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by jhancock 10y ago
Interesting. Since experiencing these troubles with Google Drive, I have been wondering how green the Microsoft grass may be ;) The key reasons we made the decision to migrate from our internal file systems were: * The old internal system
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by jhancock 10y ago
Its been a rough few months. I thought I had done significant due diligence last year. I read lots of docs, we wrote a bunch of test code and released test fileshare accounts to staff, had around 8 months of trial usage internally before
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by jhancock 10y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I'll give /r/sysadmin a go. Google tech support recommends posting to Stack Overflow and tagging it so their support folks can take notice. So far in my reading of lots of SO posts, the Goo
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by jhancock 10y ago
Apologies for the long post...this is a bit of a cry for help...is there a support group for programmers/admins that have been bitten by the Drive cool aide? My organisation did a migration to Google Drive (from internal Windows server
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by jhancock 11y ago
The U.S. Constitution is structured in traditional contract form. It starts with stating its purpose (preamble) and continues with rules to support methods of execution of purpose. It is not unreasonable that a U.S. President may consider
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by jhancock 11y ago
Here's one long running anecdote. I've been operating a self-published book site for over five years. All Chinese content. Some of the books are banned in China. Much of the content no China online publisher will touch. Baidu
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by jhancock 11y ago
I think if you reflect on "contracts mean nothing and guanxi with people in power is everything" you may find the seed to an answer. China has 1.4 billion people. There are many that will follow a contract or work with you to adj
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by jhancock 11y ago
Thanks for your level headed post. I see too many Western news articles on China that present an us versus them attitude. Its unhealthy as commentary (if not the articles themselves) often contain undercurrents or direct statements of nati
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by jhancock 11y ago
I'll put in a plug for Fairphone 2 https://www.fairphone.com/ There is so much to love about what these folks are doing.
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by jhancock 11y ago
Hello SmugMug CEO, I've received many emails the last two months about my credit card expiration. The problem is I cancelled my account a couple years ago. I have not gone through a couple of years of bank records to find when/i
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by jhancock 12y ago
This article is mostly about stock market numbers. Ok, its from Bloomberg. I don't think its useful to use words like boom and fade when your writing about companies that have been doing well for 10+ years: Alibaba, Sina/Weibo, T
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by jhancock 12y ago
Last year I added a touch of programming to my 9 year old son's home school activities. We tried several learning tools, starting with Scratch. I don't have anything negative to say about the various options we tried. However,
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by jhancock 12y ago
Seems to me erlang adoption has been chugging along just fine (with or without HN posts). There are some high-profile startups using erlang: WhatsApp and I think Facebook Chat is/was. There has been progress in cleaning up syntax, li
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by jhancock 12y ago
yeah...epoll and kqueue in my experience are easily interchangeable. I built a server on FreeBSD and the port to Linux was straightforward. My first event-based socket usage was on Windows NT around 1999. When we ported the server parts
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by jhancock 12y ago
three questions: 1 - Will you handle micropayments (i.e. not rake 30 cents on top of 3%)? Alipay excels at this. 2 - Can some/all of the RMB sent to the Alipay account not get exchanged to USD and auto transferred to the Stripe accoun
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by jhancock 12y ago
Thanks! I'll give this a try. My data is in mongodb using ruby/rails as a web front. Data structure shouldn't be too hard...its just books, users, bookmarks, and tags/genre. All have unique ids (mongo UUIDs for users
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by jhancock 12y ago
I'm looking for an appliance solution for the textbook example of users-books-genres recommendations. I've read articles and books that present this as a classic problem but haven't seen a packaged appliance that helps me p
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by jhancock 12y ago
see my reply to 'dengnan. Alipay has users' trust and to them it isn't a terrible experience. Alipay is a bit different than Paypal in the way it integrates with your Taobao purchases. Alipay, at least for Taobao purchases
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by jhancock 13y ago
I've been thinking along these lines for a while. For python-based, I think your toolkit is a good stake in the ground. I think Lua-based is very interesting. openresty is a great choice for replacing the simple glory of what Apache&#
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by jhancock 13y ago
Is there a Lua/openresty client on the horizon?
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by jhancock 14y ago
I worked at IBM in 1987. My group's secretary was AMAZING! I remember walking up to her one day. She could talk to me in English, chat to her girlfriend on the phone in Spanish and type a hundred words a minute on the Selectric through h
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by jhancock 14y ago
If being fully git/hg interoperable was holding back sales, I can understand their year-long investment. What is holding back me buying into FogCreek's products is tightly integrated Trello-Kiln-FogBugz. Hope you get to this soon. oh, and
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by jhancock 14y ago
Yes, it does seem reasonable to allow the defendant more choice on where they have to go to court. Is there some hack around the East Texas problem? If you don't sell your product in that area, would it be possible to avoid being brought t
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by jhancock 14y ago
Life sucks, yep. Low pay, yep. Management that has no idea how to run a business that creates intellectual property, yep. Here's what you may not know: There are a growing number of small to mid sized IT shops in China that need good talen
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by jhancock 14y ago
Good assessment. Shanghai is certainly rocking along. I'm in Chengdu these days at perhaps China's fastest growing software community...not the biggest yet, but its the up-and-coming place to do software. Its next to impossible to get Chi
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by jhancock 14y ago
Not to put elixir down, but if someone wants to understand Erlang, I recommend just suck it up and learn the syntax. Its so so easy to read once you get the hang of it. The learning curve is nothing like Haskell. Getting comfortable with
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by jhancock 14y ago
I'm a big Erlang fan. Its not "pure" functional. That's by design and although the syntax may seem foreign at first, its easy to learn and was designed to be easy to teach "telecom engineers" who weren't traditionally trained CompSci folk
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by jhancock 14y ago
Agreed. Cincom Smalltalk (ParcPlace's VisualWorks) is certainly not dead. Its a powerful system and keeps getting updates. Gemstone Smalltalk: there is nothing that competes with this unique approach to DB and code execution in a somewha
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by jhancock 14y ago
Smalltalk is two things: language and environment. Many langs have borrowed from Smalltalk the language. None provide the environment. The leverage this environment provides is something that has to be experienced to appreciate. The env
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by jhancock 14y ago
As near as I can tell, the author doesn't seem to understand the import of Chinese New Year. Happens ever year. No news here.

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