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by rdiddly 7y ago
Ha! This has to be in response to this from several hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490850 Wherein someone named Amr keeps having his first name split into Mr. A by the airline booking system. Which woul
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Well I'm convinced then. That's nuts. Not so much that something so crappy can exist, but that it can persist!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I've programmed on punched cards. System/360, FORTRAN77. Carter administration. Whether history exists or not, is not the question. Whether byte misers from long ago caused this name-mangling issue, that's the conjecture part
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by rdiddly 7y ago
One solution to the "hello name" would be to ask for it separately. Every time you're tempted to parse or rearrange a name, just don't, and ask the user instead, and make a new column or field to put it in. Now that&#x27
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Define 'accuracy' though. That's what this whole thread is about. When what you're comparing against is itself wrong, what does accuracy mean? Also, "big yellow house with a red door" etc. is in fact accurate f
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by rdiddly 7y ago
That's what others here have conjectured . Suddenly it's authoritative?
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by rdiddly 7y ago
The central problem with this is the presumption of guilt, contained in this Section 75.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
It's very much a solved-many-times-over problem. Search the following terms: bike child seat, extracycle, bakfiets, Burley, kid bike tag along. Those will take you all the way from infancy to big enough to ride their own bike. You woul
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by rdiddly 7y ago
If my current non-"smart" TV ever dies, I'm pretty much just going to stop watching TV forever.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
The other half doesn't want it to somehow get back to their old manager, that they left to escape them!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I think any degree will satisfy most of those, not just a CS degree.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I remember that - spinning up a remote and there's MSNBC showing some outrage... seriously traumatic ones in some cases. And in keeping with one of the points made in this article, I don't remember what they were! But I do remembe
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I said "a subset of that." The top 50,000 is absolutely a subset of the top million. But you don't need to conjecture about that number 50,000. Again I'm saying the top million most-visited sites is where all the profita
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I suspect this is so. The top million (specifically a subset of that) is where the sites fall whose owners can afford to hire people to build their own custom stuff. Small independent sites seem more likely to rely on something like WordPre
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Right, because, I suppose, it's 600X more commonplace than school shootings! So, we're paying close attention to exotic scenarios we'll likely never experience personally, and getting worked up over them. Meanwhile the variou
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I want to go meta here for a sec: Why does it seem like publications are tripping over each other to publish another article on complaints by Google employees? And why do I keep clicking on them? The complaints, by the way, are almost alway
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Profiting off of fear-mongering. But I suppose there's a certain amount of sales genius (albeit evil) in manipulating faint-hearted administrators to buy your product. They need to add things like going outside, storm, thunder, lightn
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by rdiddly 7y ago
...and all the Fitbit data on ~100,000,000 people.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I concur except I would generalize to the entire worldwide web!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
It's backwards. Attributing things to Go's success vs. attributing Go's success to things. Things someone attributes to Go's success would be things caused by Go's success. For example, the proliferation of stuff wr
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I agree - I found the final "We'll all just keep using AirBnB forever" paragraph (after doing all that work in the opposite direction) kind of infuriating. Are we in the throes of heroin addiction here? Are we married to AirB
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by rdiddly 7y ago
It wouldn't be outrageous to suggest that someone who took the time to intentionally study and go into journalism, would have more than a monetary interest in "investigating things." Or that someone who had been personally sc
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Yeah like the copy I laboriously sought out, of that one rap song without all the naughty words bleeped out. Or that one "yet another song with a stupid 'car revving' sound effect at the beginning," that I personally c
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Maybe instead of "paying off tech debt" we should sell it as "frog-cooling." I'm only half joking. They'll respond to that by saying "WTF?" and you can be like "Yeah the frog's been in the p
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by rdiddly 7y ago
A shitstorm must be a-brewin', because the "my account" pages at puri.sm are giving 502s right now (2019-10-27 12:59 PST).
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Like at a Real Job®, the day the hounding starts is precisely the day you told them you would have it done. Or maybe a day or two beforehand: "Will it be done?" What does every boss say? Please communicate as soon as possible if y
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Also see, from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353920
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Your first paragraph was precisely my point! But I guess now you're saying they've strayed from the beauty part recently too. I admit I don't know much about it, as I haven't used Apple stuff lately. (No particular reaso
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by rdiddly 7y ago
It's charming how he goes out of his way not to step on any designer toes. "I’m a developer with an eye for design, but I’m certainly not a designer. So I don’t know what the solution is to these types of accidental UI bugs.&quot
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by rdiddly 7y ago
If only you could blame the technology. It's humans all the way down.

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