I'd have to disagree... https://policies.google.com/terms https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.htm... Maybe there's some code that at one point was FOSS in those products, but the products themselves…
I do teach at high school level and, in general, I am unimpressed by what the current generation of education tech brings to the table. Most of them do the same stuff as the tools available 15-20 years ago (Microsoft…
The point of the work is not to provide closure, but to foster discussion. The fact that we do not know if the princess is telling the truth or not puts us in the very same position as her lover (minus the fatal peril…
Please elaborate. Your complain comes about passive-aggressive if you do not explain why the problem is a problem or how to solve it.
> Most companies use this type of information only when the employee is suspect of leaks or misconduct This opinion based on what? You may not be aware of this management theory called Taylorism, taught around the world…
Editor folding is a band aid. You might as well buy a bigger screen.
A program composed of one thousand functions with average length of 1K LOC is jarring and hard to understand. The same program refactored into a quarter of a million functions of 5-8 LOC each is jarring in a very…
How did you keep your feet dry one year ago? How often did you go out running in the rain in the last five years? How much more often would you run in the rain if you had those shoes? If you end up paying $20 extra for…
I personally believe that digging itself into a hole (and eventually climbing back up) is the status quo for Humanity. It has been done multiple times before, and doubtlessly it will continue to be the case once our…
> no one would open a staffed lending library with a collection so small that the staff could keep everything in their head Yes, no one would. Yet the same people pile up technical debt like there's no tomorrow. The…
Correct. Your point being?
> Why should any of these people be considered "unemployed"? In general, because governments around the World use doctored Unemployment Rates to claim their economic policies are more effective than those really are. It…
For what is worth, I think psychological manipulation is the real bad. Machine learning is just a force multiplier.
> The only things that the education system there is geared to do is have kids cram stuff and regurgitate it and create assembly lines of mindless robots. How is any better to have most robots pointlessly soil 90% of…
> I have never seen a well working, up to date, modern system being called legacy. "modern" being the operative word here. Every year, new systems that will turn awful to maintain are being developed and deployed into…
I see... There's certain ancient technology that solves all those problems, then. Its name is.... Money! ;) But of course you knew that. May the Force be with you
Customers get to enjoy the benefits of soviet cars. Musk get to enjoy the benefits of Capitalism. Who would have thought!
Unlike the playbook, though, this is a observable behavior that can be documented. If I were writing an utopia, class action lawsuits would rain like fire and brimstone.
The G.P. was a terrible example. In reality, Module A crashes on inputs 11, 10305, 5556430, 6867534029289, -88989, -101010101010, and -3. In Module A's Unit test, there is no rational reason to test for 2 or 6, but not…
Well Mr. Trollaway, it is fun to argue, isn't it? > And before you say ... What happens when the harm is below the noise threshold of that too? Since you are at HN, you should know the answer to that. If the scientist…
So, you are saying you never drank from a hose as a kid, or ever saw any other kids drinking from hoses? The fact that the phrase "drink from the hose" is used as a metaphor on top of the literal meaning should suggest…
1. If I buy a car, I expect to get the actual car I ordered, not the experimental model they will be offering next year. You could argue customers are not paying for the software anyways... but I suspect that is not…
The threat model is that of an active attacker that is able to tamper the message,- either inserting his own malicious data in the extra chunk, or zeroing it out if you are using strong authentication,- but that does…
We are talking orthogonal problems here. Closed Source software prevents users from having an "out" if the product they used to rely on stops serving their best interests. Automatic Updates do push potentially…
In order to communicate effectively you need a mental model of your audience. The same sentence can be cumbersome to some readers, just right for others, and even condescendingly simplistic for a small minority. The…
I'd have to disagree... https://policies.google.com/terms https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.htm... Maybe there's some code that at one point was FOSS in those products, but the products themselves…
I do teach at high school level and, in general, I am unimpressed by what the current generation of education tech brings to the table. Most of them do the same stuff as the tools available 15-20 years ago (Microsoft…
The point of the work is not to provide closure, but to foster discussion. The fact that we do not know if the princess is telling the truth or not puts us in the very same position as her lover (minus the fatal peril…
Please elaborate. Your complain comes about passive-aggressive if you do not explain why the problem is a problem or how to solve it.
> Most companies use this type of information only when the employee is suspect of leaks or misconduct This opinion based on what? You may not be aware of this management theory called Taylorism, taught around the world…
Editor folding is a band aid. You might as well buy a bigger screen.
A program composed of one thousand functions with average length of 1K LOC is jarring and hard to understand. The same program refactored into a quarter of a million functions of 5-8 LOC each is jarring in a very…
How did you keep your feet dry one year ago? How often did you go out running in the rain in the last five years? How much more often would you run in the rain if you had those shoes? If you end up paying $20 extra for…
I personally believe that digging itself into a hole (and eventually climbing back up) is the status quo for Humanity. It has been done multiple times before, and doubtlessly it will continue to be the case once our…
> no one would open a staffed lending library with a collection so small that the staff could keep everything in their head Yes, no one would. Yet the same people pile up technical debt like there's no tomorrow. The…
Correct. Your point being?
> Why should any of these people be considered "unemployed"? In general, because governments around the World use doctored Unemployment Rates to claim their economic policies are more effective than those really are. It…
For what is worth, I think psychological manipulation is the real bad. Machine learning is just a force multiplier.
> The only things that the education system there is geared to do is have kids cram stuff and regurgitate it and create assembly lines of mindless robots. How is any better to have most robots pointlessly soil 90% of…
> I have never seen a well working, up to date, modern system being called legacy. "modern" being the operative word here. Every year, new systems that will turn awful to maintain are being developed and deployed into…
I see... There's certain ancient technology that solves all those problems, then. Its name is.... Money! ;) But of course you knew that. May the Force be with you
Customers get to enjoy the benefits of soviet cars. Musk get to enjoy the benefits of Capitalism. Who would have thought!
Unlike the playbook, though, this is a observable behavior that can be documented. If I were writing an utopia, class action lawsuits would rain like fire and brimstone.
The G.P. was a terrible example. In reality, Module A crashes on inputs 11, 10305, 5556430, 6867534029289, -88989, -101010101010, and -3. In Module A's Unit test, there is no rational reason to test for 2 or 6, but not…
Well Mr. Trollaway, it is fun to argue, isn't it? > And before you say ... What happens when the harm is below the noise threshold of that too? Since you are at HN, you should know the answer to that. If the scientist…
So, you are saying you never drank from a hose as a kid, or ever saw any other kids drinking from hoses? The fact that the phrase "drink from the hose" is used as a metaphor on top of the literal meaning should suggest…
1. If I buy a car, I expect to get the actual car I ordered, not the experimental model they will be offering next year. You could argue customers are not paying for the software anyways... but I suspect that is not…
The threat model is that of an active attacker that is able to tamper the message,- either inserting his own malicious data in the extra chunk, or zeroing it out if you are using strong authentication,- but that does…
We are talking orthogonal problems here. Closed Source software prevents users from having an "out" if the product they used to rely on stops serving their best interests. Automatic Updates do push potentially…
In order to communicate effectively you need a mental model of your audience. The same sentence can be cumbersome to some readers, just right for others, and even condescendingly simplistic for a small minority. The…