antonovka

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by antonovka 17y ago
Your demonstrated antisocial behavior validates the original poster's opinion. Moreover, how is his opinion of your clear anti-social pretenses an attempt at 'hegemony' (specifically, the dominance of one state/region/political group over t
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by antonovka 17y ago
I agree with you that there are a lot of people who are extremely valuable to an economy despite not having a degree. However I would suggest that a degree is still a good bar to have in place. Why is a degree any less of an arbitrary req
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by antonovka 17y ago
CityCarShare is fantastic if you live somewhere with sufficient density that driving is (truly) not necessary for most trips. We use bicycles, public transportation, and walking for nearly all of our trips, but rely on citycarshare for shop
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by antonovka 17y ago
The engineering issues are very interesting, but I find the social issues even more intriguing. What would happen if the bay bridge only re-opened to commercial traffic, and BART service was radically increased? The bridge carries 280,000 t
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by antonovka 17y ago
Lots of places log IRC and host the logs. That might not be your cup of tea, but it's far from hard. In addition to privacy issues (many individuals don't approve of logging of what they perceive to be ephemeral 'hallway' conversations),
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by antonovka 17y ago
While there's absolutely nothing wrong with coding for yourself, it doesn't usually pay the bills either. And (sadly), its rarer then it should be for someone to be able to print money for themselves by making things for themselves. Feel
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by antonovka 17y ago
Never underestimate the propensity of the younger generation to blithely discount the previous.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Theres more reasons to want to get support for something then your own selfish needs. Maybe you want to start hacking on the project but don't want to step on someone else's toes? Then join the mailing list and participate in the discussi
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by antonovka 17y ago
In general I think the problem is just laziness; the people running the project optimize it for themselves (active participants) rather than their users. Unless your users are actually contributing money or time (most won't), I'd call tha
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by antonovka 17y ago
I'm not so sure that it does. It relies on filling the tables at the restaurants. The restaurants don't care if the people who come to fill your table aren't the same ones that originally booked the reservation. Nor do they care if a certa
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by antonovka 17y ago
As far as a restaurant is concerned, why would they really care? It might annoy customers, but as long as the tables are still filling up, I feel the restaurant is more than happy, because they're still making the best of their available r
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by antonovka 17y ago
Or, maybe you can point out how I'm wrong. You know, provide some evidence supporting "stupid". I'll help. If you're "stupid" as "you're mean, I don't like you, and I'm not going to respond to your arguments", I'll agree. Stupid, as in: I
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by antonovka 17y ago
Seems like you just want to hit someone over the head with your indignance, not actually discuss anything rationally.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Java (or Erlang) as the main process can't (easily) configure the network adapter, add routes to the routing table, access/configure the IPMI module, modify firewall/IP forwarding rules, etc, etc. There's still a lot of shell-script automat
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by antonovka 17y ago
You'll need some mechanism to re-deploy major updates that cannot be accomplished via custom mechanisms, and that's most likely to still be ... Why wouldn't the virtual machine bootstrap itself from network loaded code -- then it wouldn't
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by antonovka 17y ago
The future of general purpose VMs is a Python bytecode in an LLVM-backed branch of CPython? That doesn't make any sense. It's only a generic VM in the sense that it's turing complete. You're going to implement Ruby on top of this? Or is e
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by antonovka 17y ago
Except that LLVM isn't actually a high-level VM. You have to bolt on quite a bit to even begin to run Python, Java, Scala, etc, and achieving interoperability between those has yet to even be approached. LLVM is the best thing since sliced
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by antonovka 17y ago
I can't tell if you're insinuating that I am using sophomoric platitudes, but I hope you respect that I have been trying to speak mostly about my personal experiences. No, my intention wasn't to slight your concerns; I was attempting to a
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by antonovka 17y ago
I would be interested to hear how you see your art and technology interests converging.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Since the beginning, I have found this sexism. Yes, it's incorrigible and often justified with sophomoric platitudes, even here on HN. ... well, you learn from past experiences. However, the presupposition that someone will be prejudice
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by antonovka 17y ago
I know that there are VERY FEW female YC founders and I know that having male coders looking at my application is going to totally work against me, if for no other reason than they don't relate to me. Individuals tend to internalize negat
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by antonovka 17y ago
"force to invest" concedes the argument that these "investments" don't make any economic sense absent artificial costs, aka a govt mandate. As a result, the resources used by these "investments" would have been better used elsewhere. You'
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by antonovka 17y ago
What I like most about this idea is that system administration via init scripts, et al, can just go away -- presumably one will have APIs for interacting with the available hardware, necessary 'OS' services, etc. It'd make automated deploym
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by antonovka 17y ago
Even if it would "create" a great deal of jobs for construction engineers, it would take away resources from _useful_ production. In the U.S., we have no shortage of "useful" production, and no shortage of not-very-useful production (see
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by antonovka 17y ago
Nobody is asking for "quickly". It's way too late for "quickly". How about making a proper good-faith effort to reach an amicable resolution in a remotely timely fashion, instead of general stonewalling?
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by antonovka 17y ago
Surprised at the downvotes. Clearly you people have never had to deal with trying to get anything done with Apple or any other similar massive inattentive bureaucracy (like, say, immigration services?). It's one thing to, in good faith, wor
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by antonovka 17y ago
I think you are missing an absolutely crucial point here, Apple already tried paying him, several times now. With the wrong name (ie, not the name he entered on the bank account form). Which was the original problem. Is Apple reporting th
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by antonovka 17y ago
This . It's so easy to screw up Apple's registration process, it actually pisses me off to see people that have never had business dealings with Apple trying to push the blame off to you, referencing some imagined "oh my god tax evasion" s
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by antonovka 17y ago
The company I work for does a lot of cross-border financial activity and it's all anonymized - you don't know who your counterparty is and they don't know who you are, we're the middlemen and we take care of everything. Something like this
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by antonovka 17y ago
If you thought you could just use a bogus company front and cash the checks on your personal account with no records, well, you don't deserve much help. They aren't checks. They're wire transfers. The mistake is understandable, and really

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