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by cik 7y ago
By far the best comment in this thread. Thank you. Any idea if that syncs as a regular profix sync?
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by cik 7y ago
Can I ask why you went this way - and what the benefits are of your specific approach? With a friend having done this in the past - having sold his technology, I've been more than a little interested in this. Currently companies like H
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by cik 7y ago
The thing about being a CTO (or any role for that matter) is that it changes over time, and needs to. They purpose, value, and goals of a CTO are completely different with 3 people, 30 people, and 300 people. This is much like software - w
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China warns India of 'reverse sanctions' if Huawei is blocked(reuters.com)
162 points by cik 7y ago|137 comments
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by cik 7y ago
I came here to say exactly this. It's even harder for the real right-to-left use in the ones I speak, where we frequently mix Hebrew/Arabic with English, for using certain words that just don't exist. Plaintext mailers compl
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by cik 7y ago
This is already a thing. Look up 'kit homes'. You can get the entire thing done, with an electrical hookup for ~30K here.
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by cik 7y ago
All joking aside that's one of my filters for any hiring, and whether or not I'll work with someone. Someone who doesn't read, or hasn't read recently (tech, econ, whatever), I find is then missing all sorts of other th
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by cik 7y ago
I currently use Thunderbird for mail, and MineTime for calendar. I found the Thunderbird calendar integrations (5 calendars) way too flaky.
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by cik 7y ago
Same deal. My personal favourite is always the difference between the actual technical interview passer, and individual doing the work. I know of many companies that blanket ban India, Ukraine, and Belarus because of this.
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by cik 7y ago
I went on angry binge where I Ubuntu finally pushed me over the edge with it's latest... och. Between that and systemd, I've starting to dislike Linux, pretty much for the first time since I started using Linux back in the early 9
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by cik 7y ago
100%. But given that I want automatically - the barcode scanner integration with varying tools just doesn't do it. The flip side is that I have books in English, French, Hebrew, and Arabic. The religious Hebrew books don't have IS
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by cik 7y ago
Been there... since my library is now a little over a thousand physical books, and in multiple languages. If you have a Mac, get a copy of Delicious Library ( https://www.delicious-monster.com/ ) and a compatible barcode scan
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by cik 7y ago
Brexit hasn't happened yet. You still currently have the right to work in the UK.
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by cik 7y ago
I'm not put off at all - though I guess it depends on your goal? I want to play with a couple of new languages. To do so, I'm taking a problem that's already solved today (not in a way I love) and writing yet another entrant
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by cik 8y ago
Even then you don't necessarily accept money. Bottlenecks aren't necessarily bad, unless they impact revenue - and of course depends on the business. At certain scales you can easily get the bank to loan you 1x revenue, for a hec
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Uber reveals finances as it gears up for IPO(cbc.ca)
1 points by cik 8y ago|0 comments
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by cik 8y ago
shhhh Data Gathering service is the best VPN service.
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by cik 8y ago
It's not a size thing - it's all companies, and it's about significantly more than just 'finding instances'. The 'finding instances' side of AWS is something we just do for free (AWS, Azure, etc) for our e
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by cik 8y ago
I store everything in a Keepass. I maintain that keepass on a SpiderOak Hive that syncs between multiple machines, and mobile. The password for SpiderOak is not one I know - it's in my password safe and written on paper in a safety
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by cik 8y ago
In my experience both as that employee, and sometimes the executive - they're not. There are frequently legal, secrecy, or other corporate reasons for the lack of disclosure. It kinda sucks - but it's understandable. To be fair, I
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by cik 8y ago
We're all about mixed mode. Let's never pretend that we ought focus on a specific one and only business. Clients like Amazon, clients like Azure - clients then get forced by (say the BC Health Authority) to run on physical machine
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by cik 8y ago
Are you sure? We've always been at war with Eastasia. Or maybe we've always been at war with Oceania.
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by cik 8y ago
Bang on. Realistically the value of Amazon's managed side is in the early stages. At latter stages with people, it's significantly lower cost to tune real resources, and you get added performance benefits. We make a decent busin
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Former Mozilla CTO detained at US border and denied a lawyer(zdnet.com)
11 points by cik 8y ago|1 comments
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by cik 8y ago
I remember those.. I used to have one, it was so unbelievably useful. I ended up turning it into a fastboot server in an emergency. Then... we spent ages making it Linux :)
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by cik 8y ago
This number makes complete sense. I was a 'key employee' once upon a time - in a startup that had just raised f&f, and I received a FULL 2% (unheard of for Canada). Fast forward through the (usual) reality of 6 rounds of dilu
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by cik 8y ago
Not worth their target of $500M. Quite frankly Amazon just sunk the value of Elastic in a huge way. I'm trying to figure out if anyone here will let me pre-register for a short.
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by cik 8y ago
I couldn't agree more with Amazon. We build something on Elastic - and trying to work with them to get licensing was at best a major PITA. In ~2017 Elastic decided they wanted to go Enterprise Only. They started to charge $100k for x
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by cik 8y ago
I'm going to respond to myself - but so far so good. I just ingested ~14B messages into a local instance, on top of an existing Elastic. Interestingly enough - and to Amazon's credit, the have SSL running by default, with a defaul
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by cik 8y ago
I couldn't be happier about this. We build on Elastic today - and there are several features that we've written into our codebase from scratch, that are available in commercial Elastic only. Quite frankly if there's a commu

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