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by gaius 8y ago
The connection limit in NTW was probably added to stop people going around even the very low $500 cost of NTAS It was added to stop people using NTW as an intranet server with IIS, since there was no way to count CALs that way.
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by gaius 8y ago
Additionally, I don’t think it’s reasonable to extrapolate from the mess that is systemd to all C/C++ code. Some fantastically reliable systems have been developed with them.
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by gaius 8y ago
It hinges on how plausible the scenario is that you can be a board member with a history of effortlessly mastering complex technical concepts, and all around you are whistleblowers asserting that the technology is a fraud, in which case you
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by gaius 8y ago
They were sued in the US by some woman who scalded herself when she spilled McDonalds coffee on herself. She was given millions.
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by gaius 8y ago
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/f35_fighter_engines... It's pretty common knowledge that the work was spread around for political reasons. Similarly everyone's avionics must be overhauled i
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by gaius 8y ago
The Erdogan government in Turkey? Negatory That would be super awkward, as Turkey is the only place European countries can get F35 engines overhauled. It boggles the mind how that was allowed to happen. In general there should have been t
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by gaius 8y ago
Then the player starts waking up at 3 in the morning because that's when the timer resets. This is a common technique for manufacturing commitment: if a person must suffer for a thing, they come to justify to themselves that the thin
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by gaius 8y ago
Same in the UK. Vote on paper, results within 24hrs, no problem for 100 years.
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by gaius 8y ago
I thought the youngest generation was pretty quick when it came to figuring out interfaces Watch kids deal with screens now. They will walk up and put a finger on it and if nothing happens immediately lose interest. They simply don’t do a
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by gaius 8y ago
I'm disgusted by these high-powered law firms using thuggish tactics to try to silence critics. The actions of Boies law firm, as documented in the book, are particularly egregious. Worse still is that Boies himself has a track recor
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by gaius 8y ago
Echoing some of the existing comments: Games and sites today are vastly different than they were 20 years ago. In the old days, the focus was on playability. Games were fun . But a new genre has emerged particularly in mobile gaming that
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by gaius 8y ago
another group that will actively oppose taking responsibility to learn about the new technology, and may actively work to sabotage or slow down the process Another perspective is that that group of employees was doing the unglamorous work
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by gaius 8y ago
You would think that someone out there would fix those problems at their companies and reap the rewards: an effective, highly motivated workforce. The fundamental problem is a misalignment of incentives: what is good for any individual ma
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by gaius 8y ago
she mentioned that there were team meetings where everyone was encouraged to say what they didn't like about others, in a public setting I have read that the Army Rangers have something like this, they call it the "beef circle&q
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by gaius 8y ago
they can get jobs in other FAANGs who pay just as well. There are no shortage of articles, just on this very site even, indicating that all of the FAANGs have weird, dysfunctional internal cultures. So it would be out of the frying pan in
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by gaius 8y ago
Reddit, most likely HN too. That would be stretching my personal definition of social media, but yes Reddit does publish figures showing it's pretty much exactly as skewed towards men as Instagram is towards women, very interesting.
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by gaius 8y ago
I see more women glued to instagram than men There is certainly some evidence that women and men use social media differently; Pinterest is 81% women for example, and only 7% of posts are by men. Instagram is 68% women. I don't know
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by gaius 8y ago
We'll win, but it takes time we'd rather not have to spend. In a fraction of the time, you could convert to Postgres, with the added bonus that doing so will also be massively more fun than arguing with lawyers. Below, you menti
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by gaius 8y ago
those providers offering Mongo itself as a service I can’t think of a single Mongo-as-a-service provider apart from Mongo themselves. None of the major clouds do it, neither do the also-rans like IBM or Oracle. So I call shenanigans on th
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by gaius 8y ago
the value of your SaaS derives primarily from MongoDB If that were true they could switch to Postgres and become 200x as valuable overnight.
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by gaius 8y ago
This is why executives go to strip clubs together. So they’ve all got something on each other, so no one betrays their cosy little club.
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by gaius 8y ago
You use their code for free and call them "idiotic or malevolent" when they make it harder for you to use their code for free. MongoDB is little more than mmap() attached to a socket. They would be nowhere without piggybacking o
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by gaius 8y ago
many people have poor impulse control Yes and no. I expect that most people’s impulse control is actually OK, in the absence of continuous advertising i.e. an obesogenic environment. Snack companies spend literally billions to psychologic
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by gaius 8y ago
It regularly astonishes me how easily people are willing to accept scientific malpractice with such excuses. Likewise. The BBC reports that 2/3 of scientific research cannot be reproduced. Let’s be honest about what that means: 2&#x2
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by gaius 8y ago
Internet access is essential. Now that is the voice of privilege! Clean drinking water is essential. A smartphone is merely a luxury and one that is not without consequences - just as cigarettes are a luxury.
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by gaius 8y ago
In many countries, it is illegal to under-fund your pension scheme In the U.K. Gordon Brown made it illegal to over-fund a pension, leading many companies to have to take “contribution holidays” when markets were buoyant. Surprise surpr
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by gaius 8y ago
billions of people would not have smartphones. But what’s the downside?
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by gaius 8y ago
have owned couple of google phones (Nexus and Pixel). Today for the first time ever I am considering buying an iPhone I was a BlackBerry die-hard until they switched to Android. A privacy-focused phone using a Google OS, what a joke. Swit
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by gaius 8y ago
De facto, not de jure. Perl’s COM module was excellent and made Windows very scriptable. This was back in the 90s.
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by gaius 8y ago
Kaggle

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