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by erikb 9y ago
I would argue that without Musk's PR Tesla would be worth not 10% of what it's worth today. So yeah, he probably earned his seat at the time. I wasn't there though, so can't make a final judgement. Btw putting in work to
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by erikb 9y ago
True in most cases I'd say. In this case, even for $200/month and working hours of 60-80h/week I'd still argue most people would be proud to have this position. The learning, the networking effects, the constant intellec
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by erikb 9y ago
> > We also know that we all have a limited supply of willpower. > Actually it looks like that isn't the case after all. Huh? You mean you've read an article, or there are several independent studies showing what you say?
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by erikb 9y ago
This is a very important lesson for Michael Arrington and many people reading this can learn from it without losing too much emotions or money themselves: Someone, who claims this to be a cofounder of your business even once, is not your fr
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by erikb 9y ago
Well, let's separate between the marketing fluff and the actual value. Currently it's doing with AI what everybody else does: using more data to make more detailed predictions about numbered data (in this case money). That in itse
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by erikb 9y ago
So you don't just need my data, you also want my money. Great! (sarcasm in case it's not clear)
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by erikb 9y ago
This is pure advertisement. Please stop misusing our forum for ads.
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by erikb 9y ago
> Search, sharing, organizing into collections All these features does gmail already have for years. And yes, people also use gmail for file storage. AMP is a stupid idea, but it doesn't mean they do it instead of other features. Th
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by erikb 9y ago
And you couldn't have invested the time to write a second or third sentence summarizing it?
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by erikb 9y ago
I've put it in the second example. People can manage their bitcoins by themselves, but instead they let exchanges manage it for them. So all the problems of centralization (exploitation of users, market manipulation, big time theft, et
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by erikb 9y ago
The nature of single things is decentralized. Therefore every new era starts with decentralization. The internet started off quite decentralized, for instance. But do we really have a new era here? I'm not sure if with 32 years of age
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by erikb 9y ago
Another thread here summarized it quite well. All these expensive engineers need to do something. If it ends that would mean most of the employees have no purpose anymore.
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by erikb 9y ago
This thread here is obviously the wrong place to roll out the systemd discussion again.
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by erikb 9y ago
Please give some examples. This sounds horrible, but therefore also true.
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by erikb 9y ago
The author has really limited understanding of the enterprise world I believe. Email doesn't belong to a company? Nice one. It belongs to Google and Microsoft. And this kind of change signifies three things immediately: 1. Being terrib
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by erikb 9y ago
I think it's true that lowering your expectations will increase your happiness. But it will also decrease progress in the world. Happiness isn't the only thing one can strife for and not everybody should.
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by erikb 9y ago
Is that still possible? Around a year ago services like Netflix started to block VPNs to avoid exactly this usecase.
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by erikb 9y ago
I upvoted because you are explaining why you downvoted. My argument is, that they don't solve a new problem. Where there are already solutions it's fine (e.g. multiprocessing), but where there aren't solutions yet (e.g. low b
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by erikb 9y ago
I upvoted because you are explaining why you downvoted. My argument is, that they don't solve a new problem. Where there are already solutions it's fine (e.g. multiprocessing), but where there aren't solutions yet (e.g. low b
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by erikb 9y ago
Yeah the kool-aid stuff is really annoying. Btw have you checked out the details of systemd slices? I somehow thought it's nearly the same as docker, just without the hype. Just practical technology on the level it's supposed to b
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by erikb 9y ago
Well Linux is quite a monolith despite day-1 criticism about that fact. They call their style "pragmatism" and in some regards the market seems to validate it.
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by erikb 9y ago
It's really funny how you describe my job perfectly. It started as Hadoop bandwagon, and now it's Kafka/Big Data/Kubernetes. The basic idea of Kubernetes is really great. But it's not really finished development yet
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by erikb 9y ago
Containers are not there to solve a problem. They are there to produce buzz, then busy engineers, then bills, all packaged in a way that overloaded (and sometimes quite unskilled) manager can show something to their bosses. And in that rega
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by erikb 9y ago
I feel the headline is too attention-seeking. It is natural that if one side starts to develop a new technology and employs it successfully, that the other parties will follow as well. This changes the landscape, sure. But it's not thr
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by erikb 9y ago
Exactly, right?
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by erikb 9y ago
40M looking for 18F for some fun? I mean, the name is already not too well designed I'd say.
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by erikb 9y ago
Ah dang. SC3K would've been more interesting.
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by erikb 9y ago
> Instant messaging applications enable communication that is online, synchronous and on-demand. No. It's totally wrong. One needs to learn how to configure his chat tool that it doesn't disturb one in productive times, but is
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by erikb 9y ago
I also used to think that way. But in my current team we have lots of components that are maintainerless and attentionless since their maintainer left the team for another job. When he hwas still active we all considered this component impo
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by erikb 9y ago
I think it's also possible to snooze Slack notifications for a few hours.

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