ajamesm

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by ajamesm 10y ago
I'll definitely echo the sentiment about layers of incomprehensible crap in CM tools. I wrote my first set of Ansible scripts recently, and found myself deeply pondering, "who on Earth thought YAML was the best option for a Turing
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by ajamesm 10y ago
How often do HN job postings talk about "changing the world" when they're really talking about getting underpaid to develop a food review app?
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Huh. Do they have the pretense of a commode, or is it a hole sawn into the floor?
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Some of it is cultural. (I can't speak to their engineering practices or limitations, anyway.) Toilets aren't a given in India. They're generally available in cities. But, for example, on some locomotives, the toilet is a
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Oh, that must be it. Indian people care less than people of other nationalities, and it has nothing to do with... say, drastic disparities in the quality of public infrastructure.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Never heard about the gangster / street children phenomenon. Do you have something I can read up on, or an extended anecdote to share?
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I see now that the patch was sponsored by Microsoft, but for a moment I thought that this was a new kind of HN text ad.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Easy. Just run your VPN usage through a VPN.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I don't think anyone's in dispute as to whether they have the right to "tweak their product" (tweak, censor, curate, take your pick). But is it a good move to tweak like that? Facebook IS a news site (see: news articles
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by ajamesm 10y ago
If your company got compromised, and your next step is to ask HN for advice, maybe your company should not be in business.