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931.
by seren 12y ago
I am a SW engineer currently working in a regulated industry, and there is no procedure in place for me to fix something quickly behind everybody's back. The code should be at least reviewed, integrated and tested by 3 independent peop
932.
by seren 12y ago
While interesting, I find the narrative pinpointing the issue on a single engineer behavior a bit too convenient to be believable.
933.
by seren 12y ago
That is a bit heavy handed but I am pretty sure people could be creative with "Gwalletsupport@gmail.com" or "googleplussupport@gmail.com"...
934.
by seren 12y ago
To avoid someone registering support@gmail.com, or any variation of it, for nefarious purpose. (Is this a real question or a joke ?)
935.
by seren 12y ago
I agree the exception for government agency is inconvenient to say the least...
936.
by seren 12y ago
Skimming the list, it seems only few of them are really repentant and understood the consequences of what they did. But, for the few of them, especially those referring to their family and children, it is hard to see what benefits their dea
937.
by seren 12y ago
Overall, I think it is more dangerous for democracy, if everyone is indexed in a database with their political opinions, religious affiliation, favorite ice-cream flavor, than missing out a few bad apples. I agree it will cause issues, and
938.
by seren 12y ago
> Yeah? Really? And what happens if that common person goes on to later become famous for some reason? Does all the info about their drunk prom night reappear the moment the first newspaper story about them is published? Let's imagi
939.
by seren 12y ago
We, the user, are only going to lose some information on "common people", and only the one mindful of their public image, no public figure, on events that probably happened 10 or more years ago. So, yes, it could become harder to
940.
by seren 12y ago
Actually, it was not removed from the newspaper archive, because the article referring Mr. Gonzalez was published under a judicial injunction. And so his request was rejected by the Spanish court of data protection. But the case was upheld
941.
by seren 12y ago
Privacy is only very tangentially linked to what you say, this is also related to what you did, or even what happened to you in a passive way. Let's say that 20 years ago your family was murdered under your eyes by an axe-wielding mani
942.
by seren 12y ago
The wording mentions especially "their personal information". If you live without using much any internet site or service, no facebook, no twitter, etc, no smartphone either, you don't have anything to spy on. I don't kn
943.
by seren 12y ago
Interesting because you'll get the cleanest history possible, however have you ever had an issue when the rebasing post code review would have had unintended effect (and not caught by a reviewer) ?
944.
by seren 12y ago
The most usual way to work with git is to pull a local copy of the whole server using "git clone"[1]. The only way to do a partial copy would be to do a shallow copy locally with only the last few commits, but then it will probabl
945.
by seren 12y ago
Quick question for people using git daily : do you push the features branches to a central repo or you simpy merge with --no-ff on a common dev branch ? (There is no necessarily a right answer, but I'd like to know what is more usual)
946.
by seren 12y ago
A cold is typically a viral infection, so taking antibiotics has absolutely no effect whatsoever on the evolution of the disease.
947.
by seren 12y ago
This is what I also read initially, but a DIY facial transplant would probably look even worse..
948.
by seren 12y ago
I wholeheartedly agree it is more an ecosystem issue, but like I said I have no issue with the concept of WYSIWIG itself, just that as of today, they are lacking some characteristics for being efficient. And it is true that the lack of inno
949.
by seren 12y ago
The problem with WYSIWYG is that it is hard to automate (and is not composable). I have already worked with a "WYSIWIG tool chain" : you can't build something without someone hitting some button on a graphical interface multi
950.
by seren 12y ago
The whole affair is really blown out of proportion because it is very understandable in layman terms. On the other hand, it seems that the Louvois pay system [1] has cost about half a billion euros to French tax payers and does not work eit
951.
by seren 12y ago
I guess an attempt already exists in the form of Ubuntu Kylin [1], ominously sponsored by the National University of Defense technology [2]. But I have a hard time determining how serious the project is, and how prevalent it is in China. [1
952.
by seren 12y ago
I am not sure the goal of the project is to provide the better user interface as-is, but rather to be a kind of "upstream" for geo data.
953.
by seren 12y ago
Do not underestimate social skills. A SW project is rarely (never?) a one man's job, you have to deal with other team members, business, client expectation, testers, QA, etc. I have worked in company where people had generally good soc
954.
by seren 12y ago
If you are procrastinating that much, to the point you are on the verge of literally dying or starving, there is probably an underlying issue like social anxiety, depression, etc that is triggering the procrastination reaction as an avoidan
955.
by seren 12y ago
From my understanding, the hard part with cancer is that it is not a single "disease" but rather consequences of different root causes. So this is doubtful we will find a single cure for every type of cancer, what we can hope howe
956.
by seren 12y ago
If John Doe was supposed to be on a business travel, but was actually at the zoo with his mistress, it can cause harm. You should retort that it was John's mistake in the first place to lie and cheat, and that is not your fault, and th
957.
by seren 12y ago
At the age of Fitbit, Soylent, 4-hour work week, etc, and particularly on HN, it seems you have to have some sort of reward or definite end-goal to partake in any activity.
958.
by seren 12y ago
Studies have shown than reading fictions tends to improve empathy [1]. This is a great assets for doctors for example (but also to deal with a client, customer, boss, co-workers, etc). Obviously, if you are put through a character stream of
959.
by seren 12y ago
I really want to use Duolingo, unfortunately I am learning Mandarin, and it is not available yet. It has been announced, a while ago, that it was in their todo list, but I don't know when it will actually be there. It is not even in th
960.
by seren 12y ago
I am using memrise.com which works pretty well to learn some vocabulary. You can learn pre-made lists contributed by users, and does not require any set up.

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