diego_moita

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by diego_moita 9y ago
Well, that's how capitalism works, right? Tower Records destroyed a lot of cool record stores. Wall Mart destroyed a lot of neighborhood grocery stores. Lidl and Aldi did the same in Europe. Barnes & Noble did the same for charming
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by diego_moita 9y ago
When you think about technology critics none seems more relevant today than Aldous Huxley. The traditional Hollywood criticism on technology goes along the lines of Frankenstein, Metropolis, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Terminator and Matrix: tech
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by diego_moita 9y ago
If you want depression I can give you a better one: Kim Kardashian's game made more than 200 million on revenue.
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by diego_moita 9y ago
There are 2 big flaws in your argumentation: 1) Tell humans their suffering doesn't matter. 2) A super-volcano eruption is several orders of magnitude worse than St. Helens, a scale that human history has not seen yet. It would affect
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by diego_moita 9y ago
There is a lot less ecosystem destruction than not doing it. First, you need to consider that, in the long run, that thing is going to explode and will certainly destroy a lot of ecosystems around the world. Second, the only ecosystem that
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by diego_moita 9y ago
He was presenting Azure and the browser was enable to parse a XmlHttpRequest. It could be an error on the browser or on the server side application. Because he is on the server side team he blamed the browser. Rule #1 of pointing fingers: i
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by diego_moita 9y ago
Canadian perspective here. We also had our troubles with separatism. Back from the 60's till the late 90's Quebec had very good and valid reasons to separate from Canada, mostly because of prejudice against their language and cult
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by diego_moita 9y ago
For someone that lived in tropical places it is very awkward to see those videos on Iceland Air flights promoting tourism to Iceland and advertising its "rugged beauty", with lots of glaciers, geysers, volcanoes and ugly cold beac
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by diego_moita 9y ago
> that doesn't sound like room and board to you? No, sounds like a job: do a task, get a reward. You do it, janitors do it. If the crows want...
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by diego_moita 9y ago
That is so cool! I'd suggest using eagles. In Southeast Asia thugs have been training monkeys to steal wallets, cellphones and cameras from tourists. We might get some know how from them.
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by diego_moita 9y ago
Honorable mention to the coffee grinders' manufacturer Baratza. They publish detailed instructions on how to repair their grinders, make videos showing how it's done, sell replacement parts and recommend service centers. [0] https
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by diego_moita 9y ago
> completely redefine the mobile ecosystem over the next couple of years. I object to the "completely" part. The key issue is applications, smartwatches are still a solution searching for a problem. The Apple Watch has a clear
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by diego_moita 9y ago
I beg to disagree. You need to be careful with what you accept. Little by little, small things pile up and make a big difference. Some examples: * Nasty managers. You go on accepting one issue here and other there and the guy will just get
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by diego_moita 9y ago
I see it more like instinct vs. reason. When reason fights instinct, the later usually wins. We get surprised when groups that we expect to be sophisticated behave exactly like Polynesian/Amazonian tribes or chimpanzees in the Congo. B
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by diego_moita 9y ago
I agree. My point is that when reason and instinct collide, instinct wins most of time.
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by diego_moita 9y ago
I believe you're 200% right. But, unfortunately, the irony is that the same mechanism that isolates conservatives on SV and liberals on oil companies is working here to isolate your good sense in Hacker News.
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by diego_moita 9y ago
I don't understand why is this surprising. Has there ever been any group of primates/hominids where deviating behavior isn't frowned upon? Every group prizes social cohesion. When a behavior looks threatening to that cohesion
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by diego_moita 9y ago
No it isn't, this is bullshit. As long as finance managers want to download their financial data from SharePoint to Excel, their reports generated on Crystal Reports and edited on Word and as long as finance managers are the ones payin
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by diego_moita 9y ago
There are a lot of things more crucial than climate change. There are towns with no building and zoning regulations, bad infrastructure for water drainage and few resources for tragedy prevention. Low taxes and deregulation are very nice in
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by diego_moita 9y ago
Scott Hanselman used to make a very good list, but the last one was in 2014: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDe...
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by diego_moita 9y ago
Not only that but also tooling (Visual Studio) and community development(Codeplex, Codeproject). The Android ecosystem is not bad, also.
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by diego_moita 9y ago
> "In the data-science community the sense is that whatever Watson can do, you can probably get as freeware somewhere, or possibly build yourself with your own knowledge" Any suggestions about the freeware?
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by diego_moita 9y ago
Searching on duckduckgo, "russian revolution" shows wsws.org on 80th place. Didn't show up for "proletariat". The irony: they prefer to cry wolf instead of doing SEO and don't want to be called a conspiracy the
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by diego_moita 9y ago
> Like gambling, nicotine, alcohol or heroin [...] produce short-term happiness with serious negative consequences in the long term Same applies to Big Macs, pizza, slushies, Cheetos, TV, seating, laziness, political pundits, marijuana,
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by diego_moita 9y ago
Dear UK secretary: your department lost credibility to talk about "real people" needs when the UK police helped Murdoch's "News of the World" to hack into "real people" phones. But I don't expect you
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by diego_moita 9y ago
In UK, Murdoch's "News of the World" hacks into the phones of hundreds of people and politicians continue the debate about privacy as if it doesn't matter. In US, Russia hacks into Hillary's email server and politic
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by diego_moita 9y ago
Comodo also gives free email certificates: https://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-ema...
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by diego_moita 9y ago
He missed the best maps of Europe: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*1VlEIWhT_tG4mYYiu...
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by diego_moita 9y ago
The key issue is how niche, rare and unreplaceable the skill is. If your skill is MS-Office then you're not niche and you're easy to replace. If your skill is Maya, Autocad or Oracle then you are a little harder to replace and you
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by diego_moita 9y ago
Again, here's HN with a Silicon Valley bias. This is not an unavoidable trend and is not global. Japan's work market isn't exactly like this. Germany's Mittelstands are eating the world precisely by buckling this trend.

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