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by johansch 10y ago
> Also slightly outdated. Yeah, cause PHP keeps getting more and more relevant each year! https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=php
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by johansch 10y ago
"Qualified terms"? What is that? Google hasn't heard of the expression, so I assume you just made it up.
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by johansch 10y ago
Subways are primarily unpleasant because of the (worst parts of the) clientele, not because of the rider density. Just the simple act of requiring riders to have a credit card will get rid of >90% of the unpleasant co-riders.
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by johansch 10y ago
Another A/B test casualty.
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by johansch 10y ago
Around ~2008-2010 AMD server CPUs were quite competitive, iirc.
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by johansch 10y ago
My slightly elitist view: I don't think (the vast majority of) the people using PHP should build Internet-connected software at all. The risk for massive privacy intrusions caused by programmer incompetency is too great, IMO.
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by johansch 10y ago
(The effects of acting on the results of) A/B testing is a scourge on society. I hate this hyper-measured/calculated world.
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by johansch 10y ago
This reminds me quite a bit of the awesome Kuru Kuru Kururin game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_Kuru_Kururin Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvUZXT_43k
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by johansch 10y ago
Sure. And a crunch time can last 6-12 months and be effective. There are many examples of that in product development history. I can't imagine that doing it for longer than that would work though.
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by johansch 10y ago
Oh, HN audience: how transparent you are.
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by johansch 10y ago
For the record: Greece is in a crisis because of the combination of: a) massive, pervasive tax evasion b) insane overspending in the public sector. Or, well, cooking the books. Also: Knowing what I've learned about Greece the past fi
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by johansch 10y ago
South Korea went even crazier and stole their consumer electronics business. (Both in terms of government subsidies and extreme working hours. And: contrary to the opinion of the united socialist workers of HN, extreme hours sometimes are s
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Autonomous Brakes May Have Stopped Berlin Truck Attacker from Killing More(gizmodo.com)
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Automatic brakes stopped Berlin truck during Christmas market attack(dw.com)
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by johansch 10y ago
Yeah, it's quite easy to imagine that their marketing and PR teams overrode the technical documentation team on this matter.
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by johansch 10y ago
I kind of dislike the attitude Raymond is showing here, to be honest. Microsoft did a very poor job of disclosing these very relevant (at the time) facts to programmers back then. I guess they still hadn't really understood the power o
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by johansch 10y ago
We all have a bunch of organs which are single-point-of-failures to our lives. It's crazy, I know.
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by johansch 10y ago
(Yeah; I meant Broadcom, not Qualcomm.) No specific allegations. I just find it odd that Broadcom apparently still sell these chips at a low price only (?) to the RasPi foundation - just because of a personal relationship - someone who work
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by johansch 10y ago
Ehm. Yeah. :)
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by johansch 10y ago
The details around the commercial relationship between Qualcomm and the Raspberry Pi foundation is lacking quite a bit in transparency in my mind. I guess that one of my suspicions here is that some people are making lots of money on someth
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by johansch 10y ago
This hilarious Scoble piece? https://virtualrealitypop.com/im-inside-tim-cook-s-head-but-... I wonder what he has been smoking. I love this sentence: "You pop it into a headset which has eye sensors on it, which enable
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by johansch 10y ago
Because you use AWS and they charge insane fees for outgoing bandwidth.
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by johansch 10y ago
(Since your profile page says where you work, and these pages do seem to use flexbox - right?) The sub-pages on this site are relatively bouncy to me during the first load. Example: https://www.intercom.com/customers Envi
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by johansch 10y ago
(Let's just hope the Cook era doesn't last as long as the Ballmer era - 14 years. It's been 5 years with Cook now...)
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by johansch 10y ago
Surely there must be a few suitable candidates at Apple waiting for Tim to screw up enough? I think Apple will need its own Nadella soon.
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by johansch 10y ago
Well, no, I am not. You are incorrectly extrapolating that from my argument. What I am saying is that from an regional economic point of view, throughput is more important that individual latency. In the context of widening highways. That i
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by johansch 10y ago
I often read that it's pointless to widen/improve the capacity of roads because increased traffic will swallow the wins (in individual transit times). I think that's the wrong way to look at it: I argue that the increased tra
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by johansch 10y ago
Brings back memories of MS-DOS oriented source code from the 80s.
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by johansch 10y ago
"Because of SQL Server’s long history on a single operating system, Windows, ..." It did come out of the UNIX-based Sybase SQL Server, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase I wonder if there was an OS
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by johansch 10y ago
From last time: http://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-wrought-venezuela-orde... "Inflation-Racked Venezuela Orders Bank Notes by the Planeload "CARACAS — Millions of pounds of provisions, stuffed into three-d

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