Hacker News: npizzolato

New comment by npizzolato in "Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe"

npizzolato — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:14:28 +0000

Eh, you can choose to believe Zuckerberg here. I personally have no faith Facebook will voluntarily permanently delete someone's data when they close an account. They have shown very little prior behavior that would lead me to find his statements on this to be trustworthy.

New comment by npizzolato in "What the Rich Won’t Tell You"

npizzolato — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:33:03 +0000

If you feel so guilty about how little your nanny makes, so much so that you're pulling tags off everything you buy, maybe it's not a bad idea to pay your nanny a little above the going rate. Partially for your own sake as well as hers.

I also think only supporting larger movements is the wrong way to go about things. The more local the problem, the more impact you can have on it. Support Medicare for All? That's certainly good to do if you feel that's right, but that's going to be a long, drawn-out battle. Paying your nanny a little bit more? That's very easy to do and can immediately improve someone's life.

New comment by npizzolato in "Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack"

npizzolato — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 20:47:23 +0000

Perhaps the attitude of measuring the good-ness of a chat client solely on how much memory it uses is one of the main contributors to the rise in popularity of Slack and the decline in popularity of IRC. I personally don't care if my chat client uses more ram than its competitors if it's easier to use. Judging by the amount of people using Slack, I don't think I'm alone.

New comment by npizzolato in "Mental health is still an issue in the workplace"

npizzolato — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:22:18 +0000

It was pretty clear he was talking about his own experiences. Does he need evidence to justify his claim that management also abused their powers?

New comment by npizzolato in "Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?"

npizzolato — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:01:48 +0000

Intent matters (in ethical considerations, anyway). Intentionally making mistakes to conceal your automation is on a completely different level than unintentional mistakes made when doing the work (either manually or through automation).

New comment by npizzolato in "How to Interview Engineers"

npizzolato — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 21:44:48 +0000

Do you work on services that are expected to be working 24/7? It's not exactly uncommon for a production service to have problems and need to be fixed ASAP.

New comment by npizzolato in "Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities"

npizzolato — Sat, 06 May 2017 02:20:45 +0000

It's not a local issue when a multinational organization is doing the same thing across an entire country. Then it's rightly a federal issue.

New comment by npizzolato in "Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities"

npizzolato — Fri, 05 May 2017 06:13:27 +0000

How is it an overreach to define finding who is a LEO and feeding them false information to deceive them and waste their time as obstruction of justice?

New comment by npizzolato in "Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities"

npizzolato — Fri, 05 May 2017 06:11:26 +0000

So they misled investigators throughout multiple cities across the United States. Therefore, it's a federal issue. This really isn't that hard to understand.

New comment by npizzolato in "Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities"

npizzolato — Fri, 05 May 2017 06:08:59 +0000

A real criminal investigation probably isn't going to be satisfied with the lowly coder. If this ends up going all the way, I would expect people high up to be punished.

New comment by npizzolato in "Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities"

npizzolato — Fri, 05 May 2017 05:59:18 +0000

If you do that with the intention of passing through a checkpoint to hide your contraband, why shouldn't that be a crime?

New comment by npizzolato in "Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities"

npizzolato — Fri, 05 May 2017 05:57:49 +0000

There doesn't need to be an actual crime. There needs to be an investigation of an actual crime. One which seems to have been taking place.

Also, given how often Uber is brought up in these forums for ignoring/breaking local laws, I really would not be surprised to find that they have committed real crimes. I would be far more surprised if they had not.

New comment by npizzolato in "Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications"

npizzolato — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:37:14 +0000

It's also the most important thing. If your culture is bad, changing what tool you use isn't going to fix everything. You're just going to have a new tool everyone uses poorly.

New comment by npizzolato in "Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications"

npizzolato — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:24:39 +0000

You're never going to move large groups of people by just yelling "xxx is terrible!" You have to make something better that people want to use to get them to switch. Unfortunately, Slack is better than IRC in many ways that matter to a lot of people. Ignoring all of those things doesn't make IRC better, and it's not going to make people want to use IRC over Slack.

New comment by npizzolato in "Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)"

npizzolato — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:14:48 +0000

Not really. Once they get discovered and reported on a supported browser, it sounds like they'd be routed to the team. Theoretically, bugs could exist in supported browsers that only get reported in unsupported browsers, but you'd have to weigh the likelihood of that against randomizing the team investigating bugs in unsupported scenarios.

New comment by npizzolato in "How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network"

npizzolato — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:56:26 +0000

He's proven he's willing to enact executive orders with no notice which bar legal immigrants from entering the country. So we've got action against immigrants already. Not just plans.

New comment by npizzolato in "Dad who live-streamed his son’s birth on Facebook loses in court"

npizzolato — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:34:12 +0000

> Apparently, the father-to-be realised his film was streaming publicly on social media about 30 minutes into recording, but decided to leave it that way.

It would be one thing if he never realized he was broadcasting publicly. Once you realize something is public and decide to leave it up, I think you lose any moral authority to claim others shouldn't have any fair use claim to your public work.

New comment by npizzolato in "Nintendo signals end for Wii U"

npizzolato — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:21:43 +0000

If the fun people had with Wii Sports was worth $200 to them (or whatever the Wii cost), then who cares if they only bought the console for that one game?

New comment by npizzolato in "Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations"

npizzolato — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:14:49 +0000

What risk? Yahoo failed, but Marissa Mayer made out with millions of dollars. Seems like a no-risk endeavor to me.

New comment by npizzolato in "Theranos reportedly laying off 41% of its workforce"

npizzolato — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 21:47:59 +0000

> Their net worth is none of your business.

But net worth has everything to do with risk. A person worth $1 million putting up all $1 million is risking everything he has. A person worth $1 billion probably won't even notice if he loses $1 million. There's almost no risk to him if he loses that money.