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https://x.com/Mihonarium/status/1946880931723194389 OpenAI jumped the gun before *the closing party* - didn't even let the kids celebrate their winning properly before stealing the…

Having worked for AWS, one of the things we got a lot push back from was offering something free and then walk back from it. AWS really strongly focuses on gaining customer trust, …

And in Berlin the cashier eyed me suspiciously when I tried to use Google Pay. He was totally expecting the payment to not go through

Amazon employee here, but the statement I'm making is of my own. Internally we treat customer names and email addresses as the second highest data classification. The highest one i…

> Given that segfaults almost never happen in the JVM (I've never seen one) I've seen 5 segfaults over the last week in our system. Unfortunately we don't enable core dump in our s…

Anything that's convenient for them, I guess?

You don't even bother to read past the section about the limitations that the engineers were well aware of in advance - they re-emphasize a common concern for people who question t…

Read their paper before making a claim that performance isn't important in Kafka: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/srikanth/netdb...

Kafka is mostly in Scala (which runs on JVM). Scala provides many attractive features to build scalable and type-safe code. And about performance, Kafka is used of LinkedIn and it …

My flickr account is created with Google login. I wonder whether they'll force me into singing up for Flickr cause it's the service with most storage for photos out there (albeit t…

Yes, from the server side's mishandling of TXT extension. Probably the server put the MIME type in the HTTP header as "HTML" instead of TXT, and the browser renders the page as suc…

Father? It's the second item on the list for me (and I use incognito)

I am interviewing with LinkedIn and the only sources I could find about the company were glassdoor and their engineering blog. However, when I search for further information about …

I think this problem is fixable with technology. Or sometimes it can just happen to a small number of people, just like 3D glasses.

We Vietnamese don't even have anything equivalent to "you". We use "friend/friends" (we don't distinguish between plural and singular) for a generic "you". Otherwise, in social sit…

Facebook somehow allows a website to determine whether the user likes a page or not. I've seen websites asking users to click Like (basically liking a page that paid the money to t…

Bugs are often sorted according to priority. It's clear that Apple doesn't care enough to prioritize this problem.

iTunes videos are DRM-ed

That's a very expensive assumption for most people

> here is only one target device you have to build for (Chromecast) not hundreds of TVs, BluRay players, and dongles. Just chiming in, Google actually has plan to work with TV make…

Apparently it doesn't have much priority on their list considering the problem has been around for two years. If you think about how fast the mobile landscape has changed, this is …

Used to be like that, but they fixed it a while ago. Though sending messages across carriers is rather expensive.