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by Fordec 6y ago
I'd love a newsletter that tracked what patents were expiring on any given week. I'm pretty ignorant of what's coming down the pipeline from a legal perspective.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm Irish, working in tech but my hobby that gets me more of a social life is involvement with an Irish political party. The new variant accounted for 10-25% of these new cases over the period of that spike. The spike happe
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by Fordec 6y ago
It happened many times to Pirate Bay and plenty of people complained. They just had options on how to route around it.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Everyone on Hacker News is not assumed to be graph theory specialists.
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by Fordec 6y ago
This is the power of network effects. Being kicked of one service is survivable. Getting kicked off all the major ones is a real existential threat to any company. Network effects aren't just users talking to other users, but platforms
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by Fordec 6y ago
Reacting to the same public news is not coordination. It's reaction by logical actors coming to the same conclusion.
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by Fordec 6y ago
I don't want to lose the web of the 90s and early 00s. But that one is mostly already gone. This version we're currently in, no it can die off for all I care. Bring on the disruption!
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by Fordec 6y ago
There are enough details here that any halfway competent person in HR can decode who this was with company records in about 20 minutes. If they want this to be quiet, they are very able to reach out. Or not.
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by Fordec 6y ago
One of my top three favorite shows ever. Still the standard I hold hard sci-fi to for doing the space environment right. Even if it's a bit dated on it's Japanese work place love interest plot.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Graveyard orbits for GEO, and forced atmospheric drag for LEO. Now, what happens if the propulsion is broken? Or out of fuel. Or the drag mechanism failed to deploy? How does any sophisticated deal with the physical reality of it not being
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by Fordec 6y ago
Terahertz technology. Has big potential in communications and sensing, particularly in the medical field. Starship, $50 per kg absolutely changes a lot of assumptions and has definite 2nd order effects around transport, satellite orchestrat
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by Fordec 6y ago
Well in this generic deal the UK has lost Financial Passporting rights to the EU. RIP London as an economic hub of European trade.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Very few startups are FAANG level funded. Why work for a startup and commit your soul to the effort for half what the big boys are paying? And far, far less risk of the company going bust in the next two years.
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by Fordec 6y ago
And Jobs spent too much time on calligraphy than he should. And yet, that experience was tinder for the start of font rendering in computing. Whether it is naval gazing or creating unique insight, it's only known in hindsight.
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by Fordec 6y ago
The said it involved a manual supply chain breach. Sounds like an insider with a USB drive.
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by Fordec 6y ago
As time goes on I find more and more parallels with designers and legal/policy writers. One just builds a specification of a technical system while the other builds a specification of a societal system. Societal systems just have much
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by Fordec 6y ago
SREs get treated like a cost center and no career progression. The majority by volume of sysadmins were automated out by the wave of cloud vendors, leaving over a decade now of undertraining. Those who are left are mostly mission critical u
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by Fordec 6y ago
It depends on the org. Depending on company size, the Product Manger and the Project Manager can be the same person.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Engineer if I'm working on backend/hardware as it's my actual education and experience. Programmer if it's frontend / system admin as I'm really just winging it as required.
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by Fordec 6y ago
I wouldn't like everyone to be similar in my group at all. But I'd like someone in my group to be for once.
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by Fordec 6y ago
Yeah, it's probably the easiest option to rotate it 90 or 45 degrees. Any other solutions I can think of would require significantly more development overhead. Not sure such a minor thing is worth too too much effort
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by Fordec 6y ago
Just a little thing to note, the timeline scroll bar dates are all smushed together and illegible on mobile
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by Fordec 6y ago
Can you provide data to back up that assertion? Its definitely a hard requirement for European engineering certification anyway
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by Fordec 6y ago
I can't speak for other degrees, but mine didn't magically infuse me with ethics. It was the full credited modules solely dedicated to just ethics that aided in that department.
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by Fordec 6y ago
I've been noticing more push back against the open source bargain lately. Years ago software was fully build on the backs of a multitude of giants within their niche domain. But for a while now large companies have been adopting a mode
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by Fordec 6y ago
Can't or won't? He's literally saying "hire me if you want this". If that's too high a bar for "generating millions of dollars of value" then something is grossly wrong and headline worthy in of itsel
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by Fordec 6y ago
Kind of sets a horrible precedent by NPM no? Keep, maintaining your open source project or we use it for a different project. How many builds does that break the very next update? What about downstream codebase security?
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by Fordec 6y ago
Sorry, you're right, had Haughey mixed up with Reynolds in my head somehow. My bad.
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by Fordec 6y ago
No it implies all other times when other politicians were better at it. Plenty have been caught (I could name dozens a-la Nixon, Clinton, Boris Johnson, the Mahon Tribunal) but there are plenty of others that get away with what they do
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by Fordec 6y ago
Please point out the place I used the word "all" or anything resembling it.

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