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by agilord 13y ago
> If you read the original piece, it's perfectly clear what was meant, and there's absolutely no room for anybody to misunderstand it. I'll give you an anecdotal example: myself. I did misunderstood him first, and the expl
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by agilord 13y ago
What if - on a rare occasion - you did say something that was misunderstood by a lot of people who trust your judgement? Would you be ignorant at that time too?
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by agilord 13y ago
We definitely need educators with good communication skills and sensitive social approach. They need to explain to the greater public why this matters and what they can do about it. They need to get over the threshold of "this is consp
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by agilord 13y ago
It would be great if you could share your thoughts about this earlier.
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by agilord 13y ago
I think you should update your FAQ entry: "What are the differences between the plans you offer?" Otherwise, looks good :)
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by agilord 13y ago
Dart. Look for Future and Stream.
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by agilord 13y ago
So, police forces do great job to prevent terrorism too. Hospitals have knowledge how to mitigate the casualties of a bioterror attack. By your reasoning, we might say that we already have the infrastructure to prevent the immediate dangers
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by agilord 13y ago
You haven't really visited Eastern-Europe or any post-Soviet country, have you? :) Corruption was always high-scale, but usually with low visibility or even lower accountability (as long as you bribe the watchers too). I think the majo
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by agilord 13y ago
Compared to the US defense budgets and what the US spends on counter-terrorism, I think all of these are effectively zero. Yes, there might be programs in the million USD range, but certainly not in the hundreds of billions.
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by agilord 13y ago
I am bold enough to say that even 'doing nothing' would be much more effective than what the US is doing right now. At least it won't increase the number of fanatics around the world who hate the US just because of the (from-
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by agilord 13y ago
Why do you think this is something new in Europe (or at any place on Earth)?
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by agilord 13y ago
"We spend $0 a year on defense against meteor strike. Should I, as a citizen, be content with meteor strike happening every few years?" "We spend $0 a year on defense against flesh-eating bacteria. Should I, as a citizen, be
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by agilord 13y ago
Switzerland couldn't win an open war, but the intent of their army is not to win an external war, but to prevent an invasion. In other words, make an invasion as hard (and expensive) as possible.
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by agilord 13y ago
What do you consider as a tech director role? Outsourcing works if you have all of these: - solid understanding what technology you are using and how the contractor party will provide you the implementation - solid understanding what the bu
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by agilord 13y ago
I completely agree with this. Only if there was a way to translate this into politics (e.g. not just the popularity should decide where we are going).
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by agilord 13y ago
> "Automate everything. Nothing should be manual." This mindset seems to miss the point of technology (and software development). It is the business impact, not the automation for its own sake. E.g. we can automate the hell out
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Microsoft banned Google, VMware, Salesforce employees from WPC 2013(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by agilord 13y ago|0 comments
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by agilord 13y ago
Why is there no push for "the looser pays all the costs" in the US? It works in many countries around the world, and it would prevent unjustified legal bullying.
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Building A Transaction Logs-based Protocol On Riak(vimeo.com)
1 points by agilord 13y ago|0 comments
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by agilord 13y ago
In case you got interested in machine learning and neural networks, I've found this course by Geoffrey Hinton refreshing and helpful: https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
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by agilord 13y ago
In theory this idea looks OK. I'd be interested if someone implemented it on Riak or Cassandra? What are the conclusions?
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by agilord 14y ago
I've found this description so far (German): http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/OpenStack It is a basic start, but not too much.
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Ask HN: OpenStack/StackOps at Hetzner (or similar hosting provider)?
1 points by agilord 14y ago|2 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
Any plans to support other storage backends? Postgresql and Riak comes in my mind.
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by agilord 14y ago
There are other webmail providers, search engines and social networks too. What's your point?
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by agilord 14y ago
Not affiliated with namecheap (except hosting domains there), but this deal seems really good (esp. since google started charging for Apps domains). Has anyone tried it?
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NameCheap e-mail hosting: from $3/year (3GB single mailbox)(namecheap.com)
2 points by agilord 14y ago|1 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
I'd like to emphasize this approach: "a nice self-annealing approach to get into testing is to only write tests for something that has failed." It is great for old-timer enterprises without any test, and balances the time pressures of start
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by agilord 14y ago
Great reasoning, it certainly resonates with my experiences. Two additional notes: 1. Working remotely demands the ability that you can assess each-other's work. Most managers are not capable to measure how SW developers work, so they fall
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by agilord 14y ago
Do you see any discount feasible for giving out? It seems to me that you just lose with discounts, no matter what percentage you share with the middle man. Edit: later on someone pointed out the usefulness of discounts for repeated transact

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