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by jcwayne 7y ago
> Good luck "translating" that into anything except an apologetic error message. I'm going to have to steal that line. :)
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by jcwayne 7y ago
I'm not sure about Word docs, but FWIW 90s era Excel files have become progressively harder to open.
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by jcwayne 7y ago
> The role of street trees in the urban carbon cycle is complex as the environmental costs and benefits of street trees evolve over the course of a tree’s life, with emissions associated with establishment often precluding net greenhous
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by jcwayne 7y ago
The vast majority of the general public has no idea that Amazon is a logistics company (I'm including AWS in that definition) that also happens to do retail stuff. It's similar to how GM was for a long time a finance company that
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by jcwayne 7y ago
You're forgetting the status symbol aspect of having the latest phone. It seems to me that fashion is a driving factor for far more people than any technical consideration.
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by jcwayne 7y ago
That may be true for small failures, but the AWS Status Page has routinely failed to report large scale outages.
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by jcwayne 7y ago
I'd like to see what the numbers would look like if all of the JetBrains IDEs were combined. Given the methodology, you can't just add them up, but I suspect, taken as a single entity, they'd be the top. That seems the more a
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Not an engineering question, but do you foresee trademark issues with Google Fi?
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Potentially around 40% [0]. More than I would have expected. [0] https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/data_tables/bap...
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by jcwayne 8y ago
The justice system deeply misunderstands both science and statistics.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Never fear, WePivot.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Sounds great, but I see nothing on your site telling me why I should trust you with my banking credentials.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
I give up.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
...and then hitting back 40 times to return to HN.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Looks like both Google and Facebook login are broken.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Interesting that you can't simply spin one up on your own; you have to contact AWS to get the process started. Maybe it's simply because of the amount of money you're committing to spend, but I find the possibility that they&
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by jcwayne 8y ago
I have a hard time taking seriously any analysis that states x is n-times smaller than y, with neither being a negative number. That's not how math works.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Trusting an OS from any government seems, to me, a foolish thing to do.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
This feels a lot like HashiCorp configuration language[0]. But more standards[1] are always welcome ;) [0] https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl [1] https://xkcd.com/927/
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Reminds me of Desert Bus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller%27s_Smoke_and_... )
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by jcwayne 8y ago
No
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Homepage currently returns a 404.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
Just wait until this starts impacting the parents' social credit rating.
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NYSE suspends trading in Amazon, Alphabet due to pricing issue(cnbc.com)
48 points by jcwayne 8y ago|6 comments
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by jcwayne 8y ago
> people without insurance or high deductibles get screwed. I've used the high deductible plus HSA approach since it was an option. I don't know if this varies by state or plan, but all I ever pay is what the insurance company
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by jcwayne 8y ago
> Now use Occam's Razor. Somehow I doubt that will result in less disagreement.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
The higher renewal charge is odd, I hadn't noticed that before. It's nothing like most of the TLDs, but it is nearly half of what they list [1] as trending. That aside, I'm still glad to pay a little more for the overall bett
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by jcwayne 8y ago
I've used Hover.com (owned by Tucows) for several years. In my opinion they are the anti-Godaddy. The things that should be free are and the extras are presented as just that. No trickery or beating you over the head with up-sales.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
This may not be a good thing, but it does seem to match what you'd expect the human attitude to be. Consider what the typical, initial human reaction to someone named Adolf would be.
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by jcwayne 8y ago
> You can see these elevated lines crossing Northern Brooklyn in this map from 1949: https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1... Using a Perl script to wrap a (non-animated) GIF of

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