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by olliej 2y ago
It hasn’t paid in decades - it’s well established that the most effective way to increase comp is to change employer not hope for recognition. Employers refuse to provide even basic inflation matching compensation increases, and report what
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by olliej 2y ago
Super disappointed by the article, but 100% because I read the title as "The big lie about sheep" and was super interested in finding out what _that_ lie was. Now I want that article to exist.
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Yeah, this essentially the old "parse json with eval" (or more generally configuration file is code, but json vs eval was a ceaseless problem that was fairly regularly actually exploited rather than just being theoretically exploi
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by olliej 2y ago
and you agree to no liability if we leak your CC info
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by olliej 2y ago
“Planned for 2027” does not sound like they’ve brought anything? Why are we posting pure marketing fluff to HN?
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by olliej 2y ago
While I obviously disagree with your prior comment, I feel "What" is a pretty much perfect comment here. +1. What.
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by olliej 2y ago
Can’t wait for my 6 months of Free Credit Monitoring (tm)
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by olliej 2y ago
Developers just replaced IE as the only thing they develop for with chrome, users then _have_ to use chrome because of web developers who only develop for chrome and consider any behaviour other than "it works in chrome" as a bug
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by olliej 2y ago
That depends on what your use case is, but because we're considering MT we can assume there's nothing remotely related to cryptography so there are plenty of options. In practice people seem to have adopted the various xorshift st
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by olliej 2y ago
Came here to say that same thing. Why did you steal my thoughts? :D
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by olliej 2y ago
(For now) :-/
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by olliej 2y ago
I give him more of a pass on CFCs, for lead he was actively claiming it was safe despite knowing for a fact (to the extent that he avoided it whenever possible) that it was incredibly dangerous. Then he died by getting strangled in a tracti
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by olliej 2y ago
oh, ubuntu added ads to the motd at some point? I was about to profess surprise, but then I remembered that Firefox injected spyware and ads as well so I guess it's a given these days :-/
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yeah, that was my edit but I realize I didn't actually clarify that just what it was doing. But it then will just claim your account has been compromised until you give them a number :D
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by olliej 2y ago
I assumed it was already dead, just on a lark I went to sign in and it appears to require a phone number now, not my old number? so I guess it has not actually been "ICQ" in a while? edit: ah, they're doing the odious "u
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by olliej 2y ago
So sick of “proposed” or requested penalties being in headlines as if they are the actual consequence
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ah yeah that's fair :D
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by olliej 2y ago
Alternatively, try any other OS, including older windows, where there are just no ads to turn off in the first place. Windows has the worst ads, comparing it to something totally unrelated like webpages is nonsensical.
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by olliej 2y ago
But recall isn’t that, it’s just a log of everything you type and do with the computer for attackers to compromise. So that what, it opens your calendar in the morning? You don’t need anything like what recall is doing to achieve shit like
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by olliej 2y ago
Not sure this would have counted as “losing it to the public domain” - accidentally leaking the sources doesn’t negate copyright (presumably just trade secrets stuff by Iqbal)
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People don’t write application code in those languages but as I understand it cobol is still underpinning large swathes of the financial system, and similar applies to fortran in engineering and scientific computing.
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by olliej 2y ago
HN is filled with startup bros (who want to screw the actual employees), VC adjacent brow (who want to screw the startup bros), and people who signed up for massively discounted compensation in the form of “equity” that cannot be converted
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:D
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Ah ha, I knew I had a “turbo” modula-2 but remembered it wasn’t actually Borland, but couldn’t remember anything else about so didn’t know what to google right now. Thanks for digging it up!
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by olliej 2y ago
The core issue with this is that I don’t think people have free market choice of rental accommodation? That’s the entire reason for stratospheric rent increases: property is increasingly mass owned by corporations, that collude on pricing.
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by olliej 2y ago
As I say over and over again: equity compensation from a non-publicly traded company should not be accepted as a surrogate for below market compensation. If a startup wants to provide compensation to employees via equity, then those employe
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by olliej 2y ago
No because all the AI is doing is making up statistically plausible sounding nonsense? The best case output is a correct summary of the documentation page - why add a huge amount of power use alongside massive privacy invasion just to deal
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by olliej 2y ago
So now Google wants to have access to content developers are working on before it’s even public is what I’m hearing?
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Yes but you can do the same for android, windows, different game consoles, etc Forums can make tiny groups of people look large because they all aggregate in one place. The same thing allowed flat earthers and such to believe they have huge
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by olliej 2y ago
Number 14 is just wrong, or rather its explanation is wrong. It’s technically correct: not all objects have prototypes (you can trivially make an object without one or remove it from an existing object). The rest of that “answer” is just no

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