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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
What's a little thing like telemetry data compared with a stunning achievement for humanity like a photo of an American flag on the Moon, amirite?
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Not true. A person can manage maybe 10 other people max. Beyond that, you start delegating. So really there's no practical difference between a company of 11 people and a company of 11000 people from a management perspective. The techn
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
ITT: a massive roll-call for sour grapes. P.S. Life would be easier if you just bit the bullet and finally learned those algorithms. It ain't that hard.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
You miss my point. Ad networks and ad tech companies aren't aiding and abetting fraud. For them it is a cost center. Advertisers are the ones aiding and abetting fraud.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Not really. Not having fraud would be a huge competitive advantage, so of course ad companies are investing huge resources into fraud prevention. That said, the assumption is that advertisers are the victims here. However, in reality ad spe
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Don't do drugs, kids. Drugs are bad, mmmmkay?
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
You're describing how to make it even more of a toy and even less of a tool.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> maybe, just maybe, we won't see "new"s or "delete"s in most future codebases? I haven't seen 'new' or 'delete' in the wild for a decade now. (Well, except for various legacy libraries
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
I've worked in advertising for 15 years, in different parts of the industry and in different roles. The thing is: ad tech doesn't want your personal data. Ad tech doesn't even want 'individually-targeted' ads. Adver
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
GDPR was never about your privacy or user rights. It was always a transparent ploy to make it more expensive for small-time ad network operators and give Google and Facebook yet another monopoly advantage. And ironically, it is Google and F
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Prolog isn't really about pure logic constructs. Prolog is really a database query language. Similar to SQL or GraphQL. Prolog failed because it never got integrated into a serious enterprise data storage engine. (Most Prolog implement
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> The Universal Parser > Doesn't actually parse, it's a lexer. Good lord!
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Where did they go? On welfare.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Sounds like this guy was overqualified for the position. (Probably asked too much money, too.) The fact that the candidate went on to a non-programming position confirms. In any case, it was the strings you pulled that let the guy get promo
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
The point is that the idea of drawing diagrams instead of writing code (and/or integrating documentation text right into the source code) is a really old idea. The idea is older than structured programming, older than the C programmi
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
It's the same in every country on Earth.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors to boost sales Oh wow, such news. In other shocking developments: water falls from the sky when it rains, and cigarettes are addictive.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
No, you don't want this. Every new generation of new programmers since the 1960's talks about this, but nobody to date has actually written any useful program using pictures and prose. Sorry. Code is code, that's what your jo
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Of course it can. The question is the time period you're looking at. Real estate is one of those things that don't spoil with time, so it's conceivable to have a return on investment in 500 years.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Nix hashes your development environment along with the sources to generate a version hash of the build process result.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Is the Chinese "superblock" the same thing as a Soviet "microdistrict? If so, the article is off the mark, the whole idea of the concept is a less car-centric life. You're supposed to commute to work by public transport
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Parental control is basically the only technically valid and ethical use-case for MDM.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> IT Admin has certain escalated privileges, which is different to a parental control app. So a random employer is allowed to control employee devices, but a parent isn't allowed to control their children's devices? Really? Thi
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> You say "chat app" like that means it's easy. You're right, it takes a mind-boggling amount of wasted effort and negligence to turn a simple thing like corporate chat into something as bloated and broken as Slack.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> This is clearly a useless skill as a software engineers except in getting a job at companies that do whiteboard interviews. Have you ever actually been on the interviewer end of the process? Literally over half of the candidates lite
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> neural nets can approximate any continuous function So-called "neural nets" are just logistic regression with a fancy name. Seems "deep learning" is just a wavelet transform with a sigmoid basis. (So, boring math st
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Disagreement about how to name methods is not an 'anti-pattern'. It's a literal non-issue that affects nothing at all whatsoever. Junior programmers pick on whitespace formatting and variable names because that's the onl
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Cloud computing (i.e. datacenter software) requires zillions of concurrent "fibers" on a much smaller number of OS threads. As a guy who actually wrote "datacenter software" for over a decade: you don't speak f
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
"A glorified data center manager" is exactly what AWS and Azure are. I don't have enough eyes to roll at the cluelessness of your comment.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> FOCUS ON PLANT-BASED FOODS A great idea if you want to save the planet by having people die out from exploding (pun intended) obesity.

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