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811.
by beachy 5y ago
Awesome story. My computer career started when our school got an Apple II. I skipped classes to use it, with hindsight failing the other classes but learning how to program set me up for life. Good on you for sacrificing your fireworks.
812.
by beachy 5y ago
I'm as much for my rights to hold whatever digital data as probably most other people on this thread. But at the same time there are abominations of pure evil that should never exist, not even for "historical interest". Somew
813.
by beachy 5y ago
Perhaps I'm sensitive as a NZer, but would you feel the same if the deleted document was a plan for a nuclear weapon etc? Though while giving a warning is clearly inappropriate, they should certainly have explained what they did.
814.
by beachy 5y ago
> Shortly thereafter, Kail provided Platfora with Netflix’s internal information about Platfora’s competitors’ prices. Do said competitors now have grounds for a lawsuit against Netflix itself?
815.
by beachy 5y ago
Vietnam war likely wouldn't have happened, certainly not in the same way.
816.
by beachy 5y ago
> What people are really excited about is the exchanges and the on-ramps and off-ramps, which have nothing to do with the blockchain or cryptography. Isn't that like saying that what gets people really exciting about beer is the eup
817.
by beachy 5y ago
I still don't get it - when you give your resume to a recruiter they can rework it as they see fit, but they can't change your original. That's on your hard drive/wherever. What does Blockchain add to that? And as to a p
818.
by beachy 5y ago
I would like to understand more about your product. Does it ensure the accuracy of your resume? I.e that you really did work for Google since 2020? Or is it more to simply ensure that the content has not changed. But if so, who cares if you
819.
by beachy 5y ago
Personally I think they work well since I can pinch zoom in to them and out again in a second or two. As there are hundreds of thousands of them on the page, the size is important.
820.
by beachy 5y ago
By that logic, why not allow movies/video, ads as well while driving?
821.
by beachy 5y ago
Should have an SMT RFID chip on board surely!
822.
by beachy 5y ago
I guess you're not talking about some well-executed surgical strike to take out the leadership? Because Ho Chi Minh, Giap and other NV leaders were moving around the country with impunity throughout the war, and the US never came close
823.
by beachy 5y ago
> Burmese regime is one of world's most unruly, despotic, prolific, and it can be wiped out clean by US military with ease, without involving any of its allies Maybe you missed the memo, but there is plenty of precedent for US getti
824.
by beachy 5y ago
I have a system built for monitoring our water tanks, built using influxdb, grafana and a bunch of custom code. It works great, and I hope will be low/no maintenance for years. But I'm under no illusion that anyone else will be ab
825.
by beachy 5y ago
Bookmarking for posterity
826.
by beachy 5y ago
True. In some countries (e.g. mine) some employer legislation only kicks in when the company has > 30 staff.
827.
by beachy 5y ago
> Like candidates never do that, interview for like 10 companies and start juggle the offers. Or interview for a company just to get signed offer so they can ask for a raise. The difference is the power imbalance. Candidate screws the co
828.
by beachy 5y ago
It's not just yours, it's common to most (virtually all?) ORMs, which makes these ideological arguments somewhat moot. Just use an ORM for mapping and for simple queries and hand crank the complex queries.
829.
by beachy 5y ago
(He/him). If your app is super-sensitive and absolute security is an absolute must then sure, using a separate database for every customer will help you answer those pesky security questions "How do you ensure that resources are n
830.
by beachy 5y ago
There's a word missing from this article - SaaS. If you aspire to deliver the same software solution to multiple customers then most likely you are in the SaaS business. And as Marc Benioff famously observed a long time ago, "Mult
831.
by beachy 5y ago
There's a lot to be said for taking control and building it yourself. We live on tank water and I monitor our 3 tanks using influxdb and grafana on an ec2 instance. It's absurd overkill for the job, but man it is reliable since no
832.
by beachy 5y ago
I've been in exactly this position, in fact I conceived and created the situation at my last company. I found it uncanny how on point OP was. The trouble with "Let's build out a handful of integrations. Make sure they're
833.
by beachy 5y ago
I'd like to know the backstory of the .amf format mentioned in the post.
834.
by beachy 5y ago
We got our ioniq 5 last week. My impression was that ioniq 5 is the family wagon and ev6 is if you're more footloose and want a sportier image.
835.
by beachy 5y ago
Something like Richard Nixon's madman theory [0]. I don't see what the threat could achieve though. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
836.
by beachy 5y ago
It may sounds trite but I believe you will look back one day and realise this was just a step on the road, painful as it is now. I suggest you hang in there until then, and do your utmost (swallowing whatever shit is necessary) to stay in g
837.
by beachy 5y ago
> Halons were banned in 1994, before datacenters became commonplace. The 90s called and would like a word with you.
838.
by beachy 5y ago
> Destroying the economy today to mitigate the worse case scenarios is risk that even right now no sane person earnestly wants to take. I consider myself sane, and I would take that option. Then again, I also resent that the banks were b
839.
by beachy 5y ago
> Due to the core software limitation (no source code available) we were compelled to integrate some original PDP-11 computer cards into the final product and this resulted in a hybrid PC platform. Amazing. I've never been anywhere
840.
by beachy 5y ago
This doesn't quite sit right to me. > .. the individual would never have qualms about subjecting his beliefs or observations to open scrutiny and even discard it entirely in case enough facts and evidence are presented in its disfav

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