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by petilon 7y ago
Previously the CEO only had to ask, are all of my employees using ChromeBooks? Now he also has to ask, are those ChromeBooks all configured for security? It used to be a simple question, which could be answered at a glance. The new question
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by petilon 7y ago
>The best practice when it comes to bad news is Robert Dilenschneider's advice to "tell it all and tell it fast" When it comes to disclosing hacks, standard practice is to disclose a small hack first then disclose that t
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by petilon 7y ago
This breaks the security benefits of Chromebooks. One of the advantages of Chromebooks is that hackers can't persuade naive users to download and run binaries. Previously a company could issue Chromebooks to all employees and know that
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Beijing’s one-child policy is gone. But many Chinese reluctant to have more(washingtonpost.com)
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Apple's industrial design team was great when Steve Jobs was alive. After his passing the team hasn't produced anything good. Take Homepod for example. It is an amorphous blob. Google Home has a better industrial design, and so do
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by petilon 8y ago
Unit tests are not an adequate replacement for compile-time checks performed by a compiler. The former is lax and expensive, the latter is thorough and inexpensive.
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by petilon 8y ago
Python is a fine, accessible language for small programs. ML applications need to be written by data scientists, who are often trained in statistics or math, not software development. For this reason Python is suitable. ML applications buil
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by petilon 8y ago
And that's the reason we need the EU to make more laws like GDPR and the "right to be forgotten". The US is controlled by big business, so there is no realistic hope that the US will make laws to protect our privacy from corp
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by petilon 8y ago
You can use JSX syntax for building web components using this tiny library: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
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by petilon 8y ago
There is more: the airframe of the 737 MAX is not in and of itself stable. Because of the forward positioning of the large engines, the MAX's airframe has a tendency to pitch up when accelerating. Boeing decided to fix this hardware pr
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by petilon 8y ago
When an aircraft pitches up, it increases the angle of attack, right? (If not MCAS would not be a fix for the pitching up problem.) And the pitching up can happen during normal flights, correct?
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by petilon 8y ago
>> A normal flight should not encounter this. What is your source? This is not what I have been reading. What I have been reading is that the MAX has a bigger engine and this engine has been positioned forward on the wing in order to
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by petilon 8y ago
Sacrificing safety in order to reduce cost is unjustifiable. When you design a multi-layer system, the higher layers should be for enhanced functionalities, not for fixing flaws in lower layers. Boeing designed flawed hardware (yes, it was
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by petilon 8y ago
So in other words they designed it this way in order to make the 737 MAX is cheaper to operate, and therefore easier to sell. That's terrible. Boeing traded off safety for profits.
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by petilon 8y ago
This is the most revelatory news for me: The MAX has larger engines than previous 737s, and they are in a slightly different position. As a result, the plane has a tendency to pitch its nose up. To keep that from getting out of control if
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by petilon 8y ago
It is possible override it, but pilots weren't trained on how. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/us-pilots-want-more...
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by petilon 8y ago
> Decoration distracts. This is the principle that lead to the abhorrent and unusable flat design. Sometimes, lack of decoration distracts. Because it is this "decoration" that makes things look familiar. Without the decoratio
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by petilon 8y ago
Well then you should move to China, seeing as you prefer their system.
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by petilon 8y ago
> What incentive is there for corporations [...] to invest in its own people Where does this obligation come from, especially considering most large corporations are multinational? > The idea that a nation of 350 million people can&#
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by petilon 8y ago
> most of the foreign born workers in silicon valley are people who immigrated to the US as children Where did you get this stat? You're calling others liars while posting questionable stats yourself.
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by petilon 8y ago
> It does not grant any immigration benefits. Red herring. He made no such claim. Dual intent acknowledges that these people aren't just visitors, they may stay forever.
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by petilon 8y ago
I ordered a copy of Deep Learning [1] from Amazon last week. On Barnes & Noble [2] the book costs $76.80. On Amazon it is just $28.00. I received the book a couple of days ago. The pages look like it was printed using a low-resolution p
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by petilon 8y ago
There are better ways to build components. The problem with React components is that they are only compatible with React. What if there was a way to build components in a better way, and what if those components were compatible with all cur
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by petilon 8y ago
At some point you have to have state. See where "state should live" here: https://reactjs.org/docs/thinking-in-react.html But the very fact that we're having this debate is proving my point. React's
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by petilon 8y ago
You have to deal with multiple languages in any case: Java/C#/etc for the server logic, HTML for rendering and CSS for styling. You also have to deal with whatever syntax you are using to embed expressions in the template. If you
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by petilon 8y ago
Then you aren't benefiting from React at all. The point of React is DOM diffing, which you trigger using setState method.
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by petilon 8y ago
React requires too much incantations, rituals and ceremony. You have props and state, context, error boundaries, refs, keys, you have to figure out where state should live, etc. You make a component that contains state. Then you want to use
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by petilon 8y ago
> You don't get much simpler than Redux. Not true. With Redux you write reams of actions and reducers and other such unnecessary crap in the name of state management, when in fact most client apps don't have state, all they do
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React, Redux and other such libs solve the problem while overcomplicating the programming model. My point is that 99% of applications don't need the complexity introduced by surgically making the smallest possible change in the DOM to
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by petilon 8y ago
I couldn't disagree with this article more. Developing SPAs is easier than server-render applications. The problem is React, Redux, and other such libs make this more complicated than necessary. React is all about surgically making the

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