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by rifung 8y ago
> Answering "no" should mean you store it locally, not that you don't store it at all. If you tell Google not to save your search history on their servers, they just disable it completely, when they could just save it loca
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by rifung 8y ago
> Is it on purpose? I don't know, but I find it weird that they would tie some unrelated features together. Why does setting a Home address require search history? I work at Google but not on Maps, opinions are my own. I don't
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by rifung 8y ago
> Where I live, buying fresh is cheaper than packaged. What’s missing are basic cooking skills I'm not sure this argument holds. I cook most of my meals but even at the grocery store, things from the large farms are much cheaper tha
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by rifung 8y ago
> But in a laptop that is aimed at professionals? People that stare at the screen all day long are sophisticated enough to know that a matte screen is just better. Way to stereotype..? I guess I am not sophisticated enough because I pref
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by rifung 8y ago
> I hope FAANG, McDonalds, IKEA, Deutsche*, automotive companies, fossil fuels companies, investment funds, and whatnot will get the feel of cold talons of the social justice. It's not like the people running these corporations are
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by rifung 8y ago
Even if it does stick unless you use it you will likely forget.. but I think it's still useful to have learned since you hopefully retain enough that you know things exist and can look them up
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by rifung 8y ago
> Has anyone actually studied the best way to hire devs? Like a real, independent study that measured and compared results across, perhaps, a wide array of metrics? I don't know how you would ever strive to do such a thing when peop
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by rifung 8y ago
I work for Google, opinions are my own. First of all it sounds like your interview experience was unpleasant so if this was at Google I apologize. Secondly, I can totally relate to feeling like I don't belong having also come from a no
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> I think Airbnb's technology is at least 10x better than Booking's Perhaps a cynical or unpopular point of view but until the technology becomes a hindrance, does that really matter? Its not as though people are going to these
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by rifung 8y ago
> Homosexuals don't have some special monopoly on honesty, nor are they immune to using emotional string pulling when they try to get you to believe what they are saying. The reply would have been better without the first paragraph.
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by rifung 8y ago
> it's to the point where I'm questioning if I even want to be in this industry (although to be fair, I've been questioning that since before I got into software). What do you do to keep yourself motivated? Especially when
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by rifung 8y ago
Layoff by email is like breakup via text message. The end result is the same and either way it sucks but certainly doing it in face to face seems to generally be considered more personal and perhaps less cowardly.
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by rifung 8y ago
I agree but I consider improving military capability to be orthogonal to decision making into what the military does. If we wait until the military does only that with which we agree, then it may already be too late.
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by rifung 8y ago
> Unfortunately, the divide between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon will be bad for national security in the long run I work for Google, opinions are my own. I agree. However I think in the case of Google and most other companies, the is
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by rifung 8y ago
> It's difficult to say this isn't a net moral good, as things currently stand. I disagree but am open to being persuaded otherwise. I don't consider national defense to be an immoral goal. I believe it's unrealistic
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by rifung 8y ago
> I get what you're saying, but in any system having an aspirational role model is a benefit! I will say there is a benefit but whether it's a net benefit is not always true as we can't ignore the downsides. For example, i
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by rifung 8y ago
> For those of you using GitLab, BitBucket, or <insert-other-git-host-competitor-here>, does this make you consider switching back at all? If so, why? Absolutely, though I don't think it's really "switching back&quot
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by rifung 8y ago
Sure but I'd argue the success of Pokemon Go is not because of AR but in spite of AR. I am very skeptical people play Pokemon Go for it's AR integration considering other AR games aren't nearly as popular and frankly the game
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> About half the devs on my old team were "gameplay programmers". Solid tech chops, but also with an eye towards gameplay you can bet they tweaked the shit out of our game system. We only had 3 'dedicated' designers s
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by rifung 8y ago
> According to research from the Chrome team at Google and others, people spend more time on mobile apps than they do on mobile websites. [...] 90% [of app time] is spent in a person’s five top apps. To me this just sounds like people ar
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by rifung 8y ago
> I agree with this point. Earlier today I made a similar comment regarding the lack of political strength among software developers, for such a well paid (relative to most Americans) trade, it's hard to name a powerful special inte
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by rifung 8y ago
I'm not sure this analogy works though because the difference is that most game developers could choose to work in a different industry with the same skill set and make a lot more. They nevertheless choose to be there and there are ple
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> Which is why we earn a historically tiny proportion of the value we add. In capitalism the amount you get paid is dependent on supply and demand. The "value" you add is irrelevant if they could easily replace you with someone
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I mean the reality is that developers can only have a limited impact on a game. People don't play a game because it's got 100% code coverage and the greatest end to end tests. Most of the time people play a game because it's
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by rifung 8y ago
This sounds pretty common sadly. People need to make money so they get a job. At some point they get so into whatever they're doing it's difficult to switch. Most people don't like their jobs. Most people tolerate it and appr
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> However, people can be pressured or even forced into taking on these careers in order to be less of a burden on their families. I mean.. in a way almost everyone is pressured into working. The vast majority of people work because they
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> I'm sure economists/data-scientists have models for that, and if there would be any obvious sign, we would know it by now. There certainly are people with models. The problem is there are way more occurrences of people using
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> of the only two people I know who have interned there I don't think you're disagreeing with me. I assume those people were relatively young since they interned there? I was not at all trying to imply they don't have tale
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> They get some of the best because they actually want to change the way access to space works. Are they really that concerned with getting "the best"? From what I've heard, they expect you to work insane hours. That prett
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by rifung 8y ago
I think another very huge benefit is that developers don't have to worry about infrastructure. I don't know if its there yet but at least I imagine that's something serverless technologies strive towards

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