omnimike

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by omnimike 2y ago
Necessity is the mother of invention (not laziness). The internet was invented for surviving nuclear war with Russia. We say laziness motivates us to become more efficient, but I can’t agree. It’s people who want or need to get things done
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by omnimike 2y ago
Sorry, you misunderstand. I’m not defending billionaires, I’m condemning politicians. Politicians and policy should not be for sale in the first place. The fact that they are means, yes, rich people have more power to control policy, but th
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by omnimike 2y ago
Money only gets you things when you spend it. Real power is how much money you have to spend, not the market cap of the companies you own. There’s a tired meme that billionaires are somehow more powerful than the politicians in charge of al
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by omnimike 3y ago
I can’t give specifics, I know someone who had to deal with “delete me” requests from these “privacy” companies. The privacy company would literally take your personal info (name, email), and _email it to every company they could think of_
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by omnimike 3y ago
> It's because it ensures everyone can use the same web and gives the user agent as much power as possible to act on the user's behalf. Those aren't the principles underlying HTML, and I doubt Tim Berners-Lee was thinking
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by omnimike 3y ago
I interpreted this post completely differently. I think it is talking specifically about design principles for code/systems. The core thesis appears to be "principles should be based on what works in practice, not what sounds good
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by omnimike 3y ago
The example given in the post was using <div>s rather than semantic HTML elements. The motivation for the principle of using "semantic HTML elements" comes from the lofty ideals of the Semantic Web[0]. However, these princip
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by omnimike 4y ago
The thing I don’t like about EasyMotion like plug-ins is that they require you to react to information which only appears on screen after you start to jump. With Leap it looks like it amortizes the cost of reacting by giving you the informa
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by omnimike 5y ago
The reason for the focus on CPU time is that it has the larger impact on battery life.
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by omnimike 5y ago
This is likely very deliberate. Publishing error rates of vendor equipment could violate NDAs or just damage vendor relations. The number of units purchased can be used by stock market analysts to predict FB growth or vendor sales, so the P
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by omnimike 5y ago
> the article doesn’t actually do is give a good answer as to why you should be allowed to make false statements in the knowledge it will cause harm to others While it's not explicitly called out in the article, it has given me the
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by omnimike 5y ago
I looked at Annoy at the time but from memory it required rebuilding the index every time a new vector is inserted, which was an issue for the project I was working on. I assume that Vlad takes care of the reindexing in the background, whic
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by omnimike 5y ago
I’m really glad this exists and is open source. Two years ago I was working on a project that really could have benefitted from a strong ANN search engine but couldn’t find one. In the end I brute forced it (we only had 100k vectors to sear
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by omnimike 5y ago
Give that the data leak is 2+ years old I’m wondering why it’s getting so much attention in the media right now, just as FB hits record highs. The cynic inside me suspects that this is actually a ploy to manipulate the stock price, though I
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by omnimike 5y ago
> Gee, that sounds a lot like someone abused your contact importer tool to do something you didn't intend for it to do. From the article it appears that the contact importer is an API endpoint which returns a set of Facebook profile
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by omnimike 7y ago
I would argue that as soon as they asked to change the format the first time then the template solution is no long over engineering as it has been demonstrated that the format can and will change. In general I wouldn’t call it over engineer
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by omnimike 10y ago
While I completely agree that some programmers can be 10x more productive than other ones, I think it's far more common to see programmers who LOOK 10x more productive than others. It's very hard to compare people who have differe
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by omnimike 14y ago
Why do you think moving to an Asian country would make it easier to get a job? Do you think it's that much easier to get a job when you have more people to compete with? Do you think they only work 40 hour weeks? I really don't think that