Everyone took this VERY literally. Interesting.
> MOST people can remember all their jobs indeed.
As a possibly former employee (who among us can recall every place they've worked in the past?) who may not have looked at any number of prior employment agreements in an awfully long time, and completely apropos of…
I like this because it's a really off the wall take, but it also feels a little bit like the sort of reasoning that gets you tangled up with a Bernie Madoff type figure. It's true that unscrupulous people are often very…
I was recently having a conversation where I speculated that with how bad some programmers are at naming things, some code reviews might actually be easier if you ran them through a code obfuscator first, so you can…
Get that newfangled SVGA outta here. VGA (640x480) is the One True Resolution™.
Would that it were so simple to assess the value and integrity of individual voices vying for attention among the roaring cacophony that is the internet.
I would be very careful about considering any actions that Facebook, in particular, takes to be accidental. From the very beginning, intentional recklessness ("Move fast and break things") has been their credo. When…
> This system also makes it hard for marketing and spam to get a foothold > You’re certainly familiar with another federation [...]: email
aphorism rejoinder: disinformation is worse than no information.
What you think this does: filter out inexperienced people What this actually does: bias you toward hiring people who are comfortable lying
There was a Reply All episode on this conspiracy theory recently. My thing is, why does everyone get hung up on listening to the microphone? Facebook surveillance of users and non-users alike is more powerful and…
AAAND Zuck has been very publicly polishing up his presidential running shoes for 6 months...
> Are we really still repeating this nonsense? I get the sense that this "fact" was used BECAUSE it's "well-known". It serves the narrative purpose of showing that Google is fallible, rather than sinister (truth be…
Eleven 9s of durability is an utterly farcical guarantee from a decade old service. A single big durability event in the next century would irrevocably decimate that record. They really might as well claim 100%…
Downvoted, not because your general sentiment is wrong, but rather that this comment what-about's a specific threat identification. It is useful to raise awareness of general threats or wide-spread operational…
Bannon works for Mercer (Breitbart), who is paying Trump's legal bills. Bannon changed positions, not teams. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-legal-fund-paid-billionaire-ro...
Well, then this is superstition on the part of those execs. LinkedIn is the one tool that every recruiter uses. They are more likely to map out your employee network on LinkedIn than to even visit your company website…
I'm willing to ride with this format. Magazines tend to be disposable except for when they have a particularly impactful in-depth piece or themed issue. This format is all themed issues with in-depth pieces. It also…
> Climate change is true not because of a lack of challengers. In fact, the opposite is true. The theory that the rising atmospheric carbon level is causing a rise in average global temperatures has had many competing…
A $2B investment doesn't really preclude other similar future plays for a $200B company. So I think there's not enough information to draw that sort of conclusion.
It was my own off the cuff phrase. It's hard to relay the subtleties that I am trying to get across. I think that a lot of career programmers overstate the difficulty of their jobs, and how impossible it would be for…
Oh, understand. Yes, I misinterpreted the subjects of the statement. [1] edit: oi, changed "understood" to "understand". The former implied that I immediately understood what you were saying. I was trying to say that I…
I don't want to speak for my wife, but she has been actively involved in Girls Who Code, and seems to have thought that it was worthwhile. As I understand it, it's more about letting girls know that programming is an…
This is a 14 day old troll account. I would recommend against expending much effort to persuade a troll, or taking it seriously at all. That being said, you're correct, but the troll is offering ridiculous arguments…
Everyone took this VERY literally. Interesting.
> MOST people can remember all their jobs indeed.
As a possibly former employee (who among us can recall every place they've worked in the past?) who may not have looked at any number of prior employment agreements in an awfully long time, and completely apropos of…
I like this because it's a really off the wall take, but it also feels a little bit like the sort of reasoning that gets you tangled up with a Bernie Madoff type figure. It's true that unscrupulous people are often very…
I was recently having a conversation where I speculated that with how bad some programmers are at naming things, some code reviews might actually be easier if you ran them through a code obfuscator first, so you can…
Get that newfangled SVGA outta here. VGA (640x480) is the One True Resolution™.
Would that it were so simple to assess the value and integrity of individual voices vying for attention among the roaring cacophony that is the internet.
I would be very careful about considering any actions that Facebook, in particular, takes to be accidental. From the very beginning, intentional recklessness ("Move fast and break things") has been their credo. When…
> This system also makes it hard for marketing and spam to get a foothold > You’re certainly familiar with another federation [...]: email
aphorism rejoinder: disinformation is worse than no information.
What you think this does: filter out inexperienced people What this actually does: bias you toward hiring people who are comfortable lying
There was a Reply All episode on this conspiracy theory recently. My thing is, why does everyone get hung up on listening to the microphone? Facebook surveillance of users and non-users alike is more powerful and…
AAAND Zuck has been very publicly polishing up his presidential running shoes for 6 months...
> Are we really still repeating this nonsense? I get the sense that this "fact" was used BECAUSE it's "well-known". It serves the narrative purpose of showing that Google is fallible, rather than sinister (truth be…
Eleven 9s of durability is an utterly farcical guarantee from a decade old service. A single big durability event in the next century would irrevocably decimate that record. They really might as well claim 100%…
Downvoted, not because your general sentiment is wrong, but rather that this comment what-about's a specific threat identification. It is useful to raise awareness of general threats or wide-spread operational…
Bannon works for Mercer (Breitbart), who is paying Trump's legal bills. Bannon changed positions, not teams. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-legal-fund-paid-billionaire-ro...
Well, then this is superstition on the part of those execs. LinkedIn is the one tool that every recruiter uses. They are more likely to map out your employee network on LinkedIn than to even visit your company website…
I'm willing to ride with this format. Magazines tend to be disposable except for when they have a particularly impactful in-depth piece or themed issue. This format is all themed issues with in-depth pieces. It also…
> Climate change is true not because of a lack of challengers. In fact, the opposite is true. The theory that the rising atmospheric carbon level is causing a rise in average global temperatures has had many competing…
A $2B investment doesn't really preclude other similar future plays for a $200B company. So I think there's not enough information to draw that sort of conclusion.
It was my own off the cuff phrase. It's hard to relay the subtleties that I am trying to get across. I think that a lot of career programmers overstate the difficulty of their jobs, and how impossible it would be for…
Oh, understand. Yes, I misinterpreted the subjects of the statement. [1] edit: oi, changed "understood" to "understand". The former implied that I immediately understood what you were saying. I was trying to say that I…
I don't want to speak for my wife, but she has been actively involved in Girls Who Code, and seems to have thought that it was worthwhile. As I understand it, it's more about letting girls know that programming is an…
This is a 14 day old troll account. I would recommend against expending much effort to persuade a troll, or taking it seriously at all. That being said, you're correct, but the troll is offering ridiculous arguments…