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by herge 13y ago
Every time I see anything about OpenStack, it starts by listing all the companies that are backing it, and nary an example of how to start using it and what it does. Compare that to, say, AWS, which when I first heard of it, I saw example o
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by herge 13y ago
Github? Google apps?
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by herge 13y ago
Has anyone used any YouTube competitors? Ms. Hart wants to stream her videos through bittorent, but how much trouble is using vimeo instead?
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by herge 13y ago
You must be the dude still holding out on cell phones because of the microwaves?
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by herge 13y ago
He could, you know, not have released it as open source if he really wanted to screw everyone else.
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by herge 13y ago
That's great for the both of 'em, what about the other guy who quit his job and was not hired? He's now out at least 1 month salary as he needs to start from scratch.
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by herge 13y ago
They may count hispanics as white.
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by herge 13y ago
But according to the infographic, it is not part of the 'big six'.
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by herge 13y ago
Maybe I am very sheltered in my online media consumption, but if 6 companies own 90% of traditional media, it is shocking how little presence they have online. Neither Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumbler, reddit or more traditional bloggi
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by herge 13y ago
Google has debs working in Montreal and Toronto.
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by herge 13y ago
I imagine the poor sod who invented the shower just got blank stares for the first 5 years from people who wondered 'why would I ever give up taking baths?'.
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by herge 13y ago
IMAP doesn't search as fast and as well as gmail, and probably never will.
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by herge 13y ago
I'm sure your software engineer certification program will be way more successful and effective than government procurement certification program that certified these clowns in the first place.
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by herge 13y ago
It's a lot easier to give someone a raise than to cut someone's salary, even after explaining them all about how 1 bitcoin is worth more now than when he or she started working for you.
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by herge 13y ago
Man, you can't get no respect for Arrested Development on HN.
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by herge 13y ago
Could anyone have made this project succeed? Is any IT project of this size destined to fail? What private enterprise projects could compare in scope and size? Google's infrastructure? Facebook? Could they have succeeded if they hadn&#
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by herge 13y ago
Microsoft picks all the hardware, and corresponding drivers, that goes into the surface.
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by herge 13y ago
By that measure, Africa must be a hot-bed of critical thought!
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by herge 13y ago
The type of performance, guarantees of commercial support, and quality of product that only serious multi-billion enterprises like CGI federal can provide! There are no silver bullets in software development; all projects can fail. The only
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by herge 13y ago
It does make the code a lot clearer to read. There are a lot of other python packages that overload specific operators/magic functions to aid readability. For example, numpy arrays overload the slice operator to great effect. Also, on
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by herge 13y ago
I wonder how much money is wasted in the US in government bureaucracy between making sure people who claim social security benefits are due social security, that medicaid claimants are not medicare claimants, that food stamps physically go
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by herge 13y ago
Maybe TDD emerged from dynamically typed languages because it is so much easier to write tests in a dynamically typed language? When testing a statically typed language, you have to jump through a lot of hoops to create mock objects, shims
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by herge 13y ago
Reminds me of the story of Snapper lawnmowers and Walmart: http://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart
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by herge 13y ago
You'd feel more confidence in the security of the system if less people desired to try and hack it?
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by herge 13y ago
I think convenience trumps a lot of things. Look how quickly we switched from horses to cars. Horses are living animals which people probably had emotional bonds with in an owner-pet like way. Plus a lot of people, even to this day, love to
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by herge 13y ago
Most distributions use two binaries: ipython (for python 2.x) and ipython3 specifically for python 3, unfortunately.
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by herge 13y ago
If both queues are immutable, enqueuing/dequeuing is just creating a new queue with/without the element in it. So thread A and thread B can share the same queue, but will create two different queues (one for each thread) when enqu
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by herge 13y ago
Eh, not allowing that subreddit is just Reddit exercising their freedom of the press.
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by herge 13y ago
My family has a cottage in the backwaters of Ontario (although ~one hour from Ottawa). It's on a lake, but very off the grid, without electricity or running water. We have propane stoves, refrigerators, lights, etc. It's a bit les
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by herge 13y ago
Be wary of the local property taxes. Any construction will count as increasing the value of the terrain, which the county will often assess over it's true value. Keep an eye on the yearly value increases and don't be afraid to con

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