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by freshflowers 12y ago
It irks me that every time AWS comes up people compare the pricing with simple VPS providers that only sell virtual machines and a few bells and whistles. For starters, users that burn a lot of bandwidth probably don't do it by serving
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by freshflowers 12y ago
"Intellectual property" is just an artificial construct, has little to do with actual property and most certainly can not be "stolen". I'm disappointed to see such manipulative propaganda language used here.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
I doubt whoever funds it makes much difference to the victims.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
You don't have to arrest people to break them. You don't even have to touch them, or be on the same continent. That's the essential "evil" of total surveillance: knowing is already enough to effectively take most pe
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by freshflowers 12y ago
I would suggest you're over-thinking it. The essence of it is "we think you're a bot because you haven't given us enough private information about yourself". Exploiting that information is Google's core busines
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by freshflowers 12y ago
It this really a problem? Because most of us wouldn't want to work for a company with such a broken hiring process, it's a big red flag for a lot of other things being wrong in they way they treat their tech people. And those who
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by freshflowers 12y ago
As a hiring manager, I want those resumes as an initial filter. No, they don't say much about engineering skills, but they tell me quite a lot about a number of other things. Things like communication skills, priorities, attention to d
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Gee, thanks Amazon for making my spreadsheets even more complicated... I love AWS, but figuring out the cost/benefits of any addition to their offerings is becoming increasingly hard.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The same argument can be made for any mature language with a solid ecosystem of tools and libraries. Except the part about scalability, that's just BS. It has little to do with language and is all about architecture. Sure, at some poin
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by freshflowers 12y ago
As in most Western European countries, there are some very good reasons to limit specific immigration. Specifically the immigration of people that are hostile to the local culture, and act out that hostility through various forms of aggre
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by freshflowers 12y ago
It saddens me that any opinion that doubts the grand federal EU is almost automatically downvoted, regardless of the nature of said opinion.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Successful people have the luxury of isolating themselves completely for the consequences their actions have on the "little people". They can afford to be "nice" in person while their actions fuck over multitudes in way
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by freshflowers 12y ago
It would be a nice feature, if done with permission. (Which I wouldn't give it in a million years, but that's me.)
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Can we keep the hysteria down a bit? The resolution doesn't even mention Google. It merely suggests the European Commission looks into unbundling search-engines for fairly obvious reasons. It's just a resolution from the most toot
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The deliberate misrepresentation and/or willful ignorance about what the "right to be forgotten" means is pathetic. I really expect better from HN, regardless of whether people agree with it or not. Just some points: - Politi
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by freshflowers 12y ago
This entire argument is pure FUD. It doesn't apply to politicians, who have chosen to be public figures, and it doesn't apply to corporations because they aren't people. And nothing is forbidden. The right to be forgotten is
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Throwing the word 'censorship' around in civil rights issues is as cheap and meaningless as using terrorism and child abuse as an excuse for privacy violations.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Because the rights of American companies to exploit EU citizens should come before the civil rights of those citizens? That's sanity to you? If that's the American way, I would like to opt out.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The essence of privacy in the European context is that data about you belongs to you , unless it's in the greater public interest. Who do you think it belongs to?
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The same combination of separate issues keeps polluting the debate. 1. There is no STEM shortage, there's a shortage of a particular subset of STEM-related skills, most notably software development (which btw is a skill barely even tau
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by freshflowers 12y ago
It's a business tool, paid for by the employer. You shouldn't expect anything you do on there to remain private, just like you should expect your company mailbox to be private.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Throwing the term "SJW" around and suggesting to "stop being the bully or the victim" does not compute. Maybe you should take your own advice.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
It's an easy diversion to label any criticism a "witchhunt". It's a witchhunt if it's merely an accusation without evidence. In this case, Emil Micheal publicly confirmed the veracity of the Buzzfeed report and apol
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Because Uber isn't part of the SV crowd that works with the US government in it's push against privacy, unlike for instance Google and Facebook, who regularly work together with the US government to pressure entire nations into
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by freshflowers 12y ago
It's not so black and white. In many cases it's faster and cheaper (and more educational) to just start whacking and find out what the limitations are. Of course when you're operating on the scale of Netflix then, yeah, sure.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Impressive in how many ways one can phrase "not in your country, sucker".
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by freshflowers 12y ago
My general impression of Docker is that for most of us, it adds complexity with very little upside. Only when you have an already complex orchestration does Docker help you reduce that complexity. I'm expecting that to shift with both
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by freshflowers 12y ago
If you really want to learn to do this stuff yourself, I would suggest starting simple. Take a configuration management tool (I would suggest Ansible, which is a lot easier to use than Puppet of Chef) and an EC2 instance. Create, configure,
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Sure, that could be the case. Of course you would have to completely ignore the constant pattern of scummy behavior from Uber that is perfectly consistent with this particular incident.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
I'm tired of the fact that this debate has deteriorated into sides lead by extremists. On the one side there is the gamergate crowd, who despite their constant denial are fundamentally sexist and misogynistic in pretty much every secon

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