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by ljw1001 8y ago
Well I never heard of them before, but they were mentioned in numerous news stories.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I suspect he's extremely serious about publicity. Was he going to build a submarine for kids before they ran out of oxygen? Not likely. But now the world knows about the Boring Company.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I would think so. When I was a child we had only two genders. Sometimes we'd say "sex" rather than gender, and then we'd blush or giggle. But it's great that people are more free to be themselves. Watching "A v
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I'm not an economist, but doesn't that make people .2% better off on average? It's almost like GS is interested in something other than the common good. :)
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by ljw1001 8y ago
like all those simple airline reservation and banking systems?
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by ljw1001 8y ago
ok. But _much_ easier to have compile time checking between projects in the same language/repo. Not saying this approach is wrong, but it's a little like riding a unicycle when a perfectly good bicycle is sitting right there.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
who was the whistle-blower in the Hillary emails? Someone else gave the Pentagon papers as an example of a "good leak" and it was. But I think good leaks tend to be those, like the pentagon papers that are handled by responsible o
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I'm gonna have to go out on a limb and say that OP would need some evidence to convince me that engineers are more arrogant than VC. As opposed to no evidence at all. This, after all, is a guy who works for pmarca, who, having achieved
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by ljw1001 8y ago
You've demonstrated above that using RDBMS and SQL involves making tradeoffs, like everything else. But you probably can't imagine a world without relational databases. I know I can't. Many of the problems you mention above o
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by ljw1001 8y ago
This is another way of saying that micro-services are for easy problems, where you can avoid having many processes share the same complex database.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
(a) a prototype (b) a set of applications that share a database. You would have to have an oddly disconnected schema if modifications to the program don't result in programs accessing parts of the database that other programs are alrea
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by ljw1001 8y ago
what happens when the java code breaks the c code? Or does everyone roll-their-own everything in each language?
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by ljw1001 8y ago
but the chainsaw analogy was a winner on many levels.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
It's only irrelevant if you think it's reasonable discuss/promote technologies while only considering their technical merits and the "pros" for their use. I don't think that anyone can legitimately make that ar
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by ljw1001 8y ago
You can change all the names, but all of the criticisms remain valid. It's super-easy to game an anonymous "leak" distribution platform, in particular if you're an intelligence agency. That alone should give people pause
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Worth a read if for no other reason than that the phrase "surveillance capitalism" should be as widely known as possible.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
So many down-votes, so few coherent arguments. :) Maybe somebody can show me why I'm wrong in stating that democracies are asymmetrically more vulnerable, or that this can be used as readily by bad actors for bad ends as it can by well
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by ljw1001 8y ago
The single biggest "success" of the whole leaks thing has been to help put Trump in office, which shows three things. First, it's ridiculously easy for powerful and dubious players (example here Russian intelligence, not Trum
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by ljw1001 8y ago
where are the 'many areas' where law enforcement is doing real-time surveillance using a city-wide grid of cameras and and backed by facial recognition?
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by ljw1001 8y ago
It may be available to be licensed for use in the private sector, but it is hardly a "public service." Without exaggeration, I think it would be closer to the truth to call it a "public menace".
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Two words, "leaf blowers"
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Same, except I don't work from home. After open floor plan came "flex-seating" where spaces in an open floor plan office are available 'first-come, first serve' and you can't leave pictures, papers, books, or a
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by ljw1001 8y ago
The better the free software, the greater the exploitation by other people making a bunch of money on it, while the devs work nights and weekends for nothing. I don't have a solution, but there it is.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
sadly, you really need to have your data privacy abused to understand the potential. Accounts emptied. Stalked. Secrets posted on line. But then only the victim gets it and everyone else goes happily on their way.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
No thoughts on the Labs comment, but i think going public has a huge impact because every google employee's compensation is tied to the stock price (through stock grants). It's very hard to focus on non-monetary goals in that envi
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by ljw1001 8y ago
thanks. just deleted access for a couple of apps I used years ago and forgot. Never again.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I guess it's not clear to me why (at least in the 'first world') it's wrong for quants and engineers to pay something for the tools they use. (i have spent a fair amount of time contributing to open-source, so I've
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Ironically, the reason there are so many unsung heroes of open-source is precisely because their products are not "locked behind" expensive licenses. It sounds though like this is, in fact, a commercial venture.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Calling people tactless after they've worked their asses off building something they give to strangers for free is more tactless.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
and of course they track your movements across the web via their advertising platform and 'log-in-with-facebook' stuff.

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