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by danellis 6y ago
> It's also worth noting that the idea didn't grow over time I doubt that he started out imagining he would build the world's biggest cloud hosting platform or open the first chain of checkoutless grocery stores.
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by danellis 6y ago
Google has ADHD.
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by danellis 6y ago
> We all know what is meant by serverless and "without a server" Please feel free to furnish us with a definition that includes this product but excludes the existing solutions.
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by danellis 6y ago
You're being generous. It's a blatant lie for marketing purposes. Its "solution" is the same as the second problem it claims to avoid.
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by danellis 6y ago
Other people have caught it and recovered, but it was not known whether that gave them immunity. What's different here? In fact, some people have caught it twice, so you can obviously recover without gaining immunity.
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by danellis 6y ago
"Worth it." -- Ticketmaster
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by danellis 6y ago
How good is the search in practice? Unsurprisingly, Google Photos is excellent at automatically categorizing photos.
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by danellis 6y ago
> everyone that didn't die is now immune How do they know?
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by danellis 6y ago
"Run anywhere" appears several times in the page, but it seems to be a wild exaggeration, especially given the comparison to Java.
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by danellis 6y ago
I knew describing an SNL sketch as brilliant would turn out to be a wild exaggeration.
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by danellis 6y ago
> most of the 'stolen' things are actually just people getting blood/vomit/poop on things and being embarrassed about it so they take them home How do they know?
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by danellis 6y ago
Few people will switch, but those people may still end up running Windows on ARM.
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by danellis 6y ago
This reminds of the WebSQL spec being dropped because the only implementations used SQLite: > The W3C Web Applications Working Group ceased working on the specification in November 2010, citing a lack of independent implementations (i.e.
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by danellis 6y ago
What's newsworthy about this?
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by danellis 6y ago
They're still blocked, regardless of who is doing the blocking.
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by danellis 6y ago
At every company I've ever worked at, even if I recommend someone, they still have to go through the hiring process. No company would hire someone just because I said they were worthy. It's just lead generation.
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by danellis 6y ago
More than the root zone; it would have to have all of the TLD zones, and even deeper in some cases.
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by danellis 6y ago
Submitting your password to a site isn't the only concern. Downloading executables, for example.
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by danellis 6y ago
I doubt many people have networks so strong that people are just giving them jobs without them having to go through some kind of application process.
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by danellis 6y ago
Thanks. I'm visiting the UK, and I'm astonished at how many sites are blocked.
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by danellis 6y ago
The Go community had to do the same. Go. A language created by a company that makes a well known search engine.
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by danellis 6y ago
Have you never had anything billed to your bank account? You give them your routing number and account number, and they take the money directly. Some sites will make you prove it's your bank account by asking you for the amount of two
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by danellis 6y ago
Spending money from other people's bank accounts.
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by danellis 6y ago
> I'm surprised that the author equated embedded programming with IDEs! I think it depends how you get into it. I came to it from a hobbyist background, so using gcc and Makefiles was natural. But people coming from a commercial bac
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by danellis 6y ago
This is horrific. They're actually encouraging people to put their bank account details in public in cleartext. That's just asking for abuse.
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by danellis 6y ago
So, what, we're just advertising products on HN now?
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by danellis 6y ago
> after a couple of glasses of red wine, we deleted the production database by accident > It’s tempting to blame the disaster on the couple of glasses of red wine. However, the function that wiped the database was written whilst sober
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by danellis 6y ago
Worse—it wants $5/month from me now. I don't know why people bother with Medium. They can't be making much money from it. Is it really worth the cost of people not being able to read your content?
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by danellis 6y ago
> But what do I do for fun once there? "You" can never be there, so "you" won't do anything there. You are limited to your own body.
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by danellis 6y ago
> Can you please invite me to your Western society that celebrates idleness? You don't need an invitation to visit Western Europe, but I'd wait a few months.

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