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by gaius 8y ago
RBS is the same in the UK, despite being majority owned by the taxpayer at the time !
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by gaius 8y ago
I believe it's much more important to design for migration between providers instead of designing for abstraction over providers Right. If you design to be cloud agnostic that means only using the lowest common denominator of feature
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by gaius 8y ago
I think it was probably self-delusional. The billion-consumer Chinese market was dangled like a carrot, just give up all your IP to a local “partner”. But the Party never had even the slightest intention of giving Western companies access.
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by gaius 8y ago
Have you tried OCaml? It’s higher-level than Go and easily produces high performance self-contained binaries.
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by gaius 8y ago
the language embodies an extremely rigid caste hierarchy of "skilled programmers" and "unskilled programmers," enforced by the language itself. Scala also has this approach, a sharp distinction between library-writers
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by gaius 8y ago
Anti-drone drones with nets to tangle the propellers, that’s what you need
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by gaius 8y ago
It's still 100% about how to benefit users for most teams I’m sorry, but pages that pull in several Mb of ads and tracking to show a couple of Kb of text the user actually wants are by no means constructed for the benefit of the user
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by gaius 8y ago
WSL has supplanted VirtualBox for actually all of my use cases.
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by gaius 8y ago
What are you implying?
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by gaius 8y ago
You should be able to use GDPR to force them to give you your data, probably not to reinstate services.
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by gaius 8y ago
GDPR holds that you own your data and are entitled to be provided a download of it. Not sure what the Canadian equivalent is, if any.
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by gaius 8y ago
Here is the dirty secret of Mongo: you always have a schema, you just don’t have any tools for validating it or enforcing it or manipulating it.
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by gaius 8y ago
learning" SQL takes a weekend...but then you know you'll wind up having to spend a lot longer learning the patterns of the language, SQL is a skill that rewards investment in it 1000x over, in terms of longevity. It has spanned
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by gaius 8y ago
Does anyone, even HR, have a belief contrary to this? I think probably most people believe that if they have a dispute with another employee that HR will resolve it in a “fair” way. But of course HR is only really thinking of which outcom
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by gaius 8y ago
No one should care about anything that happens on Twitter. It’s that simple.
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by gaius 8y ago
it has provisions to identify specific people from search queries It associates every query with a phone number, not sure what it does for desktops, street address maybe.
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by gaius 8y ago
Must be awful to be an American cop... the gun, the body armour, the training, the radio to call for a SWAT team or an actual tank ... and a woman in pyjamas terrifies you so much you have to shoot her https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by gaius 8y ago
Poor doggo! It should be a criminal offence to sell (or facilitate the sale, if you reasonably should have known, and Amazon should) of dangerous counterfeit goods. Hope he or she recovered.
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by gaius 8y ago
The name already seems to be used by a Node.JS module. There’s a bigrquery package on CRAN by Hadley Wickham that seems to have already covered this use case.
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by gaius 8y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-government-forcing... All stories reference the same Caracas Chronicle blog, it seems
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by gaius 8y ago
I recently bought a fast laptop for home use that has a 1070 GPU and the experience of using a local device with a GPU makes me regret many years of SSHing to remote compute Most interesting problems in my experience are constrained by I&
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by gaius 8y ago
would argue for licensing in fields where improper training can affect lives, safety, and welfare, e.g. Doctors, Mechanics, Engineers, Pilots, etc And software developers working on anything that handles personal data.
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by gaius 8y ago
the bureaucracy we have in government is used for ensuring these types of things don't happen. It's why there are committees, reviews, approval chains out the wazoo Those committees are very expensive, tho'. Every one of th
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by gaius 8y ago
it's not uncommon to share the car with another 4-6 passengers, as people are picked up and dropped off along the way I guess you have never been to Egypt or any other third world country where this is completely normal and not an ap
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by gaius 8y ago
Maybe Sumerian and Enochian are best left unspoken.
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by gaius 8y ago
Or Ernest Hemingway
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by gaius 8y ago
There is no such thing as “the waterfall methodology”. It was a strawman set up by the Agile camp to help peddle their wares. Everyone who was around back in the day knows this. If you want to know what methodology was actually being used p
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by gaius 8y ago
Show me a guy who says YAGNI and I’ll show you a guy who has coded their way into a corner that the only way out is a total rewrite. Why do you think webdevs throw everything away every couple of years?
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by gaius 8y ago
Like people with a loaded gun, sailors and officiers of warships think they are invincible and anybody else has to avoid them and not vice versa I don’t think anyone in any recent warship collision has thought that. Generally they were si
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by gaius 8y ago
What percentage market share does a Google product need to dip below to be culled? I was wondering this today when the G+ shutdown was accelerated - it was at 0.14%. Could this be used as an early warning sign?

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