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by ryanobjc 10y ago
well specifically he was trashing C++ for performance sensitive systems applications. Fixing the speed of DVCS was a major goal of git. Plus you know, kernels. His better argument about C being good is that it's easier to look at a d
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by ryanobjc 10y ago
Why, you're right - somehow another $20b a quarter business has eluded them! They're normally just all over the place, I have a few in my couch at home. So weird. And yeah, all those other 'bets' - losing money. New thi
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by ryanobjc 10y ago
there's a lot of infrastructure at Google. And claim is correct - GCP and Google is on top of the same servers, same backend systems. Are they on the exactly same servers? No, of course not -- there's a few servers out there :-
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by ryanobjc 10y ago
Also, 20 minutes every 3 years is 5-9s anyways.
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by ryanobjc 10y ago
I had to give up on moleskine because I use fountain pens and the paper is just awful! Ironic, the iconic paper notebook is of such low quality paper.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
So, what you're saying is, from your limited view point, you have a conclusive overview of all of UX? Also, Google designers are intensely incompetent and deserve to be fired? I dunno, you sure are quick to judge a very difficult subj
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
So look, I literally can't even right about now. The UX researchers here at Google DO in fact sit down with many people and watch them use all sorts of parts of google, gmail, etc. In fact they go out of their way to run usability stu
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
This is a good 'eli5' answer to the question posed. What is an alternative hypothesis? The energy companies worked against renewable because it was Good For The Country? Because nothing expensive or hard is worth getting? Becau
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Yeah agreed, you are stating a position as it were fact, and using a ton of faulty logic. So yes, your position is unpopular, and it's wrong.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Yes, and this comment is exactly why the ice shelves are going to collapse before people decide it's worth doing something about it. All in the guise of cheap energy. Hooray. Energy is cheap, until it becomes a lot more expensive. Than
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
I'm enjoying your exchange buts it's obvious the other side has a serious agenda to push, and it's not "let's realistically make the world better". I just wanted to say that "don't let perfect be the
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
The ironic thing is the right to be forgotten is about public data, and that is what Google is arguing over. Perhaps there should be a global right to be forgotten, but it has to be implemented in a correct fashion. Opening loopholes for
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
What's so funny here? For example, if Google gave France the right to censor content based on "right to be forgotten" laws, why not other laws? For example, nazi memorabilia is illegal in fr but not us (or most countries). An
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
I think Pink was making a even stronger statement than you give him credit for. His statement in the book is that traditional methods of improving performance -- more pay for more work -- just doesn't work for tasks that require proble
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
The real answer: As many as it takes. Also, what about the quest for finding the largest prime? #keepthedreamalive
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Am I correct in thinking you feel underpaid compared to Amazonians? Because, man, I won't even tell you what people in the real industry get paid :-)
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Wow that fucking sucks. The standard (at GOOG & others) is: 25% on year 1 2.08 & 1/3rd every month thereafter (75% vested equally over the next 36 months) Furthermore, there are other grants that vest quarterly for the first 18
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, but Google is hardly the most creepy actor here. My top votes are for Facebook and ad retargeting. One of the things people don't realize is how strict data hygene and log access inside Google is. Cross
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
It doesn't quite work like that... being a brilliant engineer isn't a matter of "training". And because of the attraction factor, yes, a lot of the brilliant ones end up in the bay area. For years the only place to do
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Sure, but what happens if that is all you end up with?
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
This is exactly my thoughts on what's wrong with TED. It's not in the pursuit of the truth. Therefore, it's in the pursuit of status. You can see this among those who wave around TED talks they have seen as some kind of curr
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
TED just seems so neat, thought leaders talking about things no one else did. Except the depth is necessarily shallow. So I listened to a TED talk about how social media needs to change and it exacerbates problems. Except he's light
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
i have friends who work for retargeting ad-tech companies. That's those firms that bid for and deliver ads for things you just maybe bought. The deal is those ads show up when the ad space is the cheapest. It's known as remant inv
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
actually, movie theaters DO make most their money in concessions. eg: http://www.businessinsider.com/movie-concessions-drive-amc-e...
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
The brain is very good at turning complicated features in to abstract concepts. In fact that is mostly what some parts do. So, not clear if this actually improves things or not. For example, the == and === look quite a bit similar in the fo
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
This announcement is about the developer login, not the user login. Firebase apps can keep on logging users in via github, facebook, many others, and yes also google. It's up to the firebase dev to config that.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
The main thing that stood out for me was total sociopathic behavior. Sadly quite common in the industry. Leave early and leave often.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
but also at the same time, the prices of these metals are very low, thus suppressing interest in developing new mines. China is playing a fine balancing game here, because if they were to highly restrict access, then prices would justify h
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Honestly, I didn't really follow this line: "if we take drugs we get stupid" You obviously haven't taken much drugs! Some do in fact make you smarter.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
"unlicensed" devices are still authorized by the FCC. So your devil's advocate is unnecessary.

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