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by abraae 7y ago
I don't know about your first point. But your second - "as I type this" - supports what the article is saying doesn't it?
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by abraae 7y ago
Especially when you live in a small country that has historically been a stalwart ally of the US, and now has to reevaluate in the face of an increasingly purely transactional approach to alliances from the US.
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by abraae 7y ago
Fred Brooks said it well in the Mythical Man Month: "the sheer number of minds to be coordinated affects the cost of the effort, for a major part of the cost is communication and correcting the ill effects of miscommunication (system d
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by abraae 7y ago
Scrum won out IMO because it's an awesome word and conjures up subliminal images of brute force pushing obstacles out of the way, bringing success to the team. Execs can relate to it without even knowing what it is.
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by abraae 7y ago
With a database, that depends if you want "all the answers" or "any answer". Exists is the latter.
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by abraae 7y ago
From fixing IBM mainframes in the late 80s, they were far more unreliable than modem machines. Or at least, a mainframe consisting of many interconnected frames joined with thousands of tiny cables could throw up wicked problems that requir
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by abraae 7y ago
A FAANG wouldn't, but a corporate building e.g. a second-tier system holding customer data might.
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by abraae 7y ago
This is a great idea and someone should do it. Specialize in storing personal data (name, address etc.) Provide APIs that only allow gentle exfiltration of data. e.g. < 10K queries per minute/hour/day whatever. Have alternate p
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by abraae 7y ago
I would be interested to know what the technical difficulties are in scrubbing a banned video, and all derivatives, from a Facebook. Are there practical AI/video analysis techniques to detect that a video contains a fragment of another
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by abraae 7y ago
Because they have thousands of employees and squeezing salaries is an obvious easy to move the bottom line significantly. In the short term anyway.
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by abraae 7y ago
That's great to know and I think its's something that's been gnawing at the back of my mind for some time. My country is claimed to have the 9th longest coastline in the world despite being pretty small, and this makes me que
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by abraae 7y ago
Using an ORM to enforce security is like wearing your motorbike helmet down to the store in case a bird shits on your head. Yes, it will help prevent bad developers from introducing sql injection vectors, but with a whole lot of extra bagg
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by abraae 7y ago
"there's brass in muck" though. Someone - maybe not a FAANG but someone smaller and hungrier - will find a way to successfully and profitably steward UGC sites, just as Reddit seems to be able to.
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by abraae 7y ago
A 30 minute call will not be dealt with or even shortened with this product though.
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by abraae 7y ago
Always love the car analogies. They're really both interfaces, for petrol you get energy and CO2 emissions for a given quantity. However you don't know that the CO2 emissions are net - the fuel might have been produced via some sy
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by abraae 7y ago
I was told early in my career that you can't sell something unless you have competitors. it's not universally true I expect but many potential customers operate from the mindset that a) if you have no competitors, it's not a
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by abraae 8y ago
You are right, but not wrt small vs large. Instead, OO works well for artificial situations (classic case - UI frameworks) vs. real world situations (classic case - person isa contractor vs. person isa employee). As soon as you start modeli
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by abraae 8y ago
Are you for real? How are they told what to downvote?
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by abraae 8y ago
Airbnb could scan new listings for the use of images taken from other people's listings. Not foolproof but one example of the sort of countermeasures in depth that are appropriate to try and combat these villains.
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by abraae 8y ago
I guess the cynic in me would ask what the point is in polishing a rough gem in your organization into a diamond, if you're thus turning them into a target for other people to poach.
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by abraae 8y ago
American tax is significantly more complex than other countries - I would guess more than any other country - due to challenges such as county + state + federal taxes and interactions between them. Source: worked on a payroll system that ha
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by abraae 8y ago
It's also an interesting twist on the Innovator's Dilemma. The lesson IBM CEO Tom Watson took from the project was: > Years later, when asked whether IBM would ever engage in such a massive project again, one executive barked o
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by abraae 8y ago
Quite the dog's breakfast: > In the first version of the software, there were 70 full copies of 4 different OpenSSL versions, ranging from 0.9.8 to 1.0.2k (including one from a vendor SDK) with partial copies of 14 versions, ranging
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by abraae 8y ago
It was chilly but not so much freezing. But those short sleeved people were clearly not IBM engineers.
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by abraae 8y ago
At school, where such rules were not enforced, some kids used hair gel on one side of the ball. Most were too unskilled to really exploit it but a good bowler could achieve what felt like a metre of savage sideways swing, enough that a ball
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by abraae 8y ago
But that drive won't have redundancy, won't be living in a highly protected and secure data center and won't be looked after by a team of skilled professionals.
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by abraae 8y ago
Eh? Software can do exactly that.
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by abraae 8y ago
Attitudes are different in NZ from the US. There is no right to bear arms, and self defense is not a valid reason to hold a firearm licence. An overwhelming majority of people believe that military style weapons have no place in society, an
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by abraae 8y ago
Almost everyone in NZ that I've talked to, which includes a few gun owners, has been in broad agreement with the moves to ban MSSA weapons - cheering for it is probably a good assessment. I cannot fathom how anyone could call that Orwe
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by abraae 8y ago
> It is really important for the fat guy to determine if he is near Nile River, or an area infected with the WN virus and work out the chances of contracting the virus. The fat guy should certainly do that, but first of all he should qui

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