tomtimtall

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by tomtimtall 8y ago
It’s Wierd that a lot of the complints are phrased “weren’t told”. It makes it sound suspeciusly like the shelter people didn’t even ask and are now complayning that Amazon did not work proactively to invalidate their wrongfull assumptions.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Your example is more easily done using GPS and the internet, and that doesn’t involve rebuilding the entire road network which will take generations.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Philosophers always seem to intent in discussing why philosophy has value. While every piece of science which moved onwards and away from philosophers are intent on showing why they have value. It also seems just laughable when philosophers
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
GDPR is significant but not for the reasons you mention. If you want to have European users you have to comply with European laws. That was the case before GDPR as well.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
I feel like certain people will constantly complain about “not being made aware” about things no matter how clearly you state it to them. It is obvious in hindsight that many owners do not read the manual, don’t read screenwar warnings and
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Some business relies on identifying opotubities tgat creat value, and then naturally converting some of that value into money for the creators. Other business like this, relies on identifying dumb money, extracting that to the creators and
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
So as many pointed out quite early, this isn’t litterally a case of Uber killing people because they cared more about taking I up miles than safety an in effect human lives. They disabled safety measures because they where getting in the wa
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Really sad news. He was an awesome and very talented guy. He was always one of the pillars of game reviews for me and my friends.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Maybe that is the thing. That the committee just wants to avoid versions. At work we always skip versioning when a developer or manager doesn’t want it. That’s modern web dev right there.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
> Sure, in retrospect MooTools did the wrong thing... Are you kidding me? Overwriting prototype is a widespread design pattern. Either ECMA ships the next version making it impossible (and breaking significantly larger parts of the web)
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Rather than first building up a huge pile of logs and then counting them, move the count to the location that generates the logs or the location that stores them. Easily done, no need for algorithms or special case solutions, just a simple
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Facebook abused their position against developers. Kind of like if Apple gave developers full access to all details of every iPhone owner to convince them to develop iPhone apps, then when they get developers onboard they start cutting acce
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Those jobs will not be in peril. There are plenty of rideshares and the tech is trivial compared to the actual services. Uber’s valuation and capital gamble is not about ridesharing, it’s self driving taxis, and they May very Well go out of
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Wikipedia should maintain 3 separate threads for all these polarizing individuals and organizations. Obliviously biased for, obviously biased against, and the the idealt neutral statement of facts(with no facts removerførsel because they pl
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Should they also faithfully maintain the pretense of every damn pointer he initiated? Their the ones doing the work of maintaining the project, removing no-value jokes in the documentation should not warrant this amount of weight throwing n
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Which counts for absolutely nothing. A CEO running around the floor of the business telling programmers what jokes belong in what docs is a shit CEO no matter what he didn’t years past.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Anecdotal, and also not true.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Your costumer just sent you a slightly malformed cab, there’s a couple of column names that need to change and some of the rows need to be excluded. 10min tops. Vs your consumer just sent you a slightly mallformed sqlite dB... which tables
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Yea!? How the hell can a website provide easy automatic login without storing your last 10 years of browsing history , every personal covertion you ever had and reselling that information to third parties that use it to track you political
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
It’s funny how the human brain works. I was prepared to be amazed yet the very first thoughts through my mind was literally: “her eyes look wonky, her left eye is bleeding, her ears are really odd”. Only then did I even notice the rest of t
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
The person your replying to misunderstood it. I misunderstood it. The literal meaning of the title is not what it literally means. I think we should agree that it is misleading.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
It doesn’t seem to far fetched to speculate that money is involved.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
Well they also chose not to put the headquarters in a pot third world country, so let’s blame them for world hunger.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
> Why is there such a culture of fake it till you make it in SV? If the tech is good, no need for faking. Nothing happens in a vacuum. If you don’t work hard to hype and oversell your cure for cancer, investors will be passing you by to
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
> The NYT is a stickler for traditions You mean like fact checking? They didn’t even glance at the twitter account of the man writing about how he ditched twitter. NYT isn’t what it was anymore.
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
> I’m not even sure if the New York Times could afford to bribe someone writing for the New York Times. It’s not a bribe when you employer gives you a bonus to write specific content they demand. You could suspect that he was just under
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
You sound like an old man decrying escalators because you won’t rely on any means of transportation that requires electricity to function.... escalators without electricity are just stairs, IKEA lights controlled through google home without
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
It’s an extremely interesting field where decieses act in extraordinarily ways. An ex boyfriend of my best friend got an autoimmune response and went from perfectly healthy to lying in a respirator close to death in one week, only to be ful
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
So the takeaway is that he got paid to plug paper-news and created a narrative to support that plug without actually doing any of the “this is how I started feeling better”-dieting. He still was on social, he still followed the news and com
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by tomtimtall 9y ago
You can fit any object at any size through a an arbitrarily small and arbitrarily shaped hole. Just blend it an send it through as a stream with the same cross section as the hole. The naysaers will say that this is cheating because you are

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