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721.
by _pmf_ 8y ago
> I wonder if these these areas have simply become way more valuable than they used to be. It will self correct once companies realize that by using middle managers with a modicum of domain expertise enables people to work remotely and n
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> That's exactly what Theranos was, until it wasn't. You conveniently skipped the part where Magic Leap isn't actively engaging in medical fraud.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
OT: we need to read more about your website-in-kv-thingy setup.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Tuplespaces?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Agreed. That's something they'll have to learn. Media empires have no problem presenting a different face and pushing different political views via different outlets. Full assimilation of the Instagram brand has negligible benefit
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Finally, full stack engineers live up to their title.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Read: they want a cut of the meagre income of FOSS developers.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Does Netcraft confirm it?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> If someone is accusing you and they don't want to hear you, stop contributing. You're assuming he's contributing privately and can stop at leisure.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Qt sources too (which has a lot of overlap in people and mindshare with KDE). Mostly.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Programmer who has refreshed his high school math skills.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> A few short months later we shipped. Yes, but what happened to the product?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> This may be shocking to people with an American upbringing This might be shocking to you, but I'd like to get to work in 15 minutes instead of in 45 minutes while suffering the bodily odeurs of a hundred co-travelers, overlaid wit
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Funny how this revelation comes at a point where Trump reports record low unemployment for the Afro-American population; it's almost as if the NYT has an agenda.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Fair use has a much narrower definition in the EU, in addition to varying from country to country.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Tsk, tsk ... did we catch someone falling back into his old behavioral patterns?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> This is a business-model problem, not a technical problem. The technical solution would be to introduce a highly optimized first-class browser API "just send everything I do to these trackers" without JS or including remote s
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Looks interesting, but I'm unable to judge the production readyness of their solutions.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
It's strange how much Elon Musk and Nikola Tesla have in common.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
See: "The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy" about US companies buying blood from Nicaraguans for 5 dollar per liter.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> Come on, you know where this is going: They are going to hide amp subdomain, so you don't know if you're looking at AMP or the actual destination. And then suddenly the whole world funnels through AMP. That's probably th
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
It was already one of the best out-of-the-box experiences of any Python IDE I've used.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
OK, so it seems to be different in the US; I've been thinking about the situation in Germany, where at least for domestic brands, dealers are pretty much exclusive.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I've seen this kind of consolidation for "foreign" brands (French + Korean/Japanese), but I think most BMW (+ Mini) and MB (+ Smart) dealers are still pretty exclusive, as well as VW (+ Skoda + Audi), which all belong to
745.
by _pmf_ 8y ago
Their dealers have practically no leverage, or am I missing something?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Not just LoB, also EDA software, specialized industrial and automotive testing / HiL software and general equipment control software where you can never start from clean slate because there's existing hardware in old production li
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I remember that one country reverted its decision for mandatory daytime light for cars because it decreased visibility of motorbikes (for which daytime lights were mandatory).
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I've found this book to be a nice antidote to the damage done by excessive Uncle Bobbing. I.e. if you give your undergrads "Clean code", also give them this book to prevent them from becoming mechanical DRYers who think good
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Say what you want about the tenets of Musk, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I'm a simple man. I see something promoting QML, I upvote.

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