mojuba

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by mojuba 7y ago
The UNIX shell is not just nice, for people like me it's crucial. And mind you we are talking about Windows vs. macOS here, not macOS vs. everything else.
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by mojuba 7y ago
True, I think it was in various discussions here on HN including maybe under Tim Bray's article too. Same kind of rumors were circulating regarding AMP. There is still no direct evidence that Google's web plugins matter, but at le
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by mojuba 7y ago
Everything you mentioned is possible but needs a lot of product management level refinement. Also I'd be wary of all kinds of adjustable and adaptive stuff since they create a bubble that may be difficult to escape should you become cu
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by mojuba 7y ago
There is some evidence that older pages (>10 years old) drop out if they don't use any of Google's plugins. I think it was Tim Bray who was one of the first who noticed [1] I also found another case of a lot of un-googleable re
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by mojuba 7y ago
DDG mostly uses Bing, Yahoo and Yandex (anonymized). To be honest apart from some obviously spammy web sites that rank high only on Google, their search results don't seem to be significantly different. My impression anyway. And so we
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by mojuba 7y ago
Experiment with your own web sites? Create two of them with and without GA, possibly with different content because Google seems to be able to detect duplication, then try to promote both (this is the difficult part of course) and compare.
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by mojuba 7y ago
Doesn't seem to be the case [1] The article that comments on this chart says other sources (non-ad ones) look promising but it more sounds like a speculation because I don't see real signs of that. [1] https://www.theat
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by mojuba 7y ago
Looking back, this is one of Paul Graham's essays that changed the way I code and think about coding more than anything else did. I can't re-submit this enough. Myself, never used Lisp in production but I get that Lisp probably su
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Succinctness Is Power (2002)(paulgraham.com)
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by mojuba 7y ago
"Losing our support" means a process, it doesn't mean everybody hates Google now, of course it's not the case. > I always question the agenda of people promoting this. My only agenda is my growing frustration with usi
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by mojuba 7y ago
It is true that online shopping and online ads alone have created a whole new industry in a very business sense of the word. The change happened some time towards the end of the 1990s. However, imagine you discover a new continent with vast
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by mojuba 7y ago
The difference between 1994 and 2014 seems more quantitative though. Here we are talking about the ownership of the referral traffic and how those companies who own it try to benefit from it. Nothing that happened between 1994 and 2014 come
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by mojuba 7y ago
True but I think the parallel between Google and MS (of the 2000s) is more interesting in terms of the vital signs in their organization rather than on the product level. Because Windows was only improving from release to release, while Sea
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by mojuba 7y ago
In addition, what's changed between 2017 and now is that back then Google was still admired by the tech people. "Google is evil" sounded ridiculous only a few years ago. I've been ridiculed by my colleagues and fellow en
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by mojuba 7y ago
True, but my point was that it seems like usefulness can be created out of the think air, i.e. you don't discover it (or miss it) but instead you direct your obsession towards usefulness by adding complexity. I think maths is a great e
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by mojuba 7y ago
Just to point out, we not only find stuff where our obsession lies, we can sometimes create complexity and interesting stuff where it lies, out of the thin air. I'm obsessed about audio/music tech. Some part of this area is imme
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by mojuba 7y ago
I think they are betting on managers and in this regard it's going to work out well for them. After all Slack is a company thing (slowly turning into corporate thing) i.e. the decision to use it will likely be made by those who like WY
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by mojuba 7y ago
> For all Facebook knows about me they've always been exceptionally bad at advertising to me Because it's not Facebook really, it's the advertisers who choose targeting criteria. You as an advertiser have a myriad of optio
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by mojuba 7y ago
You can learn the basics of DJ-ing on digital decks in an hour. However, it can take years of practicing to reach a level of a mediocre DJ who can lead a party with a lot of people you don't know. DJ-ing is a surprisingly difficult und
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by mojuba 7y ago
It's HL√3 (i.e. between 1 and 2 in terms of the story, as I understand it)
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by mojuba 7y ago
The irony of "non-personally identifiable information" is that there is no such thing. Just show me your regular everyday travel destinations, i.e. mostly home -> work -> home and I will identify you. Not to mention card pur
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by mojuba 7y ago
Sure, but I'm talking about the style of programming where people throw code left and right with the expectation that others (users, QA) will find bugs, catalog them nicely, assign numbers, and then hopefully someone else will fix all
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by mojuba 7y ago
You know I want to be very honest about this (since I've already got a lot of downvotes in this post, no harm in getting more :) Having been in this industry for 30 years I firmly believe that bugs should be fixed by those who introduc
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by mojuba 7y ago
I was replying to: > When good developers work on something it should get better over time. Which is obviously wrong as a generalization. Again, I have nothing against GCC and its team, but codebases in general do tend to get worse over
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by mojuba 7y ago
> When good developers work on something it should get better over time No doubt only the best developers can work on something like a compiler or an OS kernel. A lot of the times though OSS gets worse over time or is not improving at al
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by mojuba 7y ago
It did, though I think the support of languages and HW platforms is still a bit limited compared to gcc?
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by mojuba 7y ago
GCC 9.x? I'm stuck in the time when GCC 2.95 was a (buggy) thing everyone relied on until 4.x stabilized. Never used GCC ever since. GCC is an important piece of software, probably as important as the Linux kernel, but by now I presum
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by mojuba 7y ago
Unfortunately the majority of more or less useful or popular apps are also linked against various analytics/attribution platforms, often many of them at once. Mixpanel, Amplitude, AppsFlyer, Branch to name a few, plus Facebook and&#x2F
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by mojuba 7y ago
Still pretty limiting. Can you have a farm market in the park? Street performances? Protests/rallies? Small towns are not only inefficient, they are also very limiting. Just merge a bunch of typical American suburbs into a city with de
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by mojuba 7y ago
It is true and I wonder if the tech people aren't becoming the privileged class who knows ways of not feeding the big corporations. For example, it takes a lot of effort and energy for me to explain to non-technical people that compari

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