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by skj 8y ago
Did you know that the original Constitution had provisions for amending it, and such has happened many times? Amendments trump the original.
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by skj 8y ago
I'm a senior SWE.
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by skj 8y ago
I work at Google. I get in at 8, leave at 4, because I value my family time more than my work time and it has not held me back whatsoever. Not even an eyebrow raised.
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by skj 8y ago
> Minus the woman specifier. So, "you should leave this field so someone more deserving can have a place"? When you take out the gender qualifier it doesn't seem so ominous.
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by skj 8y ago
Some humans were prehistoric. Others were not.
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by skj 8y ago
GCP has been able to host your repo since before the turndown of Google Code. In fact, the original GCP Source Repo team and the Google Code team were the same team (though the current product has a different backend and team).
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by skj 8y ago
Well, it does cost them money to serve you the site.
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by skj 8y ago
Borg is not very much like kubernetes from the config or run side. Maybe underlying both are containers, but it's really pretty different.
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by skj 8y ago
It seems a bit telling that you described one as "kernel" systems programming and the other as "system" systems programming.
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by skj 8y ago
I can call something bad without also calling it election interference. Regarding spying, of course that serves purposes other than interference. Think of insider trading - you get the insider info not so that you can change the outcome if
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by skj 8y ago
I'm having trouble tying Operation Gladio[0] to election interference. Also, spying is not the same as interfering. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
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by skj 8y ago
"An unnamed source told RIA Novosti the person responsible for drilling the hole filled it with glue instead of reporting the mistake." A mistake is one thing. Mistakes are lessons and it's good to have people who have some s
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by skj 8y ago
(I work for Google, but not on ads and I have no social knowledge) I think that one thing Google tries to do is to make identifyingly small demographics not possible. As you say, that would leak personal info when the user clicked.
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by skj 8y ago
"Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."
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by skj 8y ago
Sounds like a treeroots movement, to me.
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by skj 8y ago
Unnecessary regulations are, by definition, bad, since they have cost without benefit. We're not arguing the semantics of the word here - I think it is clear that the people you refer to think net neutrality regulation is both necessar
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by skj 8y ago
My understanding has always been that your first claim is not possible. Can you cite something to back it up and explain it?
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by skj 8y ago
I've seen curbs painted the same color as the road, with sloped edges. Annoying when you trip over them...
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by skj 8y ago
No, that isn't double standards. Why would you think it is? Do you think the rule can only be either "regulations are good" or "regulations are bad"? It's not. The idea of regulations is neither good nor bad -
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by skj 8y ago
The third line has a new err inside the if statement's scope. It's equivalent to { // begin new scope here err := w.Close() if err != nil { foo } else { bar } }
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by skj 8y ago
That is the implication, yes.
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by skj 8y ago
I will note that the word "postmortem" appears nowhere on the page, which is dedicated to status updates about the incident in question.
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by skj 8y ago
I actually meant one third, rather than 'one', but I realized the mistake after I was too late to edit.
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by skj 8y ago
5b is about one of Google's quarterly earnings.
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by skj 8y ago
Sounds like a recipe to deliver hard-to-use software late. The easy-to-use software that was delivered on-time will eat your lunch, even with some bugs.
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by skj 8y ago
My son goes nuts when he has sugar (like ice cream or a cupcake), full stop. Has it not been shown in the literature because no one has tried an appropriately rigorous experiment, or because the appropriately rigorous experiment showed a di
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by skj 8y ago
Yes, but it takes a while. Plastics are somewhat recent on the evolutionary timescale.
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by skj 8y ago
That just means an acquisition would be expensive. FB has a history of expensive acquisitions.
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by skj 8y ago
> It's not a good position to be in. I mean, I get what you're saying... but honestly making 15b profit per quarter is really a pretty good position to be in.
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by skj 8y ago
If there are no consequences, there is no prohibition.

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