robwilliams

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by robwilliams 2mo ago
The article is not a technical overview of AI's failures, it's about the organizational failures that lead to things like token leaderboards. I would argue that this article goes far beyond the "obvious" fact of token le
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by robwilliams 3y ago
The ban on replaceable flavored pod vapes caused that. Such a bizarre rule and so wasteful. You couldn’t replace the battery on the pod vapes but at least you could reuse the recharge and reuse the battery.
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by robwilliams 7y ago
>A problem for city kids maybe? My parents were smart enough to raise me somewhere more suited for children. Implying that the only reason people with kids live in a city is because they're stupid? What in the world are you on about
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by robwilliams 7y ago
Tech companies are some of the largest and most influential companies in the world, and people are just now starting to understand what it means to have their lives influenced by wide-reaching algorithms. Sounds like a great topic for journ
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by robwilliams 7y ago
.NET Core is getting MASSIVE adoption in the large midwest city I work in. I expect .NET Framework to go on life support in a couple years. The ability to build and run applications on Linux is something even old school .NET shops are excit
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by robwilliams 7y ago
I don't understand. Shouldn't everyone care about their standard of living? Are you implying that junior developers shouldn't?
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by robwilliams 10y ago
It would be trivial to test whether a site is blacklisted, that's not why the anti-spam code is private.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
What does this have to do with the article?
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by robwilliams 10y ago
I was not comparing NYT to any other news outlet. It's an echo chamber regardless of the fact that conservative news sites also have echo chamber comment sections. The David Brooks article was just an example. When Bernie Sanders was s
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by robwilliams 10y ago
The New York Times comments are free from trolls and spam, but it's a frustratingly obvious echo chamber when it comes to politics. I'm a liberal guy but I can't stand it. David Brooks wrote an interesting column ( http:&#x2F
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by robwilliams 10y ago
With all his talk about planting bombs, I'm sure they suspected that he was wearing a bomb vest to detonate when police moved in. I'm not sure how else they could have handled it.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
Genuine question: how should streaming companies protect against their content being stolen/ripped/etc without DRM? What's the alternative? I'm sure it's in the contract of every streaming service that they have to
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by robwilliams 10y ago
How many units does a new product need to ship to be successful, then? A hundred million? For a fledgling tech 100k units is pretty impressive.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
>Use a better language instead of caring about the names. That's not always an option. Also, I don't find the language OP linked syntactically challenged. C# has a similar syntax and it's much more readable than what you&#
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by robwilliams 10y ago
You've made a negative comment in nearly every thread on this post - do you really hate Snapchat that much? Do you not see how some people might enjoy using it?
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by robwilliams 10y ago
I just recently got into Snapchat. My fiance and I just snap each other during downtime at work, nothing major. It's a lot of fun but I'm not sure how they could monetize it beyond the sponsored filters they have now.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
I use the first feature constantly. If I'm reading reddit comments at the bottom of the page, I can scroll to the top and a part of the original post and then snap back to where I was. I think Chrome actually removed this for a day or
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by robwilliams 10y ago
C# generics work beautifully and they were retrofitted. Later language additions like LINQ and extensions take advantage of generics as well.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
Inserting ads into the Alien Blue feed would have been easy. You may be right about the different target user, though.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
Well it was the official app before this one. Considering how good AB is I think there's some technical reason to redo the app. Who knows.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
I'm sure they are but I like not having to click every time I want to see a picture.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
Well everyone is using the official Twitter app so I think it did. No one cares about API availability except a very small subset of developers.
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by robwilliams 10y ago
I agree with a lot of your points, especially comment flair and swiping gestures (I used the quick swipe left to collapse comment threads 100s of times a day). I'm not a mod so I never used those features of Alien Blue. However, I like
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by robwilliams 10y ago
>plus the horrifying visual ads (for playlists and new albums) make Spotify a product I kind of love to hate You mean in Browse, where you go to discover new music? Is there a streaming service that doesn't have a Browse section wit
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by robwilliams 11y ago
Considering Microsoft is pushing to support devs on Linux and that the probability of Visual Studio being ported from Windows is near 0, I don't think Microsoft would kill off MonoDevelop.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
MS employee here. Most of the older employees use Windows phones and most younger employees use iPhones. I was honestly surprised how many people own Windows phones. And no, bosses/execs don't care what phone you have.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
This was likely the work of the web master or a PR person; I doubt a CIA agent wrote it.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
>Second, they picked an old car built before seatbelt introduction and emphasized that aspect. How is that cherry picking? Seat belts are a huge safety improvement and it's a difference that applies to all old/new car compariso
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by robwilliams 11y ago
CD Projekt was accused of abusive work conditions for Witcher 3, and stories about Rockstar's death marches surface after almost everything they release. I think good conditions at AAA studios are outliers. Game development is my dream
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by robwilliams 11y ago
All but the first bullet point deal with something other than autocomplete, and (as another user mentioned) CTRL+, takes care of many of your other points.

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