JamesDeepDown

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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
He literally compared the UK to a fascist state, and you're attacking me for calling him out on it?
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
It's easy and simplistic to blame individual "nutjobs" or "the media" for brexit happening. As if the huge numbers of brexit-voters were simple folk who got bamboozled. Far more difficult to accept that working-clas
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
I say this trying to be measured: you are NEVER going to get a reasonable discussion about Brexit on HackerNews, despite all the excellent qualities of this website. The vast majoriry of people here experienced the benefits of EU "glob
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
Reddit has turned into a clownish propoganda website. It is exponentially worse than any other social media website. It is a complete failure at every level.
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
WARNING! Be aware that this is an Electron app. I tried it, and using the interface was like swimming in glue. I presumed this meant "Electron app" and a quick check confirmed it.
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
Googles forced country localization is IMBECILICLY STUPID. I am currently in a foreign country. My English OS laptop with English browser has been logging in to gmail in English for years, and I ask Google search to show results in English
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
"I suspect we're about to see [Apple Silicon] move to small performance increases due to diminishing returns" Is there any discussion of this online, I'm curious to read more.
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
The UI heatmap shows that nobody clicks Pocket, but the video highlights that pocket is "refreshed" and is part of the new design. Dear Firefox, that's not how things work.
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
It fails because the face is real but the mouth movement is AI. It would need to be perfect otherwise you are in uncanny valley. It reminded me of the talking horse TV shows from years ago.
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
Look at the abject failure of Discourse. If it had been written in PHP then it would have completely replaced all current forum software. But the devs there hate PHP and went for a modern stack which is all but impossible to install except
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
A quick anecdote: interviewers HATE when you criticise previous employers. You complain at length about previous employers in your post, instead of talking about what you learned/experience gained. Ensure in interviews that everything
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by JamesDeepDown 5y ago
"I'll give you mock 30 minute interview (I've hired countless engineers, designers, PMs and other roles in the last 20+ years)" This is an incredibly generous offer and I hope it gets done, because it would BY FAR the mo
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by JamesDeepDown 6y ago
Fortunately most institutions of the EU are not as absurdly extremist as you are.
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by JamesDeepDown 6y ago
Advertisers on Reddit are small boutique businesses. Fortune 500 type companies won't touch them.
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by JamesDeepDown 6y ago
Advertisers HATE unmoderated user-generated content. The UGC on Reddit is probably the most extreme for any mainstream website. How are they going to make money? No advertisers will touch them in the current state.
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BBC blocks a third of Europe from accessing their news service
2 points by JamesDeepDown 6y ago|5 comments