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by wyck 6y ago
And yet ebay stock is at a near all time high, with this kind of corporate culture in place? We really live in bizarre times.
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by wyck 6y ago
Company leadership who don't understand the danger of politics are poisoning their own well. If you open the door to what is fundamentally not part of your core values and culture (in this case a programming/engineering platform),
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by wyck 6y ago
The media really went to town on this one, the reports that you might die using it lacked some real common sense, all of a sudden a drug that was approved in 1955, considered extremely safe (listed as an essential medicine by WHO) , and us
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by wyck 6y ago
The original anonymous hackers now have children and real jobs. Some random twitter accounts from 9 years ago are not anonymous, one of them was used as a kpop account. Anyone saying anonymous is back is either a dolt or using for political
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by wyck 6y ago
Sorry but a citation is not needed, they have poured vast amounts of money into IT infrastructure, logistics, supply/demand, warehousing, POS, RFID, the list goes on. How do you think they became so large? Technology you take for gran
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by wyck 6y ago
Here's a better title "Journalist hucksters reinvigorate the fake message that anonymous is back ". I understand how this might get traction on Reddit or Facebook, but Hacker News?
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by wyck 6y ago
No sorry, but I can tell you it provides video/text/meta data archiving for many countries' parliaments and state legislatures.
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by wyck 6y ago
It is a bit strange how the in-house and other competitor is also mentioned, Walmart are big on data warehousing and management, in a lot of cases they are pushing innovation and r&d, in some cases for decades. This article needs to sh
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by wyck 6y ago
This happened at the first start-up I worked at, 3 years in and almost bankrupt, one large customer kept using the product for a different reason ( kinda hacking it all together), so we completely pivoted to survive with this customers need
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by wyck 6y ago
Ya I agree, I wonder what happened to lavabit's dark mail server / client, they got funding but the development seems to have stalled years ago.
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by wyck 6y ago
> Why does AWS use such convoluted language? Because it's run by engineers (not a bad thing).
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by wyck 6y ago
Yes it is, and with 20 years in the game it's generally true, there are always exceptions of course.
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by wyck 6y ago
This isn't just a whoopsy mistake, this is a drastically stupid decision that brings the whole business into question. This wasn't really a technical mistake, this is bad leadership mixed with bad procedures. When you drive you b
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by wyck 6y ago
So basically block 70% of all results from first and second page? Google has turned into a defective product.
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by wyck 6y ago
Marketing can be a real struggle for engineers, they are often so focused on "proving" what works, they feel marketing or promotion somehow pollutes the purity of their invention. They are also REALLY bad at the aesthetics of desi
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by wyck 6y ago
The reason given: Legit covid information was not getting through during the fist few days of the crisis, basically made an emergency move to disable the whitelist/blacklist functionality of the algo which reverted to how it worked ye
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by wyck 6y ago
Google search is so sad these days, all results are media conglomerates, it's completely counter to the core reason why the internet existed. I really hope by catering to these mega corps that they are completely undermining their bran
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by wyck 6y ago
I do find it a bit weird you released internal handles and employee names.
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by wyck 6y ago
Giphy is worth an estimated 300 million, gifs are extremely popular on mobile and discussion boards, your comment is not relevant to the actual marketplace.
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by wyck 6y ago
Dating? So they learned nothing about the dismal effects of reality TV's on culture and content creators? Here's a better suggestion, fire the person who thought moving laterally into a garbage dump was a good idea.
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by wyck 6y ago
It's all about the hardware now, building out your own components isn't going to be easy, get a microprocessor that was build pre-1998 or try an open source hardware solution but who wants to do that..
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by wyck 6y ago
Analyzing common sense seems to be getting more popular.
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by wyck 6y ago
Article critiques data set and gives zero details on the CDC calculation methodology, and provides zero relevance to any new or interesting data analysis, but it surely mentioned Trump a few times. A simple Google search will provide you w
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by wyck 6y ago
I know its's not thier intent but the promo video comes across as snarky, in my opinion the spirit of of the show was a true comedy in a sort or zen way with a flash of synchronicity, laughing in the face of tragedy and how rediculous
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by wyck 6y ago
Well China is pushing a narrative that the outbreak started in October at the Wuhan Military world games, you can bet that US intelligance was monitoring this event, and literally competing in the event..over 100 countries participated..thi
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by wyck 6y ago
You can find the full .pdf report by googling "Crimson Contagion Functional Excercise Key Findings"
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Crimson Contagion(en.wikipedia.org)
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by wyck 6y ago
I instantly closed this website because it loaded slow and then hit me with 2 pop-ups and a location request.
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by wyck 7y ago
whoosh..
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by wyck 7y ago
I've noticed this a lot on hackernews, there is an apprehesion to say certain things as though there is some sort of pedigree or gating when discussing topics, especially when it's personal...there isn't. Case in point: The c

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