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by pacala 9y ago
There are indeed many definitions of work. I'm using "something produced or accomplished by effort, exertion, or exercise of skill", https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work . But then again, manag
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by pacala 9y ago
Google is [was?] a geek company. You could get a good pay by being really good at coding. Most companies out there, the only way to get a high compensation is to play Games of Thrones on the management ladder. Actually doing any work is shu
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by pacala 9y ago
+1. Nothing promotes the ability to produce quality code like being woken at 3am to troubleshot a problem 3 microservices away from your own. In my anecdotical experience, the ability to recover from such incidents degrades with age, so now
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by pacala 9y ago
You could easily anonymize the location up to, for example, a 50x50 miles rectangle. Or you could state in your EULA "we don't keep the location your device sends to our servers for more than 30 minutes." > It is difficult
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by pacala 9y ago
"We need real-world audio samples" does not entail "let's collect audio [and behavioral] data from one billion users". There are less intrusive ways to collect data. How about paying specific individuals for their d
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by pacala 9y ago
This is not a technological issue. This is a policy issue. The total size of Wikipedia text is 12 GB. The total size of a state-sized chunk of maps.me is under a GB. The total memory of an iPhone is 32GB - 256GB. I can store the entirety of
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by pacala 9y ago
Right. opt-out vs opt-in. http://danariely.com/2008/05/05/3-main-lessons-of-psychology PS. Kindly explain why Google Maps really wants to stalk my location even when not using it actively. It's been forc
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by pacala 9y ago
Always on cameras, always on mics, that's a new low even for Google. Technically they are not yet uploading everything into the cloud, but who in his right mind is trusting Google on privacy anymore? From Google Maps the other day &quo
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by pacala 9y ago
Tooling matters. IDEs matter. Kotlin has Intellij backing.
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by pacala 9y ago
Google's game is planet scale systems. Cloud SQL is woefully inadequate, basically a single machine DB with replication. Datastore is built on Megastore, which is the precursor to Spanner, largely confined to a handful of nearly locate
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by pacala 9y ago
A lot of people can clone a TCP/IP alike stack + a router by themselves in less than a year. Assuming one only needs to clone the product function, "route packets over a network", not all the concrete implementation details.
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by pacala 9y ago
Intellij: View type info [on Mac: Ctrl + Shift + P]. Of any [sub]expression. Whenever you care about that level of detail. On-demand self-documented code.
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by pacala 9y ago
Like safari and chrome for WebKit
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by pacala 10y ago
Paying doesn't help. You end up with the money and your personal info gone.
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by pacala 10y ago
They fired their android guy. They gave android to their chrome guy and made him the CEO.
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by pacala 10y ago
Fun parable. Glossing over details. Like getting a tooth implant here and there, repairing your house after a storm, or buying food in a bad season.
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by pacala 10y ago
Google.com is today's Ai. No reason to believe it will stop improving.
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by pacala 10y ago
I'm deferring so much of my details knowledge to google that's it not even funny. Even for casual lunch convos I pull the phone to google specific facts. I'd rather have a less intrusive and awkward interface.
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by pacala 10y ago
It shows that observed mixture of populations doesn't imply peaceful coexistence. Which refutes the main thesis of the article / research.
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by pacala 10y ago
> Some bones suggested that the individual was born into a roaming tribe but later settled down; others indicated the opposite lifestyle change. Not sure what history Susanne Hakenbeck studies, but asiatic hersdmen populations in Easte
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by pacala 10y ago
Yablo paradox is so cool. Imagine an infinite sequence of sentences S1, S2, S3, ..., (S1) for all k >1, Sk is untrue (S2) for all k >2, Sk is untrue (S3) for all k >3, Sk is untrue ... Perhaps another argum
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by pacala 10y ago
How does this compare/relate with LastPass?
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by pacala 10y ago
Every time people get a realistic economical option, they majority choses to live in their own spacious dwelling. The utopia of crowded cities where people stack on top of each other, just for the sake of walking / biking everywhere, i
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by pacala 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque
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by pacala 10y ago
One of the observations in programming language semantic proofs is that one doesn't need coinduction. Statements can be proven by good old fashion induction, by indexing them with the number of steps in the computation, then proving th
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by pacala 10y ago
Not following Java very closely and using Scala as a better Java. Is there hope to get case-class POJOs in Java itself?
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by pacala 10y ago
OP is about Scala, where you write directly what you mean, without special operators: val usefulMetric = if (wantComplexCalc) { complexCalc(foo) } else { simpleCalc(foo) }
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by pacala 10y ago
It makes zero economic sense [at the individual level]. As a society, we've largely resigned to care about of the future of the native population and instead propose immigration to solve the "children are too damn expensive"
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by pacala 10y ago
Raising children is the ultimate expense. It makes zero economic sense, it only makes biological sense. Biological, as in a people with no children ceases to exist in a historical blip. Our metrics and the policies they drive are solely con
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by pacala 10y ago
What is different about centralized compute power compared with centralized energy production?

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