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by jka 5y ago
(in hindsight I feel a bit like this was an apologist/acceptance-of-the-facts kind of comment. I don't think it's a great situation, and I'd love to discover that in fact, Tim Cook assembles 50x as many iPhones per day
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by jka 5y ago
You're correct about ease-of-use being key, I think. It was easier for "us" (the industry) to build hosted web servers, and so that's the paradigm that has won out. It's a direct evolution from client-server comput
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by jka 5y ago
This may seem slightly pessimistic, but I'd guess that C-suite folks have enough connection with the goals, vision and details of the business to feel like they are connected to day-to-day events -- including an ability to speak about
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Your point (1) is particularly good and Brian Krebs has a nice mantra that echoes it fairly closely: "Hang up, look up, call back". One small optimization if you can expect likely inbound communications in advance (either on your
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by jka 5y ago
(to clarify a little further in the context of that small FOSS project: at the moment the paperwork overhead alone related to accepting funds would likely not be worth it, on balance, from a quality of life / bureaucracy perspective; s
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Unless you have good reason to see any malice: assume there is none, because it'll be less stressful, and you're less likely to get into embarrassing self-defeating arguments. The incentives make sense for commercial companies to
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by jka 5y ago
No answers, but since you asked about ways to think about the problem, here's one interpretation: - An HTTP request is like a function call (a named function, with arguments as path/params/body) - A webhook is like a callback
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by jka 5y ago
This story seems fascinating - not hugely consequential on a grand scale, perhaps, but just a really weird and curious incident. Why would someone try so hard to obtain unpublished manuscripts and texts, with no intent to resell them on pub
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by jka 5y ago
Extrapolating from your comment (neither disagreeing or agreeing, primarily trying to provide additional resources for people to learn about and to help explore the option space): The history of ammonia production has led to a fossil fuel d
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by jka 5y ago
It is -- and it isn't -- fiction, but "The Crow Road" by Iain Banks has been useful to me to reflect on what inter-generational relationships and communities mean and how they develop over time. Enjoy your literary journey.
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(nb: may be inaccessible at the moment via https; worth trying http if so)
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If you like this kind of representation for recipe preparation steps, you might also enjoy "Cookbook for Nerds": https://www.cookbookfornerds.com/
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> it appears that right now Elastic is on its heals while Amazon is driving forward Perhaps - what are the commit/accepted contribution rates for the two projects like at the moment? (I'm not saying that's a perfect metri
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by jka 5y ago
Changes to Article 22 seem worth following fairly closely. As I understand it, the original EU GDPR Article 22[1] disallows the use of solely automated data processes that have a legal or significant effect on individuals. The Digital Marke
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by jka 5y ago
Without a solid and forward-looking understanding of the internal cultures of both Elastic (the company) and also the specific team(s) at Amazon that will be managing the future of Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, respectively, I think it&#x27
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by jka 5y ago
Broadly agreed. It's taken me a while to adjust to various different code review practices, styles, and environments, but in the end the opinion I've settled on is that no matter how frustrating it might seem to be to wait for re
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by jka 5y ago
Note that this covers the past year or two, and I'd mention in advance that most of these contributions were selfishly-motivated, because they helped other projects that I've been relying on: - html2canvas: because it met 99% of a
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GHTorrent – a scalable, queriable, offline mirror of data from GitHub's REST API(ghtorrent.org)
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There are a few comments in here that predictably suggest that simple static sites can handle large request rates easily. Sure, that's true - but to try to progress the conversation: how would you measure the complexity of serving web
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See also the EU's proposed ePrivacy Regulation[1], which includes some similar suggestions: "Simpler rules on cookies: the cookie provision, which has resulted in an overload of consent requests for internet users, will be streaml
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Incentivising Ethics: Managing incentives to encourage good, deter bad behaviour(transparency.org.uk)
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by jka 5y ago
Good food for thought - could you provide an example?
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There are some useful questions to explore around that; for example: Is there anything intrinsic about those tasks that means that control of those computing devices has to be rendered partially unto third parties by the everyday consumer
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A brief thought experiment, followed by a suggestion about how to combat the worst of this effect, in the unlikely case that it became true: Even if all of the content you're interacting with is managed and generated, it does still ult
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by jka 5y ago
Arguably massive altruism by GitHub, yes - although equally the cost savings and benefits of the resulting software to an entire ecosystem of technology companies probably dwarf the GHA spend here. It also makes me curious: how does the spe
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Thank you very much - I think that shows that (for the US): - in 2015 there were an estimated 118,290k housing units - in 2017 there were an estimated 121,560k housing units - in 2019 there were an estimated 124,135k housing units (note tha
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by jka 5y ago
Thank you - yep, there are a number of really neat recipe-related projects out there nowadays. It'd be excellent to combine some similarly-oriented canoes into a larger raft. Glad to hear from you at any point, and don't be afrai
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by jka 5y ago
Are there any statistics on the number of units of livable accommodation in the world, per country?
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A list of credit card numbers could be modified so that, for example, real people are not affected, and/or to add "watermark" card numbers that identify the precise origin of the dataset if it is ever used. Hopefully there ar
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I'd like to -- over a long period of time, and potentially with a few false starts -- gradually collect, analyze and turn public natural language recipes from the web into a more structured format. In parallel, I'd like to identif

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