steveoc64

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by steveoc64 6y ago
I get what you are saying, and yes, those are totally reasonable expectations in any community. Im just saying - I think its amazing that _anybody_ trusts any of these Silicon Valley organisations to do anything reasonable. They are conven
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by steveoc64 6y ago
"breach my expectations of privacy" Q: where did these expectations of privacy come from ?
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by steveoc64 6y ago
"it only takes an instant to destroy your company’s reputation, and it’s incredibly difficult to win back that confidence." Not really. Given that nobody on here has identified the underlying problem, and are happy to blame everyt
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by steveoc64 10y ago
At least in the discussions area, there is a distinct lack of "hacker culture" opinion expressed on any topic, given the name of the forum. At least from where I am standing, this reflects very poorly on ycombinator, and the &quot
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by steveoc64 10y ago
Wow - good stuff, and keep up the good fight. I don't have that many people around me that are worth influencing directly, so here is the way that I do it : 1) I divide up the TODO list and customer requirements into the 'Little T
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by steveoc64 10y ago
Good point. Note also that some "laws" may remain as "laws", even in the face of experimental evidence which directly contradicts the predicted results of that law. Which gives rise to "The Law of Research Funding&q
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by steveoc64 10y ago
The DateField hypothesis : For any given reasonable estimate for an item of software, add 2^N days to that estimate, where N = the number of date/datetime fields involved on that form or database table. eg - You have a complex data ent
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by steveoc64 10y ago
Great article with a lot of good points. Enjoyed the read. Having said that though, the first paragraph or so made be choke. In the "hypothetical" case of Mike, who after being layed off from Microsoft finds himself a little shock
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by steveoc64 11y ago
I have been (forced against my better judgement) to attend a total of 4 conferences in my whole career ... and been politely asked to leave during 3 of them In all cases, my questions were perfectly valid and reasonable, but this was at a t
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by steveoc64 11y ago
Thought about that too, but then, as the girl in the article suggests, its not the excessive bandwidth use that is the problem ... teh real prob is that parents just dont understand, its all about living in the moment. Im sure that silly ol
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by steveoc64 11y ago
How does anyone know for sure that all of that traffic (or at least the meta data related to the traffic) is not prepped for data mining on a per-user basis ? There would be obvious commercial advantage in doing this, just for starters. Dat
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by steveoc64 11y ago
A direct neural interface, paired to a bi-directional low latency satellite feed. That way users can see,hear,smell,feel & taste everything that their friends are experiencing .... simultaneously, and in real time. Continuously, all da
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by steveoc64 11y ago
Having a look at the company in question, and the products that they produce. I only got as far as the "Diversity Dashboard" to realize that this organization doesnt actually produce anything. If you don't produce anything re
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by steveoc64 11y ago
Ah .. not quite. Im not a photographer by any stretch. Im a Vexiologist by trade, and Ive invested a tonne of time and money into that. It has provided me with a wonderful lifestyle that I wouldnt swap for anything. That line of work has al
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by steveoc64 11y ago
>Cameras have gotten better and better while getting cheaper. >Twenty years ago the only people taking photos of this quality were professional photographers. >Now we have college students who can work really hard over a school b