jacquesm

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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   Holy fuck. Ok, this will change things considerably for some companies I'm working with that had moved their stuff to Azure. Thanks. More than I can express on here.
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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   I would say social media is any website where the connections between the participants are as important or even more important than the content. As soon as you get 'followers' it is game over.
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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   Youtube is a complete accident. If early browsers had simply properly embedded video and there would have been a reasonable device independent standard then we wouldn't have needed youtube at all. Any website would have been able to ho
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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   This is precisely the mechanism behind the 'eternal September'. And as such outlets dry up HN is attracting more and more of the overflow and will eventually go that way as well.
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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   I am happy to ignore the scrapers (I block them wholesale) and will probably move to something even more drastic in the near future.
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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   I see no reason why we could not bend it back that way. I have some friends that run a mid sized ISP that somehow managed to stay independent, they run fiber to the home and have a large enough customer base that it might be interesting to
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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   The no monoculture one is the big one for me. And I think 2008 is very generous.
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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   So, what are the odds of nukes/ground invasion/flyby being the cause for this (other than competence)?
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   by jacquesm 7mo ago

   That bar is screwed to the floor.
10. 640.▲
    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    > If anything it's astonishing that a program whereby China-based Microsoft engineers telling U.S.-based Microsoft engineers specific commands to type in ever made it off the proposal page inside Microsoft, accelerated time-to-marke
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    Don't they have an SLA? You can break that open if they don't perform.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    Why do you speak about yourself in the third person? Also, after this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341022 You continued to work at Microsoft and now there is this takedown? I'm no friend of MS (to put it ver
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    And is irrationally in love with nuclear power.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    > it's entire purpose is literally to make the website more enjoyable for the good users. There are people who actually enjoy using LinkedIn?
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    Because Google.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    > I think we should push back hard on behavior like this. Indeed, so I gather all of you have canceled your LI account over this? I never made one in the first place because it was pretty clear to me that this company - even before the a
17. 647.▲
    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    Not mine. And why do we say LinkedIn, it is just Microsoft, just like Github is Microsoft and a whole raft of other companies are just Microsoft in a trenchcoat.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    Oh nice, tell me what legal basis you will use to stop a takeover bid. Have a look at NXP and a whole raft of other absolutely critical companies whose shares eventually wound up in the hands of countries hostile to Europe. We have a whole
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    So, here you are with your successful EU startup. This time you'll do things right. So you go and raise some EU VC in order to be able to fight off the SV competition. And miracle: it works, you are successful. You consolidate your EU
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    Thanks, that's a much better link. That original submitted link is garbage.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    The only way this war will ever end is when either Gaza or Israel has disappeared. The colonists won't stop, ever.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    We don't do politics. We just do 'curious conversation'. /s
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    Uncomfortable truths.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    The main use of these certs is to give people that actually want to do their job a stick to hit their bosses with.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    > 2) My main beef is not with the US (I am not from US), its with Europe, for its spinelessness and inability to break its US dependence. Silicon Valley has an 'unfair advantage' in terms of capital available and the talent poo
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    I used to like chess and probably had a very good memory. But I never studied openings because I felt that those were 'other peoples games' and I figured the whole idea of playing a game is to have fun and see what you can do, n
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    You can't buy an inverter that is certified that doesn't do this. As well as a whole raft of other safety measures and grid quality measures besides. See for instance: https://www.netbeheernederland.nl/sites/d
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    I'll bet you could make it in a weekend.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    That other country has also people killing other people over a holy book.
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    by jacquesm 7mo ago

    > Just disable Microsoft/Google/AWS/Apple crap for them and they will be on their knees. The dumb thing is that there are people in the US that actually believe this. Apparently including you. It would destroy the US as a