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by ben509 7y ago
Typical. The sea lion was just asking a few questions and trying to have a polite discussion.
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by ben509 7y ago
But they're expending their own resources to improve their outcome, much as you might pay for braces to straighten your teeth.
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by ben509 7y ago
Up front, I worked at AWS on the CloudHSM team, don't work at AWS any more. I am not a lawyer. This is all my opinion from a very brief analysis. The customer agreement[4] states: > 3.1 AWS Security. Without limiting Section 10 or y
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Those books weren't lived by millions of people.
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> edge cases already figured out. Nope, it doesn't guarantee its invariants. This would pass all the tests and yet returns a value out of bounds: > s = 1e12 1000000000000 > e = 1e-8 1e-8 > s + 1.0 * (e
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by ben509 7y ago
You don't have to agree with the bible to read it. You can read between the lines to see how the stories portray the human condition. They were real people who repeatedly promised to do better, and then failed, and then tried again. Th
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by ben509 7y ago
> I get the point of "choose boring tech," but it seems like launching your app on EC2 requires a whole bunch of rework around automation that's already done for you in ECS, EKS, or dare I say even Elastic Beanstalk + Dock
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> I won't be the guy who causes shrinkage but it seems reasonable for the seller to pay something for the buyers' labor as cashier. If it's reasonable, there's nothing stopping anyone from asking the store if they&#x2
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by ben509 7y ago
Adblock Plus has their "acceptable ads" feature[1] so it's already a thing. But there was some controversy around it, which I don't recall well enough to give a fair hearing. Also, Firefox has a good deal of tracker bloc
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> Is it because it is one of the few fonts you are able to name? More that people can name it and identify it. Plenty of people know what Arial is, and I'd imagine designers hate it far more, but most people can't distinguish i
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by ben509 7y ago
This was the premise behind various component platforms, e.g. OLE, CORBA, OpenDoc which were, in many ways, the GUI equivalent of command line shells. We could see a renaissance in that area if technologies similar to Electron and ubiquitou
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by ben509 7y ago
Knowledge of fallacies doesn't help with the tendency of outlets to bury stories they don't like, so it's not a silver bullet. But it would help. I think you need to build the tools in such a way that education becomes intrin
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by ben509 7y ago
It dropped the barrier to republishing to nearly zero, to where impulse becomes the driver.
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by ben509 7y ago
If you forgot about it recently and it's coming up a great deal now, then I think the Illuminati have competition.
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by ben509 7y ago
It's worth gathering a list of things as a reference, but it's not very interesting to read. Worse, listicles are on so many "viral" pieces it's become a big turn-off. It would be more engaging if you picked a few i
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by ben509 7y ago
And MVs are generally the best way to separate support for infrequent reports or ETL jobs from support from common CRUD operations.
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by ben509 7y ago
It would be easy if there were a single accepted way to quote in rich text. (Seriously, the block quote tag has been around for eternity!) I don't think it works well in plain text either.
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by ben509 7y ago
The other skill that helps there is to not box yourself in by staking your reputation on a thing you believe to be true.
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by ben509 7y ago
That's an interesting point. I think I'm 10 years behind you and I've definitely found myself bumping the font size in Emacs and generally avoiding many squinty apps without really thinking about it. The solutions for UI elem
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by ben509 7y ago
Of course, if Slack thought this were true, they wouldn't have bothered with this rewrite. Obviously no PM is going to tell customers, "just spend $200 for another 8GB of RAM to run our chat software." > Usage at this scal
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by ben509 7y ago
Running such a checklist in Jupyter seems like a very good approach. The big advantage is someone else can pick up from where you started. And reporting is built in as you can save the notebook and review it later. The only thing it lacks i
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by ben509 7y ago
> That's pretty plainly not theft. There's not a matter of perception or culture as the candy was intentionally left out for a trick or treater to take. And since it's a well known holiday, the intent has been communicated
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by ben509 7y ago
Thanks for a thoughtful response. I read GTD ages ago, might take a look at that again. Your second point is well taken... maybe the real problem with the genre is that it's much easier to deliver a system that handles discrete tasks,
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by ben509 7y ago
Oh, so the "deposit only" aspect is for restricting less authenticated transactions. That makes sense.
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> On the one hand they need to placate the apparent programming masses who are frustrated with Go’s lack of features. If anything, it would be easier for the Go team if people who don't like a lack of features abandoned ship. Unless
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by ben509 7y ago
Also math programming; the computer algebra systems are all late-binding. There are two reasons: 1. The users do a ton of work in a REPL of some sort. Jupyter for Python, R and Matlab have a notebook scheme, as do the CAS's. So it&#x27
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Ask HN: Is Important vs. Urgent Broken?
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by ben509 7y ago
Yes, between the finance department and HR you should be able to identify the company that is holding the stocks. Or you can look for old statements identifying them. You could then contact the firm and say you're trying to dig up an o
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by ben509 7y ago
Is the Sparbücher number for a virtual account that is backed by a regular account?
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by ben509 7y ago
> Such that they think implementing one of the most universally hated office schemes I'not sure open offices are so unpopular in practice. I suspect a handful of people with misophonia are passionately against them. A sizable minori

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