Jedi72

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by Jedi72 8y ago
How do you sell thinking outside the box to people who only think in boxes? Make a new box.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Amazon is the new IBM - nobody gets fired for using it. I have personally moved services which were cheaper and more performant with other 3rd party providers to Amazon just becausr higher-ups wanted us to keep as much stuff with them as po
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Can we please have one BEAM thread where this isnt brought up? Its such a minor thing. I went from erlang to elixir and whilst at first I really missed atoms that start with a colon, you get used to it. Its 90% the same ideas, and Elixirs p
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by Jedi72 8y ago
In the land of bullshit advertising which we all live, Atlassian are the least guilty of being immoral.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Do we trust Intel chips are free from gov backdoors? Or that Microsoft/FB arent in bed with the NSA? I would say the precedent has long since been set.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
It was hilarious as an engineer who needed to learn marketing 101 for a startup, its pretty much just stereotyping your customers. "Wendy is a 24-30 yr old professional, slightly insecure, straight, likes wine and dogs."
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Even if you subscribe to the viewpoint that private health insurance is the way to go, why dont they give people the money and then let them buy their own insurance? For the reason you just mentioned - people need a way to be free of an emp
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Huff raid
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I think its an arrogance of software people that because we had to do partial differential equations at uni we're somehow pretty well versed in the other hard sciences. This may not even be that fringe.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
My impression was that HN largely felt that the tax breaks were unnecessary and pointless. Maybe I misread?
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Digital Ocean docs
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by Jedi72 8y ago
This doesnt violate OPs idea. You are free to say whatever you want, you just have to disclose it.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
People are pointing out that Google doesn't serve ads on Google news, and that they drive clicks to news sites, like this is some kind of huge favor. Its not, its strategy. Google wants to be the choke-point for every page lookup on th
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Im an Australian so native English speaker, in NYC for a few days and can not figure out the god damn subway to save my life.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
A messaging app isnt the same, you need the profiles aspect of it. I am not interested in having 10,000 contacts in my phone.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I knew this was going to happen, because I read it on the internet. If the government had censored it, then as far as I know it didnt happen, never even existed. There could be people trying to organise similar things in Australia right now
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Facebook does have utility for making new friends. Just last night I was out at a bar, chatting to some people, and at the end we added eachother on Facebook. We need some kind of service like Facebook, just one which is fully encrypted and
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by Jedi72 8y ago
My trust of Google is so low, whenever I read a HN thread which is mostly supportive of them I assume they're using paid shills. Even on HN.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Agree, the purpose of education is to build people up. It should be academically broad, and consisting of other character building activities so that when someone leaves an institution they are a much "better" or at least more dev
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by Jedi72 8y ago
No I agree, it seems stupid. What we did is take a block of metal and call it a kilogram, figure out how many atoms are in 1/1000 of it (a gram) and call that a mole. What we should do is redefine the gram to be whatever 1e10 atoms of
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by Jedi72 8y ago
I was just on a flight, hanging with a guy who's PhD was this topic. Josh is that you?? What are the odds.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
As someone who loves Japanese supersport bikes, I wonder if in 40 years I will be the dying breed of people who just want to cling to old glories on a 600cc petrol engine thats about 50x more bike than I'll ever be able to handle :,) R
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by Jedi72 8y ago
We probably underestimate how many people out there are just copy/pasters. No offence OP but I hope you dont work on anything that handles money/user data/requires security.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
"Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross Natio
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by Jedi72 8y ago
This is a tough one. If Nazi's hadnt tried to expand their borders, but still kept killing all the jews in Germany, is that a sovereign country solving its own problems?
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by Jedi72 8y ago
It's ok I guess but still lets them turn it off if, in their judgement, its an economic burden i.e. costing them money. If they ever do deprecate something people have built on though they're gonna get absolutely crucified. That&#
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by Jedi72 8y ago
They work for Google so obviously they are much smarter than you. If theres a problem its probably the customers fault. /sarcasm
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by Jedi72 8y ago
Goes to show outsourcing infrastructure is more about blame shifting so that when things go wrong its "not our fault" than reducing actual downtime.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
"The data says engagement is down 46%, I think its time we drop the product." - Someone at Google right now, probably.
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by Jedi72 8y ago
You knkw an even easier way to block permissions? Dont download the app

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