enitihas

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by enitihas 6y ago
Can the US afford to blacklist TSMC from anything?
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by enitihas 6y ago
Your story is very motivating and the website is very fast.
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by enitihas 6y ago
What advantages does Mongo have over cloud managed NoSQL solutions lime cloud Firestore or aws dynamodb?
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by enitihas 6y ago
I agree with you. Anyone working in a big enough company should already know the difference between being at HQ where you are near senior leadership, and being anywhere else.
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by enitihas 6y ago
Sure, if you think human beings should be treated like disposable gadgets.
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by enitihas 6y ago
> You've made a calculation: my value to the company is greater than $150K, and $150K is a price you're willing to pay to leverage that value. You are in for some surprises then. Companies don't pay you just in relation t
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by enitihas 6y ago
I thought everyone knew it was the pseudo official Microsoft policy to extract as much data as possible. I mean if you use windows, you must be anyways used to something like this.
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by enitihas 6y ago
You have to realize that vast majority of India farm land owners are small farmers (very very small compared to US farm sizes). In my town and villages, 2 acre would be considered a lot of land for a farmer, and I don't even know if th
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by enitihas 6y ago
Netflix and YouTube are not even remotely comparable. The vast majority of Netflix traffic can fit into hardware appliances installed on ISPs, or in the cache of Netflix DCs, since the tail is very small. Plus Netflix is very expensive outs
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by enitihas 6y ago
Yeah, startups aren't going to magically make things cheaper than YouTube. So if any startups arise, they would follow a paid model most likely. Now that might be fantastic depending on where you come from. If you have disposable incom
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by enitihas 6y ago
> Imagine if Alphabet was broken up, Google search can still afford to run a research lab, as can youtube. It is far more likely that YouTube will go bankrupt, since running a free video service where videos are almost infinite and cache
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by enitihas 6y ago
What happens if Chinese big tech starts dominating the world? Since the US no longer dominates manufacturing, if the US starts losing in services too, what advantage will the US ever have on China?
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by enitihas 6y ago
>We expect them to open source things once good_will_value > expected_sales_volume for a given title/piece of software. The thing is right now Microsoft is getting into the habit of open sourcing things that hit that criteria, Wh
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by enitihas 6y ago
EA has open sourced tons of their internal libraries which are "more valuable than their products from a community benefit perspective." Just take a look at their GitHub. What "platform" of theirs has MSFT open sourced?
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by enitihas 6y ago
But Microsoft has not open sourced anything that was making $ for them. Neither windows nor any part of office, or any part of enterprise suite. What Microsoft has open sourced are things where similar stuff was already open source, and Mic
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by enitihas 6y ago
Quotes found on the internet do not have genuine sources. - Abraham Lincoln
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by enitihas 6y ago
You seem to be confusing dictatorship with instability. On your criterion Russia and Turkey would also be classified as unstable, which they do not seem to be. And off course, stability is relative. Compared to the current state of affairs,
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by enitihas 6y ago
No, the thing that Signal always aimed for was "Making mass surveillance impossible", and "privacy for the masses". If you remove the mass part, you remove the main goal of Signal. The experts can maybe fork Signal, or u
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by enitihas 6y ago
Sure, if a national treasure is found below your home, you think it's okay to kick you out without any compensation, because history >> individuals? Do you want to share the natural resources of your own nation with others for fr
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by enitihas 6y ago
The "hungry" looters getting food by selling them is a much better outcome then the rich "gentleman" taking pleasure by seeing them in a museum. Just because one won the genetic lottery by being born in a richer nation d
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by enitihas 6y ago
The Government was stable, until the US of A decided to bless them with freedom and democracy. Your logic is absurd. Should a rich and stable nation steal all things of historical value from a poorer nation, in the name of history preservat
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by enitihas 6y ago
The brain drain is heavy in the other direction (towards the US from elsewhere), and doesn't seem to be slowing down. As long as the US can pay far higher salaries than other countries, the social benefits are irrelevant for the high p
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by enitihas 6y ago
But nobody is asking for bullet proof software here. Nobody is asking perfect MC/DC coverage. If governments are so incompetent that they can't forsee a crisis like this even one month in advance, where even sanitizer hoarders hav
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by enitihas 6y ago
The quickest decision is random number generation. Should people go with that? Governments across the world had loads and loads of time. > Adding research capacity to ensure that governments have a stable of well-researched, thoroughly-v
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by enitihas 6y ago
So government can spend billions and trillions on implementing covid19 related policies, but can't spend any money on getting good data for the same? The fact that government policy is driven by some unpublished, undocumented, non repe
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by enitihas 6y ago
Google didn't pull it's business from the USA after PRISM, so I guess strengthening their networks against state-backed hackers is already part and parcel of their business.
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by enitihas 6y ago
I think most open source workers survive on their jobs only. Whether working for a Megacorp or a smaller company. HN loves to say people can earn via patreon, but I think you can count on one hand the number of developers earning anything r
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by enitihas 6y ago
I remember a comment from someone on the go team (bradfitz maybe) saying that the initial plan for Kubernetes was to be implemented in java, but go was chosen because it already had a lot of momentum in the container world.
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by enitihas 6y ago
Restaurants might not be lazy in their core business functions, but that doesn't make them non lazy on other matters.
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by enitihas 6y ago
PyCharm, by the virtue of running on JVM, doesn't take any more memory than allocated to it in VMOptions. So unless you go out of your way to give it too much memory, I am not sure PyCharm is going to take 14GB of memory. I am a heavy

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