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by abraae 8y ago
Another dad told me the same thing about my middle son 15 years ago. He was guiding his own son to be a psychologist because he felt that off shoring was going to remove all of the IT jobs in the developed world. As it turns out he was wron
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by abraae 8y ago
Ha, that's pretty interesting. Not too sure how much credit to give it though based on this: > It takes 6 months to a year (sometimes two years!) to develop a single small feature (say something like adding a new mode of authenticat
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by abraae 8y ago
Oracle is like America. Its not all the same. The database itself is now one of the most rock solid pieces of software ever built. Other products - yeah, less so.
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There's some bad stuff coming down the pike in a few decades so use your good fortune to prepare yourself and our family. Buy a bolthole somewhere that will have a good microclimate/rainfall even as things hot up. You don't n
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by abraae 8y ago
They were already filled out, but with non-answers. For example: > When did you first learn of the issue? How was it brought to your attention? > We first learned of the issue on November 30. Upon learning about the issue, we immediat
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by abraae 8y ago
> I have a friend who is a litigator and he advised me a long time ago that “assume you have a 50/50 chance of losing, no matter how strong your case is, and then you will tend to make the right business decisions.” There's som
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by abraae 8y ago
The Quora link to more details is a masterpiece of corporate obfuscation. Posing as a FAQ, it presents questions, then proceeds to not answer them (at least, as of a few minutes ago). https://help.quora.com/hc/en-us&#x2
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by abraae 8y ago
The Mythical Man-month has: - aged extremely well in some ways (it still takes 9 months to make a baby no matter how many women are assigned to the project) - aged poorly in others (disk space is no longer an issue when deciding whether to
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by abraae 8y ago
Why you should use markdown: - it will stop your teammates from using e.g Google docs, word files - it can be source controlled and diffed - there are heaps of converters e.g markdown->HTML - it's so easy to remember you hardly ever
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by abraae 8y ago
Hi Max drop me a line if you want to catch up, email in profile
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Ha snap, I live in Northland and do the same. My day breaks are running around a track through the bush, body surfing when the surf is up and checking my traps. Small world.
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by abraae 8y ago
Oracle has Virtual Private Database https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/network.111/b28531/vpd....
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by abraae 8y ago
I haven't used Clojure much but what I hear is mostly great. And I love this rant, its always refreshing when people speak their minds. But.... Rich is pushing things a little too far I believe. On the front page of the Clojure web sit
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by abraae 8y ago
> Nothing about managed services is ever less expensive if you don’t account for developer/Devops/netops time saved. I literally can't parse this.
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That would never catch on, its obvious there has to be a server somewhere, people ain't stupid.
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> it's always struck me as odd that people will spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to make it so everyday tasks require minimal physical effort, and then spend even more money on home fitness equipment and gym memberships in or
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If most of the world's population starved to death then our climate change challenge would be behind us.
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by abraae 8y ago
I think yours is a pragmatic attitude in this age of interconnected complex technologies. Debugging things is satisfying but time sucking. My eclipse on fedora has a hideously annoying flashing effect while editing e.g HTML files. Seems to
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by abraae 8y ago
HN modding is certainly the driving force in maintaining civil discourse on the site. In my more out there moments I imagine the internet moving more towards this model. Lots of interesting places, owned by deeply involved individuals who e
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by abraae 8y ago
I do like your agency brand (Rootstrap) but as you may have found, its one of those words that has unexpected meanings in other cultures :)
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by abraae 8y ago
There's not an infinite amount of space to grow trees actually. A decent forest needs the right climate, water. Economically forestry must compete with other land uses such as grazing, orchardry, etc. It takes pinus radiata about 25 ye
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by abraae 8y ago
Dry, moisture-free wood is about 50% carbon by weight. So if the panelised timber frame superstructure for an rectangular two storey house of 150m2 is approximately 14 metric tonnes, you're locking up 7 tonnes of carbon for the life of
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by abraae 8y ago
I worked on state of the art CASE software decades ago that would allegedly let users graphically model then generate their own systems without writing any code. Yet looking around I see plenty of people still building systems by writing co
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by abraae 8y ago
IMO the most fun way to enter elevation data for your property would be to ride around on your farm bike with an altimeter lashed up to a smartphone, gathering data as you go.
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Timber also has its upsides, including locking up carbon, and being easy to modify after the initial build.
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by abraae 8y ago
These arguments are so tedious. The vast majority of scientists do agree that global warming is real and that humans are causing it. Yet the go-to argument for deniers is to claim that the science is not there. Not being a scientist myself,
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by abraae 8y ago
I believe that the likeliest cause of another Great War is not to save the planet from dictators, but from environmental destruction. At some stage, a consensus must build for stopping our destruction of the climate. (Well perhaps it won&#x
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A world where Kanye could move the stock price of a large corporate would be a confused one.
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These are well observed and key differences between social networks. The power of these small changes is disproportionately strong too. On HN, your username is very subtly rendered, and that possibly hella people focus on the content, rathe
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I love Zulip and wish it the best. But this comment on the zuplipchat web site https://zulipchat.com/security/ feels like a pretty gross generalisation and detracts from Zulip's vibe IMO: > With many SaaS provi

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