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Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @05:21AM (#20093319)
Sure sure, If you avert your gaze from China.
Re:Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Des...
on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:43AM (#19859251)
Team Lead
Re:Removing Array Duplicates
on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:59AM (#19643481)
No I think it would be actually faster and simpler.
Re:Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better
on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:25AM (#19604146)
I have seen way more damage done by the people "mostly working prototypes in hours or days" than people who want to write beautiful code. I understand that fixation to produce something beautiful can lead to paralysis but this is rarely the case. In most cases the prototype grows cancerously and it becomes impossible to fix in quite short time, my advice, listen to the experienced programmers who screwed up more time than you before, even if they seem to be obsessed with "beautiful code".
Re:DeepMind readies first commercial product
on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:57AM (#19541817)
No one claims AI will be the authority, it is good for finding candidates much earlier. We never had devices that has success rate of specialists on several eye problems in one go, definitely not in 70s. I don't understand what you are arguing against to be honest.
Re:DeepMind readies first commercial product
on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:10AM (#19541429)
They could be actually better and much faster than humans for initial diagnosis. This has far greater implications, e.g. early detection actually reduces big burden from system.
Re:Fuchsia OS Introduction
on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:51PM (#19493571)
A few? There are more than a hundred contributors in https://fuchsia.googlesource.com
Re:Fuchsia OS Introduction
on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:42PM (#19493473)
I guess Google engineers has some experience with those hard earned lessons before Facebook even existed. The diagram you mentioned is very typical of microkernels and subject of research for decades.
Re:How to live without Google (2017)
on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:45AM (#19420573)
I beg to differ, they are actually essential in my case.
Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:34AM (#19379676)
MMS is sodium chlorite, sorry but if it cured you, you were either not sick, or something else happened.
Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:44AM (#19358190)
Exactly.
Re:Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)
on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:08AM (#19358033)
You get angry when you see someone does not touch type? This sounds petty and weird.
Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:31AM (#19338347)
I think Bing engineers laugh uncontrollably when people at HN claims DuckDuckGo is a search engine.
Re:Finnish breaks natural language processors
on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:06AM (#19279496)
Turkish is also highly regular and has only one irregular verb. The main problem arises from morphological complexity. Because of these well defined rules that change the rich set of suffixes (>100 different), analysis of a lot of words ends up with many possible parses, it is hard to resolve this ambiguity.
I can't speak Japanese, but if it is also morphologically rich, it should face similar problems.
Re:German for Programmers
on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:12AM (#19133284)
Not necessarily in case of German, What exactly articles give to the meaning? What would it lose if they are removed or consolidated into a single article.
Re:Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Internet Explorer anymore
on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:33AM (#19115114)
You gave a single example and it is also deprecated and removed from Mozilla and never supported in Safari etiher, apparently it is not part of the spec now.
Re:German for Programmers
on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:45AM (#19114585)
Programmers? Sure German language needs a nice round of refactoring. Remove all redundancies. It would be a huge changelist with shit ton of lines removed, and still all tests for meaning pass.
Re:German for Programmers
on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:40AM (#19114523)
My biggest gripe with german is the redundancy, all articles and form changes they create are actually redundant, they don't contribute to the meaning in any significant manners. Remove all of them and all the complications, different forms they create, you would still perfectly understand it.
Yeah I know, languages, organic, beautiful, but subtle things , etc etc.. But still.
Re:GreatFire is tracking Apple iOS applications for instances of censo...
on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:46AM (#19075861)
Still I find it comical that people thinks Apple keeps the moral high ground. I personally find Apples position disgusting and super hypocritical. Sure, they are the white knight that keeps you safe from other monsters, only if you avert your gaze from China. At least Google so far sticked to its decision, and hopefully keeps it that way.
Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good
on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:08AM (#18959502)
Chill dude. I have almost never seen such generalizations are justified. "Sellout"? please.
Re:Introduction to Dart VM
on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:30AM (#18844154)
Dart language is not stagnant https://github.com/dart-lang/language
Re:Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?
on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:37AM (#18814956)
Most of them >30 years old. Some were a bit younger, I have seen some raw talent at earlier ages, but their usefulness were severely limited because of lack of experience.
Re:Please do not attempt to simplify this code
on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:42AM (#18776043)
I believe that premature abstraction is terrible. But in some cases good abstractions may help with handling complexity and may make testing easier. I have a feeling that because authors say that this class should not be changed / refactored, they failed to introduce a good abstraction. This also implies that their tests are inadequate.
Re:Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins
on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:31AM (#18776004)
He was paid by Oracle when he made that "prediction".
Re:Please do not attempt to simplify this code
on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:33AM (#18775783)
But this gargantuan pile of garbage warns that it can not and should not be refactored and it is like the shuttle code (may their souls rest in peace), it is so solid and perfect as is. It is also written in the sacred language of Go.
So if these conditions are met, then yes above praises will be and must be sang.
Re:Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins
on Friday December 21, 2018 @09:22AM (#18733436)
When someone works as a hired gun, all their good works are tainted as well. So who cares.
Re:Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins
on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:41AM (#18733208)
Fosspatents and Florian Mueller.. Where do I remember these? In past he was paid by big corporations for his "Consultancy" services.