amirmc

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by amirmc 12y ago
In fact, you can't make well-reasoned choices without the emotional-processing regions of your brain being intact and healthy.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Right. Because when someone replies to one of your texts with "Stop harassing me" for whatever reason , you simply continue as you are. Here's a tip for everyone. If one party in the conversation begins using words like &#x2
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by amirmc 12y ago
Some of these are definitely screenshots as they have the ellipses to indicate the other party is typing. It seems like these are scans of printed images in some cases.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Learning how to learn is also a valuable (meta)skill. It doesn't mean you have to become a jack of all trades but does allow you the opportunity to reinvent yourself if the need or desire arises.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Those people generally get to decide for themselves if they even want to be part of the experiment. They also have the right to opt-out at any given time during the experiment. Neither of those happened here.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... any business objective that relies on this kind of emotional manipulation is suspect." So all modern day advertising then, that attempts to create a connection with the viewer/reader (as opposed to presenting bare
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by amirmc 12y ago
I completely agree and the workflow does away with the need for a vast number of configuration management tools too. Also, John Carmack also thinks they're "really interesting" [1] (the link in his tweet takes you to the acad
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by amirmc 12y ago
They are viable for people starting afresh. Not everything that comes along has to care about legacy systems so the advantage goes to those creating new tools/products/services with the advanced approaches. In fact, I'd arg
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by amirmc 12y ago
I know that live migration is possible but I'm curious how many people actually do this. I hear much more about spawning/culling VMs quickly, than I do about live migration.
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'm confused. What you're describing seems equivalent to just connecting a machine to the internet/network (ie you have security concerns). How many scenarios are there where you have two guests on the same host that must c
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by amirmc 12y ago
The point about Mirage (and it's ilk) is that you can retain the benefits of the Hypervisor (security etc), while also gaining the benefits of streamlined deployment. Those who can or choose to use such approaches will benefit from
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "… because apparantly that he has a right to prohibit others learning about his wrong-doings." That's not what the ruling was about. If we are to discuss this ruling it would help if people tried to understand it a lit
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... when the government has required Google to lie to you." Google already decides what to show you and we have little visibility as to how that decision is made (there's even an entire industry that tries to game it)
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... won't they miss out on the ad revenue?" There's already a setting they lets you turn off ads. In any case, revenue from those ads is probably incomparable to the data-mining which they can then use to show yo
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by amirmc 12y ago
We don't even know the full story (& probably never will), yet you're already advocating mob justice? That's about as bad, if not worse, than the political correctness you're railing against.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "They're clearly looking for social as well as technical fits, and I wouldn't be that." I think the article argues that it's not at all 'clear' (as evidenced by the 'interviewee' who did
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by amirmc 12y ago
I suspect it's somewhat like spam filtering. So many recruiters don't do this that it's an easy way to differentiate yourself and get through (as the recruiter). When everyone starts doing this -- having mined info from all
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by amirmc 12y ago
Already a front page story on this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7899262
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "To be successful you set your overall KPI(s), then you forget about it and focus on smaller things that will over time incrementally add to your overall goal." I don't see how this works in practice. Once you expose K
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by amirmc 12y ago
Abstract from the paper: "Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting s
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by amirmc 12y ago
Yup, I did understand what you meant but I stopped short of saying 'Heroku for Unikernels' (even though this how I think of it). I didn't want to give you a false impression of the first steps, which will be FOSS tools for an
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Surely that responsibility is the host's." So are good quality photos in order to get bookings. Yet Airbnb will make an effort to send a proper photographer around. https://www.airbnb.com/info/pho
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by amirmc 12y ago
Deploying to EC2 is an option [1]. In general, we want to make it easy for people to deploy to the public cloud and will release tools to aid this. [1] http://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2014/04/23/verb-
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by amirmc 12y ago
I definitely think you'd find the unikernel approach interesting and should take a look [1]. I've got a version of my website deployed this way too [2]. [1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628 [2] http:&#x
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'd say that YunoHost only makes sense for people who already know what the words nginx, postfix, LDAP, etc. mean -- I don't consider those people 'average users'. As others on this thread have alluded to, running a serv
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by amirmc 12y ago
This is true because only a few people are looking at how we should be writing, deploying and maintaining software for the cloud and embedded devices. There are other approaches out there which are getting more mature by the day, which (i
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by amirmc 12y ago
I applaud efforts to make self-hosting easier and more accessible for people but I think using the existing toolstacks for this is fundamentally flawed (security, deployment/maintenance, provenance, etc). FWIW, I'm working with ot
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by amirmc 12y ago
From the original article (as linked in a sibling comment), you can see the following result which is really interesting [1]. I do use the word 'fuck' when speaking and I've never been bothered by it but I can say that I don&
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by amirmc 12y ago
Yup, I posted it more because it's easy to miss those features of HN if they're not occasionally pointed out.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Said every advertiser ever (and every recruiter that ever cold-contacted you). I do appreciate your point and although I've no problem with the job posts, they are still advertising.

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