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by madrox 6y ago
Consider that while you may care about maintaining something, whoever comes after you likely will not. Just like writing and documenting good code, solutions should last beyond a single engineer. So yes, your skills are too valuable. All en
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by madrox 6y ago
This is a hard problem for any sufficiently large application...web or otherwise. Solving it, in my experience, requires a strongly supported central body focused on managing code quality across teams. I know this is a relatively straightfo
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by madrox 6y ago
While I tend to agree, I hope we don't get lazy with the law and prosecute on DNA alone. DNA matching is not 100% accurate, and juries aren't the best at appreciating the nuance of statistics. When I was a stats major, Peter Donne
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by madrox 6y ago
I mean, that's a pretty great redeeming quality! I don't see how a high cost of entry is anti-competitive...at least in a way that's google's fault. Many industries have a high cost of entry, and there's entire busi
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by madrox 6y ago
Well, there's Bing Maps and Apple Maps and OpenStreetMap. Also, paper maps are still a thing, believe it or not. There's always been map competitors, so your argument is already a little shaky. However, let's go with the spir
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by madrox 6y ago
In 2005, the VC scene was very different. YC was doing its first year. Cloud computing wasn't really a thing yet. You had to have own your own metal if you were at any serious scale. What I left out of my original story was that a thir
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by madrox 6y ago
I remember, a long time ago, I went to a barcamp-style event hosted at Google in Mountain View. This was maybe a year after Google Maps was released. I forget how it came up, but at one of the sessions, an attendee got into a heated debate
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by madrox 6y ago
I'm curious if this line of reasoning could extend to app stores and their 30%
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by madrox 6y ago
Ilhan Omar said something similar on Twitter in response to Obama's criticisms of the "defund the police" slogan. I think you're being overly generous to social activists. Their fundamental job is to bring social change.
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by madrox 6y ago
Regardless of what happened, it's stuff like this that makes me consider leaving management. Any employee may try to get social media to take their side with any call you've had to make, which is stressful and potentially career-e
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by madrox 6y ago
I've seen gekokujo in many places as a manager. There's often a desire among employees to require the world to adjust to how they think it should work instead of following process. This isn't always bad, of course, because pr
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by madrox 6y ago
Lots of interesting details here. I’m struggling somewhat with the language since this isn’t my area, but it seems to be saying a few things. First, this is a study of 80 year old men so YMMV. Second, in that group, they found more sunlight
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by madrox 6y ago
This headline is super confusing. I interpreted it as meaning Google spied on people and then fired them. However, what the article itself seems to be saying is that Google fired people for spying on others. The spying was, "for review
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by madrox 6y ago
"Congratulations to Slack on its exit" I say as I forgot they are post-IPO. I always thought it strange how big Slack got to begin with. History will probably remember its ultimate accomplishment was getting lots of companies to s
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by madrox 6y ago
It’s important to focus on the pleasure of practicing and honing a craft. I don’t think either of these guys are doing this for notoriety. They’re doing it because they love math.
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by madrox 6y ago
This reminds me of when we were counting collisions in tweet IDs years ago at my old job (social media agency). We used the collision rate to estimate the total volume of tweets going through the system. We also determined ID assignment was
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by madrox 6y ago
This seems 100% about building in XCode, which leaves me wondering why it's being offered as an EC2 instance instead of some higher order build tool. Is there a use case I'm missing?
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by madrox 6y ago
Actual experiments for causation take more time. The abstract itself addresses this: "Given the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic and the proven safety of vitamin D supplementation, it therefore appears highly debatable and potentially
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by madrox 6y ago
I've been telling family and friends to take vitamin D supplements since the first of these kinds of studies came out. The data is hardly conclusive (case control bias, affect of supplementation vs natural production, etc), and the abs
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by madrox 6y ago
I'm a little disappointed how light this article is on what should be done. It seems like the conclusion is "this will happen again." Even the public dependency audit the author is calling for wouldn't do much. Why would
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by madrox 6y ago
It hasn't helped that iOS and Android haven't always made it easy to connect to other local devices that aren't bluetooth. Cloud services are handy, cheap intermediaries for lots of device/user interaction. LAN connectiv
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by madrox 6y ago
Over the years, I've noticed lingo different disciplines use to get their way without having to make rational arguments. For example, designers I've work with tend to abuse the idea of antipatterns. I personally noticed "mini
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by madrox 6y ago
I had a bone infection as a child that took several years to positively diagnose (it ended up being osteomyelitis). In an attempt to help my body fight off the infection, I was prescribed a couple hours a day in a HBO chamber. HBO can be pr
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by madrox 6y ago
FWIW, as someone who had HBO therapy for five days a week for six months, I would not call it stress reducing.
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by madrox 6y ago
If you read the article, you'd know they're blocking all embedded browser frameworks, including CEF. Embedded chrome has the same security risks. This isn't a partisan policy, nor is punting responsibility to the end user to
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by madrox 6y ago
FWIW, Google announced they'd be doing this April of last year. Their reasons for it are security based, and make sense to me: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-ag... It seemed like th
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by madrox 6y ago
Of course Feynman had something to say about this: "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at
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by madrox 6y ago
I was using gmail as an example. I have no idea what people are using for spam filtering, but whatever it is it's clearly not so good that they don't care whether their address is in the public.
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by madrox 6y ago
I remember when Gmail came out the spam filtering was so good people commented about how they finally felt comfortable sharing their email in public again. Not anymore, I guess. It makes me sad that email as a system has gotten so wildly ou
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by madrox 6y ago
Moderation is the hardest, most subjective problem on the internet today. Plus, it doesn't scale well. Part of me wonders if the way we design the forums themselves lend itself to this problem. Is there a way to design forums so that t

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