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by blowski 4y ago
And yet. Outside of HN, most people I know refer to Elasticsearch as open source.
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by blowski 4y ago
Exactly. Such a definition of open source is hardly universal. I think of it as a sliding scale - to what extent is this open source? Does it allow me to: * view, download and modify the source code? * distribute the code as part of another
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by blowski 4y ago
Exactly. I don't want to spend weeks interviewing people, my boss doesn't want to pay me to interview people, and my PM wants someone who can work on their tickets ASAP. It will be much easier for me if I can just hire you. So &qu
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by blowski 4y ago
I'm not sure why you'd be willing to work on such a project but then be concerned about putting it on a CV. Assuming something I don't understand, you could talk about the impact it had on your employer without going into det
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by blowski 4y ago
Only last week, I saw someone post on Slack: > I got an email from [CEO] asking me to read a Word doc. I thought it might be a dodgy email so I checked the attachment..."
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by blowski 4y ago
I tried getting it to generate a Red-Black tree in Java but it cuts off half way through. I suppose you could divide and conquer with smaller parts of the algorithm, but then we'd need a "meta AI" that can keep track of all t
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by blowski 4y ago
You can accept payments as a non-registered charity, in the UK at least. Not sure how it works internationally. https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/not-for-profit-2 The problem is that PayPal’s rules are va
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by blowski 4y ago
It's much more complicated than that. First you have to check your countries list of sanctions, and this is bizarrely difficult. 1. You might be able to work for most companies in a country, but that specific company (or type of activi
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by blowski 4y ago
I base my architecture docs off the arc42 document. It’s useful as a base but always needs adapting to the specific system being documented.
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by blowski 4y ago
A more positive spin would be that richer companies are subsidising poorer ones.
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by blowski 4y ago
It’s not that they have a fixed price they’re not sharing with you. They want to estimate how much you’ll pay first - look at Crunchbase, etc. I’m not saying it’s a good idea but there are plenty of smart cookies who seem to think it maximi
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by blowski 4y ago
True, although I think the OP was highlighting the oddness of such a minor account being one of those compromised.
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by blowski 4y ago
It’s not like people didn’t speak out for the moderators or employees, just that Musk didn’t listen. If you’re looking for Nazi Germany analogies, perhaps Blitzkrieg is better - quickly destroying its entire userbase.
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by blowski 4y ago
By that logic, splitting a peapod with my hands is processing, and thus all food is processed.
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by blowski 4y ago
"Fresh" as in made on the day they're sold from the same meat that's sold there.
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by blowski 4y ago
Normally, but not always. I can get freshly produced sausages from my local butcher.
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by blowski 4y ago
I’m very much an anecdote here, but want to give a different perspective. I’m an Apple “fan” (at least, I have more of Apple’s devices than other brands), and I don’t want voice activation. I don’t feel comfortable something listening to al
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by blowski 4y ago
And status updates.
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by blowski 4y ago
All tech companies, if succesful, will one day be a target for hackers and security agencies.
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by blowski 4y ago
For my part, my "it's so convenient" was comparing to online shopping c. 2003. These days, I can order from a lot of other online stores for the same price with the same delivery time - sometimes better.
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by blowski 4y ago
It's hard to say "UK is equally bad as US" when all I have is anecdotes. But there are plenty of anecdotes that it's pretty bad in the UK.
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by blowski 4y ago
How many people say "Oh no, I didn't buy this from Amazon, I bought it from Amazon _Marketplace_"? I've never heard anyone say it, so perhaps it's a rather technical distinction. Amazon is paid to list it (they&#x27
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by blowski 4y ago
Yes. I searched for 16TB SSD drive” on UK Amazon, and quite a few £90 models matching the description were there.
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by blowski 4y ago
If I were that paranoid about my employer I’d leave anyway.
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by blowski 4y ago
I do now get books from a local bookshop, cables direct from Anker, electronics from a UK high street chain, etc. But sometimes, due to Amazon's monopolistic behaviour, there are times when Amazon is the only choice.
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by blowski 4y ago
We use OfficeVibe, and I have full employee access. There is absolutely no feature anywhere that shows me who submitted a comment. I could just about hack one together by putting each person into a one-person team, but the user would be abl
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by blowski 4y ago
It looks like our best hope is market forces, as people stop buying from Amazon after seeing this constant drip-feed of Amazon's poor quality control.
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by blowski 4y ago
Your local police officer isn't going to march to Seattle and confront Jeff Bezos or Andy Jassy. But neither is my prime minister going to care at all about a breach of the trades description act. So Amazon operates in this space in th
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by blowski 4y ago
Some of them are "sponsored", so Amazon is being paid to list them first.
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by blowski 4y ago
If I opened a shop on the high street selling fake hard drives I’d be shut down. Why does Amazon get a pass simply because they’re doing it at scale?

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