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by matt_s 7y ago
Think of most major news networks as advertisement companies, inclusive of their "news" broadcast. The outrage is there to get people to watch the ads. Social media is just a step more, they want the outrage because it causes re
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The decision that solves a lot of problems is for social media sites to just not allow political ads of any kind. How much of their revenue is based on political ads?
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Nope. Every other work day at any time is fine. In fact multiple prod deploys per day is perfectly fine. Sometimes something has to be coordinated but we try to prevent that with feature flags or putting "shims" of code in to bri
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Specifically to allow easier changes: abstraction, encapsulation and separation of concerns. An example would be if you have a module that calls a REST API to get/put something (say time sheets for your invoicing app), then have that b
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If the incentive were financial based on the cost per copy of printing, a 10,000 student school with .02 per copy is still only $200 to print a paper form per kid. You're also talking about collecting personal data (contact info, medic
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A lot of anonymous internet based interactions have the building blocks for hate to form along with stupidity. Its not gamer culture it is anonymous and distant-interation internet culture.
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I suspect muzani was referring to it as an investment vehicle, not a rating on the food. How often do you see a McDonalds closing for good?
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> 4. How much does this even matter? It could matter a lot of a kid is motivated enough. They could start now and at the very least end up developing skills like video editing, publishing, maybe even coding or a deeper understanding o
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That's the thing though, there isn't much reading or depth. The majority of sites are like those cheesy carnival games trying to get people to "step right up" and are just as rigged as the games to try and keep you aroun
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Stop watching videos or reading about games. Recognize when the game developer has engineered the game to get you stuck into a feedback loop of repeating the same activities for changing some numbers (level, gear, loot, etc.) A hint is ga
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The tech is nice and all but there is only so much market penetration to be done in the luxury car segment. I would put the Model 3 in the luxury segment as well since you can get a base BMW 3 series for almost the same money ($40k). Peopl
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by matt_s 8y ago
If employers want to reduce US health care spending, why don't they band together and lobby Congress to introduce legislation to reduce health care costs? I have a gut feeling it is the insurance companies that set ever increasing rate
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A breach that involves a technical vulnerability is one of those things that happens, gets patched and everyone moves on. One of the things when establishing a contract with a company like Wipro is that they operate on your systems from loc
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Maybe don't drink coffee? Or replace coffee with some other caffeine source. Or find a less bitter coffee. There are a lot more varieties of coffee that aren't mainstream that don't have the bitterness of mass produced stuff.
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A simple approach would be to not automate things that don't need automating. I think as developers we get a little too far ahead of ourselves. The failure on the MAX was related to computers moving controlled surfaces (flaps, rudder,
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A example of a solution without a problem. Hardcore gamers, and by that I mean people that spend a lot of time playing graphically intense games, have their own gaming PC's and keep up with hardware. So they aren't the customer,
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Yes and what I was alluding to is how do you know if it was buggy or you were just outmatched? If what you perceive happening leaves you thinking a bug caused your demise and not poor strategy, crappy gear, etc. then you will accumulate an
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The competitive gamers that play PvP have a lot of feedback for game developers since bugs, design flaws, etc. can impact their gameplay and chance of winning. At least from the perspective of a gamer that is. For example they play a battl
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To what end? Honestly ask yourself about when the last time was where you were convinced to change your mind on something in an internet forum. A site like that would be filled with the programmer equivalent of vim vs emacs. In a subject l
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Voting is an area where we don't need automation or fast results. Typically a newly elected person doesn't take office for days or months after an election, right? Paper ballots cannot be hacked at scale. Properly designed paper
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Of all places I doubt CFA would replace workers, having nice, helpful people is the second awesome-est thing there (chicken and waffle fries tops that). I can see the automation and analytics helping staff appropriately and offer more optio
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A myth about manufacturing jobs is that they all went overseas. Reality is that most of them were replaced by robots and automation. Low skill, low knowledge, repetitive work is key target for automation. Fast food workers wouldn't ha
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If a manager is turned off by "motherfucking website" do you think you will enjoy working for that person/company? If you arrange your portfolio site as mostly completely professional and then have a "beer coding fun pro
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I honestly couldn't care less about search results in China. Why aren't they protesting about their technology potentially being abused during election cycles in US? That is something that hits closer to home for me. There is som
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Money. YouTube revenue is via advertising, they want to keep your eyeballs on their videos. They probably have search/google history of you going to CNN or something and then present suggested videos from "there". They don
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This is why when you read memoirs of CIA officers they most always state human trade-craft will trump technical gadgetry all the time.
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I'm not the above poster but I think its an innate tendency to understand how things work, down to the lowest possible level. I find myself doing this when learning a new language, wanting to understand how the internals of something
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Is the hate of the job just general hate for any job? If that is the case, it won't matter what profession you choose if someone doesn't like the way humans have structured society. One option is to go work a different job for
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We as software engineers make a damn good amount of money for literally sitting down all day and basically bossing computers around. It is not slavery. I enjoy what I do and am making decent money doing it. If I won the lottery with FU mo
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I think the big difference is you didn't hear of heavy metal or rock bands hiring psychologists to engineer their product. There was an element of TV and advertising to sell you a physical product. What is different with tech is the s

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