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by warp_factor 7y ago
I used to follow that guy religiously then I realized that he knew how to hack the "attention" system on social media. He is famous for what really is little fluffy sentences that would get retweeted and make him look like a wise
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I wish people would be able to keep things simple and still use IRC instead of bullshit "productivity" apps like Slack
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Sad day. I never used them but I always enjoyed Bryan Cantrill's postmortems and deep dives on Joyent all over the internet. Would love to see his take on this EOL announcement. Bryan, are you around?
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by warp_factor 7y ago
by all means this is censorship. Let's not get confused here. It is a private company doing the censorship but this is 100% in the definition of censorship.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
The issue here is that Youtube is already known to ban people that clearly didn't show any extreme views. This was used as an easy pretext for the ban though.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
the issue is not me or you but with the masses of people that don't know // don't care where they give their attention. And that's the huge majority unfortunately.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
because it became the de facto place most of non tech-savy people go to to see videos online. They have a huge monopoly on our time and attention and that's extremely disturbing. Imagine that the electricity company providing electric
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by warp_factor 7y ago
And here we go. As usual the "racist" pretext is being used to censor videos. I have no doubt that there are some terrible awful racist videos in that lot but you have to wonder how many times this is ALSO used as a mean to censor
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Which as a generalist I find very interesting. I have been in startups at which I was a tech lead but also a Product manager. Depending on what I would want to do next I would put one or another on my resume.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I have had both Engineering jobs that would force me to be always on and other engineering jobs in which I would completely disconnect as soon as I leave at 5PM. The ones in which you fully disconnect are so good for your private life. You
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Yes I believe we are all partially wasting our time. Unfortunately it is one of the pillars of our societies and it would be extremely or almost impossible to change. People expect to be busy at work 5 days a week for 8 hours.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
you are exactly right. Fortunately in Tech that seems to change somewhat with homeworking and other "remote" style of working.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
My theory is that 90% of people don't do more than 20 hours worth of work per week anyways. We just all got used to be very inefficient at what we do.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Spending a considerable amount of time in both Taiwan and China for work and personal reasons over the last 10 years I'm always shocked to see the huge difference between those two countries that have a common origin. As a European I t
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Or you wait for Google or you are frantically trying to move everything you got to AWS.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Racism is becoming the catch-it-all excuse that you can throw at pretty much anything to justify why you should take it down.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I would love to hear what would all the advocates of going "100% in the cloud" think about this.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I cannot believe we are in 2019 and Israel continues to be able to do whatever they want without any real international consequences. The EU is continuously warning that they should stop. Obviously nobody cares. The real issue is the blind
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by warp_factor 7y ago
They should be seen as a public utility. I dislike Facebook but for a lot of people it became part of their life and some information is now only available on Facebook. As a public utility they should be regulated on what they are allow to
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Welcome to Facebook Co. Where a clique of Silicon Valley exec yuppies now decide what is right and what is wrong for us to see. It's a very slippery slope. Cannot wait for the next elections where any candidates with politically "
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by warp_factor 7y ago
that article is pushing the idea that Social networks should be better at policing speech on their platform. As said in other comments pushing for more self policing is the worst thing that could happen for democracy and free-speech. The l
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by warp_factor 7y ago
They make me extremely nervous. Most people I know that use Robinhood seems to use it as they would play dices in Vegas. They have no ideas on the stock fundamentals or why and how the prices change. Most of them are playing a big amount of
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by warp_factor 7y ago
After using the big three clouds for a long time, GoogleCloud got the absolutely worst support. And by far.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Google Fi is a huge joke. I had the same type of shenanigans with their customer service. Eventually after calling every day for about two weeks I managed to find a competent supervisor that managed to follow up on what he said. Since then
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by warp_factor 7y ago
The same kind of ethics that can justify every terrible action. As usual if you feel fine and inline with the company's ethic then go for it. I suspect that most engineers and Facebook employee know deep down how shitty the product the
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by warp_factor 7y ago
The general feel I get from most of my engineer friends is that Facebook's product is definitely not inspiring and doesn't "make the world a better place" (whatever that means). But the consensus is that given the right
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by warp_factor 7y ago
The way I view this, funding can definitely raise suspicion. But The open sourcing of the protocols should help to remove those suspicions.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
The best approximation of security in this space should be an open-implementation of an open-source protocol that can be easily audited. As far as I know, the only app that fits this requirement with a minimum viable community such that it
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Sure, I might have hit a corner case but I made an in-app purchase for a one year subscription for a service. After using the app for a couple of days and restarting the phone, the app seemed to hit a bug and behave like if I didn't bu
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Late reply but here is what I did: - Bought a new domain name and moved my mails in fastmail. I have been super happy with it so far. - My Gmail address is now only for spam or very low importance emails. - All my Pixel pictures are still u

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