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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
I feel strongly compelled to disagree with you...
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
There is a bit of a chicken and egg problem here. As long as most of the popular websites are styled to extremis so that the users think they look nice, then there is no "market" for browsers and/or plugins that have features
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
That's what I thought. But after 5 years I gave up and do not sign my emails any more.
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Yes, I did. My supervisor was quite old-school idealistic in that he believed that good work would rise to the top without playing political games. We were both a bit naive in that respect I think... and we've both had modest careers a
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
UK recruiters are frightened of losing their client (the company) to other recruiters. Unless the recruiter has managed to agree an exclusive deal on a particular role, every time they give out the name of that client they risk another recr
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
It definitely could work, but who will make it work? I would really like to see my wife's facebook posts without having a facebook account (or just looking at her iPad which is what I currently do...) and she may be interested in my po
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Yes, I wasn't sure if the distractions were there to prove a point or if it was just ironic that the site was bombarding its own article with distractions.
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
In the late 1990s I was part of a group that was thinking about how cameras might be able to sign images so that later editing could be detected. The motive then was connected to using images as evidence. But I guess you could also use it t
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
When I worked remotely 2 days per week this was a problem for me, because all the people I worked with were together in an office. I felt quite isolated on those days and enjoyed going into the office to see people on the other 3 days. Howe
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
I was diagnosed celiac in 2004 and the recent arrival of "gluten intolerant pretenders" is something of a mixed blessing. On the one hand it has boosted the supply of gluten-free products (good for me) but on the other hand it has
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Me too. And since most of my social circle have moved from Facebook to WhatsApp for messaging, I am now seriously concerned that WhatsApp is no longer secure... or wont be in the future under Facebook's ownership.
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
I agree. And your way I can add the same subtree to multiple parent nodes.
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Maybe. $10/month times 1 billion people is $120B a year... that should be enough to run an entertainment industry.
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
I think you might be right on incentives, that's why I said it might lead to no-one producing anything. What about a limited period for exclusivity? Do you think, say, 3 years would work? I would be happy to wait that long... in fact I
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
There is a lot to compete on. Recommendations and reviews for example, customer service, price, outages, video quality. The problem is that those things are harder to build a marketing campaing on than "We are the only channel that has
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
It doesn't have to be that way. You could have multiple providers like Netflix and traditional TV stations competing on quality of delivery, whilst licensing content from each other. Exclusives are by definition anti-competitive. Some
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Writing the book is the easy part. Getting more than a handful of people to read it is hard. Good luck!
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
As a parent it is really hard to find the right balance between wanting to spend time with your kids and trampling all over their hobbies. Especially if it is a hobby where they need you to drive them somewhere and stay or pick them up late
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Not sure why I am getting downvotes for this. The parent proposed a language feature to support an enforced code execution when a return value was not available: foo_t *maybe_get_foo(/*...*/) { if (/*foo_is_avai
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Or add exceptions like C++ did, if (foo_is_available) return foo; else throw FooNotAvailable();
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
I find it odd too. I was in a crowded art gallery recently and grew increasingly angry at the number of people who were either taking selfies next to the paintings or standing as close as possible to get pictures of the paintings... without
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Well, my reasoning at the time (2007) was that since my areas of expertise were machine learning and parallel processing, then if they wanted to hire people who knew low-level sorting and searching algorithms by heart, it wasn't the pl
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
You have a perfectly valid point. After a PhD and 10 years of industry experience I interviewed at Google, mostly out of curiosity and because a former colleague recommended me. I had never done an "algorithms" type interview befo
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
You don't need to know anything about a project to spot that the candidate is being very vague when quizzed about the details of something that they claimed but didn't actually work on. And it is surprisingly common.
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
I was not aware of RCS until today. Looking at it I can see governments also being very keen to see it take off; since many of them are worried about end-to-end encryption hindering their ability to snoop on private conversations.
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
It wasn't that the web pioneers did not consider layout important. They came from a background where layout was "external". The important thing was the content. Style was something that was added and/or defined by someon
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
Yes, before reading Tegmark I thought that MW was silly because "splitting" the whole universe for every tiny event just seemed crazy. Thinking of the multiverse as more like a probability distribution where everything exists in a
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
That's exactly what I thought. Not used it professionally for a while (and then older compilers) and vaguely knew there were a lot of changes around memory management. But was it that hard before? Constructors, destructors and operator
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
My tutor at university understood this very well. In my first week he told my tutor group "At school you were all the best, now it is likely that half of you are below average". Another thing I noticed at university was "impr
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
I think he was quoting The Matrix...

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