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by pnt12 5y ago
"But I'm..." A specific user from a niche geek website, a rounding error, an anecdote. I'm glad for those fighting against these walled garden overlords, but let's keep in mind we're talking about a side with t
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by pnt12 5y ago
"The people" who do it are less than 1% of "the people" a government represents. There are already laws in most countries forbidding you to litter, and you would never call that "playing God" - it just happens
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by pnt12 5y ago
This might be Elon Musk's objective, not Tesla's (whatever that means, as that will be a different thing if you ask it to one of its board members, to a sales person, to a developer, etc).
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by pnt12 5y ago
Google doesn't give a damn about you, but Google would very much care about discussions within UN to pressure modification of its products. That's the difference. You can go on technicalities, but being technically correctt is th
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by pnt12 5y ago
Sometimes, the free market does work.
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by pnt12 5y ago
To me that's a great feature from Spotify, as I like exploring lota a lot of different genres and sounds. But I can see that is a personal taste and others would prefer a different experince.
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by pnt12 5y ago
That's a big design flaw from the premise itself - it works if the code has no bugs, but all code has bugs, therefore it does not work
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by pnt12 5y ago
That's a very convenient excuse by CEOs and board members, I don't buy the propaganda. Let's be critical here: if a big company has no or little adversaries, do they start paying more taxes? Of course not, everyone enjoys pro
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by pnt12 5y ago
It is completely possible that there was a strong bias. With that said, all research has its limits. I think the authors have been very honest to discuss their findings and the limitation of the context - best case scenario someone takes th
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by pnt12 5y ago
>for whatever reason The vast majority of the population does not know what a communication protocol is. They know whatsapp is a messaging app, their friends are on it, and they can use it to reach them. If you speak in a language they u
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by pnt12 5y ago
I think it's false. Hunter gatherer communities (no societies back there) lived by what they could find - either hunt animals or look for fruits, plants and mushrooms. Then there was a shift towards agricultural societies, where people
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by pnt12 5y ago
The first paper seems like a critic of the attitude, which is a welcome change.
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by pnt12 5y ago
If you read some alt right content (like 4chan /pol/), you might agree that some opinions deserve to be censored. Hate and stupidity breed more hate and stupidity. If we approach this situation from a generic perspective we can de
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by pnt12 6y ago
There's the law, and there's the principle. Your platform may be legally allowed to censor everything, but it's clear it doesn't take freedom of expression seriously. If we add some more mental gymnastics, we can say the
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by pnt12 6y ago
It seems that companies do not care about hiding their rotten values anymore. Law enforcement does not punish them and consumers keep buying, why care? In the case this goes viral, they will post a copy from some previous non-apology, take
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by pnt12 6y ago
Are you sure the folks deciding the tech are the ones who browse HN? I was in that position once, with Microsoft functions, which my boss wanted to use, but fortunately convinced my boss to get rid of it. Maybe others don't have the sa
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by pnt12 6y ago
There are also two bugs related to people, and they're hard to fix: - short term costs are more noticeable than long term costs: saving money VS saving the planet - tragedies of the common are hard to fix: we all need to save the plane
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by pnt12 6y ago
It's an industry with established UX guidelines defined 20 years ago which are mostly ignored today. Slow, inconsistent and confusing interfaces seem to be the norm, not the exception. There were some revolutions, like responsive desig
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by pnt12 6y ago
I never had a job where I did but it happened sometimes (eg solving a critical problem together, or pair programming in new projects to learn). I found it hugely stressful: it made me anxious to have someone waiting for me to collect my tho
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by pnt12 6y ago
Just a side note: reading fast doesn't make you learn fast. Be sure to take notes, to apply the knowledge in practical problems (project or small script), and make sure to revisit the topics, because you will forget things of you only
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by pnt12 6y ago
I don't have much experience in years or with complex tasks, but consider my code quite clean, as I worry about legibility a lot, and my colleagues often understand it clearly. For code legibility, I suggest this course, which I found
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by pnt12 6y ago
Off-topic, but how do you feel about pair programming?
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by pnt12 6y ago
Almost never. The current exception nowadays seems to be Microsoft. Minecraft, npm, github seem to be doing good, and keeping their core values and strengths.
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by pnt12 6y ago
Exactly, outrage is bad but we can't just ignore the outside world. For me, it's environmentalism that gets me. I do believe I have a reason to be outraged by this topic and our inactions, although so does everyone who is outraged
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by pnt12 6y ago
"That's the sad reality." That's debatable, or incredible cynic imo. But even if so, losing your job is not comparable to losing reputation.
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by pnt12 6y ago
Agree with pretty much all you said, but where were the lawsuits? Pessimistically, seems to be yet another case of a huge company doing something awful with absolutely no consequence. What has the last time Google was punished? The biggest
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by pnt12 6y ago
I don't like integrations such as oauth on mobile apps, where the URL is often hidden. Validating in some other application) website seems reasonable to me.
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by pnt12 6y ago
The abominable UX in this situation is that users need to give free access to their credit card for payment, at the promise that the other party will play nice. This is backed by strong laws, but still absurd. The control should be inversed
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by pnt12 6y ago
It can't login to other applications, such as steam and discord clients. It can't create passwords based on random words. If for some reason I can't use the password manager directly, I Can quickly check that the password is
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by pnt12 6y ago
In your quest for truth, do you question yourself: what's the harm of the sign? Is it sexual assault? Harassing? A bad joke? And what should we do about it? Ask him to take it out? Refuse to have him at conferences and universities? Ki

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