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by sgift 5y ago
> Yeah; I'd go further and say that monetizing user data and non-consensual tracking should be illegal, full stop. That would be the ideal outcome for me in an ideal world. I'm also convinced it won't happen, so all that r
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by sgift 5y ago
What exactly does "a product company" mean in your mind?
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I am trying my best to not knee-jerk here, even though it's hard to see Mozilla working with Facebook of all companies. In the end it seems to come down to one question everyone has to answer for themselves: Do you agree that advertisi
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by sgift 5y ago
> there were articles dragging people for making charitable donations You mean articles stating correctly that donations are not a sustainable way of financing and tech billionaires should instead pay higher taxes? Cause that's the
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by sgift 5y ago
You are free to use any service which doesn't break the law. If you don't like the law you can try to get the law changed. That's the democratic way. Letting FB get away with breaking the law, cause "people voluntarily u
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by sgift 5y ago
> It doesn't though. If laws are not prosecuted consistently, then they are not 'applied' consistently. Which company that breaks GDPR on the same scale as Facebook is not prosecuted though? If you make such an accusation
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by sgift 5y ago
Obviously, this depends on the source, e.g.: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/least-rac... Netherlands 1, Canada 2, US 69
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by sgift 5y ago
"Poached"? Did they enslave them? Or did they make them a deal and the masters decided they'd rather work for someone else?
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by sgift 5y ago
I have no idea what you've become. I've learned to understand that there are not binary outcomes dies / is perfectly fine, but a spectrum in between from "won't do well for a long time, maybe forever" up to &qu
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by sgift 5y ago
> We have studies showing how different software engineering is, where some workers vastly outperform others, some workers are interchangeable, some are specialists, and some underperform. Do we? Please, show these studies. Obviously, we
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by sgift 5y ago
If you don't want anything to do with them you absolutely have the right to go somewhere the union doesn't exist. You do not have the right to ask the union to make your life easier. That's not their job.
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by sgift 5y ago
Only if your categories don't have clear criteria for who falls into which one. Which shouldn't be surprising: For all the hand wringing about how some people are far more productive no one in software business has yet found a way
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by sgift 5y ago
The benchmark game is always full of these things. Some people are very motivated to make their language shine on it, so it has good[1] implementations, almost everything else is bad. Really, really bad. It's best to just ignore it. [1
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by sgift 5y ago
It seems almost impossible to say if log4shell was bigger or more costly than Heartbleed or the Debian OpenSSL bug (there are probably still keys out there made with the damaged randomness). Log4shell is just in recent memory.
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by sgift 5y ago
So, let me get this straight: We have a thread about a programming language (Java), then it gets compared to another programming language (C#), then it gets compared to a third one (C) and no one bats an eye. But when Rust is mentioned it&#
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by sgift 5y ago
I often wonder how different perception would be if people ran around with the equivalent of a Geiger counter for air pollution. It's easy to argue that parts of Germany are still contaminated by nuclear radiation, but they are by air
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by sgift 5y ago
> and a lot of the older reactors are, well, old. People say this as if reactors get build once and then stay the same way. These reactors get upgraded all the time. Here's an example: Isar 1 was one of the oldest reactors in German
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by sgift 5y ago
Solitary confinement is forced isolation. Not even remotely comparable to someone deciding for themselves to isolate.
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by sgift 5y ago
What did you try to warn them about? That they will have more control over how companies use their PI? Doesn't seem very surprising that you got "shouted" down.
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He worked for years on MySQL (writing the executor used in MySQL 8.0 and the upcoming join optimizer) and came to his conclusions based on that time with it. Can you provide comparable knowledge about MySQL to support your accusation that h
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by sgift 5y ago
It's easier to get your will if your opposition legitimates their rule by "god wills that I am the king" and you are the final authority on what god wills. I think that situation has changed a bit since the last time the papa
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by sgift 5y ago
Postgres has a core team, FreeBSD has one, C++ has a steering committee. You can find examples for whatever variant of governance you want. The "one person calls all the shots" model certainly can work. It can also fail and it oft
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by sgift 5y ago
> Nodejs worked because it was like this from day 1 but java isn’t. And even there "worked" is a very liberal definition. Callbacks, promises and whatever else you can find will imho never be as intuitive as threads.
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by sgift 5y ago
Interesting enough Java has the same question. There is a sun.misc.Unsafe class ( https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/the-unsafe-class-... ) which is used internally to provide the safe code you can use in no
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by sgift 5y ago
For anyone saying "we shouldn't force companies on a specific connector": This legislation started over 10 years ago. Back then Apple said "we need a bit of time to figure out a good way forward. Could you please give it
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by sgift 5y ago
I also was confused about that part but for another reason: The whole post is basically "despite go having a GC we had to manually manage the memory to make it work" and then the anti-rewrite is "go does memory management for
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by sgift 5y ago
You can be sued for almost anything. The judge decided for Dan Price on all accounts.
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Because he has done very interesting software engineering which is used in the real world to solve real problems.
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by sgift 5y ago
> even if they can be reasonably certain that union employees that used violence against property and person during the strike These things are crimes, so I don't see how they have to hire back someone who is in prison. Or do you me
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by sgift 5y ago
It's not like companies tried that before with outsourcing. It didn't work quite as well as hiring someone who lives in another city in the same country.

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