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by throwaway47861 9y ago
JS is necessary. But what do we do about the extensive tracking and extremely unoptimal requests, for which we already have numerous articles out there? If there's no soft solution, disabling JS altogether is a good fish net for a lot
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, it was a bit exaggerated example to illustrate a point, not to make the people nitpick it. The corner-cutting in the current tech culture is a bit too much for my taste.
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
It was a slightly exaggerated example. Nothing can be infinitely optimized of course, but the corner cutting in today's tech culture is a bit too much for my taste.
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
There are many people above 180cm. Again, let's face it -- it's bean counting, some medium-level product manager wants a raise by saving expenses. That's all it is, that's all it ever was, and it ain't ever gonna
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
Counter-counter-point: I am above 180cm (far from 200+ where many basketball players are) and many taxis aren't tuned for me and I bang my head on the ceiling so yes, I definitely call the manufacturers of those cars bad. Statistical a
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
You misspelled "good bean-counting". Good engineering requires you to cover for everything you can. Case in point: car seatbelts and airbags. Most people don't crash, right? But you aren't seeing the car manufacturers re
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
It's a slippery slope kind of situation. Once they start doing it and see they can get away with it, then they start widening the circle.
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
Those 0.1% mean absolutely nothing. There was a comment months ago right here in HN about a guy who owned a secure email provider who had his throwaway Android device confiscated, and who was interrogated for 8 hours on the topic of "g
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
The tinfoil guy in me says they know nothing important then. ;) Being a bit more serious, thank you for the link, it was enlightening. Kudos.
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
Here are some angrily and hastily written observations: - No microSD card slot. Yes, 128GB internal storage -- and it being an UFS, which is fast -- is a lot, but there are people who carry data on their phones and require portability and
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
Yet again, the charming HN audience shows their true colors by downvoting people who have no proof of what they claim, while conveniently forgetting that if anyone had a proof of what you said they'd be in a secret court, and then pris
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
When I see quotes like "Oh my God this is awesome" my sensors go to red flag mode full-time. Devs are people like everybody else and can be hyped. Let's give it time. Not sure what's the big fuss about. Yes I've rea
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
So we're gonna cull the "manager" fakers who probably contribute $10,000 to their company's bottom line over a career of 30 years? Sounds like a double win for WFH to me.
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
So your answer is micro-management and making people fake activity during the mandatory 8h? You're not a good manager if that's the case. There are courses that teach people how to focus on results and deliverables.
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
> Other than Juicero and some sweeping statements about the technology, energy, and pharmaceutical industries benefitting from government research, Tarnoff offers little evidence to back up these claims. The "debunked" articl
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
It's not Microsoft's fault that you can't say "no", though.
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
You pretty much made the entire thread superfluous. Very well articulated and I fully agree, the suits don't care if you reduce their expense if they can skip the expense whatsoever.
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
I agree with several other commenters pointing out that the comparison is badly made -- throwing Ruby, PHP, Perl and Erlang/Elixir in the mix would make for much more interesting and useful article. Probably the author needed to let of
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by throwaway47861 9y ago
- Innovation: subjective. People can't even agree on an universally agreed upon definition. Still, care to give an example? - Available toolset: oh, you mean the dozens of builders, packers, or task runners, being only three examples?