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by rickspencer3 4y ago
This is why I prefer to use permissible license for my own software. I just don't need the drama of worrying about what people are doing with my code after I write it. Living in a world where you think a company is evil for training ML
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by rickspencer3 4y ago
We wrote and published about it quite a lot, but none of that content seems to be indexed or available anymore. Here's some content referring to it, though: https://blog.codinghorror.com/mort-elvis-einstein-and-you&#x2F
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by rickspencer3 4y ago
I suspect that the author would argue that more competent programmers would use their IDE's statement completion functionality to quickly determine the function name, or which of the functions to use, what arguments to pass, and what r
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by rickspencer3 4y ago
The distinction between these 2 types of programmers predates Google by quite a bit. I worked in user research at Microsoft in their developer division in the lat 1990s and early 2000s, and we were well aware of the difference between &quot
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by rickspencer3 4y ago
In, cough , 1991, my wife and I did a bike tour in Europe for our honeymoon. We spent a total of 4 weeks in Holland, England, and Germany. We took trains and of course ferries to cover larger differences. We did less than 50 miles in a typ
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by rickspencer3 4y ago
For my part, I don't much care about the data sharing. My issue is that our smart tv has ads and the default software is terrible. I can't believe I spent so much money only to have a measurably worse experience. I ended up buying
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I am getting the sense that over time, we will collectively building in AI a realm populated by the Platonic Ideal of objects in the human world. But since it is in learning models, we will be able to see the zeros and ones, but still won&#
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I have a cynical view about this, but also expect it all to come out in the wash over time. My cynical view is that some older executives are, indeed, not as effective in remote companies and younger ones, because they have no practice runn
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
> If they're capable of launching the platform in every language, they're capable of moderating it in every language. Said differently, if they aren't capable of moderating in every language, they they aren't capable
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I dunno, I think "We are doing this" because it solves a ton of problems related to running an application at scale. He doesn't mention any of the difficulties that using monoliths have caused "us" over the years. P
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I appreciated the article, but it read more like iterating on a few pain point in Kubernetes than envisioning a very different future. Where I work, we use Kubernetes very very heavily and some of the article reflects some of my experience,
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
> Windows Live Local Powered By Microsoft Virtual Earth An actual name of a product I worked on at Microsoft
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
My dream scenario is a community support Kubernetes "distro" that is: 1. Controlled by the community of users, not a big provider. 2. Is optimized to be run multi-cloud and multi-region. 3. Assumes that you will use SaaS service
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I worked somewhere that was mostly remote. We hired an SRE, who was decent at their job, but there was always something off about them. Things like not being available when you would expect, but then would have reasonable explanations, but
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
If you want to run a phone effectively forever, I am afraid that you need to turn to the free software community, and give up a lot in terms of app compatibility and the many other benefits of living within a mainstream ecosystem. Going the
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
That's why you always add a deadman check to your sensor monitoring.
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
We have very different definitions of shitty code. The shitty code I have dealt with in the past is unreliable, slow, hard to fix, and when someone does try to fix it, it doesn't stay fixed. The code you are talking about here sounds v
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I wish that I wasn't plagued by these pesky ethics. It seems like if you are fine taking money by creating solutions to non-problems for suckers and rubes there are so many businesses and business models at your disposal. I spend so mu
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
In my experience, such arguments don't move the needle on adoption. "Hegemony" of a specific useful product is a concern to such a small number of people that even getting 100% of those people who are concerned or could be ma
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I do all of my server side Python development in a container. Whenever I start a new project, I create a dockerfile as a first step. This is the easiest way I have found to make my code portable. The main downside I have found is with IDE s
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I read this as an example of my belief that unfettered engagement without a strong Code of Conduct enforced by human moderates always leads to a toxic community. Removing degrees of freedom in expression is necessary without such efforts to
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
This is a good point that I had not, in fact, considered.
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
So, now they will be Specific Electric?
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I'm waiting for the world to catch up with the fact that looking up information while you are working is a core part of any real job. Do I care if my Linux Security Professional spends a few minutes looking up information on the intern
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I would have eagerly accepted a windowless room for myself rather than having a roommate my first year in college, and I know my roommate would have been much better off without having to share a room with a jackass like I was when I was 18
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
Thank you!
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
That's the problem with the downsides of social media. Even if you don't use Facebook, Twitter, and the like, their negative impacts still reach you through the people around and the rest of society. I suppose it's a bit like
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I've been wondering how these huge companies with town-sized campuses, and all of that capital investment would respond. I guess it would take a really special kind of company to recognize that these campuses are a sunk cost and pivot
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
While I agree with this in terms of users, I think that their reputation does influence how they are treated by regulators, law makers, and law enforcement. Being considered a bad actor and habitual liar by the government is problematic. I
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
So "free" but still a lot of hoops to jump through. For android I just plop down an apk (like a normal OS).

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