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by _jal 4y ago
Companies cluelessly claiming important-sounding capabilities they do not have. Is that really difficult?
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by _jal 4y ago
Strikes me as similar to small shops that have nothing to do with health care claiming to be "HIPAA-compliant". Doing things like this certainly conveys useful information, although not the information they intended to convey.
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by _jal 4y ago
Please enjoy my Mona Pizza. No, it is a pizza, not a painting. The title is an attempt to link the pizza to a much more famous painting, because that apparently works well enough to get on HN.
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by _jal 4y ago
When businesses abuse incentives and tip systemic risk into systemic crash, well, that's just the way the world works. When individual borrowers may have a transient opportunity to play games, suddenly folks are hot and bothered about
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by _jal 4y ago
Dyslexia is another similar one. And kind of similar is treatment of left-handed people - it was routine through about the 70s to try to "correct" that.
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by _jal 4y ago
The FBI is an org large enough that it fights with itself at times. It is thousands of people, some of which are going to be untrustworthy, because that's how humans work. But that's not unique to the FBI. Now, it is a nexus of po
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by _jal 4y ago
Adding more kit increases rigidity. A "full rack" would be a stack of servers on the floor, with the table keeping them stacked. The least-stable arrangement would be a very heavy 1u device at the top.
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by _jal 4y ago
Because they understand the value it holds and put in the work to maintain it. Documentation is expensive. Good documentation is more expensive, requires different skillsets than most engineers have, and requires a bit of an organizational
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by _jal 4y ago
I've seen that sort of strategic ambiguity used to try to have your people and your decision too. It may work for a little while, but generally you're going to be left with the people who are young, naive or trapped. One of the pr
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by _jal 4y ago
The usual technique is to build one's own opinion. If someone you're trusting to instruct you on something suddenly starts pushing Doc's Miracle Remedy & Floor Wax, you might reasonably conclude they'll say anything
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by _jal 4y ago
Taxi companies never did rewards programs, and they had cheaper cost structures.
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by _jal 4y ago
To be fair, if a Harvard professor impacted the ocean that hard and on that trajectory, that would also be news.
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by _jal 4y ago
For commercial line-of-business application code, vendors will offer vetted versions of popular open source libraries/tools with SLAs for patches. This will be a good thing for large companies, create a two-tiered world for open source
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by _jal 4y ago
The goal of that would not be to get functional code and a decent price, of course. The goal would be to ensure leadership has an accurate view of what that process is today. Now, that may or many not achieve what the GP thinks it will. But
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by _jal 4y ago
Think of it as being more like an anti-crime editorial than a scientific argument. The argument is about budgetary priorities and complaining about other physicists.
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by _jal 4y ago
Probably. If you need to run bare metal, you know it, because it is a money question. The big reasons that make it make sense include performance, storage, connectivity and security. If you're doing interesting things on any of the fir
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by _jal 4y ago
> What makes you think the right balance hasn't already been struck? Because it wasn't in the company I work for, and it wasn't at many of our suppliers, and it looks like similar things happened most everywhere else. We&#
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by _jal 4y ago
I don't see anyone demanding a planned economy. I see people recognizing reality - JIT is efficient but fragile in the face of disruption. Seems to me the sensible thing to do would be to recognize that for what it is and try to strike
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by _jal 4y ago
I think you can say they built the first huge, impactful non-classified pile of surveillance data dedicated to advertising, and thereby set the bar for corporate behavior with this sort of thing. Of course it is inevitable that slimier out
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by _jal 4y ago
I don't need "corporate, uniform, serious, and boring." I generally just want things to be genuine. With error messages, that should be no-nonsense - when software crashes, I'm not interested in how verbally clever the v
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by _jal 4y ago
> but you can get away with pretty crappy docs if you do all of the above Depends on your audience, I suspect. When evaluating something for use, the first thing I look at are the docs. No docs, or just videos pretending to be documentat
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by _jal 4y ago
The way you know that would never happen is that he said he "takes responsibility". I'm serious. If there were any risk at all that he might lose a cent, he would never admit anything in a way that could be referenced by a la
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by _jal 4y ago
You say things like that to set a mood in the workforce. The desired mood here is fear, to provoke pliancy. If people are worried about their jobs, they are less likely to whine about other things and keep their heads down when axes start s
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by _jal 4y ago
I missed the "1980s" part at first and expected an article about Google's panopticon-town. What ever happened to that?
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by _jal 4y ago
Classic SV "never mention tradeoffs" behavior. It amazes me that this persists, it is such a bad sales tactic. If the person you're dealing with isn't a sucker, now you've destroyed trust. (You've destroyed it
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by _jal 4y ago
(A) I don't see it as a failed prediction, that's the author's view. Me, I think history is a long time compared to the time we've lived with WMD. (B) The type of literature in question is called an allegory. To see an a
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by _jal 4y ago
The book itself is the prediction.
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by _jal 4y ago
"A report from Obscure Gray Corporation demonstrated that more than 8 in 10 people had no idea who they are."
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by _jal 4y ago
The phone itself appears to be a rebrand of the "Liberty Phone" from the last time around: https://www.ghost.libertyblockchain.com If you start the pre-order process, you'll start seeing links to unplugged-systems
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by _jal 4y ago
This is a classic CEO temperature-shift. Not sure if there's a name for the tactic, but I've seen it before and suspect many others here have. It signals a shift from expansion to contraction. You naturally also see this tactic ar

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