antonovka2

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by antonovka2 17y ago
There's an over-abundance of information. All that's left for HN is angry, emotional quibbling by those who lack the basic qualifications to evaluate the data and science, even if they were interested in actually doing so.
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by antonovka2 17y ago
("Hacker News"? This particular little niche website is fast becoming Wall Street Blog West. People who came for the tech are leaving because of the increasing emphasis on how to make a few fast buck any old way.) I agree. I found it depr
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by antonovka2 17y ago
As a long-time San Francisco resident I found it irksome that Alex was so quick to bemoan the lack of culture to consume without showing any possible interest in creating any. In my opinion, San Francisco is a beautiful place for creators
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by antonovka2 17y ago
Where did I claim otherwise? I only noted that his suggested approach -- which is clearly reflected by 37signals -- has led to me maintain a lower estimation of their decorum and the value of their positions.
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by antonovka2 17y ago
37signals would be significantly raised in my estimation if you tempered your invectives with less emotional arguments. Of course, tempered rational arguments rarely drive significant traffic, and lackluster traffic doesn't drive sales.
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by antonovka2 17y ago
First, Please avoid editorializing story titles. The submission title is a direct quote from the article: The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source Second, this article has the facts wrong. MBAs from top scho
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by antonovka2 17y ago
Unit tests are narrow and focused, and aimed at verifying features. What you're talking about is something I'd call white box QA. Which is valuable, though it's essentially just an extension of design, and has the same limits. It seems li
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by antonovka2 17y ago
No amount of testing the former will lead you to realize the latter. Sure, you might happen to come to the realization while writing the test, but you might do so over breakfast too. You're a bit more likely to do it during a time you've
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by antonovka2 17y ago
Testing can verify that your software works within the space of behavior that you already know about. It can't make up for your failure to understand the problem fully. Thinking about correctly testing software is generally one of the be
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by antonovka2 17y ago
They have a restriction on taking pictures of things you shouldn't (which includes most of the campus), but they don't have restrictions on cameras. In addition to there being no written rule against it, I've openly and regularly hauled dig
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by antonovka2 17y ago
This is Apple, not the Government. If you don't like the legal terms of employment, California is an at-will state. Quit. That said, this article is total ridiculous bunk. Gizmodo has been trolled.
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by antonovka2 17y ago
I can also confirm that Apple does not have a "no camera" policy on campus. Or a "gestapo". The security is very well run, however.
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by antonovka2 17y ago
They're not "blobs" if they are also protobuf/thrift messages themselves.
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by antonovka2 17y ago
Heterogeneous collections, discriminated unions, and GADTs can be implemented easily in either thrift or protobuf by leveraging inclusion of custom type-tagged messages/data. However, while the encodings are absolutely sufficient to represe
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by antonovka2 17y ago
I hope not. Between Protobuf and Thrift, I don't see the point of adopting a less efficient, even more niche NIH serialization format and RPC protocol.
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by antonovka2 17y ago
> As an analogy, you can take the routers that were stupidly configured to use stratum 1 NTP servers. These misbehaving devices placed too much strain on the NTP "network" because they used it inappropriately. But it was only the NTP se
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by antonovka2 17y ago
All of this is going to lead to massive disillusionment with an open online lifestyle. Privacy is going to make a major comeback in the decade to come. Or, alternatively, it's going to lead to an entire generation's total acceptance of hu
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Climate E-mails: Science Not Faked, but Not Pretty(abcnews.go.com)
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by antonovka2 17y ago
To put it another way: the only reason to maintain your own backups of your site data -- aside from healthy paranoia -- is because you expect your service provider to fail at doing their job. And if that's the case, shouldn't you be findin
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by antonovka2 17y ago
Reason 1: I pay for my bank account one way or another. It's bank's responsibility to keep the system running and secure, not mine. Sometimes we just can't do everything ourselves and have to rely on others. You are responsible for readin
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by antonovka2 17y ago
Colin's statement was in the context of the question of BSD vs. GPL licensing. RedHat's model it's clearly more effective than simple charity, but I don't see a difference between RedHat and any other OSS-reliant contributing vendor. As an
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by antonovka2 17y ago
This is an unfortunate misconception. Some of Apple's significant BSD/MIT/Apache contributions, off the top of my head: * LLVM and clang (MIT) - http://llvm.org/ * libdispatch, aka GCD (Apache) - http://libdispatch.macosforge.org/ * lau