anyw
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by la_barba 7y ago
>One drop of blood is going to be very similar to any other in and individual. That's not true when it comes to language data (or many other types of data for that matter). Why? Please do explain. If you claim that our biology doesn
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by la_barba 7y ago
>but downloading a Fedora or Debian install is in no way comparable to installing binaries from random filesharing websites. What if you download binaries from non-random, trusted websites? Seem to me that is the same as trusting a repo
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Natural selection is a constant force, presumably new genetic codes could offer an advantage, e.g., robustness against damaging mutation, resulting in multiple competing genetic codes. But what would the advantage look like? Isn't
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by la_barba 7y ago
You're free to have your own opinion, but anything specific beyond "it doesn't work"? I work in pharma, and we use representative sampling every single day in every single thing we do, and it works.
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by la_barba 7y ago
The ethical way to do this is to pay a representative sample of your customers to come in and record their voice.

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