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by strict9 8y ago
> Whiteboarding is a practice borne from what i can only assume is equal parts social ignorance and intellectual dick-waving. This article nails it precisely. After interviewing dozens and dozens of devs (as a peer), the sweet spot is s
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by strict9 8y ago
Surprised they didn't ask about age, given their absymal record of ageism and pushing so many out prior to retirement so they can break promises made to employees.
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by strict9 8y ago
It is an important speculative question, but also misses the fact right now that worldwide fertility is crashing[1]. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103
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by strict9 8y ago
Though the point it more about funding and founders, seems like a salient point for developers too. You can learn a lot, really fast, and with very long odds maybe get a nice reward in the Bay Area. Or you can choose a slightly more boring
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by strict9 8y ago
Even if this is chalked up to something inadvertent, it's only a matter of time before it happens for good. Google will likely win this arms race, at least within Chrome. The browser from the mega company that gets nearly all revenue f
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by strict9 8y ago
One of the hardest concepts to explain to non-programmer friends/family is that deleting anything in an app is usually flipping a boolean flag in the database from False to True. And even for the rare cases of actually deleting the rec
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by strict9 8y ago
Is it bad at any scale? What if Amazon were promised an even more ridiculous amount in taxpayer money, like $50 billion or $100 billion? Would his opinion be the same? There has to be a limit to corporate giveaways in the form of tax breaks
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by strict9 8y ago
But have the fortitude to hold on as value continues to plummet. Predicting a bottom is just as perilous as predicting a top.
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by strict9 8y ago
This is exactly it. When my grandmother had fried chicken growing up it was a result of "going to the back yard and shooting it (the chicken) between the eyes, plucking its feathers off, and frying it in fatback." If today's
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Amazon has finally admitted to investors that it has a counterfeit problem(qz.com)
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by strict9 8y ago
> This app is a market research app with a very small opt-in panel, just like having a Nielsen box on your TV. A television not just like your iPhone. This is in no way similar. With regard to Nielsen's mobile program they are pl
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by strict9 8y ago
Completely? No. But when it comes to data and privacy I think it'd be better than today's wild west. Who would have thought ten years ago so many people would be willingly give companies a live feed video stream of the inside and
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by strict9 8y ago
A public regulator of tech oligopolies is a great idea. Until that happens we have few choices in whom we chose to trust. Apple is no corporate saint but for now it is the best of the lot because of its business model.
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by strict9 8y ago
Chilling isn't my takeaway. It's that Apple take the threat of surreptitious data gathering seriously and enforces its rules for other companies to that effect.
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by strict9 8y ago
These continued moves of desperation show a company terrified of losing its massive data-gathering surveillance machine. Hoping Apple demonstrates its commitment to privacy by doing more than hurting internal functionality and speak to the
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by strict9 8y ago
Thank you! Switched to Firefox from Chrome a month ago and my only regret was not being able to control autoplay audio.
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by strict9 8y ago
This is terrible news for journalists and others affected by this action. I sincerely hope BuzzFeed News lives on and the rest of the business model of repackaging content found on social media and reddit goes into the dustbin. They made a
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by strict9 8y ago
Raleigh is great and is absolutely worth moving across the country for. Low cost of living, significant cultural capital, and very easy access to both the beach and mountains. It's ideally located to live in a nice house, have a great
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by strict9 8y ago
Correct, that was the purpose devised about 230 years ago. I don't have a strong opinion on this aspect of representation in elected federal government, but at point do we accept that structures have become suboptimal for a vastly chan
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by strict9 8y ago
I use public transit unless leaving the city, almost never use uber/lyft, and yet have a new iPhone. Why? I hate driving and would rather be reading or goofing off on twitter than being angry behind the wheel as I get somewhere. Not fo
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by strict9 8y ago
Apple TV is nice, but this is a weird piece. The gist of this article is that Apple TV is Apple's best product because of voice assistance and screensavers. Maybe it's because I don't watch enough of it, but a device that mak
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by strict9 8y ago
The whole "this can't end well" seems to come at every Robin Hood product announcement. The somewhat recent addition of crypto is just depressing. They've integrated it with chat and live announcements of transactions, s
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by strict9 8y ago
Apple did none of the same shenanigans as Amazon, like pitting dozens of cities against one another to see who could offer the most incentives or creating a lot of hurt feelings as millions of people got excited and let down. Business Insid
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by strict9 8y ago
thanks for this. People responding here with "just use an ad blocker" ... I have uBlock Origin and it's great but it only goes so far.
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by strict9 8y ago
Experienced this with a miscarriage in our family, it's the worst. Months and months later this stuff still follows me around the web like a taunting ghost. The worst part of targeted advertising is when it becomes targeted haunting.
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by strict9 8y ago
Drop to a bash shell and do this: $ whois example.com It's what I've always turned to first for availability. Super fast and less chance of a middleman grabbing it because you expressed interest.
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by strict9 8y ago
>Amazon in recent weeks also has deleted thousands of suspect reviews, That's a drop in the ocean. But it's not reviews and brushing, the real issue is fraudulent and counterfeit products. I don't even trust Amazon to buy
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by strict9 8y ago
There is so much to comment on and digest in this report, but the lifecycle of an attack diagram[1] on page 31 (figure 164) is something every software developer should burn in to memory. It is easy to fall in the trap of seeing the most mi
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by strict9 8y ago
Definitely fear driven. Recently we've seen the biggest sustained downward drops in five years for tech stocks, I think beginning the process now is just too late.
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by strict9 8y ago
Skimmed through this, but I can't make it all the way. It's so jarring and too depressing. I lump climate change deniers into the same category as flat-earthers. Although I have more respect for the latter, as at least they aren&#

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