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by abraae 8y ago
Do you think robust software should also have a demo packaging, that somehow swaps out all the queuing, caching, database etc. for something else just so that it is super easy to spin up?
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by abraae 8y ago
Perhaps this is why we might lose the battle on climate change. Its the ultimate tragedy of the commons and we are genuinely all in it together. It takes not government action, but global action. Why would producers in e.g. Germany put up w
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by abraae 8y ago
As to your last point, pastures could be used to plant forestry, which locks up carbon in timber.
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by abraae 8y ago
Really interesting, and potentially highly relevant to New Zealand where our many cows and sheep make up about a third of our emissions. Since cows produce quite variable emissions it sounds quite credible that some out of the box thinking
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by abraae 8y ago
That's a very personalizing argument. No, MS does not "try to help Linux out of the goodness of it's heart." (a) its a corporate - corporates don't have hearts (b) even individuals usually have an ulterior motive fo
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by abraae 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment though I'd reword it as "developers need to know that their understanding is correct at all times". This is uncontroversial, we can't build things well if our understanding is wrong, whether of
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by abraae 8y ago
The only practical solution, given human nature, is your second option: "accept economic inequality". Humans being what they are, people just won't accept being told that they can't fly to New Zealand for their 2 week ad
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by abraae 8y ago
I found this super interesting and there were a few areas I wasn't familiar with where I learnt something new. Kudos. Meta node: I find this presentation style to be great. You can scroll up and down at speed, can text search the whole
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by abraae 8y ago
> How many regular people have had their life improved in any way by IBM? Anyone who uses a PC.
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by abraae 8y ago
Watson represents the end game of IBM's retreat from selling solid (literally) products. When I worked at IBM eons ago, products were very tangible, and often very physical in form, and there was no doubt whatsoever about what they did
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by abraae 8y ago
To counter that, I personally find the padding to be absolutely spot on. I often see designs where the designer has added lots of beautiful white space, and the result is that the actual content spans 2 or 3 pages instead of one.i personall
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by abraae 8y ago
I think it works well for megacorp clients too. A future option for a few million dollars is way easier for them to get over the line than some strange, and intangible open source scenario, when they don't want the code ever open sour
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by abraae 8y ago
We did a deal like this with a giant IT company with a 3 letter acronym for a name. We had a "break glass" option. If the client wanted to take over the code, they had to pay us a prearranged amount. The actual amount in our case
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by abraae 8y ago
Related - hang in there (sometimes). When things get their craziest, when entire teams are getting fired, that's sometimes when career opportunities open up and massive advancement can happen.
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6 years is a heroic effort. Great work Josh. If your life obligations permit, grab your backpack and head to a warm, strange country, lie on the beach, clear your head for new battles ahead on a different field.
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by abraae 8y ago
Global world product is, say, $75T per year. Global carbon emissions are, say, 10B tonnes per year. At $100 to extract a tonne of carbon, that's $1T per year to get to zero emissions. i.e. at a tax of just 1.3% of global GDP, we could
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by abraae 8y ago
> While a lot happened in the US during World War II, it's easy to forget how short the period in question was: American involvement lasted 3 years 8 months and 23 days. How does this stack up against US involvement in other"go
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by abraae 8y ago
It's all about economics. Yes, torrents have some downsides - forever they can be worked through at some cost of quality. I might see some delays occasionally for example while I wait for an it is sequence chunk to arrive. However for
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by abraae 8y ago
I dunno, to me the icon is reminiscent of the Hades character from the Disney movie: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/c/cf/Hercu...
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by abraae 8y ago
The word does indeed have initially negative connotations. Perhaps it resonates more positively now to people who have had to work with "flexible" software such as Spring in the old days. There were 100 ways to skin a cat with old
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> I think any smart person would have to step back and have that "what have I created" moment There's little correlation IMO between being a smart person and being a caring person. The average FB shareholder or employee co
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by abraae 8y ago
Especially since FB is basically easy-to-use group email with pictures for everyone's uncle, aunty, grandma. They will keep that position for decades.
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by abraae 8y ago
Twitter seems to hold somewhat of a monopoly on a certain kind of shouty, instantaneous social interaction.
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And the correct answer to every software dev. question starts with: "It depends"
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That's a tragic view. How did we get to the state where the "truth" is such an elusive concept? Is it so hard to determine whether basic statements are true or false? And to build larger, higher constructs out of those buildi
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by abraae 8y ago
Ha, I have the same feeling, even after several re-reads.
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by abraae 8y ago
> Gmail takes a traditional approach to email management. Messages come in, you read them, maybe organize them with labels, then archive them, delete them, or just leave them in your inbox forever. Not that long ago, gmail was a radicall
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by abraae 8y ago
"just plant a few trees" sounds pretty dismissive. Trees are effective at capturing carbon and building with timber is an effective way to lock up that carbon for a long time.
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by abraae 8y ago
If you buy a property that has a magnificent view, but has an empty building lot next door, or an old dilapidated home ripe for being pulled down, then, in a transparent zoning situation, you'll be fully aware that you may be built out
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by abraae 8y ago
> Tree farms use a good deal of water and fertilizer Really? In my country trees are planted and then nature does most of the rest (apart from thinning). After 25 years, trees are chopped down, and the process repeated.

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