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I recall a study which suggested that we don't really calculate the trajectory as such, but use some kind of simple visual heuristic to continually align ourselves with where the b…

It's a lawsuit because Schrems only needs enough of a basis to force the courts to consider certain issues, and to make statements about how GDPR should apply in principle in certa…

I don't think he even needed to prove that. Rather it's that, in the course of evaluating this case, the court has been forced to make statements clarifying how certain rules and p…

Schrems has launched several strategic court cases like this to push back on privacy issues, and even runs a non-profit focused on doing so. I think "activist" is just giving him w…

SEEKING WORK | London | Remote (US/EU timezones) I run a boutique software development studio, where I focus on helping startups get their MVP off the ground, or assisting companie…

SEEKING WORK | London | Remote (US/EU timezones) I run a boutique software development studio, where I focus on helping startups get their MVP off the ground, or assisting companie…

SEEKING WORK | London | Remote (US/EU timezones) I run a boutique software development studio, where I focus on helping startups get their MVP off the ground, or assisting companie…

I think the "compression-oriented" term was coined by Casey Muratori. There's an article expanding on it here: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015 > Like a good compressor, I don’t…

SEEKING WORK | London | Remote (US/EU timezones) I run a boutique software development studio, where I focus on helping startups get their MVP off the ground, or assisting companie…

Right - I think it's fair to expect somebody to come up with some kind of approach to solving this, even if they've never encountered the problem or drilled Leetcode before. At lea…

Google only needs to make money on average. It's not at all unreasonable to think a company might offer a service where they make a profit on the average customer, but make a loss …

Reddit did make some concessions about continuing to support free API access for accessibility-related tools, which was one of the major complaints about the pricing announcement: …

I agree with this. You'll often see responses like "but many people don't need to write sorting algorithms from scratch in their day to day work, so they're out of practice". But t…

I think it's more that the "inversion" interview story became a bit of a hot topic, and so is something people tend to reference in these discussions. Not that it's a specific prob…

> Why not ask the much more interesting and potentially useful question of balancing a binary tree? Honestly? Because that's harder. The swapping question is basically a softball /…

I'm on the same page. Sure, your day-to-day work may not involve manipulating binary trees. But presumably it does involve working with variables, objects, references, manipulating…

Essentially the value is in not having to set up your own SSH server. Or for providing you with 'throwaway' domains for any developer who wants to temporarily expose some locally r…

AFAIK it is possible we'll see some images released during the calibration process.

This rocks, and congrats!

The person who submitted that particular PR is trolling (clear from their comments in the original #2690 thread) - this was satire.

Yes, it's a joke. Or at least the person who submitted that (hmdne) is clearly trolling (you can tell from their comments in the original thread). But the PR was still accepted in …

Getting visibility within Steam itself is still probably the most effective way of increasing sales numbers - generally being featured/recommended within the platform is profoundly…

Drive day 1 sales, increasing your chance of getting featured as a "hot new release", increasing visibility and trying to ride the recommendation algorithm.

Frontend: Vue (typescript) Backend: Go or Java (simple and minimalistic REST-ish API, not a lot of framework stuff), via Docker. AWS Lambda for some things. DB: Postgres (usually m…