DuncanIdaho

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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
What I find gross is that the article somehow considers cubicles as a "private" solution. This modern management cargo cult has reached really gross levels of absurdity. If open plan is a cacophony of voices amidst which a person is to find
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Second system effect is a possibility. Not a mandatory trap for any team doing a second iteration of their product. All it takes is for a single person on the team to be aware of the risk and to warn his colleagues. I would also argue that
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
That would be hard to do and pretty pointless. Do not forget that mining bitcoins becomes progressively harder with time. Thus to get any sort of meaningful reviews, they would have to review whole field of graphic cards each time a new one
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
My partner does: UI/UX design, HTML and JavaScript and a dash of backend. I do: backend, architecture, algorithms, sysadmin work and HTML + JavaScript when necessary. It works really well. We also continuously try to expand to the others te
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
But robotics hasn't really gotten its consumer spotlight yet. If we ignore robotic vacuum cleaners and toys. But there are some incredibly cool robotics applications. What needs to happen is a "killer application" of a robot in workplace th
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
What if most women want to take care of their own babies? Hell I'm a guy and I'm dreaming about downshifting or even ending my career when kids start coming. I have seen consumerist/careerist families and I believe I can do better. I actual
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
It really feels like stone age. There are 13 year old kids out there who can write a web and mail server, yet could get into trouble for using them.
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
As a guy I have read a different article. The article I read was about talking the talk versus walking the walk. And being aware that sacrifices will have to be made. And that people have a mind of their own and most of the people take the
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
That is exactly the right thing to do. But completely honestly, why did you even develop this kind of culture in the first place? Don't you think you should have prevented the whole situation in the first place?
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
What about the Google commercial, where parents open a childs google account upon birth, fill it with images and commentary... Only to have it all deleted when Google get around to it?
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
The Russians indeed lost more people and material than anyone else. The weird fact is that they lost 26 million due to military, but they lost 10 million to their own internal political oppression. In either case, USSR had 200 million popul
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
I didn't know that. Thank you for clarifying - this project would be probably taking place in Finland? However 20 years ago the ubiquity of state sponsored infrastructure is what enabled fast and competitive coverage of Europe with mobile t
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
There has not been significant investment into mobile , there was regulation that forced carriers to cover even the areas that would otherwise prove unprofitable, if they wanted the frequencies that is. And mobile network is also heavily d
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Absolutely. Stalin's and Communist Party's goal was to "free the world of capitalist oppression", had US not had built a Nuke, Russians would not have stopped at Berlin. The Russians were hit hard in WW2 but still in 1945 they were in far b
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Arguably the nuclear weapons have prevented continuation of WW2, where USSR and US would duke it out in the 50's and 60's. Just wanted to point out that world of geopolitics and strategy is way more nuanced than an average person believes.
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
I find the comments within stories, that have nothing more to add than "This is Offtopic" way more distracting than the stories themselves, even if they are offtopic. So I see this story, it seems offtopic but intriguing nonetheless. I see
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Many have regarded Earth to be center of the universe. Many still do. What do people's beliefs and perceptions have to do with reality?
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Your comment is purely academic at its best and pretentious at its worst. There is a good real life problem for jQuery style and your so called anti patterns are in fact the main feature and sole point of existence for jQuery. Once could ar
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Not everybody will return, but great deal many will. The fact is that these returning migrants are probably the best bet for increasing the welfare in the parent lands. Even if most of migrants do not return "home" - they still maintain con
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
I am from Europe (Slovenia) and between me and my milieu we have put our feet on all of European countries. My division is not geopolitical, it is more of an cultural division. Protestant vs Catholic would be a starting point of two bigger
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
I hope I answered most of your criticism in my post do danieldk.
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
I guess I went wrong when I said Europe instead of European periphery (East and Mediterran, or he so called New Europe). Since the France, Benelux, North and Germanic states (the Old Europe) already share much more of the same values and ou
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Alot of these people will return home (all over Europe plus Turkey) once in the future, and they will bring home with them - piles of saved Euros, German working ethics and loads of knowledge. These people will become centres of new product
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
For one I believe that Germans know what they're doing. They might be a little bit too bent on saving Framany's banks - however if these banks drop then Framany drops. If that happens Eurozone has no steering wheel and no engine to get anyw
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Coupled with social security at near minimum wage levels they combine into literally the most amoral situation that exists in this world.
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Ask HN: Syncing data with a central service across WEB
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
That worked really well for Somalia, innit? I mean, look at all the creative endeavours the good people of Somalia ventured upon release from the hands of the Evil Government and Lobbies. You are a perfect example of a person that would pav
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
It's interesting that we didn't put up any nuclear explosion photos. As proud as we appear of our technology. Is keeping it a secret a decency or tactical play?
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
He said put brains into it. Not in a sense: "Throw your brains in for zombies to have a party". But in a sense that one should try and think and find protocols which are elegant in a sense that it makes reasoning about and using them easy a
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by DuncanIdaho 15y ago
Indeed, we should make a point of not wiping anybody's fanny. What I had in mind is a type of existence where one has bare minimum provided (shelter, food, clothing, access to information), but that also as a feature provides a social stigm

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