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by diebir 10y ago
This sounds true and similar to what I thought it would be, based on how laughably bad were the Russian "illegals" caught in 2010. It is virtually impossible to fit in having been born and raised in a different culture. Even simpl
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by diebir 10y ago
Oracle is set to repeat the trajectory of SCO. Their primary product (the Oracle DB engine) is being displaced by the NoSQL and things like Postgres. The "next generation" of developers equals SQL engines with "old and bad&qu
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by diebir 10y ago
Anecdotally, as a former H1-B worker, I would not say I was underpaid or the employer ever exploited the fact that I was on H1-B. From my standpoint it has always been a fair deal. Okay, the gist of the article is that H1-B should require h
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by diebir 10y ago
We have been through this. It is not like this council is anything other that Trump administration looking for endorsement from the tech industry. Do you seriously think that it would all be fine, if only Kalanick and Musk mentioned to Trum
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by diebir 10y ago
As an Uber employee and an immigrant I am very happy to see this. It's a good day.
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by diebir 10y ago
As an Uber employee, I would also like to NOT see TK at the Trump's "business forum". Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and others are staying away.
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by diebir 10y ago
RS-232 is invaluable. Give me a new piece of hardware and as long as there are 2 wires for the serial port I can port Linux kernel to it. I have ported Linux to a custom ARM board many years ago. Started with a boot loader written in assemb
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by diebir 10y ago
Taxi companies are "small businesses"? Like in NYC, where taxi medallions used to be a safe investment? I guess mafia enterprises are "small businesses" and taxi and limo companies are not far from those. Zero compassion
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by diebir 10y ago
At this point in time, those who don't support Linux are only hurting themselves.
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by diebir 11y ago
I highly doubt these Linux games will amount to much for Microsoft, but it's fun to watch. Their fundamental problem is (which they realize pretty well i seems) that they have lost developer's mind share. .NET may be a fine ecosys
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by diebir 11y ago
April fools. Coming next: Windows 11 will use Linux kernel.
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by diebir 11y ago
Oh, I don't have a good feeling about this... First, I am worried that instead of being able to just assume that "all of Java is there", there will be "no we just did a minimal install". Second, after watching the v
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by diebir 11y ago
For things that are likely to carry malware, use a separate account. Probably a good idea for a Bittorent client in any case. In practice, however, it is much easier to deal with malware if there's no admin rights. It matters even for
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by diebir 11y ago
1. Petition vendors to stop distributing .pkg's 2. Most packages can be extracted with pkgutil and then just copied into ~/Applications. It is infrequent that somebody needs to modify your OS and if they do, then they better expla
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by diebir 11y ago
First, obviously you can make an account for running the untrusted software, like Bittorrent clients (which are known to carry malware frequently). Second, most malware requires and counts on having admin privileges on target machine. The t
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by diebir 11y ago
This is a good illustration of why you should not install apps as administrator. Specifically, you should not install Mac OS packages, which allow for arbitrary pre- and post- install scripts to be executed as root. Same is true for Windows
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by diebir 11y ago
There are some interesting comments below the article. The article claims to derive Maxwell equations based on Newtonian mechanics (Galilean transformations), which sounded a little strange. I remember pretty well that one had to consider L
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by diebir 11y ago
Well, Apple software does kind of suck in some areas (tragically broken package manager is one area!!), but it is not too unstable. I have got here a 2 year old MacBook Pro. The uptime on this thing is usually around 60 days, at least. I ha
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by diebir 11y ago
Awesome, can we now move Docker somewhere ever further, where it can't be seen or found all together?
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by diebir 11y ago
This does not take into account the fact that IDEs provide massive amount of help for statically typed languages and marginal to no help for dynamically typed ones. For instance, every IDE I have tried fails miserably on Python. Javascript
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by diebir 11y ago
I would rather say "goodbye docker", period. Having used it a bit, I have concluded that it is just not a very good or mature tool. Once you scratch under the surface, things cease to be easy or stop working at all. It makes you w
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by diebir 11y ago
He's not going to be the CEO for much longer. Quite probably, being too smart is detrimental to CEO career, but being obviously dumb in interactions with the media is not tolerated at all. There was once a CEO of Seagate that could not
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by diebir 11y ago
I suspect that regardless of how good a device MS comes up with, they can't win with the consumers, since Windows is strongly associated with the dreadful office computers and the IT-tyranny of the workplace. Who wants to use Windows a
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by diebir 11y ago
So, what can one develop using this beside "hello, world?" Can I build a cross platform GUI application? Is there a servlet container? How about an IDE?