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meh2frdf··on Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
In the 90s, z-notation was taught in many UK CS courses.
meh2frdf··on Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it
They don’t want google or any other monopoly that is in competition with them to ‘give’ them traffic. They do want their services available and indexed on the internet. If the internet search market was evenly distributed among 5 search engines the I suspect this conversation wouldn’t exist.
meh2frdf··on Minecraft server rewards Wither hunters with DOGE, Bitcoin
Why?
meh2frdf··on Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it
This is a very poor argument even under basic scrutiny.
meh2frdf··on Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it
Because google owns the index, if they don’t allow google to index they get no traffic. Google is a monopoly, there is no choice here, no market driving competition.
meh2frdf··on YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
Fair enough :)
meh2frdf··on YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
So you would need a change internationally to copyright law, and then for YouTube to limit the number of viewers to a video (which doesn’t make much business sense).

There are a lot of opinions on how copyright should work, however little understanding of how it actually works.

There are possible tech solutions that could work with the current copyright system. The truth is both big tech and the rights collection societies like the status quo as they both profit off the actual creative works done by others. The actual battle is between who can get the biggest slice.

meh2frdf··on Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?
With python and node typically comes a different approach to developing which should mean those tools are less useful.
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?
I don’t think those networks you mention are good measures at all. Most of the great and passionate devs I know are not prolific on those sites. IMHO those sites are more often for new people to tech who like to showboat, and are likely to move on to something else that feeds their ego.
meh2frdf··on YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
Well that is what copyright upholds. The problem is there is no simple way you can get a license for the video clip from the rights holders. And then no sensible way of verifying that license with the platform.
meh2frdf··on YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
I suspect it’s deliberate, as it supports Google’s agenda of exploiting others work for free.
meh2frdf··on How to select an ideal array size in C?
Really a down vote for a C joke, or did you not get it?
meh2frdf··on The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation
Couldn’t watch the whole thing, was so naff, with grating ‘tension’ music, simply ghastly! At times I actually thought it was a spoof.
meh2frdf··on How to select an ideal array size in C?
Your best guess +1 ;)
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: What is the best practice for reading large pieces of C code?
Same way you eat an elephant!
meh2frdf··on Lessons Learned from Writing Over 300k Lines of Infrastructure Code
Nor does my infra code, because I write tests, and have a pre-prod end to test it in a controlled ci approach.
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?
Try using a modelling tool rather than a drawing tool.
meh2frdf··on BlazingSQL – A GPU SQL Engine for RAPIDS Open-Source Software from Nvidia
Blazegraph is now an Amazon owned trademark, good luck defending your name!
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: A company used my source code for their product. What can I do?
What are you hoping to achieve? If it’s to screw them for as much money as possible speak to a lawyer who can advise you on the best strategy for that.

If you want a small/reasonable amount of compensation and failing that, you want them to cease using your code, I would just talk to them. Put together what your licensing terms are and then simple case of pay or stop using. This the path I would recommend, and as long as the fee is reasonable, I (as someone who has to deal with this sort of thing in my current role) would simply pay, as it the normal cost of doing business.

The reality is that this is likely the fault of a nieve developer, not the deliberate action of the organisation. Aggressively threatening to sue etc is typically overkill and the sort of behaviour that causes legal teams then to restrict developers and prevent them sharing their code etc.

meh2frdf··on BlazingSQL – A GPU SQL Engine for RAPIDS Open-Source Software from Nvidia
Is this in anyway related to blazegraph the gpu accelerated database?
meh2frdf··on Introducing Haskell to a Company
In terms of people moving away from java, I would say yes. It’s a smaller leap than Scala and an easier sale to management. Quite a lot of teams that have moved to Scala have struggled, mostly around supporting the new shiny services that have been written by guys who have moved on. The TCO from my observations seems to be higher than for java. To give some context I’ve never been a fan of java.
meh2frdf··on Introducing Haskell to a Company
I knew this discussion would end up discussing the type systems. That is really quite removed from business goals with very weak evidence that it will provide any real benefits to the business. It’s quite debatable even from an engineering perspective if the real world rather than theoretical benefits.
meh2frdf··on Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI
Replace deep learning with ANN, it was branded DL In order to get easier grant funding!
meh2frdf··on Ask HN: Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?
Engaging isn’t sufficient, it’s a start. What is typically lacking is someone with the intelligence to properly understand the problem, and map out a roadmap to get there. There is too often a naive belief that the stakeholders will put you on the right path, they don’t, they just give you information that feeds into the design process. Sure you solution should be regularly validated with the users, however in my experience the tend to lack the ability to give a vision which isn’t just an incremental improvement on the current solution.
meh2frdf··on Introducing A16Z Crypto
So what would that transition look like, how would you phase the roll out? Practically how would this work and would the result be worth the effort to each individual involved or would it be a utopian ideal for ‘the greater good’?
meh2frdf··on CryptoKitties sales plummet in popularity
Best description yet!
meh2frdf··on AI winter is well on its way
5 years ha! Wow the rebranding has worked well.
meh2frdf··on AI winter is well on its way
Give us a list then, because what I’m seeing is shoehorning “AI” into everything but not with significant results.
meh2frdf··on AI winter is well on its way
The fact you use the word connectionism makes you alright in my book :)
meh2frdf··on AI winter is well on its way
I hate it when people say deep learning instead of neural networks.
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