thu2111

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by thu2111 7y ago
Yes, that's all probably true. I didn't delve into the wider politics of the iPhone vs Android wars but that was certainly a part of the reason for Apple not working closer with the Maps team. It's unfortunate that Android be
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by thu2111 7y ago
I'm curious where you live. Is $300/year a big expense for you? Computers and developer salaries are usually much higher.
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by thu2111 7y ago
I have to say I'm quite impressed by the quality and precision of the questions in this document. Who in Congress wrote this questionnaire?
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by thu2111 7y ago
That's also not what happened. I was on the Google Maps team at the time and the issues were far deeper and more problematic than "not getting telemetry" which was at any rate, not an issue - what sort of "telemetry&quot
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by thu2111 7y ago
How does this differ from cjdns?
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by thu2111 7y ago
Obvious answer: it's the only IDE-like thing that's both well supported and caters to the huge population of JavaScript-only developers, who generally don't want to use IntelliJ or similar products because they can't cus
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by thu2111 7y ago
That's not an unreasonable assumption, right? It's just an extrapolation from how desktop/local software has always worked. Demanding a subscription for something that doesn't, technically, need any maintenance or ongo
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by thu2111 7y ago
It exists already. Disney could just federate their logins to Google, for example, and all these problems are solved for them for free. Note that both Google and Facebook have extensive infrastructures in place to detect and block password
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by thu2111 7y ago
I think the belief is that if all your state is held in a transactional database, then your actors don't have any state in them and at that point it's not clear what they're doing with messages that the sender couldn't j
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by thu2111 7y ago
It wasn't strongly typed exactly, but Microsoft's DCOM protocol featured a simple distributed garbage collector that would automatically unref objects and allow them to be deallocated in some cases. DCOM allowed processes to send
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by thu2111 7y ago
There's already such a lawsuit by a recruiter: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi... I don't have any documents or hard evidence, just what I saw and heard. So I can&#
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by thu2111 7y ago
Sadly, this isn't trolling. There's a lawsuit that claims much evidence of this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi... Maybe you don't agree with those claims but
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by thu2111 7y ago
I hate to break it to you, but that's not true. Yes, the company tells you that's how it works. But I was also a Google engineer, I did hundreds of interviews during a time when it was way less into diversity than it is today. And
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by thu2111 7y ago
Really? Googler 2006-2014. I can't say I remember much politics during that time. The closest it got was Eric Schmidt having close relationships with Washington. That and the China thing but even there, Google was in China with a censo
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by thu2111 7y ago
Rubin was accused by, if I recall correctly, a woman he'd been in a relationship with and then dumped? He denied her accusations and as it was all behind closed doors there's no way to ever resolve it. That shouldn't be in th
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by thu2111 7y ago
That was the same Google.org that had weird problems with its leader interfering in middle eastern politics, to the extent it became practically an extension of the White House? I remember google.org - seen from the perspective of an engine
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by thu2111 7y ago
That'll change with time. I'm behind ISP NAT for IPv4 but have static IPv6 direct to all my devices in the home. My ISP ran out of IPv4 relatively early so had to go this way. On the other hand, this won't really change much
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by thu2111 7y ago
Switzerland, UBS card.
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by thu2111 7y ago
I think this is a US thing. I've tried to do chargebacks before in Europe because a website wouldn't stop billing me, and was told the only thing I could do is cut up the card and get issued a new one.