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Do you work at a large company?

FWIW the acquisition was only 25ish percent above market value. In the public markets Nuance was worth something like $15 billion.

If the industry demands weird or suboptimal practices or has strange evaluation criteria then the people making the most will be the people who are best at the game. I think the po…

Why not just: function foobar(version: number): string { if (version >= 3) { return 'result_3'; } else if (version >= 2) { return 'result_2'; } else if (version >= 1) { return 'res…

Is this really true? In my (limited) experience, the best coders are the ones who understand the technology, understand the hardware, and understand good program structure. "Commun…

That assumes the selection process is effective, but FAANGs are all monopolies so there's very weak selection pressure for them to distinguish candidates correctly. They don't get …

I get what you're saying but Marxists don't bomb the homes of billionaires, or shoot them. There's no actual warfare, genuine violence is directed at the right, not the rich. They …

And which permission do I take to access that?

I said it's less sensitive.

The left-wing narrative is usually "[group A] is hurt by [issue and thus group B]", whereas the far-right is, "[group C] will hurt you, if you let them." I think it's a deliberate …

Firefox already has this. Click reader view, it also gives you a time estimate.

It would be nice if Firefox provided an API that only exposed the static HTML of sites you're visiting. I don't care if an extension wants that data, it's nowhere near as sensitive…

I think there's crossover but I don't think those two groups are motivated by the same thing. My observation is that far-right activists tend to feel that they're being deliberatel…

I would argue if you're not bringing your idea to market, that's not innovation. It's the opposite, you're blocking innovation. Patents stop other people from creating useful stuff…

How is that legal? I mean mechanically, how do they get away with it? What legal defense do they use?

Tht's insane. Is that rule in the contract, or is it something that's imposed after employees are hired? (Or is it like, "you agree to adhere to all Amazon internal policies"? Is t…

I'm on the outside here so I might be misreading, but are these internal policies explicitly written into their contracts, or are they secret, internal rules that Amazon unilateral…

Hah, to be clear that is what I meant - the idea that Facebook doesn't have the resources is ludicrous, the problem runs deeper.

Facebook took $85 billion in revenue last year and has thousands of developers on the payroll. They could absolutely maintain 3 separate services. Bear in mind WhatsApp used to mai…

If they didn't publish a retraction, they probably could have been sued. They're covering their ass, I wouldn't give them moral credit.

Getting a mortgage isn't purchasing a home, paying off a mortgage is purchasing a home. The bank owns your home when you get a mortgage, and they have the right to sell if you miss…

I've noticed that Reddit thing too. It's super weird, and it's a really grating style. I think one corollary on HN is overwriting. Comments do better when they're fluffed. I think …