bmomb

6 ms·

1.
by bmomb 8y ago
I think that cool features that protects user privacy is hard to come by because this is not the type of feature that brings money. Protecting the user is (in most of the cases) fighting ads.
2.
by bmomb 8y ago
Do you really need to track every time that each individual move to do that?
3.
by bmomb 8y ago
But before the algorithm personalized ads journalism wasn’t “dying”, there is ways to do personalized ads without tracking my every move.
4.
by bmomb 8y ago
Just a little trivia; The fastest way to reverse a string is in JS is: function reverse(s) { var o = []; for (var i = 0, len = s.length; i <= len; i++) o.push(s.charAt(len - i)); return o.join('');
5.
by bmomb 8y ago
I never heard any of theses terms or texts, can you provide more background? I tried to search for the one "the Unabomber Manifesto" and it seems to be linked to a "mathematician/terrorist", and in the archive.org t
6.
by bmomb 8y ago
When develop country start computing the screen were not that big either[0]. Its the beginning, soon enough we all will get those 4k-160hz-retina_display screens. :] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_monitor#/
7.
by bmomb 8y ago
You are right, both sides are to blame, but this don’t make any of the them better. In Brazil we have the same mentality of “sides” and I believe that this is destroying the good sense of some people. It’s not because everyone does it that
8.
by bmomb 9y ago
I have that "faint unease" too, i need to give it more importance. In the beginning i learn to ignore it because the mentality of "moving fast and break things", and really worked because my tasks were fairly simple and
9.
by bmomb 9y ago
I will implement the "final walk around" in my dev/thought process, this is a really valuable advice, thank you. PS. `git add -p` is amazing, thank you for this too.
10.
by bmomb 9y ago
I'm gonna start writing more, i giving myself more time to code and review. Do you have any recommendations on TDD books?
11.
by bmomb 9y ago
Thank you for your comment, sometimes im bit to hard on myself; I can learn from my mistakes, but some of them are really trivial, i can find better examples in math, like: In a calculus question, I need to find the volume inside some funct
12.
Ask HN: How to make fewer mistakes?
67 points by bmomb 9y ago|71 comments
13.
by bmomb 9y ago
I think that the uniqueness is not defined by being unlike others but by being on your on, when yourself process the sintuation and decide to follow it. And for your second argument, it’s just to easy to follow the computers “orders”, a lot
14.
by bmomb 9y ago
I think a world in this scenario is pretty much a dystopia. If every person chooses for the better response and action given the a situation how can a individual be unique? If all husbands reply to a bum in the exactly same way why do you r
15.
by bmomb 9y ago
But as an US citizen you still use some US benefits like the army and international protection, right? (I'm not from USA or currently living abroad but i think that is "fair")
16.
by bmomb 9y ago
The revolution aspect will still be relevant when we consider autonomous war machines? What power the 90% have when its opposed to drones, or some other hi-tech weapon?
17.
by bmomb 9y ago
A fair distribution of resources and opportunities. I believe that if we do not address this problems soon enough we will be (soon) living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
18.
by bmomb 9y ago
I'm Brazilian, so my poem favorite poem is in portuguese, its called A Máquina do Mundo (The World's Machine). Wikipedia as an assert about it: The most prominent of these later metaphysical poems is A Máquina do Mundo (The Worl
19.
by bmomb 9y ago
This old reply share the same opinion as you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696161 Maybe you are moving society to an cyberpunk dystopia, but who knows what you come after that? Maybe after some time this 'new
20.
by bmomb 9y ago
Just a curiosity, in Brazil some executives are using ambulances for commuting[0]. [0] https://www.metrojornal.com.br/foco/2017/08/29/empresa-aluga... (article in portuguese)