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by rando444 8y ago
> In that there are no consequences to my frequent phone checking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_overuse#Health There's a reason that the first step in addiction therapy is getting the subject to
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by rando444 8y ago
FYI - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/05/...
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by rando444 8y ago
There was an article on HN of a writeup from someone that pulled this off recently. I think the post was probably someone in the neighborhood of 4-6 months ago. I don't recall the company or the person that was targeted though.
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by rando444 8y ago
I have no idea what your agenda is, but trying to say that removing all references of the companies former official motto and mixing it in at the very end of a sentence of their core of conduct somehow makes it "more prominent" is
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by rando444 8y ago
I guess I'll just point out the distinction.. there's an obvious gap between writing code and writing pseduo code / logic structures. And there's nothing wrong with whiteboarding pseudo-code.
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by rando444 8y ago
Isn't the bigger question though, why not continue marketing?
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by rando444 8y ago
Removing the company's unofficial motto, and mixing it in with a random sentence at the very end is 'more prominent'. Hmm.. I'll believe Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, before I believe that. Also using &qu
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by rando444 8y ago
Gratuitous repetition? Come on. It's been the unofficial company motto since the beginning. When they filed their IPO, it was one of the very first things they included in the IPO https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edg
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by rando444 8y ago
Yes, and if you read the article you'll notice the significant difference. Anyone that was with google from the beginning knows the significance, and to try to play off "hey they used it in a sentence" as some sort of passivi
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by rando444 8y ago
Thanks for this. I actually had not seen this. Very remnicient of IBM's involvement in the Holocaust.
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by rando444 8y ago
publicly traded companies do not have to be evil. investors often enjoy investing in companies that they can relate to. one hopes that most people ascribe to do no evil. a+b+c is not a bad combination in the end, i agree it's a symbol.
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by rando444 8y ago
placed randomly in a sentence at the very end vs. being the entire core of the message is a rather significant change IMHO.
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by rando444 8y ago
This is definitely something everyone has been waiting for. The only question I have is.. why? One generally hopes that everyone is out to do no evil, including those that do so unintentionally. So why remove something that's been so
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by rando444 8y ago
While beginning reading I was ready to dismiss this as a correlation/causation sort of thing.. but found myself pleasantly intrigued with the analysis.
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by rando444 8y ago
While true, I think this gives a good introduction.. especially for people who are outside the EU and may not realize that the law might impact them as well. Hopefully encouraging them to seek out a deeper understanding of the material on t
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by rando444 8y ago
This is why I like the GDPR. If you can't be bothered to care about people's personal information, then maybe you don't need it in the first place.
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by rando444 8y ago
I didn't say this was how science works. I was asking the question whether this was already the existing theory. I mean what is science if not deduction based on observation?
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by rando444 8y ago
While it's nice to have more evidence, isn't this mostly accepted from just following general anthropology? E.g. - homo-sapiens are considered smarter than homo-erectus and neanderthals despite having smaller brains .. evolution
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by rando444 8y ago
The site that I was referring to was literally hackernews.com, and was very popular among the tech crowd from the late 90s onward. (long before YC was conceived) ALmost 20 years ago, I used to rotate between hacker news, fark, and slashdot
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by rando444 8y ago
I don't see anything imitating this website.. other than a technology based news feed and a similarly used name. I used to browse a website called "hacker news" back in the late 90s / early 2000s, but I wouldn't go
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by rando444 8y ago
The best part about music on youtube is all of the songs uploaded by people who don't have the rights... and for some reason don't get them taken down, despite often monetizing them. Will be interesting to see how this fits into t
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by rando444 8y ago
Tandem rotors have been around for almost a century. What they're doing here is stacking rotors on top of each other, not for lift, but apparently because it's quieter and allows for 'better performance' .. whatever that
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by rando444 8y ago
If you take that cell phone home with you regularly and don't live in a multi-unit building, it would be relatively trivial to figure out your identity using this data.
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by rando444 8y ago
Well if we're doing anecdotes, I work for the second largest IT firm in my country, and the management is largely made up of women, and I don't believe any of them to be freemasons. Perhaps this observation has more to do with loc
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by rando444 8y ago
The masons was an anecdote specific to that commenter, my point was that there are many different types of groups that serve the same purpose.
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by rando444 8y ago
(1) Networking and building a reputation for yourself will always have value. (2) Most of the things that he's listed are merits. Being involved in his community, having a strong verifiable previous job history with good references, e
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by rando444 8y ago
We, and likely many others, use Jira as kind of the second tier / exception handling. When the automated system fails, it automatically opens a Jira ticket to get the right people to fix the automated workflow. You can then use the Jir
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by rando444 8y ago
While code reviews are helpful, can they really prevent malware? (since an app can always download and execute extra code after it's installed.)
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by rando444 8y ago
Anyone else notice that it's also specifically the Wall Street Journal trying to run this angle?
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by rando444 8y ago
I think he's saying -40C and -40F are the same thing, and is complaining about the units being on the 40 and not the 30. It's a rather extreme nitpick.

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