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481.
by alrs 12y ago
Valid, though I never have to click through any kind of EULA crap to use Go. So long as Go is supported in gcc, I'm not particularly worried.
482.
by alrs 12y ago
Whenever you get in trouble with Elasticsearch, the first question a consultant will ask is, "why aren't you running the Oracle JVM?" Technically it supports OpenJDK. In practice, circumstance usually drags you to Oracle.
483.
by alrs 12y ago
Wishful thinking: I hope this prefaces an Elasticsearch rewrite in Go. I'm happy to be rid of the JVM wherever I find it. No hard feelings, but we just spent 20 years crowbaring Microsoft into irrelevance. It's time to get start
484.
by alrs 12y ago
This is shockingly old news. I can't find the LA Times article on this from 1999, but here's a story from the Independent, circa 2000: "Documents obtained by the Independent on Sunday reveal how the CIA and National Security
485.
by alrs 12y ago
Right now there aren't competing standards, there are competing ad-hoc implementations.
486.
by alrs 12y ago
No, not Reddit. The NYT article that we are commenting on. I offer up the reddit link for anyone interested in the mechanics of HFLC.
487.
by alrs 12y ago
This subject freaks people out, vegetarians especially. A huge part of identity for some people is based on the knowledge that they're living on a healthy plant-based diet. It turns out that said diet is less healthy than subsisting o
488.
by alrs 12y ago
Reddit has been drowning in anecdotal evidence for years. Low-fat, high-carb flat-out kills people. http://reddit.com/r/keto
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Lessig: Gallego Victory(mayday.us)
2 points by alrs 12y ago|0 comments
490.
by alrs 12y ago
Has anyone told the Enterprise that Docker doesn't support Windows?
491.
by alrs 12y ago
Biz-dev wankery. This is only of interest to VMWare's customers, so that they can name-drop Docker.
492.
by alrs 12y ago
Be sure to block all of the white guys with yellow fever, while you're at it. No, it's not a "political" problem.
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DEA covertly paid hundreds of thousands for open information on train passengers(rt.com)
3 points by alrs 12y ago|0 comments
494.
by alrs 12y ago
It feels plainly obvious that Uber is run by assholes, and that anyone who works there has a black mark on their resume forever. But that's how it feels. Is Lyft just better at PR?
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by alrs 12y ago
I don't think that the thrust of this story has anything to do with the mortality of one person. What is newsworthy is that there is potentially an Ebola patient zero in the most densely populated part of the United States. Worse, the
496.
by alrs 12y ago
If you're upset about the OpenSSL screwup, you're mad at the OpenSSL project for telling the Debian maintainer that commenting out some code would be OK. Your beef is with ulf@openssl.org, not the Debian project. http:/&#x2F
497.
by alrs 12y ago
HN title at 1406825693 is "C.I.A. Apologizes for Penetrating Senate Computers." That is not the title of the NYT story. The NYT title is "C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence Computers." The article does menti
498.
by alrs 12y ago
Locks to "Lenovo provided" cards, I said. That leaves Lenovo-branded iwl or some rando Lenovo-branded Realtek(?) card that has terrible support.
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by alrs 12y ago
rtfm. Linux provides the architecture, the vendors ignore it and do it themselves. The Intel drivers require blobs. Broadcom used to require blobs that you had to cut out of Windows drivers yourself, though I have no idea what that's
500.
by alrs 12y ago
Oh, they know what they think about it. What they are thinking, but not saying, is: "We don't want our tax money going to black people and Mexicans." "Socialism" is a dog-whistle term that usually indicates racism w
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by alrs 12y ago
How well paid are the people who jump in to these threads to astroturf on behalf on a lobby? Are they on-call to deal with weekend work? Is it the same players that have been doing this since the 80s, or is there someone disrupting the ind
502.
by alrs 12y ago
This had buzz like crazy four years ago. What went wrong? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1363153
503.
by alrs 12y ago
It's discouraging that Amazon is able to keep moving forward with such predictable momentum while the management teams of its competitors still haven't figured out how to take on Amazon circa 2008.
504.
by alrs 12y ago
This wanders in to the bizarre.
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by alrs 12y ago
You cannot understand the modern Middle East without knowing about Sykes-Picot, the Balfour Declaration, Ataturk, and Nasser. None are mentioned in this essay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser http://e
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by alrs 12y ago
First thing I did was search the page for the name "Sykes," and his absence made it obvious that this was to be yet more of the unaware Oxbridge noodling for which the Economist is famous.
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Chinese Government Banned Microsoft Office 365 Due to Security Concerns(techtimes.com)
2 points by alrs 12y ago|0 comments
508.
by alrs 12y ago
Selling SaaS means that any sovereign can shut off your markets like a switch. The US couldn't tame Microsoft, and the EU was only able to squeeze out some token concessions. The move to selling cloud services left them open to gettin
509.
by alrs 12y ago
Keto. My head is clearer, my sleep is better, and I've lost significant weight.
510.
by alrs 12y ago
I was never presented this option by any of my previous employers.

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