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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I am happy to see this. Some wild animals, especially high-functioning ones -- are meant to be seen in the wild. If they are in imminent danger, of course -- building city-like habitats to protect them (whatever a 'city' would me
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I would like to see Paypal added to the list. Although, part of this monopoly is a very high regulatory barrier of entry for Paypal competition. But they should look if paypal engages into practices 'steer' regulators (or politici
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I would outline 3 areas: 1) Modeling capacity/latency of complex system with queuing theory (basically creating spreadsheets that can 'calculate' how much servers you need with what I/O throughput/etc for our softwa
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I thought in US, cross-state commerce issues (like covert tarrifs or other trade-impeding actions) -- are under jurisdiction of Federal Government. Salesforce (and therefore Heroku) HQ are in CA, so it would seem that they can implement the
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
Most of the structuring (and, therefore, syntax) around an 'enterprise' application, is about how easy it is to 'replace'/'change' functions based on future needs (or known, but yet un-realized requirement
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I am sure they have thought about, but decided against it. However, I think, what they should have done is have an open-sourced language runtime, and closed source some subset of the libraries. In other words, keep eco-system open-sourced (
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I think there are 4 categories of topics 1) ideological (including political (globa/local), or religious 2) technical 3) personal (meaning focus is, specifically, on subjective position) 4) moral (meaning, focus is on subjective, but r
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
lobste.rs is the closest, I think. The requirements to become a posting member, are different (by referral, at least for now). Good, if software tech is primary interest (but there much fewer discussions (and participants) in mathematics, c
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
The author seems to finish the article with a recommendation. But still do not understand what it is: "... So what should you do with all this stuff going on? Well here’s my recommendation: Whether you do WPF, WinForms or UWP, if it wo
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
It seems like Sharyl Attkisson, is not just writing about her case, but also reflects on the overall timelines of US law enforcements becoming warrantless spy agency "... Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I would say, that PHP faired through time much better than Perl. May be is Facebook's investment in the platform, may be it is wordpress , the PHP's 'killer app'. I invested into building a system in PHP in 2010 (and usi
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
If somebody would have been predicting wide spread online identity hacking, in 1960s -- they would have been laughed off too, I think. May be Ted Cruz is forward looking in this instance?
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I was thinking about it. Making up filters to filter other people expression, using rules that are not explicitly enumerated in Governing laws -- is selective censorship . Making up speech/expression filters that are explicitly enumer
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
Thanks for the reply. I am often not correct in recognizing even my own cognitive biases. So, of course, I do not know what you think. To answer your question otherwise, would be pretentious. But I am certain, that I feel the unfair bias a
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
The web form looks like horrible, looks like a prototype of some sort. Also they should make a version that does not require JavaScript, for this type of form, this should not be difficult. I am also not clear, to be honest, what remit&#x2F
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
> I'm auditioning for a role as "senior programmer", just like an actor would. That's the reality, and if I'm going to get myself a job that pays ~$400,000/yr in total comp, I will jump through whatever hoop
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I do not think author of this piece has particularly good intentions at all. Good intentions would have included self-reflection, non-partisan discussion of alternative views, and so on. A simple review of the funding sources of The Union
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
If hacker news is to preserve its community of diverse, exceptionally technical, and well-articulating members -- the site moderators must stop publishing left-wing propaganda. I appreciate that they are left-leaning, however they use aggre
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
>The billion-dollar punitive damages verdict, moreover, is not crazy considering that the point of punitive damages is to deter similar conduct in the future I think most would be ok with this reasoning behind punitive damages, as long a
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
Two statements/quotes that I personally found interesting through prism of current times. "... Algebra is quite sterile, Algebra is not about anything …." (at about 1:17:28 ) "... One thing I feel a little bad about, and
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
Well supported older releases of the database engine, with clearly defined migration documentation and technology -- are the hallmark of successful Open source software ecosystem. Because it mirrors and supports the reality of the business
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
Stripe is a bad substitute to paypal. Stripes, wants you them to be the center point of your relation with your customers. We prefer no-big names, no information collection about my customers, almost a white-label payment processor that we
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by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I agree with you, @asark But I would change "..strangled by responsibility avoidance..' Into US business business are forced into culture of 'plausible deniability'. If you do not follow that culture, your business, if s
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by 75dvtwin 8y ago
Thank you for the summary. Incidentally the above, is approximately what I try to get from my interviews for technical and non-technical roles. Specifically, for technical roles I am interested if the person being interviewed can do ( 2 ).
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by 75dvtwin 8y ago
Exactly. There is no proof that the people whose remains are found, were the builders. Putting into the title '.. origin of the builders' appears to be a fabrication by BBC. The abstract of the referenced article in the scientific
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by 75dvtwin 8y ago
HOCON is great. It can be incorporated into many programming languages. And it supports inheritance, includes, overriding of environment variables and so on. I think that this library found a very good compromise between configuration and p
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by 75dvtwin 8y ago
I agree, good start. But I think it will take decades, not years -- before western journalism, and major online news distribution sources will rid themselves of stigma of being 'propaganda arm of US coup orchestrators'. So trustin
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by 75dvtwin 8y ago
I think you are right. This is more akin to medicare fraud, but without criminal penalties. It seem like the fake research was used to obtain 100s of millions in grants. "... A former researcher at Duke University has admitted to fakin
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by 75dvtwin 8y ago
Assuming that Brexit will happen. Will this make companies headquartered anywhere in UK, in more advantageous position, than a company serving user-created content, with HQ in European Union?
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by 75dvtwin 8y ago
I think you are purposefully ignoring facts, so that high level sentences match your narrative. Flynn (security advisor for a couple of day) -- was setup. There was no collusion with Russia to change 2016 election outcomes, that Flynn was a

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