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by innes 15y ago
This is funny - reading the title of this post, I thought perhaps it was being sarcastic. A few hours ago a number of tweets appeared in my stream criticising the BBC for being slow on the uptake WRT Libya. Maybe they've caught up by now.
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by innes 15y ago
Unprofessional behaviour from the host, but these guys should perhaps have employed a bit of professionalism too - I wouldn't be surprised if the 'perpetually indignant' twitter mode of address, and the tendency to want to summon up mob of
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by innes 15y ago
What are the twitter accounts of the customers? All I've seen here is a couple of DM's from the host and a couple of emails from the host.
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by innes 15y ago
I like HN coming to for the links. I just wish I could refrain from poking fun at the sensitive egos of some commenters... sigh. Must try harder.
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by innes 15y ago
Yep, to be honest I think we're agreeing.
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by innes 15y ago
Yes, that was the passive aggressive road, not the high road.
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by innes 15y ago
If I may be uncharitable, to summarise: Guy: Hey, look at me guys! I did a sorta hack where you can put money on a card and people with smart phones can get free coffees! Guys: Wow, that's... cool for some reason! It feels good when putting
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by innes 15y ago
I don't see how your elaboration on the history contradicts anything I said. This is all common knowledge. Totally understandable that Sun tried to lock MS out of tailoring their platform to Windows, and totally understandable that MS would
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by innes 15y ago
I don't think an old anecdote about GO/WfP sheds much light on the birth of .NET. Microsoft wanted the goodness of a managed platform, while having the freedom to evolve it and generally make it a) not suck as much as Java, and specifically
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by innes 15y ago
Link?
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by innes 15y ago
Anon's principles Very droll sir. Very droll.
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by innes 15y ago
I typed in CBM64 programs - not sure how helpful it was in learning to code though... 2000 DATA 103, 20, 122, 58, 53, 240, 188, 86, ... [ctd for 8 pages]...
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by innes 15y ago
Yes indeed. Maybe too deadpan for some.
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by innes 15y ago
Hmmm, somebody changed the title of this HN post from "AirBnB: Crimes committed against a host" ...
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by innes 15y ago
You're right. This has the fingerprints of Big Hotel all over it. It's clearly black-ops by a Hospitality-Industrial Complex team. Gimme strength...
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by innes 15y ago
You are aware that there exist nasty people? People who take pleasure in inflicting pain? That's the simplest hypothesis. There's no need to lurch into dark conspiracy theories without any supporting evidence.
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by innes 15y ago
Cui bono? On some level, the bad bastards who did it. Alternatively yes, of course. Building 7, Area 51, Chemtrails etc...
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by innes 15y ago
It's interesting in a macabre way - not the screeds of copy-n-paste so much, but the self-written sections.
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by innes 15y ago
Thanks for the heads-up. The problem with the Internet is that sometimes you end up reading things by people with inappropriate political positions, and it's not immediately apparent. Hopefully the addition of social networking features to
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by innes 15y ago
With the benefit of time and reflection, I now think that the term web scale is fine in this context and I was just being a curmudgeon. For what it's worth, which admittedly isn't much!
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by innes 15y ago
Implication of "NB" in this context: don't blame the author of the piece for the cheesy buzzword in the HN posting. I twig now that the author and the HN poster are one and the same internet celeb. So... sorry about that :)
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by innes 15y ago
The heading above the images is somewhat misleading: "Check out what these pushovers look like: Demo"
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by innes 15y ago
Not sure why I can't edit my post. Anyway - downvoted for asking for clarification on an unsupported assertion. HN at its most scientifically rigorous!
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by innes 15y ago
Hmm, actually global scale is wrong too - I retract that :) The problem arises regardless of 'scale' (number of users). To reiterate: the number of users (scale) is irrelevant to the issue of problem names. I can see why someone sprinkled
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by innes 15y ago
What makes you think that?
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by innes 15y ago
The naming problem is no greater proportionally 'at web scale' than it is at lower numbers of users. Used in this context, it's a cringeworthy bit of chin-stroking jargon. At global scale would be a more sensible. 'At web scale' doesn't m
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by innes 15y ago
NB: the nonsense phrase when operating "at web scale" doesn't appear anywhere on the linked page.
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by innes 15y ago
I know of no-one who does, technically challenged or otherwise. Also, I don't have downvoting rights.
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by innes 15y ago
No. Human rights are the same for 'brown people' - their concerns are as important as those of privileged westerners. Their plight is much worse than that of young white hackers in the western world. Western hackers can by all means massage
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by innes 15y ago
NB: I deliberately characterised the anger as misdirected, despite the parent thinking otherwise.

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