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by virgilp 8y ago
I'd argue that's a disorder, too
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by virgilp 8y ago
Well, strictly speaking, this is a legitimate dictionary definition that doesn't involve money: > a person of a specified kind with whom one has to deal [edit] Youtube has 3 kinds of customers (or users, if you wish): publishers, vi
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by virgilp 8y ago
What I don't get is... forget the "illegal" part, how is that not dumb? 3 months after your first child is born is when you start to accommodate with your new life. They will spend another 6 months-1y trying to find a reasona
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by virgilp 8y ago
"You have arrived at your destination" -- Apple autonomous car, inside the tunnel.
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by virgilp 8y ago
If you size the market by revenue, not unit sales, I'd bet it's not very significant - especially in the EU.
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by virgilp 8y ago
They seem to have 66% market share on mobile apps, and I'd say they are abusing their power as much as they can: https://beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/scree... And if we're loo
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by virgilp 8y ago
> Open Source: It’s all on GitHub! There's some level of irony in a GitHub alternative that's hosted on GitHub.
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by virgilp 8y ago
Why are you assuming "machine from the 70s"? I know modern processors (DSPs) that need to saturate on integer arithmetic in order to maintain correctness. If you want your naive overflow checks to work on your x86 project, why not
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by virgilp 8y ago
I argue that's actually a misconception of many scrum practitioners. It's not really "get feedback often", it's "get feedback early". "Often" is just a bad approximation of that. The difference i
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by virgilp 8y ago
Depends on what you mean but "not gonna work". I presume that all my questions will have satisfactory answers, either directly by the company or via the DPA. Either way, it's just an email for me. I'm pretty sure it&#x2
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by virgilp 8y ago
Well, for the full enforcement process: if your answer is not satisfactory, I will forward my letter (together with the notice of non-answer, or the notice of unsatisfactory answer) to my national data protection agency. Believe it or not,
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by virgilp 8y ago
I just said GDPR legislates that personal information is not a form of currency, so no, you can't ask for payment in the form of personal information.
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by virgilp 8y ago
You can't condition service on consent (if you only need the consent for revenue, not in order to provide actual service)
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by virgilp 8y ago
I see that you are one of the privileged, who didn't have to constantly deal with "this is not available in your country" messages.
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by virgilp 8y ago
They are free to put up paywalls. GDPR legislates that personal information can't be used as currency - not that you can't ask for payment.
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by virgilp 8y ago
FWIW, at that time Adobe was already properly handling the password - what leaked was an old backup. Where passwords were hashed, just not properly. Adobe did mess up on that one - it's just not on the same level, not even close. The
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by virgilp 8y ago
If they aren't exercised, part of the compensation is nullified
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by virgilp 8y ago
Yes, because everybody knows that testing eliminates all bugs. (it's not that testing is useless - far from it; but I thought the HN crowd knows better than to respond to issues with "that's because you didn't do enough
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by virgilp 8y ago
I know our SREs once screwed the config for sshd, and considered themselves very lucky that they had puppet on the machines and could push a fixed configuration (if they had used exclusively ansible, that'd be the end of it - no way to
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by virgilp 8y ago
The challenge here is that it's incredibly hard to know how to add value, from the outside. Especially for not-very-senior positions, adopting this tactic can backfire big time. I interviewed a guy who attempted to tell us how he'
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by virgilp 9y ago
> We have five OSs today. iOS, OS X, Windows, Android and ChromeOS. > Two are open source. Did you just ignore the likes of Linux & BSD? :D (I mean, there are plenty more OSes of course, saying "we have 5 today" is incr
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by virgilp 9y ago
You could've skipped the last paragraph as it adds nothing to the discussion.
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by virgilp 9y ago
It would be so much easier to not be cynical if FB did this more than a month prior to the GDPR deadline. BTW, picking Google as your example was bad - you could download, remove, modify your Google data since ... basically forever, I think
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by virgilp 9y ago
I find the EMR markup to be substantial; if I weren't working in a corporation, I would stand up my own spark clusters, e.g. using spark-ec2
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by virgilp 9y ago
Well, already you have "loads of people" claiming that kobe beef is better than regular beef (or that the black iberian pig is better than other kinds of pig). Yet, since meet from those animals is expensive, in practice the vast
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by virgilp 9y ago
> in the city of Antwerp So, Belgium. > and now is projected to be closer to 3 years. Right. Belgium. :P
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by virgilp 9y ago
Alhambra, but you're right, XC90 seems to be about 700pounds heavier (because it actually weighs almost 5000 pounds, from what I read). It's also more powerful. I call that a tie :) - but, tbh, the gearbox & suspension probabl
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by virgilp 9y ago
Have you driven it? I didn't, but my current car is a similarly-sized Seat, also 4 cylinder. It's quite snappy for its size, snappier in fact than all US cars I personally drove (though, tbh, in the US I've never been in a hu
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by virgilp 9y ago
Nobody in the mobile phone industry thought that iPhone was a good idea for Apple (no keyboard = hard to do email, no business market; only one operator, with bad network that was inefficiently used by iPhone; too expensive for regular cons
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by virgilp 9y ago
Perhaps the better question is "what has changed that could make it workable now?". For example, in an interconnected world like today's, some countries actually do have massive power. Take the anti-corruption laws that say a

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