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by code_sloth 7y ago
> Most non-tech businesses have no budget for that kind of tech debt work. The thing about debt is that ignoring it doesn't make it go away magically. If business relies on tech for crucial functions, it's only a matter of time
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by code_sloth 7y ago
Speech without thought isn't free speech. It's just people and sometimes mobs saying things. Freedom of information flow isn't the same thing. Democracy works best with an informed electorate. Information flow without discour
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by code_sloth 7y ago
Free speech is about the right to __articulate__ opinions and ideas. To articulate ideas and opinions, you have to think and formulate your thoughts. What Facebook enables and optimizes for can hardly be called free speech. Articulation is
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by code_sloth 7y ago
> Another possibility: eliminate private ownership of land. Look at Hong Kong, housing prices there have grown seriously out of whack, average citizens are suffering and young adults are leaving. You'd need a very competent and un
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by code_sloth 7y ago
A part of me feels that social media companies deserve this. For years and years, whenever the topic of meaningful regulation comes up, Facebook has always lawyered up and side stepped the question. Time after time Mark Zuckerberg has appea
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by code_sloth 8y ago
Not absurd. Different departments in the same company have budgets of their own. If a department wants to buy an ad from their own paper, it should affect their remaining budget, just as it should show up on the Ad department's revenue
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by code_sloth 8y ago
Yes. So costs of putting up an ad are reflected in the relevant departments. Large corps do this all the time, transferring money from the left pocket to their right pocket. It's somewhat similar to net neutrality proposals. AT&T d
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by code_sloth 8y ago
I grew up in Asia, and never quite understood the tipping culture. Because employers aren't paying their staff a living wage, they ask their customers to tip. It all seems completely backwards to me. These scumbag startups are taking i
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by code_sloth 8y ago
> It is almost trivial to build and maintain. I'm interested to know what you've made or helped to make that is more complex and more difficult to maintain than whatsapp.
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by code_sloth 8y ago
> Compulsory voting is great if you are running a dictatorship... That's a ridiculous reach. Not sure where you pulled that out from. > That signal is lost when you force people to vote. Many spoil votes on purpose. That's a
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by code_sloth 8y ago
Can someone remind me what serverless does better than existing tech?
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by code_sloth 8y ago
> The end goal is to keep those people away, right? The end goal is to make sure absolutely nothing changes, right? Don't think anyone said that. Quite the opposite. You read what you wanted to read, and arrived at that conclusion a
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by code_sloth 8y ago
> Referring to Microsoft Windows as "free software" is just wrong. Microsoft Windows is not Free Software. Free has many meanings. Look up the dictionary [1]. In the context of the situation / article, it is free. As in
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by code_sloth 8y ago
Most (I hesitate to say all) programmers understand their own code. The problem is usually that nobody else understands that code you wrote. > Any language can be used to write indecipherable bad code. You are blaming the wrong thing.
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by code_sloth 8y ago
Not referring to parent specifically. By "you", I'm referring to all python 2 hardliners out there. Nobody's telling you to change your codebase. You're free to carry on using python 2.x. If it already works, it wil
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by code_sloth 9y ago
> However people should definitely not ride Birds on sidewalks (although a majority of people do). This, is why we can't have good things. Because assholes ruin it for everyone. Most electronic scooters I've encountered are on
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by code_sloth 9y ago
When someone under-performs, I always look at who they report to. Nobody wants to perform poorly. Typically the lead / manager has given inadequate guidance, or there is a serious skill set mismatch, both of which are on the lead &
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by code_sloth 9y ago
I'm pretty sure China and Russia don't "double down" just because US gives them labels they don't like. It's probably not what you meant, but as a non-US citizen, this statement reads like (some) Americans thin
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by code_sloth 9y ago
Can someone remind me how on earth is Snap's market cap US$20 billion right now?
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by code_sloth 9y ago
Have you seen what atrocities people can do with nested ternaries?
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by code_sloth 9y ago
It's not that your opinion is unpopular, but that it's completely irrelevant.
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by code_sloth 9y ago
> ... converting/reformatting 300 Tb of disk is a lot of work, but it's probably less work than contacting Apple ... He didn't know what the problem was, so he contacted Apple support. Unless you are suggesting he reformat
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by code_sloth 9y ago
Most things are.
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by code_sloth 9y ago
Try querying a blockchain.
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by code_sloth 9y ago
How is the west any less corrupt? The big corporations are basically machinery at this point. Their only purpose is to self perpetuate and benefit themselves and their shareholders, many times at the expense of the public. At least their go
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by code_sloth 9y ago
> If he is sincere, he should ask the managers of Uber to share all the dirty laundry that they know. Right. They'll just hand it over if he asks nicely. It's not like they've done anything illegal/unethical. The uber
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by code_sloth 9y ago
As the codebase grows, you need to maintain 2 growing codebases, how is that not increasing the burden? Official support will be dropped by 2020, by then you will be relying on the community (who ?) to provide bug and security fixes. I&#x
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by code_sloth 9y ago
Really any developer that really wants to work on the backend should be able to pick up another language. End of the day it's just syntax, framework weirdness (js devs should be used to crazy language contortions), and data structures
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by code_sloth 9y ago
The same teenagers also don't have much spending power now. And besides, teen trends change pretty quickly, so their main targets are teens it does not bode well.
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by code_sloth 9y ago
Could you elaborate on why "treating the pointer to a string and the string length as separate vars" is dangerous to someone who hasn't done a lot of C?

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