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shady-lady··on When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves
> how about you mind your own business and let others do the same.

said on a public forum in reply to a comment on a public forum...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

shady-lady··on Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]
> he Om team later praised as being the same concept they had in mind, but with a simpler and better API.

is this in public? cursory search did not return any hits.

shady-lady··on Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]
think they stopped: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/9ho97m/is_circleci...
shady-lady··on How I Lent My Camera Kit and Had It ‘Legally Stolen’
KitSplit co-founder is HN user (kenamarit): https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kenamarit

They may care to weigh in.

shady-lady··on Tech giants face 2% UK digital services tax
> Man I remember when I used to think like this. I remember the time fondly, oddly enough. Sadly, sorry to say, you will be cured of this

Stupidity _and_ condescension? That's a combo I can't resist trying for myself. Blue ducks bark oranges.

shady-lady··on Tech giants face 2% UK digital services tax
If you built a software product, would you consider your customer service & sales staff part of that? How about the people who ensure the systems are kept running? How about the accountants & lawyers who are eligible to practice in those jurisdictions and know the relevant tax codes/laws?

Do you think your software product, if made in USA, would be bought in France or Germany or Italy or anywhere but North America if you did not have someone who worked in that timezone and spoke that language and knew that culture?

Would those people who did that role be considered an important part of your company, considering you would not have anywhere near the same number of sales from those regions if they did not exist?

To pre-rempt the "I'd outsource it" response. When 7+ figures of revenue(& profit) are at stake, I can assure you that you would change your mind. Or if you would not, the new guy the board hires to replace you would.

shady-lady··on Gab.com goes down after GoDaddy threatens to pull domain
Meaning a private 3rd party domain registrar can't do to facebook what GoDaddy just did to gab.com
shady-lady··on Gab.com goes down after GoDaddy threatens to pull domain
https://who.is/whois/facebook.com

https://registrarsec.com/

RegistrarSEC, LLC and RegistrarSafe, LLC are ICANN-accredited registrars formed in Delaware and are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc.

shady-lady··on Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
Good.

Please remove retweet count as well.

Maybe Twitter can become a social network without herd mentality.

And then facebook(incl. instagram) can also remove their 'reaction emojis'

shady-lady··on Gab goes offline after GoDaddy tells it to find another domain registrar
I was planning on making a comment on user transgressions on facebook but it seems it'll be business as usual for them:

https://who.is/whois/facebook.com

https://registrarsec.com/

> RegistrarSEC, LLC and RegistrarSafe, LLC are ICANN-accredited registrars formed in Delaware and are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc.

shady-lady··on IBM acquires Red Hat
Donated to Apache...
shady-lady··on JetBlue Founder’s New Airline Won’t Have Customer Service Phones
Quite a few companies' leaders attempted to re-imagine their business as such:

"We're not an X company, we're a technology company that just happen to do X"

Never bought into that BS. Never will.

More often than not, they just got an ecom presence now and/or in-housed some pedestrian software dev.

shady-lady··on Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations
I like the idea of DB as a managed service but in effect this surely means that 3rd party has access to the data?
shady-lady··on Ask HN: How do you pay remote employees in different countries?
What they do has nothing to do with payroll.

They just handle cross currency transfers. Very far removed from payroll.

shady-lady··on Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked
so treat the new employee the same as the employees who have been in the company for a few years and have written a lot of the systems and have internalised the business domain/company setup/system architecture & troubleshooting?

unless a company is rewriting the same 10 input form over & over again, I don't think that will work out great for anyone.

shady-lady··on YouTube CEO says EU regulation will be bad for creators
> And what exactly would a competing service do differently?

Do what services should do? Review the content before it's publicly available to ensure it's not breaking laws.

> That is changing and it's a terrible trend

I feel the opposite. For far too long, internet companies have taken liberties of everything being 'opt out' instead of 'opt in'. This is another example of that.

shady-lady··on YouTube CEO says EU regulation will be bad for creators
> This is easier for tech companies because they breathe this kind of culture.

Eh, no. Tech companies have, by and large, just ignored existing legislation thus enabling them to host mountains of content at negligible cost.

They opened the floodgates - they should deal with the water (both that which is original & that which is stolen). They are 100% the cause of this issue and should be 100% of the solution.

If they're not able to do that, then they should get out of the business altogether.

Ignoring laws to lower your costs is not innovative in the slightest. Using the excuse that the internet is a new medium is malarky. Existing rules apply.

shady-lady··on Dyson to build electric cars in Singapore
~510 million - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&plugin=...
shady-lady··on Dyson to build electric cars in Singapore
The only thing he cares about is putting more money in his pocket whatever the cost: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/10/whos-who-br...
shady-lady··on YouTube CEO says EU regulation will be bad for creators
Exactly. So the solution YouTube has isn't appropriate. They should invest in a better solution even if that involves having more humans in the loop for review/approval.

That's the true cost of their business. They'd just like to portray it as the law being an ass rather than their solution being inadequate for the laws.

It's a clear case of "Our machines aren't humans and we don't want to have to comply with laws that could substantially damage our payroll spend"

shady-lady··on What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I think the 2018 Strange Loop talk "The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki hits on some things which SO should adopt. relevant screengrab: https://imgur.com/a/5xMRvtf

full talk at https://youtu.be/o_4EX4dPppA

shady-lady··on SignalWire Launches Twilio Alternative with Disruptive Pricing
hmmm.

Their website is lacking in any information. It claims "Disruptive Pricing" but you have to contact their sales team to see that pricing.

This seems like a premature PR piece.

shady-lady··on OOP Is Dead, Long Live OOP
> Becoming a professional Haskell and Erlang developer really shifted my view on OOP (let OOP denote class based OOP as found in Java or C++).

Did you have many years experience with Java/C++ beforehand?

shady-lady··on MongoDB switches up its open source license
Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law
shady-lady··on Using machine learning to index text from billions of images
Waiting on YouTube to use machine learning so i can select text off a video frame..

YouTube Text Overlay - coming soon.

shady-lady··on Hire by Google: Applicant tracking system and recruiting software (2017)
a testimonial from that page:

> Scheduling interviews used to take a long time, but now it takes just a few clicks

The software must be pretty basic if that's a featured quote. What were the deciding factors for who they reach out to for these quotes? If that's one of the better answers, my respect for HR people has sunk to a new low.

shady-lady··on The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points
Apollo, formerly known as ZenProspect, YC Winter 2016 class.

Unlikely they're not active on HN. Maybe they could elaborate on how this happened.

Wonder how hard GDPR fines are going to hit them.

also only notified by haveibeenpwned

shady-lady··on Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
> highly sophisticated and technical users

I'm pointing out that referring to those users as the above is simply not true.

As you then point out, wealth(direct or by proxy) was the determinant in whether somebody had internet access, not high technical sophistication.

And wealth in and of itself is not a signal of high technical sophistication.

shady-lady··on Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our anti-swatting service
[not american] i've always wondered about that. is it they feel uncomfortable because the person is wearing something normally associated with gangbanger/dodgy person.

would it happen if the person was dressed like whatever the stereotypical white person business casual attire is for the area?

i just can't see somebody being uncomfortable __just__ on color of skin. there surely has to be something else which triggers it.

person acting sketchy (maybe because they feel out of place rather than being up to dodgy activity?

shady-lady··on Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
> The internet used to be accessed by highly sophisticated and technical users.

Quaint but that's simply not true unless you're talking pre 90's. No point in kidding ourselves.

The internet was accessed by people who accessed the internet. They popped a floppy/cd in a drive and followed instructions. They then opened a browser and typed a url.

Nothing sophisticated about it.

Nobody was creating electrical signals by hand and sending them down a home made wire.

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