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by gaius 8y ago
Unfortunately UX people seem to hate boring and/or simple stuff... Many years ago I was working on a project for a major UK high street bank, and on the team was a designer who genuinely believed "users like a challenge". N
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by gaius 8y ago
Rover.com seems to be pretty shady https://www.gofundme.com/rovercom-sitter-killed-my-dog https://www.gofundme.com/my-rover-sitter-killed-my-dog http://www.roversdirtysecret.com/tag/kil
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by gaius 8y ago
poor countries are poor India has nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers and a space programme.
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by gaius 8y ago
but people tend to remember when that's been done to them, and aren't exactly keen to have it happen again. Companies stick with Oracle and IBM for multi-decade stretches, maybe the move to cloud will be what it takes to dislodg
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by gaius 8y ago
CMake is very powerful but unlike most things there’s no underlying principle or theory that when you grasp it, everything just clicks, and you also can transfer the knowledge to other languages. It’s just a matter of memorising lots of tri
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by gaius 8y ago
Every day I bitterly regret that they decided not to use Tcl for CMake in the end.
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by gaius 8y ago
can't pay insane rates for education of either university level or trades. Well, yes and no. It’s true that university is expensive (but you don’t need to repay loans until you are earning over a certain threshold). However it’s also
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by gaius 8y ago
Apparently yes https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/matters-of-substance/novem...
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by gaius 8y ago
It doesn't take 5 years to teach yourself Machine Learning. The low-hanging fruit in ML is absurdly low these days, the tools are very good and there is loads of sample code available. If you were already good with Python or R, and a
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by gaius 8y ago
"piss off" is accurately interpreted as "go away and leave me alone". Whereas "fucking come on then" is often a precursor to violence. But sure, intonation is a thing. "I beg your pardon" can be said
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by gaius 8y ago
A workflow I'd like to see: you write your code and ensure that it is functionally correct, all the tests pass. Then you go home and overnight, some ML/DL/NN whatever tool works on your code to find the best way to compile it
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by gaius 8y ago
Intel has its own compiler, surely they could ask their compiler gurus to help with ISA design. Well that kinda was the concept - but they greatly underestimated the difficulty of producing a "sufficiently smart compiler". If VL
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by gaius 8y ago
People who think UBI will include people voluntarily going out to work at jobs that aren't fun... this study is a wrench in the works! I bet the younger generation will play fornite, league of legends, or scroll insta/snapchat al
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by gaius 8y ago
And one of those countries is Switzerland, which has a world-class army, better in fact than many of its European neighbors without conscription Citation needed. The Swiss have done a pretty good job of defending the Vatican of course, bu
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by gaius 8y ago
Both of these (the public's worship of the military, and the military's disdain for the public) have experienced a clear upward trend over the last 20 years But "the public" isn't one thing. The right-wing half of
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by gaius 8y ago
the suggestion to reduce the number of people promoted by 2 percent—which meant that some qualified people Wasn’t it from 10% to 8%? That 2% is misleading there, it makes it look far less significant than it was. Google’s human-resources
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by gaius 8y ago
Gen X were 20-something’s in the ‘90’s, that group is just hitting the ageism barrier themselves. The problem is the massive influx of newcomers to the industry who have no experience and crow very loudly that experience doesn’t matter, or
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by gaius 8y ago
Private companies don't have any obligation to continue showing anything. They don't have any such 'moral' obligations at all. Consider that We The People developed a legal framework for companies to exist as the exist
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by gaius 8y ago
HR: no sorry, it’s policy Worker: but you set the policy, it can be whatever you want it to HR: ... Saying “policy” must be a cover for a real reason that the company wants kept secret
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by gaius 8y ago
This means that Google has the login details for your bank. You are almost definitely in violation of the bank’s ToS by divulging them
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by gaius 8y ago
If you want your info to stay private, do not send it to untrustworthy parties via untrustworthy means Well there’s the rub isn’t it. I don’t think most people would consciously decide to rat out their friends secrets for $20 - or indeed
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by gaius 8y ago
Sure, but maintenance of the confidence of a friend shouldn’t need a law.
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by gaius 8y ago
You dodged a bullet, that guy was just telling you what you wanted to hear, lacking in moral fibre
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by gaius 8y ago
The BBC are reporting they signed up as a 14-year-old and there is no parental consent sought
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by gaius 8y ago
I would love to be a fly-on-the-wall at some of their meetings when someone says “So we are going to do data collection on minors without parental consent now” and all the developers just say “great I’ll code that up straight away”. Like is
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by gaius 8y ago
And now everybody is freaking about a fairly reasonable trade OK let’s imagine that you have a close friend or family member with some confidential issue - maybe an illness, maybe debt, maybe they are in the closet. Occasionally they mess
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by gaius 8y ago
Not if it involves minors without parental consent it isn’t.
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by gaius 8y ago
Because it’s not transitive. If I send you a personal message, I didn’t consent to you giving that to Facebook who will use my phone number to add it to the shadow profile they keep on me. Facebook might as well pay in pieces of silver.
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by gaius 8y ago
A Goretex jacket is a godsend but I’ve never rated Goretex trainers. In conditions that need Goretex water will inevitably enter over the top anyway, and now you have buckets on your feet!
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s also that demand outstrips supply for the famous events such as the London Marathon.

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