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jack9··on A moon colony may be a reality sooner than we think
The Mars Colony that people have assured me will be in operation within the next 50 years, is still 150 years away at least.
jack9··on People Loved MoviePass Nearly to Death
https://www.reddit.com/r/moviepass/comments/7qa8t5/moviepass...
jack9··on People Loved MoviePass Nearly to Death
> I bet most people will be the same.

Since it's now only good for once a week, they will not.

jack9··on Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO
> that pain is outweighed by the satisfaction in reading the headlines and being glad I'm not funding them anymore.

The lack of simple usage (account, transaction) fees, better interest rates, and better account security features do it for me.

jack9··on California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit
There's some misunderstanding about housing markets illustrated by this comment which seems intuitive to me. Given the luxury pricing, not all the units will be rented (or not for long) because they don't need to be to keep the property profitable. Of those individuals that could afford the price, a large amount will move into the more affordable housing out of personal self-interest. The trickle down doesn't work in the manner described, in any meaningful way. Historically (rather than regionally) it has been working out this way for at least my lifetime.
jack9··on California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit
> 2,000 more residential option

That the vast majority can't afford, leaving the current status quo.

jack9··on MoviePass has changed people’s moviegoing habits
Now they can't watch more than 4 (select) movies per month and no repeat viewings. Moviepass hasn't changed anything because people generally are being termed out of the original breakneck deals.
jack9··on “Manager READMEs” from some tech companies
> so you aren't one of those people who feel uncomfortable bringing things up to their boss. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

Not at all. I'm happy to complain all day long, but what good does it do week after week? 1:1s are not a make everyone happy and not an opportunity to retread the same old stories. We work in the same place, we see the same things. We don't work together that closely, you're too disconnected to understand and taking up time from my actual responsibilities. Weekly 1:1s aren't just a sign, but proof of bad management in any company.

jack9··on The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization
The blog post wasnt about

> pseudonimization strategy in context of GDPR guidelines.

i.e. Doing the minimal work to meet the guidelines. Effectiveness is incidental to that goal. Maybe I misunderstood the GP tho.

jack9··on France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994
> Wait, your argument is that Kim Jong Un

I'm not making an argument. I'm stating a fact, because the gp stated an incorrect fact (a generalization about governments). You can take a look at a number of other world countries that have changed phone numbers for various reasons, amounting the to same thing. A trivial refutation of

> They don't do that* after the fact.

* = change the ownership of phone numbers/domains

Things happen slowly in the EU. That's not a surprise to those who live in it.

jack9··on France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994
> They don't do that after the fact.

They have and do. https://voiceofpeopletoday.com/kim-jong-un-orders-change-num...

It's unusual for the French government, who has some of the strongest consumer protections on the planet.

jack9··on Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf]
Because you probably have to re-read some, if not most, of the code while working through a solution.
jack9··on A new book on Renaissance mathematics makes a bold case
Who cares?

Just because I rolled a ball downhill, doesn't mean I was solely responsible for starting it, but worked in tandem with the laws of nature that exists. Nor am I the god of the effects, just because I was an instigator.

jack9··on Doctor tells of harrowing arrest after calling popular tonic ‘harmful’ in blog
> E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks,

That's not the same at all. That was consumer fraud.

jack9··on Wanted at Chinese Startups: Attractive Women to Ease Coders’ Stress
Does it matter to businesses or consumers in China?
jack9··on Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)
> not living in the home as their primary residence.

Which makes it disingenuous to the initial headline.

> Renting Is Throwing Money Away Right?

Yes. Given a choice, you always want to own (or at least be building equity). That's the nature of the phrase in the headline. Having money act as an investment (growing/working) for you is preferable to not.

jack9··on Java is Pass-by-Value
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_(C%2B%2B)

https://courses.washington.edu/css342/zander/css332/passby.h...

I mean, it's not hard to take a look at what was already decided.

jack9··on Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings
Quality of life matters in most of these marginal cases. If they are going to give you the Konno procedure (scrape extra tissue out of a thickened ventricle), there's tons of things that can go wrong OTHER than death. Death is assured, either way, for everyone.
jack9··on Players Have Crowned a New Best Board Game – And It May Be Tough to Topple
Looks like they finally got it right. Hah? The last line of the article... "Board games are evolving as well, standing on the shoulders of the great games and iterating on them."
jack9··on A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong
This seems like a coded endorsement of Agile processes.
jack9··on Can psychedelics make you a better person?
> the source of the problem is your upbringing,

Ok, so it's no fault of your own and you need a crutch, by your own reasoning.

> and by proxy the culture.

That doesn't follow at all. Lots of people remove themselves from their native culture, which is often toxic and sometimes benign.

jack9··on Designing very large (JavaScript) applications
> A team of senior engineers without junior engineers is a team of engineers.

This snarky bit seems like a derail in the middle of the article. Also, other than the enhance strategy (which is not illustrated other than a picture), there's nothing interesting said.

jack9··on Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes
> it encourages bad code

That's a matter of opinion, not a fact. It can be thought of as a shortcut for an applied mixin, without the needless pollution and boilerplate.

jack9··on United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf]
You mean to say, when they can identify you. Most of the time, powerful people have the power to retaliate against anyone.
jack9··on Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy
Adding another lie to the stack has the same consequences as before. More bloat in the sites and higher costs across the board.
jack9··on An apology for the internet from the people who built it
> See: inciting riot.

The concept of "Inciting a Riot" is one of the more obvious overreaches to control distasteful groups that leads us down the path of thought control (vis a vis postmodernism or original economic stratification). If someone is so ignorant or intent that they take an unlawful action due to spoken or written word, they had problems before. The edge cases are something more akin to accomplice. Those "rioter" problems were historically in education/comprehension (ironically something the internet has helped with in many cases) or mental defect or justified outrage. Because capitalistic and social opponents could not affect the changes they wanted or changes fast enough, the idea of a riot was born as a club. Even in america, the right to assemble is curtailed by the judicious application of this opposing legal construct.

jack9··on Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers
> ENGINEER is a legally controlled term.

It's a classification, so I don't think that's so. "Driver" is an equivalent term.

jack9··on Two Years of Functional Programming in JavaScript: Lessons Learned
That was mentioned at the end.
jack9··on Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy
What attack? The Adtech Ecosystem is incestuous, corrupt and penultimately complicated. jwegan is technically correct and savvy enough to understand one of many problems with this kind of fluff announcement. The least of these problems is a strawman reaction that anyone who dismissed it, is a bad actor. New SDKs are born every day. Apple CANNOT PRESENT a new technology that isn't a variant of what already survives in the ecosystem (i.e. insufficient other than to add another paid product that doesn't work any better). If Apple wants to go outside the IAB standards, it's another attempt to "take over" or can only be used as an Apple "internal" tool.

Here's a disclaimer: I worked at multiple Adtech companies in senior engineering positions.

jack9··on Database constraints: The last line of defense
I would never use constraints ever again. Period. Billions of rows of data to POCs. It's interesting to note that AMZ data largely runs without constraints (the largest systems). Working in Southern California, where tenures run a few years before you end up somewhere else, everyone comes to a consensus in a decade. It's obvious to me that embedding business logic in SQL along with the server app and whatever presents data to third parties, is just making everything harder. Then you run into the inevitable of data changes and fighting the existing constraints. It's a waste of effort, but an obvious path-to-job-security for DBs.

> And of course you can get quite clever and fun here....create a function that checks if a function is a fibonacci number

The fact this is presented as a reasonable (trivial!) thing to embed in the DB screams, this is a terrible place to work.

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