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by ballard 12y ago
It's techshedding, not focused on how they're going to provide a better or different service.
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by ballard 12y ago
So I know this article is BS whining for two reasons: 0. Someone I met acquired the charter of a failing Midwestern local regional bank in order to save a ton of cash on moving funds into the us. This person was under 30 at the time. And
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by ballard 12y ago
Her quitting was like a superhero retiring.
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by ballard 12y ago
It was military-grade sec with valley-grade marketing. The problem of a company providing a privacy service being a SPOF necessitates a more distributed approach that can "route around" attempts to shut it down. Any current or fu
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by ballard 13y ago
Just in case anyone is wondering, it is possible to compile Java to native code without a VM. I had to write a Java to MIPS compiler in uni, once in C++ and again in Java. Painful and hard without the luxury of LLVM but doable.
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by ballard 13y ago
Has anyone used RubyMotion and RoboVM?
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Thousands evicted by police in Rio(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Personally I love my Northgate Omnikey, some love their inherited IBM keyboards. Whatever. Since you bring up Docker, it's the ease of use and sharability that are the big wins outside of how it's implemented. Heck, if you want
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by ballard 13y ago
Neat. A friend of mine evaluated them pre-money and wrote them off initially, but changed their mind considering how far they've grown.
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by ballard 13y ago
How can you judge something with blanket FUD you haven't seen, smelled or tasted yet? Give them a chance before condemning them.
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by ballard 13y ago
I don't eat meat as I don't agree with either how it's produced or the suffering necessary to extract it. Right now, I mostly consume quick oats and protein powder for bulk caloric needs. Vitamins are a generally a waste of
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by ballard 13y ago
Plus getting distribution will be cutthroat savagery. Direct-to-consumer is a huge amount of work and limits growth. Costco, Whole Foods, Trader Joes and Amazon should be hit up at the same time.
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by ballard 13y ago
In addition, it came off as a politically-manufactured "moral panic" more than anything. [0,1] The gay friends I polled were like "meh." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic [1] https:&#
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by ballard 13y ago
I think we need a witch hunting API, that way mob violence can be faster and more efficient so as to preclude any sort of defense.
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by ballard 13y ago
Headline$.
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Kickstarter watch for the blind up for London's Design Museum(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeah I think your interpretation is fair. Taking a leadership stance takes on a higher level of responsibility to do the right thing and be just, and to appear to do that.
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by ballard 13y ago
It signals the approach that will be taken with dev and user relations, and personnel issues.
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by ballard 13y ago
I've worked some politically-sensitive .edu and .com, it looks more like it was a setup to get him out of the org. No one works those kind of places without having sharpened their Machevelli playbook. Clearly he failed at that and so s
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by ballard 13y ago
That's what I like about Ruby. ;) Even in C, Go or Python, I column align any text that is remotely similar, so differences are obvious. Clean code might be extra work but the net work (maintenance) should amortize less. Reducing cogn
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by ballard 13y ago
Agree a bazillion times. Go or Java on top. Coding in C is like juggling chainsaws to say you can juggle them. C is certainly better than old school Fortran where memory management wasn't developed until later, but platforms like Erl
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by ballard 13y ago
Some nice folks that built Heroku explain how app support on both sides of Devops can be made easier and more scalable by following a few basic rules.
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Occupy activist facing seven years in jail was 'promoter of non-violence'(theguardian.com)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Hear, hear.
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by ballard 13y ago
If I had a few million to spare, I'd support individual hackers and collectives as well. Because we need people that aren't under the pressure to deliver something for profit.
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by ballard 13y ago
I wrote x86 assembly demos for fun in the golden age of asm between the eras of 8088 and p6... It became so much about putting random instructions here and there to get better performance, one almost needs like a QuickCheck-like sythensizin
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by ballard 13y ago
I think we should call it what it is: distributed fascism. But I'm hearted by the long-term trend of progressive gains... Check out Pinker's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. A friend of my mother worked on the No on Pro 8 campaign and the subsequent challenge. It was an uphill battle most of the time to protect the right of those some feel others shouldn't have. Too much of a false moral panic by
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by ballard 13y ago
This whole scenario can be avoided. Instead, a constant contact system over low bandwidth satellite should permanently archive plane vital stats to multiple geographically-diverse datacenters to remove the absolutely unnecessary and antiqu
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Child finds Xbox security flaw(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|1 comments

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