nicolashahn

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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Meta has swung hard in the other direction. Now privacy reviews are so comprehensive that development speed is significantly hampered. Some teams say they're half as productive as they were before the privacy-first changes. Meta seriou
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Facebook was not selling data then either. Users gave their explicit consent to Cambridge Analytica to use the data in the surveys. The mistake Facebook made was giving Cambridge Analytica access to those users' friends data, which q
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Meta is also not selling data to advertisers. Advertisers buy ads and Meta decides who sees them. Advertisers only find out who sees their ads once they click on them. https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Slight counterpoint - I have written Go in the past and now am working with Kotlin and to be honest, I prefer it. I wouldn't mind Kotlin being the new Java rather than Go.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I don't have hard data (do you?) but all bootcampers we were working with were laid off and threads on Blind seem to indicate bootcamper layoffs were heavy
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Recent hires who haven't yet been allocated to a team, though they do work with teams on real tasks and produce code. Usually non-specialists, though some like ML engineers do go through bootcamp.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Nope, other comments are correct, Reality Labs, aka AR/VR and other hardware
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Some data from the inside: Reality Labs (AR/VR) hit less hard than the rest of the company. No one on my team or adjacent teams let go. Most bootcampers (unallocated new hires) are gone, even ones that were performing well. Low perform
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Some data from the inside: RL hit less hard than the rest of the company. No one on my team or adjacent teams let go. Most bootcampers are gone, even ones that were performing well. Low performer from my past team outside RL was let go, so
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I'd be happy to if they were open to it. The network effect means that that's not going to happen any time soon though. It's also not the only feature that matters to me, though. Also, their stories are brand new, so likely n
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
You know you can message people in Instagram, right?
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
You woke up and chose violence today, didn't you? Or is it just so impossible to believe that a social media product actually promotes pro-social behaviors?
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Disclaimer: positive sentiment towards Meta app I'm a millennial and I use Instagram (mainly stories) as the primary tool for keeping in touch with people. It's easier to share an image, maybe with a short caption, rather than com
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
How so? The only thing Instagram sacrificed to add Stories was some real estate at the top of the screen for the Stories bar. I would say adding Reels has been more invasive because those show up in your feed.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
If you can do more with one programmer, then you need less programmers, and demand for programmers goes down.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
That's basically the situation for any torrent client
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Data which can distinguish a citizen's political leanings so they can serve the proper content to influence elections, harvested just through the data from their viewing habits
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Is that something we want a foreign borderline hostile state to be doing?
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
These pictures are fantastic. For anyone but professionals the reasons to buy a DSLR or mirrorless are virtually gone.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Carr is calling on congress to craft a bill, so that's in line with this. The situation is different there because the threat is different - the greatest threat from China is if they have a backdoor to US gov devices. The greatest thre
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I think this is a bigger problem, from the article: > Carr highlighted concerns about U.S. data flowing back to China and the risk of a state actor using TikTok to covertly influence political processes in the United States.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Maybe. For Android it's very easy to sideload, just share a link for an APK download and then open it. Easy and quick enough for even a TikTok-addled ADD brain to do.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Very related ban of Huawei, ZTE tech: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/13/17686310/huawei-zte-us-go... It was known that these companies actively work with the CCP against US interests, which is the same
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I think preventing the CCP from accessing private data of American citizens probably falls under normal statecraft actions
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Twitter is already just a subset of Facebook
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
As long as Zuck is in charge, yes.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I don't think the "metaverse" needs to succeed as much as the hardware does. A set of AR glasses that aren't bulky or sci-fi enables a huge amount of brand new functionality, on maybe even more than smartphones did. In t
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I've been wanting this for a long time. Any way I could get it as a live updating widget for my Android home screen?
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
It's more likely that you gave your phone number out somewhere more sketchy. The personal email thing sounds like straight fraud. As someone who works for Meta and and sees all the privacy trainings and the hoops you have to jump throu
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Can you also acknowledge that 1 and 3 of section 3 are false? It absolutely does not need a PC/wifi to use. Source: I have one on my desk.

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