mknocker

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by mknocker 3y ago
I am thinking about doing something similar. Out of curiosity, do you use a reverse proxy web server to protect from malicious attacks ? That`s probably the only part I would think of leaving in the cloud if I were to host my own servers at
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by mknocker 7y ago
Hype, pipe dreams, hokum... I am wondering at what point do these stories become fraud ? Telling stories about your technology that are not true to gain a financial advantage.
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by mknocker 10y ago
The tracers over prototypes advice is a precious one. Having worked for small and large companies, once you have a functional prototype that has been built quickly, managers tend to be very reluctant to let you rewrite the prototype archite
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Datacratic and iPerceptions join forces(iperceptions.com)
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by mknocker 10y ago
The initial questions to build your pitch that are enumerated in that article are also good questions to ask yourself if you should pursue or not with your company.
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by mknocker 10y ago
Some of these cases are not only dark patterns, they constitute was it legally known as fraud. If you deceive someone in order to gain a financial advantage, it is fraud. The problem is that going against those gigantic companies is very di
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by mknocker 10y ago
Clear, quick and simple. It would be interesting to have such elegant introduction for other topics. Well done !
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by mknocker 10y ago
The first thing that came to my mind was... what about advertising on the web ? This is an area where machine learning and algorithmic decision-making use discrimination to either show or not an ad to a particular user. There are millions d
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by mknocker 10y ago
Thanks ! That's a good way to start the day :)
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by mknocker 10y ago
Actually, it might go up quickly once they start filling up their financial results every 3 months. If they have a steady growth the market will react positively and the employees owning shares will benefit from it.
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by mknocker 10y ago
Yes. I read it. Good book indeed :)
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by mknocker 10y ago
I fully agree. When working on a team, you have to think about the future not only the current moment. If every time you have a disagreement it results in a win-lose situation I can guarantee you the mood among the your team will go down qu
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by mknocker 10y ago
American approach is more 'trial and error' while French education system is more oriented toward demonstrating that something is good or not. Hence, when they see something new coming up they want to make sure that this won'
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by mknocker 10y ago
The first thing that came to my mind when reading the title was the movie Short-Circuit :)
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by mknocker 10y ago
What I get from this article is that working collaboratively is a lot more efficient than working in a spirit of competition. Specially, if you have members with different backgrounds among your team. Working collaboratively requires a trus
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by mknocker 10y ago
Maybe he will work on Amazon's newest project : Nucleus :)
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by mknocker 10y ago
Strange in a the sense that the rational choice would be to promote your best asset while they are in the company. There are tough times in all companies but, in some, the best assets decide to leave when there are tough times because this
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by mknocker 10y ago
Great book. Easy to read and full of examples.
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by mknocker 10y ago
Good to know I am not alone :) There are a few pinpoints also to detect if the company you are interviewing to is one of these. Usually, they are 'building' a new team for an existing product. As I grew up in my career I started t
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by mknocker 10y ago
Being the last man standing. Seems sad but when people leave bad company, usually the people who stay get promoted and some of them become senior developer. I have seen this strange pattern a few times.
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by mknocker 10y ago
I fully agree. There are even people who think the singularity will be coming within 10-15 years. The state of AI or machine learning if you want is far from what we see in the news.
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by mknocker 10y ago
Too often, the team fit is put aside and you end up with people who does not play well with others in your team. Technical interview can be ok but I would not put too much details into it. I have been in technical interviews where people we
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by mknocker 10y ago
What about developing a core codebase to build an app for different platforms (including the web)? There are framework out there that can help you do that. At least in C++ (this is the language I use the most).