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by rrdharan 6y ago
Samsung security, privacy and general software qualify are all a joke as far as I can tell and it’s amusing anyone would put them in even the same ballpark as Google. Dog bites man is not news, and neither are most of the Samsung software t
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> Typescript has an excellent type system It has a type system. "Excellent" feels a bit strong. https://blog.asana.com/2020/01/typescript-quirks/ https://www.executeprogram.com/co
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Feeling victimized is addictive. Everyone loves it once they get a taste.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
They're probably referring to https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkitjs which is what powers the DDG integration. Anyway it is the case that the only way to browse Apple Maps via the web (AFAICT) is via a
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by rrdharan 6y ago
What’s funny is everyone (including Microsoft) was saying all this same stuff about Apple in 2006 and early 2007 when it became clear they were going to move into phones.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> The other technique that we developed (which was devastatingly effective) was to distract the committee with issues that were irrelevant but amenable to debate. It's not exactly the same but this reminds me of the way Matt Stone d
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Why do you use both every day?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Beyond just abstractly infiltrating minds, this story directly bolstered real policy changes with real consequences for Canadian asylum seekers including children. This whole thing is shameful and embarrassing, or at least it should be. I r
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by rrdharan 6y ago
No, Vimeo is based in New York City and I believe always has been? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimeo
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I agree and don’t believe in the fiction either, but just because many or even most Americans do (or do not) believe in the fiction does not preclude it from being fair to describe it as “uniquely American” - in my mind OP was pointing out
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Fewer vendors, unified billing/support/contract negotiations. These non-technical things are still integrations in a sense, that enterprises can benefit from. It's nice to be able to get your email (Exchange), identity (Activ
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by rrdharan 6y ago
For 4. I haven’t seen any evidence that Virgil Texas is open about his real identity. Certainly seems harder to assess than Scott Alexander, at this point. What am I missing? https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1275405
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I agree, it’s pretty easy to end up in a place where you don’t trust any source of news. Not sure that’s really a bad thing. I still read the New York Times (though I’m no longer a paying subscriber). I don’t think they are as un trustwort
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by rrdharan 6y ago
For 3. the louder correction came after they were called out for earlier silent edits: https://quillette.com/2020/09/19/down-the-1619-projects-memo... (Side note I don’t really trust Quillette either but I do
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by rrdharan 6y ago
They said they were the fastest. They shipped with syncs turned off by default. EDIT: actually it was journaling of writeconcerns. Later they backtracked and enabled it by default, but by then their reputation was cemented (or bifurcated in
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by rrdharan 6y ago
These aren’t exactly what you are asking about but some recent examples of what I consider to be disingenuous and manipulative: 1. The New York Times published a scathing critique of Google’s 4000 word privacy policy, neglecting anywhere to
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Yes, especially compared to the historical paragon of virtue that is Denmark.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
The sheer irony of a white person making this comment and thinking it’s clever. The unimaginative grey shit comes from you, asshole.
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The madvillainy is unnecessary, but appreciated.
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Heh, yeah my point was you could plausibly apply your statement to both languages, i.e. their confusing coupling impedes both in different ways.
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Which one?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
There are actually a number of people who draw the distinction between possessions and land exactly that way. I.e. the argument would be that land ownership should never be allowed. It’s not an immediately farcical concept from first princi
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Python is a welcoming community, but they are decidedly not welcoming of contributions that significantly increase the complexity of the CPython reference implementation. This has been discussed extensively: https://news.ycombina
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by rrdharan 6y ago
How many of these are actually first hand versus just repeating / referencing earlier collective HN “knowledge” (or hearsay)?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I don’t think Amazon customers posting here about their frustration are anywhere near the bottom of the social and economic order.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> a far lesser ... problem with racism and racial justice overall than the US On what basis are you making that claim? Asking as a Canadian-US dual citizen with 20+ years of lived non-white experience in both countries. I don't thin
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Not sure if you were being sarcastic? I believe it is probably fair to say they are among the most radically transparent. Given the harsh criticism some of their previous proposed architecture, approaches to business continuity etc. have be
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by rrdharan 6y ago
This Venezuelan story is so overblown: https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/crypto-influencer-breaks... At this point it really seems like the "Venezuela is why bitcoin matters" story is a useful emergent PR c
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Electron lags chromium HEAD and mode+electron is a complicated architecture to secure correctly: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Carettoni... https://github.com/minbrowser&#
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> And, if I did build a system with a ton of active users, Lambda handles the scaling of that. This is a bold claim to make without verifying it. > Another reason I spent the time to create this build system and write all the code to

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