jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
" statistically significant improvements in scores of stress and depression" It's hard to measure what 'benefit' means. These things are a matter of choice as much as anything else. Moreover, it may very well be tha
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Don't underestimate people who hate ads, especially video ads." If you don't want ads - then you have to pay for the apps. Get it? This has nothing to do with technology, ad-blockers, advertisers or anything else. It&#x
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"This is an out-and-out lie. They are willing to serve me pages without ads, because they do it every time I browse there with an ad-blocker" You people are naively deluded. " No ads = they don't exist = no content. It&#
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Most of the content in 'the open web' depends upon advertising. No ads = not much for you to download. Realpolitik will very quickly trump any ideological arguments.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Controlling what my own mechanical device does with the information it receives from other people's machines. Even if the internet had no ads and no tracking code and no malware anywhere whatsoever, there would still be a need fo
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"They are willingly serving up a page to my computer for free." No they are not. They are willing to serve you pages with ads. Not pages without ads. The logic that you guys use is pretty twisted. These companies exist because of
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"It was one of the only companies where I truly felt that they would let their engineers experiment and grow." It might have something to do with profitability and margins. When you make a lot of money, it's easier to justify
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Fired - you did something wrong, incompetent (or pissed someone off) and they are doing it specifically to you. Laid off - your group is redundant or discontinued, they have no need for you or your team/product, they're closing an
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
This. Design Patters are simply tools at a higher level of abstraction than the code itself. They are 'approaches to modelling information'. That's it. Use them, hack them, or not. I've found them handy enough, though ne
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Star Wars villains in the first series use such accents. A) The Imperial Navy is a euphimism for the British Navy / Empire. B) It was filmed in the UK with almost all UK actors. The new Star Wars - none of the accents are posh really
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Sorry, I should have added that Musk bit as an addendum to my first comment - and it's a reflection from previous experience, not from any activity on the comment I made on this thread. I could care less about my 'HN karma'
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"That kind of reminds me of Ballmer's "FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS?" moment." $500 is not that much more expensive than a Nokia device at the time, and well within the surplus that a good chunk of people have to pay - espe
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
From a popular perspective - you are maybe right - they 'sexified' something not quite so sexy. However - I suggest this won't work out like the iPhone. Why? Because --> 'new roofs' are not built that often, by t
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Of course Dragon is not written in 'node' - nobody would write such a thing in javscript, moreover, if it were, it would be described as 'written in JS' not 'Node'. Second - what you refer to as 'just some
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
This is not true. It's far more used than you think. I just had to use some of Nuance's new voice recognition technology - the entire thing except for the voice libraries are in Node. I think it's a trend, not a fad. It'
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"You need almost all these tools in other environments -- they're just typically chosen for you in advanced." + I don't think anyone is complaining about what the tools do, or necessarily their quality. The fundamental
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"As a freelancer, I start a new project every other week or so." Yeah - I'm not sure if this is representative. Moroever, if you're staring a project every other week, you may not be working at the scale/resiliency
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I mostly disagree. First - it is the US government - not the US military that supports the Saudi regime and made whatever policies regarding which governments to support. I'll suggest that most US military personnel, on a personal leve
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
You make a good point about that specific issue, and they are similar to Classical Liberals, but really they are not. They are a centre-left party. They are pro-union, strong minimum wage supporters, in Ontario they are making massive inves
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Why would this comment be down-voted? Putting Jenner on the front page of your anything is going to be wildly controversial and upsetting / offensive to a good chunk of people. This just a fact not a moral statement. I'd suggest t
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
:) 'Liberal' - in every country in the world except the USA (and Canada) means 'Classical Liberalism' which 'economic liberalism' or 'everything not run by the Monarchy'. This is we call the Judiciary
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Not quite. Baseball is not 'hot' but that does not mean it doesn't have a solid fanbase. The median age of 'human beings' in America is climbing :) Here's one example: home teams getting amazing ratings: http:
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
" Everything you attribute to being Black or Hispanic can more simply and more accurately be described by being poor. SAT score is most directly tied to family income, not race. " + This is not true + Even when normalized for inco
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
That could very well be true, and I'm not stating it as proof of anything, other than to claim that Europeans score 'ballpark the same' on either side of the Atlantic. I suggest your theory is probably very true for Asian Ame
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
This is true, for some odd reason, teaching in America is not socially respected institution as much as it is elsewhere. Teaching in Canada is along the lines of nursing or something: it's professional, requires a degree of competence
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Why doesn't the preeminence of the US math knowledge appear to seep into the primary and secondary school education?" Because preeminence of top tier institutions (which are kind of global centres anyhow) - has absolutely no
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"What I have in my head isn't the companies IP though, it's my experience." Again - 100% false. A lot of 'what is in your head' is the IP of the company you worked for. Clearly, you grasp this, because you peop
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"I don't buy for one second that anything not covered by trade secrets, patents, or nda ought to be protected. You bought the employees labor for a finite duration not the contents of their skull." + My point is nearly everyt
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Unless you have a noncompete clause. That's exactly why they're a problem. You can't develop your professional skills. When you leave, you have to start from scratch in a different industry." Buddy - I'm sayin
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"That isn't trade secrets, it's experience" No. 100% false. If that information is key to the nature and success of a product, then it's called 'know how' and it's both legally and rationally protecta

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