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Open Source Code Will Survive the Apocalypse in an Arctic Cave(bloomberg.com)
7 points by hannibalhorn 7y ago|0 comments
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
I certainly understand why non-technical folks would like conda, but to me, it's 1) extremely slow to restore a complete environment and 2) hard to interoperate with, as it uses it's own compiler and toolchain. Personally, I'
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Yeah, venv's are a must. And to the article's "forgot to activate the venv" complaint, I highly recommend direnv. On top of activating the venv when (and only when) you're inside your project directory tree, you ca
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Stock trading is virtually free – why isn’t crypto?(qz.com)
2 points by hannibalhorn 7y ago|1 comments
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
> If I’d known you felt that way, I’d have had the Winklevoss twins invent Facebook. That made me chuckle!
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Not to mention the NYT is paywalled, and I suspect some folks might jump to conclusions before jumping through the hoops to read the article... :-)
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Pretty obvious, but maybe not clear from the headline: the Max was certified under the old rules. At this point, not sure it matters - it seems like lessons have been learned and overseas regulators (certainly the EASA) will never just rubb
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
> Look, I am pointing this out not primarily to make fun of SoftBank, which is easy enough in hindsight, but to suggest that these are really big changes. Not just for SoftBank! Fast-growing money-losing tech-adjacent startups under the
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WeWork: Sometimes We Flew to the Maldives(bloomberg.com)
2 points by hannibalhorn 7y ago|1 comments
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Ah, I remembered the $8.x B last quarter, but for some reason was thinking that was annual. Thanks for actually looking. :-)
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
$1B/year is quite a bit, would have been 4% of AWS's business. I suspect it will positively impact Azure more but havn't paid much attention to their numbers. Not that it's relevant, but I actually signed up with Azure
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Definitely - requiring a an extra header to access instance metadata on 169.254.169.254 does makes it harder for this kind of thing to happen, and is indeed what GCP does, but would obviously be a breaking change. Probably not merited by o
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Senators want FTC probe into AMZN server security [pdf](wyden.senate.gov)
3 points by hannibalhorn 7y ago|2 comments
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Correction: So the PEP said it'll be in 3.8, but apparently it's been postponed to 3.9.
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Sounds like PEP-544 is actually included in 3.8 on a "provisional" basis, which I guess just means they reserve the right to change the API. That's a killer feature for me, thanks for pointing it out!
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Jack of all trades, master of none. The article has a silly premise - I don't know anybody who would claim it's a great programming language. For the moment, it's just the most practical in certain areas (notably data scienc
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Libra Association loses product chief(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by hannibalhorn 7y ago|0 comments
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
> Lambda School co-founder Austen Allred envisions students coming back to his coding school every eight years or so to learn new skills. Eh... While that might be a good story to sell to his investors, most anybody worth their salt won
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
Good point - but with Apple, you're never going to have any concrete information until the day a product is officially released. Rumors are as good as we can get, and 9to5mac is pretty reputable, as far as those sites go.
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by hannibalhorn 7y ago
For everyone that hasn't seen it, reports are they've already decided to change the keyboard on forthcoming models. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353148 Edit: added "reports are&quo
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by hannibalhorn 8y ago
Isn't it ultimately a side effect of a decade of extremely low interest rates, world wide? If bonds were yielding something closer to their historical norms, buying and renting out homes wouldn't be nearly as attractive to instit
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by hannibalhorn 8y ago
What really jumped out at me in the article is that the "free" builds from Oracle are only going to be available for 6 months, and production use of the Oracle JDK requires a paid license. So if you don't want to commit to u
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by hannibalhorn 8y ago
I can't speak to Transity, but I use HLedger for my entity (nothing fancy, just a single member LLC.) I can keep my ledger in git, I don't need to pay for or even learn to use QuickBooks, I can quickly write a script to import dat
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by hannibalhorn 8y ago
Interesting in that you can host your own instance of their cloud server, but I really prefer something that uses standard cloud storage mechanisms (Dropbox, iCloud, etc.) for sync and works on top of that. Like others here, I'll proba
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by hannibalhorn 8y ago
Living abroad and using a forwarder ... I buy almost exclusively from Amazon just because I know it'll be easy. Pretty much anywhere else, it seems to be a 50/50 chance that they'll just cancel the order, half the time witho
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by hannibalhorn 9y ago
I already ran shred on the log to erase all traces, so I can't be more specific, but I know I did a fresh install (not an upgrade) of the whatever the latest High Sierra was at the time in mid-November...
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by hannibalhorn 9y ago
I can confirm I found my password in my install.log. I just zero'd it out, but definitely not an ideal situation...
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by hannibalhorn 9y ago
The right to summon the local corporate representative, legal team, etc.? Sure. Does every country have the "right" to summon a multinational CEO? That'd get crazy really quick, and I doubt it'd benefit anybody (beyond
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Twitter deleted 200,000 Russian troll tweets. Read them here(nbcnews.com)
3 points by hannibalhorn 9y ago|0 comments
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by hannibalhorn 9y ago
Manually, sure, but it sounds like the idea is/was to use an automated approach. I imagine many of the same techniques used by modern decompilers could be applied, and there's probably lots of information in assembly that is lost

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