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hellbanner··on Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’
>learn the meaningful stuff, you will never code in your job implying the code that can be thrown away is the code they get paid for hmmmm
hellbanner··on A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize
> The idea began with two friends reading together at a bar in San Francisco, annoyed by the assigned reading of a demanding book club. Because everything was invented in San Francisco in the last 20 years.
hellbanner··on YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M
hellbanner··on Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
Touch screens are awful for operating while you focus elsewhere. I miss touch typing and I sure like adjusting car controls without looking away. What's that, trust driverless cars you say? Never, and the basilisk be damned.
hellbanner··on YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M&t=6s remember that anyone can manipulate these algorithms
hellbanner··on WeWork Files for IPO
You forgot the rest of the title.
hellbanner··on Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
Fantastic tutorial: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/book
hellbanner··on Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
That's mostly it. Personally I find Elixir's syntax confusing. For example:

Losing the ; and . function endings from Erlang you can put same-named functions throughout your module. I tried doing

def create def handle(:create)

def update def handle(:update)

But the compiler warns. So that loss isn't helpful.

Atoms require a : because variable names are lowercase.

Uppercase variable names and lowercase module names is easier to read in Erlang.

The syntactic sugar is too clever for readability imo.

The package management through mix is decent. I used to use an erlang.mk file, looking at hex it looks like the Erlang ecosystem is quite evolved.

Phoenix + Ecto seem to be very actively maintained, useful if you're writing web apps.

When I tried Cowboy a few years ago some of the documentation was out of date, so that's a point in Elixir's favor.

hellbanner··on Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back
Well at least you aren't mad enough to revolt because then change might occur. Ah right, revolt is impossible due to economic conditions.
hellbanner··on Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages
Hah. I interviewed for a [growing in popularity and market share] top 20 cryptocoin. They had some curious choice of words in their "freelance" contract, notably that it would use German copyright law to transfer rights of all inventions I ever made.

I pointed out that a couple of the phrases in the contract, when combined, indicated they would have IP rights to EVERYTHING I did not just work they paid me for.

They moved on to another candidate.

hellbanner··on Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Tastes to Identify Right-Wing Voters
Source?
hellbanner··on US asks allies to drop Huawei
Frog in the boiling pot
hellbanner··on Suicide increasing among American workers
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the pay discrepancy between CEOs, investors and us wage slaves.
hellbanner··on Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch
Didn't Facebook apps used to include dating apps that would use your social graph?
hellbanner··on Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm
Cool stuff. Check out Quantum Pilot where the enemies literally mirror your previously recorded actions. Steam / Android / iOS
hellbanner··on A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers
Can you shut down SMS? I recently have been bombarded with SMS from varying numbers, they all use the same $NAME
hellbanner··on Stellar Smart Contracts
http://arewedecentralizedyet.com/ 95% centralized
hellbanner··on Stripe has democratised online payments and reshaped the digital economy
Looped in with IP Infringement, regulated or illegal products and services > Adult content and services Pornography and other obscene materials (including literature, imagery and other media); sites offering any sexually-related services such as prostitution, escorts, pay-per view, adult live chat features > Products or services that are otherwise prohibited by our financial partners Video game or virtual world credits Sale of in-game currency unless the merchant is the operator of the virtual world
hellbanner··on Inform: Past, Present, Future
It does support the concept of score, maybe score points + score negative points?
hellbanner··on Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
If only there was a way to register a Public Key that only a corresponding Private Key could use.
hellbanner··on Why I’m done with Chrome
I would believe this, were it not that the google voice app continues to break in new ways version to version. The latest loads a little faster and isn't freezing as much (still a 10 second load, better than a 40 seconds of nothing). But now when I reply to messages? 19/20 messages I've tried to send through GV show "Message failed to send".
hellbanner··on Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
Yeah, popcorn time for youtube would be wonderful.
hellbanner··on ‘I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut’ (1999)
Untested behavior leading to unexpected results.. is still a bug.
hellbanner··on Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
Because they hate you. What other explanation is there?
hellbanner··on Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
Their UX continues to g et worse. Google Voice on iOS has had 10-20 second lag (no joke) on older versions of iOS (used to be jus fine!) for 1-2 years now. One previous version of GV in particular froze for 10 seconds on your first key press, now I can't rely on it to open properly, or send messages. It seems intentionally sabotaged.

I heard employees quit when G merged the YT with "real name" accounts.

Personally I've had a real pain getting support for android development. Wrong and misleading documentation, rude forum moderators, no way to report a bug (they have a bug where Payments page will show errors -- in Incognito Chrome) -- on the admob site. Solution was to sign up for Adwords (how could I tell?) and check the page in Safari or sign into Adwords on Chrome. Shit documentation. Help your developers earn you money better, Google. And stop changing your UI. It looks like they have low-tier coders who get hired with not enough power to rock the boat so they roll out a UI re-vamp no one wants without bothering to fix systemic problems that repeatedly kill products, break products and have a completely INSULTING policy towards their developers. Admob: "You can't even complain to us without earning enough money.. here's a phone number.. it literally never connects." Why even bother? I interpret that they hate me. The feeling is mutual.

hellbanner··on Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
Can you stop breaking Gmail, Hangouts and Google Voice UI and apps? There is literally a 20 second lag on Google Voice on iOS. It's absurd.
hellbanner··on Why I’m done with Chrome
Yep. And Google Voice runs horribly on iOS.. 20 second lag time to check messages, no joke. Earlier versions would freeze at the beginning of each character you type.

Makes me wonder if companies aren't just slowing down their competitors..

hellbanner··on The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime with the FBI
Anyone have a link to the .txt interview were the Mirai creator claimed they made their creation to escape "a shitty eastern European country" and their main customers were "Top 5 Minecraft servers"?
hellbanner··on Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs
What is a backdoor? A set of secret instructions that lets you get control or access over target machine. Exactly what this is. Re-read the README.
hellbanner··on Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs
"Thieves can break windows so there's no need to lock your doors". Fallacy.
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