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by bonesss 9y ago
> "it would never work, you just can't make people switch habits like that overnight" Heh, isn't switching habits overnight literally what daylight savings time is? To avoid all the problems what we need is for eve
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by bonesss 9y ago
Here's some help to make your bank cry a little: The GDPR Nightmare Letter -- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...
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by bonesss 9y ago
That's orthogonal to my point :) If engineering concerns dictate project planning, structure, and execution you're at least playing the game. Compromise is the nature of the beast, and practical realities dictate decisions. If po
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by bonesss 9y ago
> But the media's attention surrounding that recent increase was focused on Stormy Daniels and/or some other alleged Trump admin gaffe. I'm a bit of a cynic, so I would readily cast a negative eye to the entire corporate m
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by bonesss 9y ago
I recall a post-mortem for the Superconducting Super Collider that pointed out a painful dichotomy: to build political support the contracts and suppliers had to be spread across many districts and states, but because it was a high tech pro
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by bonesss 9y ago
There's also a federal procurement picture: big governments making big purchases aren't fans of incompatibilities and standardised solutions. For a company like MS losing access to "the web" could keep a lot of people fr
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by bonesss 9y ago
That's a bit of a tortured example: Boba Fett was highly popular, a named character, and was featured in literature and promotional materials. Mass Effect has no character remotely as iconic or well established as Boba Fett, much less
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by bonesss 9y ago
Why not drones instead of the F-35? They started the F-35 project in '92. And if we're gonna play "why not" with the F-35, why not 3 frames for 3 roles as all the aviation experts and real world economics suggest? Dron
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by bonesss 9y ago
> Create a movie that coexists with game plots rather than trying to sum them up or replace them and you'll have more freedom to make a movie that's actually good. The challenge with this is that a studio would be alienating fa
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by bonesss 9y ago
"<-" is used for assignment in F#, though variable binding is "=", so: let mutable x = 4 // x is equal to 4 x <- 7 // x is equal to 7
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by bonesss 9y ago
This isn't Apples problem, it's industrial, but: "green" and "battery" are almost as hard to reconcile as "green" and "massive global shipping logistics". Props to Apple for making movement
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by bonesss 9y ago
Jevons paradox -- as it applies to energy -- is that efficiency gives us more and better ways to make money wasting energy. From a humanitarian and ecological standpoint we want civilization to be using as much electricity as possible. If
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by bonesss 9y ago
> ...this is how its going to have to continue if we still want to be living on earth in 50 years Climate change is a cluster-f-bomb that will evolve into blatant seriousness over tens of decades. It won't directly ruin civiliza
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by bonesss 9y ago
While persecution is expected and desired by that particular faith, I think you're awful quick hopping to a visceral reaction to religious sources instead of HNs visceral reaction to factual inaccuracy. > yes. God is love, and God
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by bonesss 9y ago
I think FAKE ( https://fake.build/ ), hits an amazing sweet spot for this: standardized, predictable, with no sacrifice of programming/platform power when dealing with builds. Project to another, just run "build.fsx
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by bonesss 9y ago
Not too far removed (philosophically), from 'theological noncognitivism ' [0]: the idea that 'god' is more of a concept like 'hope' or 'love', not a thing like 'milk', and a poorly understoo
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by bonesss 9y ago
GDPR puts legal teeth with $MegaFines onto a lot of internal IT political battles beyond security, too. Unified project processes, mandatory architectural reviews, IT-driven planning... if you're in a domain with lots of personal data
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by bonesss 9y ago
I can imagine that there is a local minimum of costs 2 & 3 where the infrastructure is modelled so that privacy legislation is supported, but the company makes no commitment to enforcement/compliance anywhere but the relevant juris
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by bonesss 9y ago
That's my issue: missing build system capabilities leaves me writing console apps to make builds sane. If I'm writing code anyways in MyLanguage to compensate for MyBuildScript, why aren't my build scripts written in MyLangua
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by bonesss 9y ago
> I'm still not satisfied with ... more flexible tooling ... they commonly lack scaffolding that I want a majority of the time. I think this dichotomy, flexibility vs maintainability, reflects build complexity . Not only do I think
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by bonesss 9y ago
Superficial habits are also an easy substitute for personality, something teens are eagerly trying to develop. Everything from hair dying to wearing bow ties are 'normal', vices carry all kinds of extra social signaling.
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by bonesss 9y ago
The big difference, IMO, is the extent of the redesign. Digg went past graphics & UX into the core experience of the site and how content propagation worked, alienating power users and key content aggregators. Reddit seems to be focusi
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by bonesss 9y ago
> The sharing largely flows one way. While this may hit on our sense of fairness, it has no relation to legal "fair use". My political parody show owes no profits to the subjects of my derision, IoW.
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by bonesss 9y ago
Not a lawyer, and I agree with your overall point, but I think usage examples are as tainted as the raw API.If the API is copyrighted with no fair use exemption for interop, why would that protection not extend to the API usage which contai
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by bonesss 9y ago
Lego-peg compatible toys made by other producers? Other forms of structured metadata use cross-party?
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by bonesss 9y ago
Totally agree. Nowadays you have JS to automate Google and MS docs, but 1) Javascript is kinda warty for VBA-type users, 2) API driven javascript is less friendly than the locally-logical VBA-style access, and 3) the mental barriers to entr
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by bonesss 9y ago
Part of the promise of cloud based document solutions, to my eyes, is being able to replace "edge databases" with user-facing user-editable spreadsheets. Drain those IT projects of risk, get moving early, with a structure that let
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by bonesss 9y ago
My issue isn't the discounting, it's the discounting on things that require large addition investments to get working 'properly' in a modern context, and large ongoing investments into that same suppliers ecosystem. Offi
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by bonesss 9y ago
In fairness: if management is choosing a Widget vendor, which offers volume licensing, then we're talking about a standard business model in many industries. If management is choosing a Document vendor, one of which is offering cheaper
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by bonesss 9y ago
That is a highly interesting comparison... Lots of shops struggle to avoid O365 because "everyone is used to Word", and once you have an Excel macro that's mission critical... game over. I think the automation and Enterprise

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