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by heresy 17y ago
You sound like me 10 years ago... I'm guessing you're in your 20s. Take advantage of the mobility and freedom of choice that comes with having no little people depending on you to bring home the bacon, as when that happens your choices beco
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by heresy 17y ago
Nice. But I have a difficult time seeing how storing "malleable" data like that, opaque to the storage engine, is going to be performant for querying. Must be nice to have requirements that never change once you've decided on a data represe
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by heresy 17y ago
Where do you as founders fall into this scheme? Or does a different scale apply to you? If so, fair enough. At a place I worked before, I was pretty embarrassed when I found out I was earning 15% more than a fellow colleague on the team who
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by heresy 17y ago
Have you used the internet from within China? Baidu cannot compete internationally on the strength of their technology. The quality of their results is sub-par, and subject to gaming if you have enough money to pay them. Their market share
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by heresy 17y ago
That's insane. How much are you exaggerating for effect? I have a hard time believing software engineers in the mid-20s can be so unproductive, or that any culture could be so accepting of such a thing. It doesn't mesh with my foreigners ta
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by heresy 17y ago
I don't understand why they need hardware acceleration just to reach almost-par with the existing browsers. Also, no UI work whatsoever in tech preview. One would hope they realize their competition is lightyears ahead of them UI wise.
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by heresy 17y ago
It would be possible in the U.S. because the U.S. does not think long term any more. Everything is short term, and a failure if not successful within a very tightly compressed timeframe. There is no vision or ambition in the U.S. any more w
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by heresy 17y ago
I've noticed something interesting about certifications. At least on forums I come across when Googling things in the Microsoft space, people with certs tend to add them to their signature, along with their little MVP badge. e.g. Jon Willia
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by heresy 17y ago
How do you "swamp" a configuration management master server? I've seen people manage thousands of servers with Puppet and not break any kind of sweat, what am I missing?
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by heresy 17y ago
Yes, but we've actually had to switch from threads to a fork() model for reliability reasons, in our main usage scenario. Our C# software has to integrate with buggy third party C++ plugins which amongst other things may crash or completely
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by heresy 17y ago
Wow, who still uses checks? Maybe I'm spoiled, because here in NZ it's pretty uncommon to use cash, everything is EFT or online transfer. I've not seen a check once since I came here. At most I carry $0-50 on me at any time. Also, transferr
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by heresy 17y ago
I have to agree. People in my country fret about our GDP per capita compared to some of our peers. They worry that we are falling behind, somehow losing out. If this is what losing out is, I'd hate to know how they'd adapt to my old country
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by heresy 17y ago
More accurate is to say that Apple is the only major consumer electronics company who actually checked up on their suppliers and had the balls to publicly state the problems they found. Every company who manufactures in East Asia is culpabl
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by heresy 17y ago
Heh. Where's that spare $20 million I have lying around for contingencies like this?
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by heresy 17y ago
The video on inflation covers how war has significant inflationary effects, but obviously focuses on the economics and not the morality of it.
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by heresy 17y ago
I don't get it either. I'm doing contracting on the side (here in New Zealand), and two weeks worth of work is around US$3000, if I'm doing 8 hours a day at my contract rates. I guess if they need the experience, but there really should be
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by heresy 17y ago
Way to miss the point. Korea was one very homogenous nation for several thousand years. So the dramatic difference in height between North and South now is clearly a product of the despotic regime.
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by heresy 17y ago
Agree totally. I'd be so screwed if everything I've done came out. Today, I'm a pretty law abiding citizen (if I break it, it is in ways that hurts no-one). I was a rather confused and angry teenager growing up though, and did a lot of thin
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by heresy 17y ago
Don't they realize how dumb they look? Their standard response to any criticism is to dig through things which have happened in the past as a result of US action, make huge leaps of logic, and then justify whatever it is they did in terms o
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by heresy 17y ago
Just how much influence does the US government actually have over the Internet and regulation of it, these days? Not much, I would have thought. But I think it's great that in theory, we could cut China off from the rest of the world, infor
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by heresy 17y ago
Excuse me while I take 5 minutes to not give a shit..
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by heresy 17y ago
How will they screw themselves by making Mozilla irrelevant? It's not like Mozilla in any way had any influence on their websites becoming popular, nor will they be affected at all if browser user agents change from Firefox -> Chrome. I
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by heresy 17y ago
Is it just me or does HTML 5 video support seem like a Google plan to leverage their video dominance into browser market share at the expense of Microsoft? Not that I'm complaining, the sooner Trident goes down in flames, the better.
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by heresy 17y ago
Right. Going from 0% market share to >30% in a couple of years is losing. Google was gaining. They had their most profitable quarter in China this last quarter. If by outclassed you mean being the best search engine for finding pirated
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by heresy 17y ago
Coincidentally, this is though to be one of the reasons why the Industrial Revolution occurred in the West. Because of the excess of cheap, expendable labour in China and India, there was never really any push for mechanization and automati
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by heresy 17y ago
"i hope to be working for a VC one day, ask me anything and i'll pretend to know what's up, and regurgitate information anyone can get by frequenting the right blogs and forums, while beating off to people divulging to me their hopes and en
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by heresy 17y ago
Damn those idiotic ingrates, I wish they'd get off my lawn.
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by heresy 17y ago
session lifetime is an orthogonal concern to the password. i just don't see it as a good idea to have the password be one of the inputs to the value of the session identifier in any way, which was my point. you can handle every scenario you
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by heresy 17y ago
Wow, great. Dead simple idea, yet clever. More of these startups please, and less of the social-network / ad-eyeball dead horses.
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by heresy 17y ago
Saner heads in the room prevailed (Chinese heads). And I'm glad they did, they did us a service. I don't want my country to be shipping out hundreds of billions a year to despotic regimes in the hope that there is a chance in hell the money

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