ambrice

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by ambrice 3y ago
More accurate headline would be "75% of Software Engineers Who Reported Wrongdoing Claim They Faced Retaliation". I know there are some obvious cases where people were explicitly retaliated against, but I'm also not sure you
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by ambrice 3y ago
The Bolt is the best EV in its price range (<30K)
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by ambrice 6y ago
Profit sharing at a company that "wasn't doing great" is not a promise to be paid more.
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by ambrice 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this story. But the whole "work harder" is a business euphemism for "put in more hours". It probably wasn't the words that were used. Your dad was asking some
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by ambrice 7y ago
Again, in my experience there is very little correlation between how much you pay for something and how rotten it is. And I find the opposite, when you get open source software and it's rotten, you can do something about it. You can
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by ambrice 7y ago
In my experience licensed products with paid support packages aren't any more secure, they just let you pass the buck when things go wrong.
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by ambrice 7y ago
So, your advice is that if you care about security even a little bit, you should write all your software from scratch yourself?
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by ambrice 7y ago
Probably not, need to leave room for Alyx episode 2.
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by ambrice 7y ago
No. And a year from now I won't remember this time either.
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by ambrice 8y ago
I think the reference is to the fact that on Windows you download some random .exe installer from some place on the internet and trust it, rather than selecting a signed package from a trusted repository that gets automatically updated. Sh
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by ambrice 8y ago
In what strongly typed language does the division of two integers result in a float?
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by ambrice 9y ago
I don't think it's "you aren't going to find any startups interested" as much as "you aren't going to find DoD interested in trusting startups to be around". No one gets fired for giving a billion do
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by ambrice 9y ago
I worked on the handheld JTRS radios some years ago, it was running Green Hills Integrity RTOS at the time.
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by ambrice 9y ago
The same fines and jail times associated with any foreign carmaker who issues a recall that isn't related to deliberate and intentional fraud.
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by ambrice 9y ago
We tried Blue Apron but stopped for two reasons: - We have toddlers, and the menu was too "fancy". It's difficult to get a 4 year old to eat squid ink pasta. - I felt bad about all that wasted packing material and giant ice
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by ambrice 9y ago
Oh right, we already had this discussion. At least they got upgraded from "unethical marketing" to "irresponsible marketing". But how long can you continue to claim that the company engages in irresponsible marketing b
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by ambrice 9y ago
How is it irresponsible marketing?
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by ambrice 9y ago
I would go with the guy who _purports_ to be an electrician, over the guy who specifically states that he is not an electrician. That is the comparison when you say "I am going to trust Slim Fast as a meal replacement over Soylent.&qu
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by ambrice 9y ago
"a little cheaper"? That product you linked to is more than twice as expensive even compared to the Soylent 2.0 bottles. Whenever Soylent comes up there's always the "soylent is nothing new, it's just marketing&qu
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by ambrice 9y ago
This just seems to be a biased claim that Soylent hasn't done any "real testing". Do you have evidence of that? Soylent has been out for years and a lot of people have been drinking 100% Soylent for a long time now.
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by ambrice 9y ago
"unethical marketing"? Please explain..
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by ambrice 9y ago
That's an interesting point of view. Sort of like, when it comes to wiring up my new house, I'm going to go with the guy who doesn't purport to be a licensed electrician.
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by ambrice 9y ago
Not according to the Copyright Act of 1976: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html A “work made for hire” is— (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work speciall
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by ambrice 9y ago
That link and Joel seem to agree. By default the contractor owns the IP, unless the contract contains the legal phrase "work made for hire." Maybe you should have kept reading?
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by ambrice 10y ago
Also consider what the average marijuana user is spending per day vs what the average heroin user is spending.
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by ambrice 10y ago
I think you have this backwards. PyQt5 is well maintained by a company that produces a GPL version and sells a commercially licensed version, which was Qt's original business model. Pyside was originally created by Nokia back when No
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by ambrice 10y ago
But more like 25 GB of equal QoS prioritization with other customers which may or may not be high speed, followed by reduced QoS prioritization in relation to other customers which still may be high speed but less likely.
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by ambrice 10y ago
Which word do you use? "The Data Plan Limited By Maximum Speeds, Current Network Capacity, and Amount of Time in a Given Month" doesn't fit on the pamphlet. Do we really need to go full lawyer on everything? I think people
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by ambrice 10y ago
You're right. The only people that would use it are people that a) care enough about optimization to switch out shorter tag names and b) don't care enough about optimization to switch to binary format. Probably not many..
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by ambrice 10y ago
> Added a new field option "json_name". By default proto field names are converted to "lowerCamelCase" in proto3 JSON format. This option can be used to override this behavior and specify a different JSON name for th

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