BigChiefSmokem

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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
Doesn't the OIN secretly sell some of its patents to non-members and non-licensees? Sounds very strategic for the companies involved and this can lead to some serious consequences for any company who is targeted by an OIN patent.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/ Microsoft has had a vested interest in Git and Open-Source for a while now.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
People should get to know who Microsoft Cloud + AI Group Executive Vice President [Scott Guthrie] is. GitHub will be under his watch and all these years he has done nothing but wonders for the developers and the brand.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
GitLab servers are very, very slow today.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
I think more strategically, this is Microsoft's way of combating Atlassian, Slack, JetBrains, and the rest of the developer-first companies. In MS shops no one really wants to use TFS, so most turn to Gitlab and Bitbucket.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
I'm 100% sure Nintendo became Disney-esque right after the Super Mario Bros movie came out. They were completely embarrassed publicly for that. Before that they were just greedy cartridge licensers.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
Multimedia - now there's a word I haven't heard in so long :)
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
I attribute the loss of confidence and the old "get up and go" attitude of our ancestor Americans to the complete failure of the culture and the K-12 education system in most rural counties around the country. This trait is now mo
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
I am exactly ten years older than the internet and here is what I would say: 1) Google (not Reddit) is the "front page" of the modern world wide web. Before Google, it was AOL (which was a closed network with access to the open in
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
Okay I have to say this and it needs to be said right now: Their website design has been and remains just as awful as their mobile experience. What matters most, if not the only thing of value at Yelp, is their data and nothing else. In my
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
The thing that bugs me about the Feedly website is that it doesn't really feel like a RSS reader, at least on the free service. Maybe the paid version is (much) more customizable but I doubt it. It reminds me more of Flipboard. Edit: I
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
Hello to Peter Thiel and the rest of the angry bunch.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
That problem is not caused by technology, it's caused by actual politics.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
You are not in agriculture and manufacturing then. We want to bring back coal mine jobs but why don't those coal miners start picking strawberries then? Neither requires a higher education or barely any education at all.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
I wish there was a HN virtual lodge or something more intimate than this. Sometimes I feel like only you guys will understand the things im expressing and tbh I would love to illuminati some (adjective) and change/guide the world in mo
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
Your comment made me think of Robert Noyce.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
If you don't have the patience for doing random math problems and just want to understand things abstractly, try this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
It was created to work on code-breaking during World War II and then formalized by Harry Truman as an official agency. It was made to serve the military and in turn the American people but over time their mission has been perverted for the
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
The mighty USD is going to have a rough time going up against the Yuan (and the Silk Road) and Bitcoin to be crowned as the new global standard.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
I think the point is to do both. By broadening your horizons you will most definitely pick up other languages and techniques along the way.
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
This reminds me of what Ben Franklin said in the John Adams mini-series. "It's perfectly acceptable to insult someone in private. Sometimes they might even thank you for it afterwards, but when you do it in public, they tend to th
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by BigChiefSmokem 8y ago
The 1st Amendment is a protection against the government censoring speech. Any private or public company has the right to set its policies as it sees fit, as long as no other laws are violated, such anti-discrimination laws (which do not
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by BigChiefSmokem 9y ago
When I worked for (WIFI) I got more days too, but less options and a meager wage compared to companies right down the street. They had an abusive scrum process and overly aggressive agile practices as well. Managers would coerce employees t
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by BigChiefSmokem 9y ago
Honor is part of culture and culture is what attracts certain types of employees and customer loyalty.
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by BigChiefSmokem 9y ago
I have experienced this. I think it happened when Atlassian switched over to WPF for the GUI in version 2 a few month backs. The new GUI has introduced a lot of bugs and performance issues that they still seem to be trying to figure out. Th
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by BigChiefSmokem 9y ago
I've been noticing a lot of "down vote wars" on HN lately. I can't tell if it's the increase in users (popularity) or the posts/climate that are becoming more unreasonable. Chicken and egg problem.
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by BigChiefSmokem 9y ago
Slightly OT but since we are on HN I wanted to share my belief that coding turns from science to art when you start seeing possibilities in the algorithms that you didn't see before. Maybe a model that can best be described as an actua
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by BigChiefSmokem 9y ago
Hello, welcome to the HN footer area. I do have to ask though what is it that brings you to this opinion, as before moving to California to pursue my big data dreams I too was a Florida web developer, in a former life.
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by BigChiefSmokem 9y ago
http://www.aolwatch.org/chronic2.htm Hack the Planet!
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by BigChiefSmokem 9y ago
You are Generation 0 (Zero) like me. Your ancestral roots are anglo, hispanic, and native american by tradition.

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