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Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
on Monday July 21, 2025 @08:54AM (#44634550)
What stops AI to lead users by the nose? To the benefit of owners and advertisers, with quality/quantity of manipulations individually rooted into user's psychological profile...
Re:Working on databases from prison
on Monday June 16, 2025 @10:52AM (#44290159)
In Soviet Union having prisoners do soft labor was called Sharashka. This scales and creates incentives to have more prisoners doing cheap labor.
Re:Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supp...
on Sunday May 04, 2025 @07:13AM (#43886052)
What opposition? Take a stopwatch, stand by the subway with an blank sheet of paper and count seconds before you are arrested.
Re:Gmail Is Breaking Email
on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:34AM (#35383028)
Why is server spam filtering even needed with Junk/NotJunk feature in Thunderbird?
Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:32AM (#35374316)
The only thing that can balance AI-man is AI-woman
Re:The new Microsoft Teams, now in preview
on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:13AM (#35355012)
Any chance browser version will work well? Currently authentication issues and user experience is terrible IMHO, sorry.
Re:The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane
on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:37AM (#35275509)
> Are we not already insane?
As long as we aim to separate objective truth from objective false it seems that sanity is still present.
Re:The Origin Story Behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
on Monday March 20, 2023 @02:04AM (#35227843)
Can love be a consequence of quantum effects?
Re:AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is goo...
on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:43AM (#35079108)
And people worry about losing jobs)
Re:AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is goo...
on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:40AM (#35079094)
It's like a fractal Rube Goldberg machine made of Rube Goldberg machines.
(c) copied comment from other topic
Re:Microsoft Designer
on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:31AM (#35065929)
Funny world is binary for Microsoft, US and not US
Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to increase r...
on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:56PM (#35064623)
> seems like nature-worship
Why not?
Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:57PM (#34938757)
I imagine IntelliJ running on Archlinux from Nokia phone with wireless high-resolution glasses display
Re:Open source security tools list
on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:31AM (#25123499)
Cool list! Gives general ideas on what to take into account when dealing with security
Re:I was just denied YC application and it's fine
on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:59AM (#24858704)
Accountant as a person? Nohow, I just hope that this is good for accountant and for entrepreneur simultaneously.
Any market is served somehow. I believe it is worth finding out if this offer is better than what is being served.
Re:I was just denied YC application and it's fine
on Thursday October 22, 2020 @09:33AM (#24857783)
Thank you for question. If risk is high, why not just take Tier 3 offer? It's not free, but server is yours. $0 is only for small companies.
I was just denied YC application and it's fine
Re:I was just denied YC application and it's fine
on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:40AM (#24855748)
I was doing this software last 15 years and I can continue for 15 years more. My market size is every small company in the world, my solution is general, universal and free to start. Yet I don't fit. Well, guess I have to do something differently =)
Re:Just Too Efficient
on Sunday July 12, 2020 @04:38AM (#23809890)
Professor Julian Birkinshaw judges that we may go from knowledge era where technologies lower transaction costs to zero to post-knowledge era where we use our knowledge to make more people feel better emotions:
Re:The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:23AM (#23203590)
Thank you so much for CoffeeScript! I bet on CoffeeScript in 2016 and surely would bet again in 2020, it is still great for those who want to focus on compact and clear coding. Your creation helped unknown developers like myself to actually find frontend coding bearable.
After seeing video with you talking about CoffeeScript design aspects ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspYurD75Ns ), it was clear that CoffeeScript was created by genius. I think the explanation why big corps did not contribute to your work is simple: they just could not. CoffeeScript was perfect from the start. It was ahead of time when it appeared and now it is still ahead of time for features you mention. It is like SQL or functional programming or algebra. Often best tool to get things done, but not for everyone.
If you ever read this, may I please ask one question? Imagine universe where all software is commercial. How much would CoffeeScript cost to its users?
Re:The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:47PM (#23198421)
CoffeeScript rocks for functional programming. Less chars and more sense per LoC, easier to learn than JavaScript and syntax sugar is sweet.
Re:Learning to code vs. learning to automate
on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:17PM (#21738020)
Capitalism is only bad for those who do not share profits coming from better productivity.
Government regulation is needed to balance inequality created by capitalism: progressive tax, competition laws, professional unions etc. Workers are also responsible to bargain deals that make them share more benefits and raise their bar.
This is everlasting struggle.
Re:Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risk...
on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:18PM (#20558324)
Fully agree! Development is about making things work, testing is about breaking things.
Sadly, some managers think that 'developed' includes 'tested' and expect flawless results from developers. It's like being a dancer and a painter simultaneously - possible, but has its limitations.
Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:45PM (#19267604)
Archlinux updates operating system, all drivers and all installed programs with one command. Takes 5 minutes. Windows update is a joke.
Re:Problems With Open-Source Business Models
on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:21PM (#18826879)
Thank you! So charging for commercial usage is not considered 'open source' even when source is actually available?
Re:Problems With Open-Source Business Models
on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:12PM (#18826791)
Bread and butter is also 'open source', but not 'free'. There is no problem with 'open source' that is free for non-commercial usage and paid for commercial usage. Is this what GPL is about?
Re:The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005)
on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @08:13PM (#18803493)
It's python after all, so why not?
Re:The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005)
on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @09:56AM (#18800397)
Coconut has many examples of functional programming techniques that cannot be easily done with python: https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/DOCS.html
Strangely FP is not popular among python developers.
Re:Programming Bottom-Up (1993)
on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:26AM (#16939255)
> Few would dispute, at least, that high level languages are more powerful than machine language.
I would! =) How is power of language defined?
Level of abstractions, high-level vs low-level? Attractive language syntax (DSL/macro/syntax sugar)? Tools, support and libraries? Community traction, popular, paid-more? Optimized and effective code? Low entry-barrier?
Depending on definition on what powerful language is, winners might become losers and vice versa.