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by __d 8y ago
I switched to DDG for the privacy, and a general desire to ensure that competitors to Google survive. But I've found I use the "bang" commands all the time. Typing "w! foo" beats "wikipedia foo" every tim
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by __d 8y ago
I agree: it's a crazy strategy. And you're correct: if my bank sent my details to someone with a half-baked attempt to prevent them accessing the data they were given, I'd be getting a new bank. But regardless of how crazy t
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by __d 8y ago
I'm less concerned with the implementation than I am with the principle. In principle, I have reservations about exposing content to search engines but then requiring payment to read it. Especially if it's non-trivial to filter o
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by __d 8y ago
I think the more interesting question is how fast Apple can get its own radio hardware online. I think the switch to Intel is just a softening-up tactic in the battle with Qualcomm, which is really about licensing their patents at a reason
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by __d 8y ago
Sure. And the timing can't but reinforce that. OTOH, the cost of ownership for a 787 seems kinda excessive, so it's probably a good choice to get rid of it purely on economic grounds as well.
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by __d 8y ago
No. So is that's your fundamental issue with a paywall? Anything that's available to Google (and Bing, DDG, etc) should also be available to you at no cost? Restating that from the other perspective: if the information isn't
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by __d 8y ago
The ones I'm thinking of (eg. NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ, etc) are all username/password. What kind of paywall are you thinking of?
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by __d 8y ago
Does that apply to online banking as well? If it's legitimate for a bank to hide your data behind a username and password, how is a journalism-provider any different?
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by __d 8y ago
My solution is to have side-projects that are open source, which I reuse across multiple jobs. Wherever possible, I get permission to "contribute patches to Open Source projects" included in my contracts, and thus grow the body o
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by __d 8y ago
From a service point of view, there are almost no advantages. Large (and even small) companies can do a very good job of providing a secure, redundant, easy-to-use, service at minimal (or no) financial cost. For you to maintain redundant c
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by __d 8y ago
Thanks for the pointers. This is nice work.
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by __d 8y ago
Hey .. thanks for the interest! I guess my expectations are for something approaching competitive with Confluence (ie. focus on being a great documentation system, not on GitHub feature parity :-). The real win with Confluence is the plugi
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by __d 8y ago
I've used a bunch of Wikis: GitLab Wiki (pretty awful), GitHub Wiki (same), Confluence (capable, but tedious), Moinmoin (crufty), and MediaWiki (kinda over the top). Confluence's export to PDF is kinda useful: we were able to mai
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by __d 8y ago
25 years professional experience. C/C++/Java/Python mostly in capital markets/trading. Mostly remote. USD1000/day. If the project is FOSS, I'll take a steep cut on that.
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by __d 8y ago
Firstly, congrats on giving it a go, sorry it didn't work out, and kudos for taking the effort to wind it up well. It's important to accept that this isn't a one-time task: you (or others) must invest time and effort to trans
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by __d 8y ago
Algorithms will usually use real-time data. For that, you're really comparing microseconds (or even nanoseconds). You can't get that data for free though.
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by __d 8y ago
I'll suggest Australia as a counter-example to all three numbered points, albeit on a relatively small scale (population ~25m). But I agree 100% with your final point: people need time to adapt, and be willing to do so. Changing the s
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by __d 8y ago
Even in a sharply polarized contest, it's usually the case that most of the "third party" candidates receive fewer first-preference votes than those from the major parties. So the minor parties (and independents) are eliminat
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by __d 8y ago
As a contrasting anecdote, Australia uses IRV for many of its elections, and I think it's fair to say that most people understand how it works and like it. Absolutely, it's more complex than a simple majority. But I think &quot
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by __d 8y ago
Sure, it's not necessary to completely accurate in casual conversation, but you can say "heaps of people like cats!" or "most people like cats!" or "almost everyone likes cats!" and make your point just as
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by __d 8y ago
In my experience, no. A full-time software engineer job is usually 9+ hours per day. Add even a minimal commute, and you're getting maybe 4 hours sleep. That'll only work for a few weeks at most. If you found jobs that were a ge
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by __d 8y ago
Perhaps you could start out building your data model using an existing language? That'd give you the chance to experiment with the semantics, and figure out what you need to express in your DSL in a fairly rigorous way. Once you'
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by __d 8y ago
The post-trip inspection is not so that the device can be reused, it's so you can (try to) find out if it was compromised. A $3000 laptop is not a significant cost compared to the airfare, hotel bills, etc. But it's useful to kno
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by __d 8y ago
I was a founder at a company that faced this problem: small company, in Australia; big company clients, mostly on other side of the planet. We added a source-code escrow clause to our contracts, and (the much bigger and more difficult part
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by __d 8y ago
First off, as a founder, you're busy. Dealing with an unsolicited email from someone you've never heard of, with an open-ended "please help me" request will usually go right to the end of the priority list. It sucks, b
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by __d 8y ago
If my reading of the explanatory document was correct, the proposed legislation goes beyond telecommunications providers. Software developers, both within Australia and overseas, can be compelled under threat of 10 years imprisonment, to b
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by __d 8y ago
Yes. Doing something bad openly is better than doing it, but trying to hide the fact that you do it, while pretending in public to be innocent or worse, encouraging condemnation of others who do the same thing openly.
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by __d 8y ago
I don't mean this pejoratively, but is your goal pure education? Or more training for employment? For more pure education value, I would suggest that you teach C alongside a computer architecture course. In that way, a student comes
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by __d 8y ago
How is it sad?
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by __d 8y ago
From the mid 70's until the late 80's, Australia's university education (tuition) was free. In the late 80's, a scheme was introduced whereby degrees were assigned to a number of bands based on your likely income as a re

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