bilg21's comments

On: WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM

[bilg21]

Doing the gods work, or the devil's work. I'm a little confused here.

On: Hitachi to buy GlobalLogic for $9.6B

[bilg21]

They used to make good TV's in the 90s too. First color TV in our house was Hitachi.

On: Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinf...

[bilg21]

Would you mind sharing how you've disabled ads and shares? I could not find such options in facebook settings. Only thing I can think of is adblock or writing my own software to pull feeds and filter them.

[intrasight → bilg21]

I use the F.B. Purity add-on. Can't imagine using Facebook without it.

On: How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a ...

[bilg21]

Have you ever seen Person of interest? First season is mostly detective, but starting second season picks it up and explores ai & surveillance more.

[z3t4 → bilg21]

Yes! I was actually recommended here on HN. I did however not make it into the second season. All episodes where pretty much the same so it became boring for me. Maybe I'll give it another chance.

On: If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Progr...

[bilg21]

Isn't that why you have titles such as Software Engineer, Developer, Programmer? Software Engineer should have the engineering background and tackles hard problems whereas Developers and Programmers focus on products and features.

[azhenley → bilg21]

All of these terms are used mostly interchangeably, and it just depends on what company you are at. For example, Microsoft calls them all SDEs (Software Development Engineer) and Google calls them Software Engineers.

[pjmlp → azhenley]

In many countries it is illegal to do so unless those people are actual engineers with accredited degree by the engineers' college.