bananaface

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by bananaface 5y ago
Do you work at a large company?
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by bananaface 5y ago
FWIW the acquisition was only 25ish percent above market value. In the public markets Nuance was worth something like $15 billion.
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by bananaface 5y ago
If the industry demands weird or suboptimal practices or has strange evaluation criteria then the people making the most will be the people who are best at the game. I think the popularity of untyped languages is one example of that. Clearl
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by bananaface 5y ago
Why not just: function foobar(version: number): string { if (version >= 3) { return 'result_3'; } else if (version >= 2) { return 'result_2'; } else if (version >= 1) { return '
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by bananaface 5y ago
Is this really true? In my (limited) experience, the best coders are the ones who understand the technology, understand the hardware, and understand good program structure. "Communication" and "teamwork" are totally unim
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by bananaface 5y ago
That assumes the selection process is effective, but FAANGs are all monopolies so there's very weak selection pressure for them to distinguish candidates correctly. They don't get punished for their mistakes. I'd argue the pe
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by bananaface 5y ago
I get what you're saying but Marxists don't bomb the homes of billionaires, or shoot them. There's no actual warfare, genuine violence is directed at the right, not the rich. They do make a show of constructing a set of gallo
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by bananaface 5y ago
And which permission do I take to access that?
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by bananaface 5y ago
I said it's less sensitive.
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by bananaface 5y ago
The left-wing narrative is usually "[group A] is hurt by [issue and thus group B]", whereas the far-right is, "[group C] will hurt you, if you let them." I think it's a deliberate difference. The far right would n
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by bananaface 5y ago
Firefox already has this. Click reader view, it also gives you a time estimate.
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by bananaface 5y ago
It would be nice if Firefox provided an API that only exposed the static HTML of sites you're visiting. I don't care if an extension wants that data, it's nowhere near as sensitive. I guess this doesn't solve injection,
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by bananaface 5y ago
I think there's crossover but I don't think those two groups are motivated by the same thing. My observation is that far-right activists tend to feel that they're being deliberately stabbed in the back by the powers that be,
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by bananaface 5y ago
I would argue if you're not bringing your idea to market, that's not innovation. It's the opposite, you're blocking innovation. Patents stop other people from creating useful stuff. I think it's reasonable that you
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by bananaface 5y ago
How is that legal? I mean mechanically, how do they get away with it? What legal defense do they use?
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by bananaface 5y ago
Tht's insane. Is that rule in the contract, or is it something that's imposed after employees are hired? (Or is it like, "you agree to adhere to all Amazon internal policies"? Is that even legal to begin with?) I don&#x2
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by bananaface 5y ago
I'm on the outside here so I might be misreading, but are these internal policies explicitly written into their contracts, or are they secret, internal rules that Amazon unilaterally imposes after you're hired? It sounds like they
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by bananaface 6y ago
Hah, to be clear that is what I meant - the idea that Facebook doesn't have the resources is ludicrous, the problem runs deeper.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Facebook took $85 billion in revenue last year and has thousands of developers on the payroll. They could absolutely maintain 3 separate services. Bear in mind WhatsApp used to maintain a userbase of 200 million with 50 total employees (n
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by bananaface 6y ago
If they didn't publish a retraction, they probably could have been sued. They're covering their ass, I wouldn't give them moral credit.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Getting a mortgage isn't purchasing a home, paying off a mortgage is purchasing a home. The bank owns your home when you get a mortgage, and they have the right to sell if you miss even your last payment. If the housing market crashe
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by bananaface 6y ago
I've noticed that Reddit thing too. It's super weird, and it's a really grating style. I think one corollary on HN is overwriting. Comments do better when they're fluffed. I think a reputation-based system (in the sense
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by bananaface 6y ago
Is it always the same group?
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by bananaface 6y ago
This is also a problem with Hacker News imo, it's just a lot less obvious. Most HN comments are not worth their weight because the system rewards power posters who know how to post over people who are concise, successful and busy. I&#x
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by bananaface 6y ago
This situation is orthogonal to what's predatory. Its predatory that they generally encourage customers to front more than they realise they're fronting. Many customers think they're betting £1000, they don't realise the
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by bananaface 6y ago
Hanlon's razor is not a good heuristic, I don't know why everyone is so into it. If there's a monetary incentive to be deliberate, it's way more likely to be deliberate. Deception is everywhere, especially in sales.
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by bananaface 6y ago
For what it's worth, Emacs is an example of what you describe and it's extremely functional (and carries a huge amount of global state). Millions of lines, an insane number of contributors, development period of decades with a ver
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by bananaface 6y ago
Oh, give it a rest. You're not actually outraged, you're just jumping on an opportunity to call him a hypocrite. The guy fumbled an analogy. I don't buy that you're that apoplectic about serfs from the 1500s. You get it,
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by bananaface 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from but I don't think a coordinated ban of the sitting president across platforms is equivalent to a forum ban. And I don't think you think that either. Look, I'm not trying to argue thi
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by bananaface 6y ago
I would argue the public is at a much higher risk of being tricked by giant monopolistic media organisations with very private interests than fringe lunatics. Murdoch was bad, but at least you didn't have to communicate through his tab

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