acroback | 5 years ago | on: MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
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acroback | 5 years ago | on: America is giving up on the pandemic?
The whole point of the Model is to detect things which are uncertain by nature. Being wrong is not bad, it's good TBH.
CMIIW.
acroback | 5 years ago | on: Why is the dropout rate so high for Computer Science?
Without it is difficult to make connection between theory and actual stuff you can run on computers.
And the subject is vast, making it difficult.
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Challenging the myth of individual programmer productivity
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Every Google result now looks like an ad
I personally dislike such changes, which no one asks for. Either people are just pushing their BS through Google higher ranks or they have no clue how their users actually feel and use their core product.
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acroback | 6 years ago | on: EU beckons Indian tech talent
Slow clap
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)
And I think I am the dumbest person at work, damn why is my Brain so slow? :(
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Returned online purchases often sent to landfill
I recently ordered something from a manufacturer on Amazon. After couple of days, they dropped price on product by $20. So I called up Amazon for price adjustment. I was politely asked to return it to manufacturer and order a new one.
Seriously, Amazon cannot work with manufacturers to just refund price difference instead of returning the product and ordering it again. It is wasteful at so many levels.
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
Most people use the same luggage for years, I use mine for atleast 10 years. Where is the logic in your reply?
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Jeff Bezos warns US military it risks losing tech supremacy
You seem to suggest that MS is poor at Cloud game, which is not exactly true. They are cost effective compared to AWS and catching up.
Maybe military wanted to save money. May be this is all about a better deal after all.
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Go Turns 10
acroback | 6 years ago | on: A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Startup options are better than they look (2017)
Class shares are a thing to protect investor money not engineer interest.
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Startup options are better than they look (2017)
One debt financing round and your golden stocks lose 90% of its value. It's worse when you have exercised your options.
Plus you won't get class A stocks, class B or worse, which means you won't make much unless company goes public and goes big like FB or Google.
acroback | 6 years ago | on: What Is Good About Haskell?
Real world is not perfect, it is immutable with plenty of side effects. Using Haskell for day to day messy work is not trivial and should not be considered IMO, u nless you have Haskell gurus all around.
I would rather take a dumb language like Go or Java over Haskell for work code.
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Amazon Echo Loop
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to get developers to care less about edge cases?
Looks like you did not set your expectations correctly with your engineering counterpart.
acroback | 6 years ago | on: Apple Is Listening
On a serious note, problem seems to be extremely long product cycles for Apple Hardware products with "my way or highway attitude" from Apple.
These 2 make for a disaster recipe. Putting form before function is a fallacy which is bound to boomerang sooner or later.
E.g The monitor stand fiasco speaks volumes of either a disconnect or ridicule raised by wrong audience.
The latest MacBook pro is a bad and good design both depending on audience.
Last Mac Pro was laughably form before function for a fortune.
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