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The article is not a technical overview of AI's failures, it's about the organizational failures that lead to things like token leaderboards. I would argue that this article goes f…

The ban on replaceable flavored pod vapes caused that. Such a bizarre rule and so wasteful. You couldn’t replace the battery on the pod vapes but at least you could reuse the recha…

>A problem for city kids maybe? My parents were smart enough to raise me somewhere more suited for children. Implying that the only reason people with kids live in a city is becaus…

Tech companies are some of the largest and most influential companies in the world, and people are just now starting to understand what it means to have their lives influenced by w…

.NET Core is getting MASSIVE adoption in the large midwest city I work in. I expect .NET Framework to go on life support in a couple years. The ability to build and run application…

I don't understand. Shouldn't everyone care about their standard of living? Are you implying that junior developers shouldn't?

It would be trivial to test whether a site is blacklisted, that's not why the anti-spam code is private.

What does this have to do with the article?

I was not comparing NYT to any other news outlet. It's an echo chamber regardless of the fact that conservative news sites also have echo chamber comment sections. The David Brooks…

The New York Times comments are free from trolls and spam, but it's a frustratingly obvious echo chamber when it comes to politics. I'm a liberal guy but I can't stand it. David Br…

With all his talk about planting bombs, I'm sure they suspected that he was wearing a bomb vest to detonate when police moved in. I'm not sure how else they could have handled it.

Genuine question: how should streaming companies protect against their content being stolen/ripped/etc without DRM? What's the alternative? I'm sure it's in the contract of every s…

How many units does a new product need to ship to be successful, then? A hundred million? For a fledgling tech 100k units is pretty impressive.

>Use a better language instead of caring about the names. That's not always an option. Also, I don't find the language OP linked syntactically challenged. C# has a similar syntax a…

You've made a negative comment in nearly every thread on this post - do you really hate Snapchat that much? Do you not see how some people might enjoy using it?

I just recently got into Snapchat. My fiance and I just snap each other during downtime at work, nothing major. It's a lot of fun but I'm not sure how they could monetize it beyond…

I use the first feature constantly. If I'm reading reddit comments at the bottom of the page, I can scroll to the top and a part of the original post and then snap back to where I …

C# generics work beautifully and they were retrofitted. Later language additions like LINQ and extensions take advantage of generics as well.

Inserting ads into the Alien Blue feed would have been easy. You may be right about the different target user, though.

Well it was the official app before this one. Considering how good AB is I think there's some technical reason to redo the app. Who knows.

I'm sure they are but I like not having to click every time I want to see a picture.

Well everyone is using the official Twitter app so I think it did. No one cares about API availability except a very small subset of developers.

I agree with a lot of your points, especially comment flair and swiping gestures (I used the quick swipe left to collapse comment threads 100s of times a day). I'm not a mod so I n…

>plus the horrifying visual ads (for playlists and new albums) make Spotify a product I kind of love to hate You mean in Browse, where you go to discover new music? Is there a stre…

Considering Microsoft is pushing to support devs on Linux and that the probability of Visual Studio being ported from Windows is near 0, I don't think Microsoft would kill off Mono…