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by erikb 8y ago
It's Enterprise slang for "we are big, so we assume everything we do works better at big scale, but please don't check if it's true, just trust us". (in this thread it might be true, usually it isn't though)
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by erikb 8y ago
I was in a WeWork once for an event in Berlin, around 2015 I think. It was the weirdest experience I ever had. Objectively everything looked cool, elegant and comfortable. But it felt super fake, cold and inhuman at the same time. Also I as
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by erikb 8y ago
Why limit it to governments. Always when certain people have power over other people, they value a small advantage to themselves higher than a big disadvantage to the others or the general well being. It's not that all people are actin
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by erikb 8y ago
The political battle against Pichai made a success. So now the public support can be tuned down and Google can move on to do the only thing they could do in their current situation: building tools for the chinese gov to enter the market. Th
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by erikb 8y ago
It is not news that you don't get anything back. There is a documentary (forgot the name, but should be googleble) about how China created loads of fake companies to get money from naive investors. The problem with this whole situation
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by erikb 8y ago
This reads like putting 2010 knowledge about China and Trump propaganda in a shaker and then really go at it for 10 minutes. Dude, get an update. We are in 2018. Both Western and Chinese "fictitious overlay" to real market is so b
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by erikb 8y ago
I have experienced AMP only from the user perspective and always hated it since day one. Until now I don't really understand where it came from and why people would willingly enable it on their site. The first thing I do when I see it
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by erikb 8y ago
I guess that was around 2005? What does he do now?
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by erikb 8y ago
Is it surprising? We do the same and call this culture. A set of behaviour rules that we inherit from previous generations, don't really need to understand but can still use it to increase our survival and which slowly adapts to big ti
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by erikb 8y ago
There are such people and they have Youtube channels. However I wouldn't underestimate the desire of geographical exploration just yet. Even if you can easily travel everywhere this ball we live on is still bigger than any single perso
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by erikb 8y ago
Yeah, right? I had this experience in China. You move from being really far outside of what's happening and where things are and what people talk to almost being able to go anywhere yourself, talk to almost anybody and find out what&#x
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by erikb 8y ago
And you can't even bootstrap either in some situations. The basic premise is, if you're not rich you are not free. The good thing about the modern world is that you can choose your owner and switch between them when things go sour
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by erikb 8y ago
You can of course say no, but nowadays it's so common that you are unlikely to find someone who would make a deal without it. Basically it goes to show that the people who have the money are the ones who have the power, not the CEOs of
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by erikb 8y ago
I work in a big corp myself. If you worked on cloud foundry you probably worked with some of my colleagues. ;-) Please don't mention the name though, so I can speak openly. I see this in my corp every day. Very smart people, super inte
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by erikb 8y ago
> We are now starting to do some of our infrastructure on Kubernetes, much less headache. I bet you do it on AWS or GCP, right? Try on-prem, then check your headackes again. ;-)
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by erikb 8y ago
Why is it so hard to understand? a) re FaaS. Of course if you have an on-prem component, someone needs to take care of it. That's why it's on-prem. But still you can separate administration of that from the developers and have the
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by erikb 8y ago
How can you protect against such kind of scam on such kind of platform? An airplane can reduce the risk of falling down, but if you want to be protected(!) against falling down from the sky you shouldn't enter a big piece of metal that
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by erikb 8y ago
If it was "moved" then that might mean the $460k are included in the $806k. Don't ask me how that "moving" could be done, but they explicitely said "move" and explicitely said that it collected $800k altog
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by erikb 8y ago
Honestly it's a nightmare in every language. And I found in comparison to most other languages I've worked with (Java, Ruby, PHP, Golang) I actually feel it's done quite well. It's a super complex topic, it needs leaders
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by erikb 8y ago
And for each such professor that gets discovered there are a dozen still hidden and a hundred covering each other, all of the hundred three doing the same stuff, just slightly smarter. I don't believe anymore that this stuff is a new p
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by erikb 8y ago
Interestingly, while reading the text and with zero knowledge of the novel he's talking about, I always assume the text's author to be a woman. Does anybody know the guy? Are his novels also like this?
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by erikb 8y ago
Is Roadside Picnic from Russia?
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by erikb 8y ago
Well, well. You still have a lot to learn, my Padawan. The better answer is not "that's odd" but "we'll see". ;-) http://buddhistinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/12/well-see-zen...
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by erikb 8y ago
Can you explain how that works out? Like, do you have virtual checklists and for everything you experience over the day your head goes "check check check -> we must be in event X"? It's really hard to imagine. What I alrea
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by erikb 8y ago
Great that you put actual examples together. I like that. But I'm not sure if you can really improve the world through that. A lot of these problems are quite obvious and if people iwll still put their money into ICOs I'm not sure
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by erikb 8y ago
You sit with an old friend in bar, already quite drunk. You haven't seen this guys for years but now that you had such a nice evening you really feel like old brothers. Now he tells you about this great house he has and that he conside
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by erikb 8y ago
It seems like your qoute is a common saying but neither me nor google seems to really know it. So I would guess your downvotes come from not providing enough context about what you want to say.
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by erikb 8y ago
> I don't really buy the parent comment's insinuation that Microsoft GitHub would be more likely to fix it than GitHub previously If Linux would be a proprietary product, than post-acquisition-github would get a fix from Linux
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by erikb 8y ago
Just to give a picture how similar situations play out in closed source environments: They would have a key account manager who's live they would turn into hell. And depending on the size of gitlab's business in relation to the cu
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by erikb 8y ago
The speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k

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