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by singron 7y ago
It makes sense for insurance to incentivize preventative care (e.g. by paying for it or requiring it), since it reduces future large claims. Otherwise it can be cheaper for individuals to forgo preventative care and wait for insurance to co
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by singron 7y ago
So far every job orientation I've done has been 10% information useful for doing the job and 90% making me feel good about the job. You probably didn't take the job if you didn't feel at least a little good about it. If you d
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by singron 7y ago
The number 1 reason why I actually try to make code reviews small is because the few times I made big code reviews, they just sat there. They get a few comments here and there, but the reviewers seem reluctant to review them at all, or just
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by singron 7y ago
I didn't get a crash with 67.0.3 from f-droid, just to add a data point.
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by singron 7y ago
Amazon still lists the first item of a purchase for me (e.g. an order of X and Y shows up as "X and 1 other item"). Google then lists that on my purchases page.
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by singron 7y ago
Is that even what this is? It seems more like loose organizational network rather than a type of computer network.
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by singron 7y ago
I find it hard to believe that this is "fast" as advertised when it isn't even compiled with optimizations: https://github.com/f-prime/fist/blob/9049066e8d49ff41f2272ec...
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by singron 7y ago
If you keep your modified imagemagick a separate program from the server that interacts with users (and don't e.g. exchange complex internal datastructures over IPC between imagemagick and the server) then it seems fine. If you add net
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by singron 7y ago
> Then whoever "wins" ends up being whoever has the most unspoken political power or the more forceful personality. I suspect the forceful personality can be a learned behavior as well. I.e. your ideas get accepted when you rea
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by singron 7y ago
TL;DR no, yes, probably no Go is a compiler+runtime. AFAIK any copyleft compiler worth using explicitly makes exceptions for its output and runtime, but the FSF says generally that the output of a GPL program is not also GPL[0]. If the runt
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by singron 7y ago
A big part of the article is about how all the middle men want to spend more money, not less. For all the "tech" in AdTech, it's surprising how much gets canceled because it increased efficiency and made revenue go down. Even
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by singron 7y ago
> after 5 minutes of Googling. downvoting my personal research results after 5 minutes of Googling won't get anyone to answer with the corrected version. I had never heard of agpl until I googled it and summarized what I saw. Honest
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by singron 7y ago
This is a common misunderstanding of the AGPL. It has the same combined work rules as the GPL. It just has the additional condition that a modified work offered as a network service must make the corresponding source available. If the AGPL
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by singron 7y ago
> The description is vague about what devices ("servers") were misconfigured. "servers" when said by Googlers usually means processes that serve requests, not machines. Hopefully a future postmortem will provide more
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by singron 7y ago
It's common practice in many organizations to effectively deploy new code with configuration changes. E.g. you write new code that is initially disabled then enable it with a configuration change. Since the code deploy didn't fail
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by singron 7y ago
I know for a fact that people will ignore it and set off the alarm anyway even with a large sign covering the entire top half of the door. Then the alarm goes off so often that all the bystanders ignore it too, so there really is no point.
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by singron 7y ago
Software engineers are white collar workers[0]. As far as I know, hourly employees no longer get equity[1], and I would guess they comprise most of Amazon's blue collar workforce. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
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by singron 7y ago
There are multiple types of fraud. One is bots that give fake impressions, but another is fraudulent publishers that give improper ad placement (e.g. overlapping ads or invisible ads). In the second type, the user is legitimate, so you can&
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by singron 7y ago
How about this: your copyright claim accuracy becomes a multiplier for monetization payouts. E.g. if 100% of claims are correct, you keep all monetization. If 10% of claims are correct, you only get 10% of monetization. Also, if Google can
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by singron 7y ago
There are other reasons not to do things on-device. For instance, being able to pick your own ads might hinder the ability to defend against ad-viewing bots. Also, traditional ad-tech also has to deal with meeting global target spend rates
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by singron 7y ago
I doubt that the feedback Google gives to candidates is valuable (seems like it wasn't for you). I'm surprised they give any at all since they are probably afraid of getting sued. If you got anything back, it's probably been
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by singron 7y ago
I have a librem 15. The screws inside the case seem to come loose every once in a while. Also I wish the body was a little more rigid (I'm guessing the librem 13 doesn't have this issue since it's lighter and smaller). Otherw
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by singron 7y ago
Nix handles this just fine. You should check it out.
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by singron 8y ago
I was in a similar situation. In my case, i was on the ops team for a big chunk of the company, so it had an unusual amount of fires in production. I was rushed into oncall basically only because the existing rotation was only 2 people and
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by singron 8y ago
I think that product is still cached by Google. Cloudflare is just providing the cryptography for Web Packaging so that the browser will show the url from the original page instead of the Google cache.
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by singron 8y ago
Graduated rates aren't the complicated part of the tax system. The complicated part is figuring out the amount the rate applies to. E.g. capital gains, deductions, credits. If you have never filed your own tax return before, go skim th
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by singron 8y ago
Amazon tried to sell Android without Google Play, but the resulting Amazon Fire Phone didn't do very well. Unless Google is banned in your country like in China, no OEM wants to risk skipping out on Google Play.
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by singron 8y ago
Was this service free? It seems that if sites were modifying the results page to re-arrange ads, they were probably using the Google Custom Search JSON API, which is a paid service ($5/1000 queries): https://developers.googl
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by singron 8y ago
The talk is about FOSS, so it's implied that you are distributing source code with a free software license. To me, it seems like some of the content of the talk wouldn't apply with non-free software licenses since there may not be
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by singron 8y ago
I think the significant difference between those two statements is that static typing is concretely achievable for relatively cheap effort (i.e. use a language with static typing), but "better tests" is something you will never fi

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