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by hux_ 9y ago
I have seen the way Intel takes care of its important customers first hand. They are as pro as it gets. You won't find anyone better.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Software engineers haven't evolved enough to realize developers and engineering managers both are highly replacaleable cogs in a software factory. Until influential teams (Devs+Mgrs) that work well together learn the value of sticking
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by hux_ 9y ago
Of course it is ambiguous. You and the corn farmers both can make a case. I wasn't making a point about how lovable politics is, but why it's needed to the misguided character above who has reached a conclusion that "smashing
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by hux_ 9y ago
Lot of black and white, 1+1=2 type statements here. Politics is about dealing with uncertainity and ambiguity. The real world is full of it. If your parents can't stand each other but tomorrow you get cancer and this dsyfunctional unit
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by hux_ 9y ago
This is not some new problem. Airbus sells Planes in the US and Boeing in Europe. Both sides spy on each other. If Boeing finds out the Germans have their engine designs they sue and play their own dirty games. Whether it's Apple vs Sa
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by hux_ 9y ago
There is no right way to go about it unless your family is in politics. Every single character who has entered political life for the first time has to fight establised power centers.
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by hux_ 9y ago
How much time have you spent reading what Chinese people have to say? The American version of freedom of thought and expression doesn't seem to have any problem producing never ending wars, a surveillance state of their own, a dysfunct
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by hux_ 9y ago
Ah full text search...sorry my bad. I have been referring to much simpler indexes. All mostly sub 1GB that fit in memory. For Stackoverflow for example title, URL and tag indexes. Wikipedia - title, URL, categories, geotags. This has been w
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by hux_ 9y ago
The value of the long tail has been oversold I feel. My estimate based on my own usage for the past year and a half or so, of curating my own local indexes is about 30-40 million docs. This is the equivalent of having your own personal Libr
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by hux_ 9y ago
Offline search is the obvious alternative. Every cell in your body has its own data and search engine. It doesn't need a Google, Microsoft, Yandex, and Baidu. How come? Downloading a dump of Wikipedia or Stackoverflow and indexing it h
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by hux_ 9y ago
In India or any poor country with a large population you don't need hi tech scifi methods to control a population. The country is reasonably stable ie not falling apart like Syria or Venezuela because brutal systems of control are alre
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by hux_ 9y ago
Right. Now how do I send you a death threat?
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by hux_ 9y ago
Give me break. If you think perturbed politicians need digital IDs to silence people you don't know how politics works in the developing world.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Now do a little thought experiment - what do you think they would be reporting if Jira or whatever else did not exist.
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by hux_ 9y ago
You have to see it in the fact that people try. Jeff Atwood did not have to write this article. The guy has an establised rep. Is working on a well known project. He does not have to say anything. He knows as soon as he opens his mouth, abo
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by hux_ 9y ago
It's called faith. Faith that tomorrow will be a better day. Faith is hard work. People aren't taught well what it is, how to produce it and how to hang on to it when it's most needed. Doesn't matter which geography&#x2F
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by hux_ 9y ago
Nature doesn't have any great goal just like economies don't. They are just chaotic systems we pretend to understand to claim control. The temporary periods such systems achieve some temporary stablity is when heirarchies form. Ta
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by hux_ 9y ago
There are few known ecosystems, without a small bunch of apex predators. If nature hasn't figured out how to do it any different, given the time she has had, neither are we. If you are not powerful, make yourself useful to the powerful
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by hux_ 9y ago
If they had a weirdly large supply you can be guaranteed an army of recruiters from FB, Amazon, Google et al would be lining up at campuses the way they do in India. The only limitation these firms face in growing faster is getting their ha
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by hux_ 9y ago
Silicon Valley is trapped. Its narrative has basically moved from - why are ppl criticizing our magic, to telling regulators right now as we speak - yup we screwed up, but if we make the fixes for all these unintended consequences playing o
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by hux_ 9y ago
That's what the British thought about the East India Company. Then what happened?
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by hux_ 9y ago
American beliefs about their freedom are just that - BELIEFS. The underlying implication ALWAYS is the Chinese and Singaporeans or whoever can't think for themselves about what is good for their societies and therefore need American mo
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by hux_ 9y ago
Why is it important to burn the captions in? Can you expand on the social media reasons?
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by hux_ 9y ago
Why do you think your productivity is going to spike? There seems to be enough info being pumped into people's heads as it is, without them actually doing anything useful with it. Sure there is a great appearance of productivity but ta
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by hux_ 9y ago
Yup they are free to run cutting edge science and R&D and supply the world with free medication since they have it all figured out. The only reason they don't is...well I'll allow the expert commenter above explain it.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Factory assembly line produced shallow sensory overstimulation. Keeps the kids in their seats for 3 hrs. Mission accomplished. Might as well just sell syringes of dopamine or seratonin and ask ppl to jab them into their skulls. No idea why
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by hux_ 9y ago
It's not about people trying to hide anything. Or about one particular country. You can't shame or guilt trip people into doing the right thing. It never works. You can either pay them or reprogramming their minds. And both those
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by hux_ 9y ago
Well...they filed reports. You go to your local PD and you can find someone pointing at file cabinets full of all kind of reports. You will also find someone there ranting about how he is not getting enough funding to do his job well.
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by hux_ 9y ago
I would like that. A Google US competing against a Google Germany competing against a Google India etc for the global search market.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Interesting usage. Haven't played around with creating custom decks much. Looks like I should. Thanks will try it out.

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