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by edw 9y ago
I so want "iPad Pro + SSH client + keyboard cover + gcloud/aws box" to work for my needs, but I have yet to find a solution that allows ESC/Meta and all the common control keys to work seamlessly within Emacs in a way th
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by edw 9y ago
This submitter mines a lot karma by re-posting articles featured on Arts and Letters Daily (aldaily.com). I find that site far more valuable than HN for informing me in ways that make me a better programmer, businessperson—and person. As a
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by edw 9y ago
I wonder if the timing of Alphabet's spinning-out of Waymo was driven or influenced by a desire to, as much as possible, distance Alphabet and, more importantly, the Google brand from what they knew would become an ugly legal battle.
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by edw 9y ago
I disagree. If think it's the false sadness — er, "heartbreak" — expressed by the CEO in response to users being upset that angers Gruber. It's one thing to be a straight up sociopath and run your sociopathic business bu
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by edw 10y ago
Carl Sagan has written at length about the limits of the credibility-assessing heuristic you're following. There's a reason that scientists have been snowed by paranormal fraudsters while professional magicians have not. I know no
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by edw 10y ago
What is this Super that's referred to in this piece?
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by edw 10y ago
Invoking Mr Burns isn't necessary; the people screaming "bird murderers!" are often members of the NIMBY set.
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by edw 10y ago
Not yet released product destroys product available for purchase. Er, potentially destroys. I expect the rate of technological—no, human —progress to pick up appreciably once everyone breaks free of the ramshackle MacBook Pro's 16GB
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by edw 10y ago
The headline oversells the story in a way that makes its overselling of the story completely deniable. Reminds me of something… Oh yeah—of the actual behavior the story describes. Is this a postmodern meta-storytelling piece?
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by edw 10y ago
It's submissions like this that demonstrates the extent to which user-contributed news aggregators are amplifiers for the prior assumptions—and obsessions—of the users doing the contributing. My personal favorites are stories of the fo
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by edw 10y ago
Sorry, the Egyptian pyramids were build with tax labor, not slave labor.
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by edw 10y ago
Or, more recently: I've read that we have collectively lost the knowledge and skill necessary to build a piano with a quality comparable to the best ever made. (Wish I had a citation…)
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by edw 10y ago
Yes, I have known more alcoholics, heroin addicts, coke freaks, and all-around pill-poppers. I wonder if you think, my perhaps inapt essay-as-a-meth-binge-objectified metaphor aside, whether the essay was worth the length, because I am of t
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by edw 10y ago
It was also the name of the mind-erasing company in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. That is a much better way to learn that particular word than this content-free meth-binge of an essay.
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by edw 10y ago
At the risk of sounding cynical, there are also companies out there that want to _appear_ to be interested in all the things you just mentioned, so they'll hire a few people to do their [wave hands] data science, machine learning &quot
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by edw 10y ago
I think his point is that bloated, over-engineered Big Data systems—whether batch or streaming—are overkill for the vast majority of problems.
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by edw 10y ago
Amen right back at ya! (I love the O'Reilly book cover.) I highly recommend people read your blog post. And there's also this classic: https://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-th... I'll also
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by edw 10y ago
Back in '10, I needed a three or four node Hadoop cluster just to match the performance I was getting using a spare Mac mini in development mode when I was doing a lot of work in Cascalog, which is based on Cascading. Most problems are
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by edw 10y ago
HN is at times astonishingly driven by brogrammer conventional wisdom. Look at all of the "why I'm ditching the Mac because I totally need a laptop with 64GB of RAM" stories that got posted after the latest MacBook Pro got in
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by edw 10y ago
Have you considered getting into colo or other services that might reduce the capital expenses per dollar of revenue? Seems like there may be an opportunity there. I once had a 2U FreeBSD box at a local dial-up ISP, and it was basically fou
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by edw 10y ago
I don't want to second guess your strategy—but here I go. If your tool is appealing to developers _and_ you have identified a way to reach developers, then I think you should seriously consider focusing on that. Consider for a moment D
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by edw 10y ago
I would suggest that the first complaint can be generalized to "ORM is terrible." I would be surprised if there haven't been a hundred submissions (of at least twenty unique articles) discussing why ORM creates more problems
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by edw 10y ago
Try reading to the third paragraph before asking your "honest question": > SpaceX wants to launch 4,425 satellites into low-Earth orbits, with altitudes ranging from 715 miles to 823 miles. By contrast, the existing HughesNet s
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by edw 11y ago
_Ars Technica_ and Heroku, two sites that catered to the tech ninja videogamer-brogrammer demographic, both spent a lot of effort work walking back their light-on-dark visual identities when it was time to join the grown-ups. _Ars_ addresse
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by edw 15y ago
So Anonymous wants the power to fabricate — or destroy — history, facts, ideas, and so forth? Welcome to the dystopia!
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by edw 15y ago
I should have put quotes around everything following the first sentence and attritubted it to a hypothetical (and straw-man) tinfoil hat-wearing tau advocate.
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by edw 15y ago
I would add that this stupid tau thing speaks to the conspiratorialist instinct common to many HN readers. You see, the self-evident truth of tau's superiority has been masterfully obscured by powerful dark forces in an attempt to protect t
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by edw 15y ago
Thank you for your comment. People seem to have no idea what civil disobedience is. In addition to the good points you made, I'd also like to point out a couple things: First, this is not civil disobedience, it's corporate disobedience. And
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by edw 15y ago
What enterprise (and by that I mean a business with IT staff that wear khakis, have a cell phone holster, and call the business an enterprise ) is ever going to use Dropbox? The question answered itself even before the authentication, um
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by edw 15y ago
I wish I could make good money writing drivel like this. Here's his parting sentence, emphasized in the original to let you know that it contains Prodound Wisdom: "Therefore, continue using Dropbox for everyday file transfers where you valu

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