Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 10y ago
It's difficult to come up with a good model for how a billing ceiling would work in software as a service. A good start would be to fully specify what behavior you desire when an account hits its billing limit. Are you expecting every
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I think the argument (speculating - the article isn't clear on this) is that the customers were bound to that agreement when they legitimately opened their first account. I agree that the article sounds like histrionics because it do
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> Does a CEO improving his company market value by firing people have the same contribution to society as a paramedic saving a life, a nanny taking care of a baby so the parents can work or a teacher educating kids? According to society&
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Are you implying that people have had to struggle less to achieve or retain financial security in the past? During what time period and in what country? Can you share some specific data substantiating the claim? Average wealth has increased
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Can you give one (preferably two) specific examples of respected economists who are questioning 101 level econ principles? I've studied economics at the college level. I follow economics news and am not aware of economists questioning
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Kant called this the categorical imperative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative - a philosophical statement about morality: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, wi
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Functional Programming as I've always heard the term defined is the style of programming that avoids mutable state in favor of computation over immutable data structures. From Wikipedia: > In computer science, functional programming
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That's risk that the transportation provider brought. The medical company ordering supplies from some other company, who happens to use this transportation provider some of the time but not all the time, was not aware of and could no
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The scheme where pilots are paid more purely from working at the same airline longer seems like a big part of the problem here. Not the only part, but a big part. Relevant: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-
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Not repeating the same messages too much would be a good first start.
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What causes that kind of rapid GI bleeding?
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> Earning a high level of income makes life extraordinarily comfortable, to the point where it is easy to become complacent and stop trying to really contribute to society in a meaningful way. Earning a high level of income in general
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> The underlying technologies of the Web are in constant evolution and we cannot keep TitanPad up to Web standards. Is the web itself really changing in backwards-incompatible ways that would break a web application like TitanPad? That&#
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What happens when you run into trouble with one of the servers? Like it's suddenly stopped responding and you can't SSH? For my systems built on EC2, I might not need to do anything at all for typical hardware failures, if I'
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If you guys use AWS, have you taken a look at EBS provisioned IOPS? EBS provisioned IOPS comes to mind here since it allows you to specify the desired IOPS of a volume, and provides an SLA. > Providers don't provide a minimum IOPS,
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The Google teams that he's referring to probably don't run on Google Cloud Platform, and rather run on Google's internal infrastructure that GCP is built upon. So most of your questions may not apply. However, his points abou
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Indeed - a lot of research into this topic has been focused on breaking down and identifying many different types of competence and intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#... However,
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There's still quite a lot of data out there. For example, SAT tests since the 70s show gender differences in mathematical ability as measured by that test: > Continuing an uninterrupted trend that dates back to at least 1972, high s
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> Frequently, the people of "X immigrant culture" care a lot about 'preserving their heritage', because it's a constant struggle for them A friend of mine who is a first generation Indian immigrant observed exac
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A very interesting explanation, thank you! Could you elaborate on how this results in Microsoft having control over the post-merger LinkedIn?
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Does something specific happen when you're downvoted by four points? I didn't realize there was a downside limit.
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Are you assuming there's no other intelligent life in the universe? :-)
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Those sandboxing solutions are toolkits that help you employ Linux kernel APIs to achieve a desired configuration. The Linux kernel is the underlying sandboxing API, and Docker and rkt and systemd all expose its features in different ways.
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The article describes a number of parameters that can be used to control and sandboxes processes launched by systemd. One of those existing parameters is (e.g.) CapabilityBoundingSet= which allows you to configure (i.e. limit) the set of Li
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As far as I'm aware Slack does not offer on-premise installs. (On-premise in this case could mean running in my own account at a cloud service provider) It's unfortunate because I'd love to adopt them as well at my current co
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It's about what an organization spent compared to their budget. It sounds like 18F was budgeted $0 since they were expecting to earn back their costs in revenue by charging other agencies for their services. Since they did not fully re
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> What I don't get is 727 hours for that specific logo. It's not 727 hours for the logo. It was that many hours for the entire rebranding effort, including coming up with the brand and implementing it. When coming up with logos
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I don't think they are a monopoly. Other agencies can pay outside firms as an alternative to using 18F, can't they? I'm not exactly sure how it works so please educate me. I also separately heard that 18F wasn't supposed
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People claim all kinds of things as part of their resume and track record that aren't true. It's simply routine. People who were on a team that worked with a technology list their technology as something they know. People who we
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I have not read the entire article, but claiming that the process is nondeterministic is not the same as claiming that the process is discriminating unfairly by gender. If everyone plays the lottery, then some people will win randomly. Cert

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