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by mcherm 1y ago
I am a big fan of having deep-pocketed corporations pay huge amounts of money to pay for open source products. I suppose this fits into that category.
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by mcherm 1y ago
TV shows are certainly allowed to edit what they show. Also, anyone is allowed to sue anyone for anything. I could sue you for posting that comment on Hacker News. If the lawsuit has no basis in law then they will lose. BUT -- 60 Minutes is
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by mcherm 1y ago
I'm using Firefox on Android. For me, it showed a question and two answers, but all attempts to select an answer failed.
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by mcherm 1y ago
This seems quite promising: an effective treatment for a problem that frequently assails many people, and a treatment which is so simple and easy to apply. In fact, it seems so promising, that it raises my hackles of suspicion. I would very
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by mcherm 1y ago
> The actual method of conversion involves a complicated curve that isn't continuous Isn't continuous? Really? That seems surprising to me; tell me more.
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by mcherm 1y ago
This is a strange sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. Effectively, your argument says that if there is any step, whether wise or foolish, kind or cruel, that some take, all must take it or risk being found negligent. That's no way to run
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by mcherm 1y ago
> US laid off employees also get 3-6 months of full pay and benefits. Some employers may decide to give a few months of pay and benefits to laid off employees (although 6 months would be unusually large) but it is definitely not required
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by mcherm 2y ago
> To the layman all it means is that the source is open (accessible to the public). I disagree. To the layman I think "open source" means "I can use it for free". Which in this case may not be true depending on your e
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by mcherm 2y ago
There is a HUGE difference between what the NYT article is reporting on and the case you describe. Certainly the Massachusetts case you describe is as bad as -- probably worse than -- the Texas case described by the NYT article. But the NYT
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by mcherm 2y ago
> people without the credential can still be good at their job Yes, and some can be very bad at their job. The goal of requiring one to pass a bar exam in order to practice law is to minimize the number of practicioners who are horribly
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by mcherm 2y ago
Yes, that does describe the current thinking (and behavior) of many US citizens. So the key question is this: how do we go about CHANGING those attitudes? The steps Jeff takes in this announcement seems like an excellent "lead by examp
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by mcherm 2y ago
I would say a reason to limit the attention paid to it. If some crank came to me with a perpetual motion machine I might take 2 minutes to ask them, "So how does this account for the conservation of energy?" If their first respons
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by mcherm 2y ago
Why on Earth would I trust this?
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by mcherm 2y ago
OK, that's a really solid reason. Thank you! For me, it suggests that someone like you might not mind creating an account on a system I run (because I allow anonymous account creation without anything at all although providing an email
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by mcherm 2y ago
I am curious -- what is your concern about creating an account? Is it security? Privacy? The need to keep track of it?
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by mcherm 2y ago
One important caveat: I recommend that managers take on coding tasks that are SMALL and UNIMPORTANT. Leave the key work for the front-lune developers (feel free to code review it).
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by mcherm 2y ago
One of the good things about this article is that it linked to a significant number of Firefox forks that are being offered.
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by mcherm 2y ago
I truly do not use WhatsApp or Facebook, and I do not find myself cut off from the world in the way you describe. For instance, family groups communicate via text messages and/or email threads. Maybe my family DOES also communicate via
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by mcherm 2y ago
The US does not have a law requiring all messaging applications to store historical messages and provide access for law enforcement to decrypt and view all messages. The US may (or may not) be capable of decrypting Signal messages themselve
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by mcherm 2y ago
I suppose that is simply intended as a joke, but to me it falls flat since JSON is a data format not a programming language. JSON cannot parse anything.
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by mcherm 2y ago
In the US, this is a reference to the belief that members of law enforcement should be loyal folirst to other members of law enforcement and only secondarily to the law. Or at least that is how I have always understood it.
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by mcherm 2y ago
Unless I am missing something, the article doesn't actually explain HOW this was done, nor does it link to a research paper or other source that explains it. In my mind, this disqualifies this article from being something "that go
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by mcherm 2y ago
Where DOES it belong, if not there?
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by mcherm 2y ago
> the techniques to manage the headcount people are different I would like to hear a little bit more about those techniques. The only one I am aware of is to make sure that you have promotions under your belt: The arm's-length peopl
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by mcherm 2y ago
If the requirements of the exercise had been "write FizzBuzz" then I would agree: doing weird tricks like this rather than writing straightforward code is a red flag. But the requirements were "write FizzBuzz in ANY language.
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by mcherm 2y ago
An an American, I also find it outrageous. In fact, as I understand it, our most fundamental law (the Constitution) clearly guarantees "freedom of speech and freedom of the press" which specifically means that the government may N
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by mcherm 2y ago
> The reality is that bug bounty hunters are deploying a significant percentage of the total malicious NPM packages each month. I don't actually think that is a bad thing. The TSA screening at airports would be vastly better if TSA
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by mcherm 2y ago
Nearly all the levers of control of the US government to almost no control over the US government: that's a massive advantage. I can't help believing this, not the popular vote, is the motivation.
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by mcherm 2y ago
> Without that App Store revenue, those $999 iPhones would simply see a price increase. Why would that happen instead of Apple taking less profit overall? I suspect that Apple's pricing for phones is based on primarily on what the c
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by mcherm 2y ago
The article on it [1] says that, "The new result probably won’t have such practical applications, for which there are many considerations beyond theoretical optimality guarantees." [1] https://www.quantamagazine.org&#x2

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