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by ckastner 10y ago
The crontab syntax is popular because it has been standardized by POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/crontab.htm... In a sense, crontabs are the lowest common denominator for scheduling t
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by ckastner 10y ago
I'm honestly wondering whether this indicates that the TSA torment is useless (there isn't even a remote chance of stopping them, so why bother), or whether it indicates that it is effective (they're switching methods because
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by ckastner 10y ago
This is nice -- simple, clean interface, presenting lots of useful data and visualizations. Does anyone know where they source their data from? I can't find anything on their page.
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by ckastner 10y ago
Today, most banks run on old systems, some dating back to the 1970s, strapped together with metaphorical gaffer tape. Banks are too afraid to update them for fear something going wrong. I wouldn't say banks are too afraid, I'd s
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by ckastner 10y ago
It appears to me that Dependency CI is focused on dependency metadata, focusing on the state/version/license/etc the dependency declares. Debian's CI focuses on actual run-time testing, specifically what it calls "a
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by ckastner 10y ago
The Debian project's Continuous Integration project [1] re-tests all dependent objects whenever a dependency within the Debian archive changes. This way, changes that might negatively affect dependents can be caught early. This is imme
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Instruction tables: breakdowns for Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs [pdf](agner.org)
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by ckastner 10y ago
>> >Your argument is flawed in that it reduces the talent competition to just one factor: the tax rate. > Tax rate and business environment is the only thing that can be changed by at will and perhaps make the rest happen. But t
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by ckastner 10y ago
> Which makes the total tax rate 58.14%. [...] There's NO way a startup in Austria is going to compete for talent with the rest of the world. Your argument is flawed in that it reduces the talent competition to just one factor: the
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by ckastner 10y ago
I am under the impression that $110K won't get you far in Silicon Valley. For €100K, you can have a princely life in Vienna. If disposable income is what matters, I believe developers are much cheaper here.
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by ckastner 10y ago
Taxes aren't as bad as you make them out to be (the system is progressive), and I believe the benefits far outweigh the costs. Free higher education (university) for example, or excellent healthcare.
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by ckastner 10y ago
And how does the average voter get involved in "drafting bills" I suspect that there are very few of us on HN who have ever done something like that. In representative democracies [1], they usually don't get involved at all
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by ckastner 10y ago
>> Your right to vote is the mechanism by which your right to participate is ensured. > It's a shallow form of participation. It's not a form of participation at all. >Being educated, informed, and being part of the de
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by ckastner 10y ago
Indeed! I wasn't my intention to reduce it just that one freedom, I merely wanted to address that specific comment. Another very prominent example would be freedom of press.
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by ckastner 10y ago
The key point of democracy isn't voting, it's participation. Your right to vote is the mechanism by which your right to participate is ensured. If you have participation, where all are heard, and real work is made for a consens
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by ckastner 10y ago
And yet again, no explanation what this "illegal content" is supposed to be.
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by ckastner 10y ago
Correct, it's mandatory service. I think what the grandparent meant to say with being "deputized to be the financial police" is that the extent of this mandatory service has become so substantial that financial institutions o
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by ckastner 10y ago
KYC is simply identifying your customers That's the minimum , but it's certainly not all there is to it. Know Your Customer really means know your customer . As one of many practical examples, when dealing with a legal entity
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by ckastner 10y ago
But unless you have some evidence I am simply unwilling to believe that banking regulators can make up any restrictions they like without regard for the actual requirements of federal law. The actual requirements of federal law are often
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by ckastner 10y ago
> Welcome to the world of financial regulations! > You may have not realised but banks and any financial institutions have been deputised by the regulators to be the financial police. They need to endure that none of their client use
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by ckastner 10y ago
For reference, IPO in May 2011 was for $45/share, and they closed at $94.25 on the first day for a total market cap of $9bn, according to this [1] source. [1] http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/19/technology&#x
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by ckastner 10y ago
All in stock of a not-yet-profitable company who's stock price has been highly volatile in the past. I don't mean to disparage Tesla, but rather to emphasize that there's a difference between receiving $325 million in cash, $
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by ckastner 10y ago
> On the Ubuntu side, you can use the debsums package to help with some verification: > [debsums invocation] > But wait — where are the configuration files? Where are the log and library directories? If you these commands on an Ubu
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by ckastner 10y ago
I don't think that is an apt comparison. Replacing your database backend, at the minimum, usually requires a massive migration of data, and possibly even changes to your entire architecture. A refactoring does not change behavior, and