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by itomato 7y ago
Rolling upgrades are nice on the desktop, where you are computing more and more in the Mobile paradigm, where all software disappears behind an app store gateway. Fine for the laptop, poor for the server farm.
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by itomato 7y ago
I prefer to look at the other side. Why the focus on acquisition with vague synergy? HANA drives SUSE adoption, but the Linux piece is relatively static compared to the tooling required to scale and manage these big stacks? I like to think
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by itomato 7y ago
Contract workers are "contractors". There is a clear deliverable and the worker produces it. Consulting is the practice of engaging a business/org/lob to address a larger, less clear-cut problem. M&A is for M&A C
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by itomato 7y ago
I didn't see any advice on becoming a vendor or otherwise making inroads apart from cold calls on FTE reqs. RFPs? RFQs? This is all about "freelancing" and subcontracting, and may serve as a helpful intro to the person who is
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by itomato 7y ago
8 1/2" drives are reliable (fast, too) if you're comparing to 9-inch tape.
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by itomato 7y ago
They are two different worlds. GNU readline enforces the keys you might identify with Emacs and other GNU components that make their way into your GNU/Linux distro bundle. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/man
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by itomato 7y ago
Until such a time as SystemD or Docker replace the standard shell.
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by itomato 7y ago
CNG is available and common in fleet use. The big complaint is about performance. CNG cars aren't generally as quick or fast as their gas counterpart.
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by itomato 7y ago
We have better than 'PBS for Social Media'. We (still) have IRC.
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by itomato 7y ago
Or an interest in disruption at any and all available opportunities.
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by itomato 7y ago
The last point is echoed in every IaaS and CM product. As with any "convenience tech", learning the underlying protocols is essential.
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by itomato 7y ago
Your startup on AWS is either capable of developing their platform in house or contracting one of many solution architects. They may be so lean they exclusively run lambda jobs and host from S3. This is a 24 hour learning curve.
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by itomato 7y ago
If software were as accessible on Amiga through a ubiquitous marketplace, things might be different. For a while, you could buy an Amiga at Montgomery Wards at an outstanding price. Software came from another end of the mall at Babbage&#x27
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by itomato 7y ago
The individual has rights to speak and, sing and write freely. If printing, a supplier has no obligation to provide paper or ink or typesetting. The same is true for music producers. Make all the Nazi Punk garage band cassettes you want, b
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by itomato 7y ago
...if you were born after 1976
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by itomato 7y ago
Glenn Beck used to host Radio before he was on TV and one of his gimmicks was a thing he called "The Schlub Club". His show spanned the afternoon and evening hours, so on some days he would announce a preposterous thing and say to
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by itomato 7y ago
You're perpetuating the myth that these alternatives are equivalent to their counterparts in the real world. Nobody chooses C# from outside the Microsoft walled garden. Same for .Net or Silverlight or Outlook. They are "Products&q
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by itomato 7y ago
They said it best: > "The open-source world would’ve rightly looked at us at the time as the antichrist..." Heavy PR campaign changed some minds, but the underlying issues remain. Win32 persists but the thinking that brought i
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by itomato 7y ago
One issue per billboard is a pretty fine ratio in my view.
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by itomato 7y ago
Google ceased to be a "web search engine" over fifteen years ago. Life as we know it depends on Google's products and services more than we ever did on Microsoft. They have Search, OS, Browser, Device and Service under one br
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by itomato 7y ago
Raspberry Pi composite video looks pretty terrible on a 5" B&W TV. I can only imagine what 2" (at 55MPH) looks like.
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by itomato 7y ago
As rendered by vMac transpiled with emscripten.
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by itomato 8y ago
Apps certainly have been for a long time. IE6 was famously (in my parts) known for being perceivably faster under Wine.
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by itomato 8y ago
It's the hurricane and flood insurance that are insane
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by itomato 8y ago
Yes, but can you imagine a Beowulf Cluster of 360 boxes?
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by itomato 8y ago
You have a Linux desktop. Linux is a kernel. Screen rendering, fonts/smoothing, OSK are not features of a kernel. It could not be more highly customizable, especially the "desktop interface". If your "desktop interface&q
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by itomato 8y ago
Understand your audience. Create a persona for your ideal candidate and go from there. Lots of advice in here to abandon norms. Do that if it makes sense your audience. Do something else if your persona is better served by a different appro
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by itomato 8y ago
How many people have you seen printing money?
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by itomato 8y ago
..that have stagnated and are now riddled with vulnerable components.
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by itomato 8y ago
Hatari was also the starting point for "Previous", the NeXT Computer emulator, and some code has been submitted and included from that project for 68030/040 MMU functionality.

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