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811.
by madsbuch 6y ago
The article is generally imprecise, and I completely agree with you. Stating that `... data is inherently dynamic` in this context is plain and deductively wrong. If we can not add type to data, we can't even interpret it as a bit-stri
812.
by madsbuch 6y ago
Popper would turn in his grave: > - The creator of shirky.com lives in Brooklyn > - People who live in Brooklyn speak with a Brooklyn accent > You could conclude from this pair of assertions that the creator of shirky.com pronounce
813.
by madsbuch 6y ago
That's an issue for the webshop service provider ;)
814.
by madsbuch 6y ago
I think you are conflating marked share with quality of offering. Indeed there are viable local options for many of these things. Heck, the reason why European companies have so little relative marked share, is because they serve smaller, d
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by madsbuch 6y ago
In that case, finance people with said bonuses indeed make that kind of value. Though I am not quite sure the average finance person makes more than the average software engineer.
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by madsbuch 6y ago
Sure, this is simple! You provide them with a definition written in Coq and make them implement a proof that their implementation satisfies that definition. Use probabilistic couplings to make sure the output of the biased coin function adh
817.
by madsbuch 6y ago
For most applications email validation is really not nesecarry. instead a service can rely on email verification. If the address is invalid, mails sent to it will never arrive at a destination.
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by madsbuch 6y ago
Yes, gmail is complete lock in (with current legislation). You can not move your `@gmail.com` address to another provider eg. Proton. But there is a case for making legislation forcing email providers to allow moving emails to other provide
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by madsbuch 6y ago
Parent suggests to just run mail on your own domain. The main thing here is to avoid single point of failure as in both domains (politically induced problems) and infrastructure (technically induced problems). If people would use more than
820.
by madsbuch 6y ago
In Denmark we also have the notion of soft road user. Where pedestrians are the most soft, then bikes and lastly cars. If a car is in a traffic accident with a pedestrian or a cyclist he will always be assumed responsble.
821.
by madsbuch 6y ago
Create a problem -> Create a solution -> That create a problem -> Create a solution -> That creates a problem -> create a ... The big quesation is how derived we can be of actual value creation before wheels stop spinning...
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by madsbuch 6y ago
I am handed several terrabytes of data and is asked to find the needle in the haystack. You tell me, that I should be concerned about the UX of the scripts I develop to go through all the data and hand me the result I will answer back with?
823.
by madsbuch 6y ago
land value tax. Yes, If you decide to buy a plot in downtown San Fransisco you are taxed the same as the neighboring plot with the Salesforce tower. This is exactly the point he is making: One should put the land to good use. Move the bun
824.
by madsbuch 6y ago
> Every product ... Again, a very narrow characterization of when development happens.
825.
by madsbuch 6y ago
> Virus Checker “I’ve been dying to write a new virus scanning algorithm, so I’m jumping right into that!” -> “Let’s design the UX” So, if I am a security researcher I should worry about UX before diving into attempting to characteriz
826.
by madsbuch 6y ago
Actually, no. Try to reread the comment.
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by madsbuch 6y ago
Well, if the prices are 1. the legal tools to make Spotify not lockin ones personal content and 2. Read some random article on the internet where the publisher actively does not want to protect the readers privacy then I think I know what p
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by madsbuch 6y ago
Things like these happen, and we should be compassionate towards them. Often small changes to the structure drastically reduce probability of stuff like this happening. Eg. we use docker to setup test and dev databases and seed from (proces
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by madsbuch 6y ago
I am referring this: https://europa.eu/youreuright/your-rights_en#node-5 I am not sure about the UK and how they implement the directives. But in Denmark it is most definitely not an urban myth.
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by madsbuch 6y ago
Alright, so he bought it 4 years ago. Bu in the EU you have 2 years to start an RMA if a product is not working as expected under normal use. I reckon one would be able to turn it in to their retailer to get a new Oculus.
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by madsbuch 6y ago
What serverless does is to force the developer to have a sharp separation of code and persistence. For all cases. Even saving a small inter-request variable that lives for 5 seconds or less. What serverless does is to force scalable archite
832.
by madsbuch 6y ago
I am quite sure he is not talking about your situation. If you saturate the capacity of that car, then it seems warranted to buy it. It could also be buying that DSLR camera for going photographing twice a year instead of renting for these
833.
by madsbuch 6y ago
How does this work when I show my back garden through the video stream?
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by madsbuch 6y ago
Just like software systems legal systems should probably get "refactored" once in a while. But just like managers don't really understand that need, politicians don't either.
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by madsbuch 6y ago
The problem we solve by religiously sticking to "best practice" is the extreme engineering churn in "Silicon Valley" companies. Not spending 9 months on-boarding might be worth extra minutes on deployment, IDK...
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by madsbuch 6y ago
This program should make sure to change brightness enough to reduce the lifespan to less than 2 years. Then the user will have free lifetime updates of monitors! (I reckon this would fall perfectly within normal use of a monitor. Hence, an
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by madsbuch 6y ago
> Companies can achieve great benefit by externalizing cost on society, but should they? Yes, indeed they should. But the government also needs to claim taxes from companies to pay for these benefits. This concept is not even new, heck t
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by madsbuch 6y ago
Adding a not supported message is a design choice. The parent did not say that the library should not make a CPU implementation, just that the fallback should not be automatic. For some applications, it might be appropriate t fall back to t
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by madsbuch 6y ago
This is indeed a problem. But i think a big part of writing is organization. The organizational principles changes over time as the folder grows, and I refactor to realize new principles. For notes, this refactoring is healthy for me. It ma
840.
by madsbuch 6y ago
Only for a limited amount of time.

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