johansch

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by johansch 10y ago
I kind of think Google will win over Facebook in this particular war, based on what I have seen so far.
902.
by johansch 10y ago
"and the only way to force individual voters to vote as you wish is to physically watch them vote." Yes, exactly.
903.
by johansch 10y ago
Nvidia has done a bunch of product release cycles where this was not the case lately. Kinda like Intel's depressingly bad "4-7%" single core performance increases, maybe a little bit better. This is one I might finally want t
904.
by johansch 10y ago
E-voting is flawed by design. The voting secret is lost. (What is to stop the husband to control who the wife votes for, or vice versa?)
905.
by johansch 10y ago
It would also break software updates from Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. And like one bazillion apps that unlike browsers will not have any UI to ask the user to confirm if falling back to unencrypted channels is okay. I really don't s
906.
by johansch 10y ago
So you are calling those 133 people racist?
907.
by johansch 10y ago
This is commendable. Gawker is scum.
908.
by johansch 10y ago
Hello Erlich Bachman? Sorry, couldn't resist.
909.
by johansch 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism strikes again.
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Europe’s staggeringly large telescope project takes a step forward(arstechnica.com)
2 points by johansch 10y ago|0 comments
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by johansch 10y ago
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/08/how-googles-french-ta... "Google Inc. has a research-and-development contract with Google France. It pays for engineers to do Google work, such as coding for t
912.
by johansch 10y ago
Lol. Says an account's first message, created only to post this. Putinbots - you need to get better at your jobs. This is unprofessional.
913.
by johansch 10y ago
Hey, don't give Redmond, WA any ideas!
914.
by johansch 10y ago
Let me get this right. The place that got insanely rich because of software is trying to forbid the creation of software?
915.
by johansch 10y ago
Sorry about this. Russia just did what I referred to in my country so I'm a bit emotionally upset. Sweden is being attacked via the Internet by Russia; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11740587 for more detals.
916.
by johansch 10y ago
Might as well give the money back to the share holders.
917.
by johansch 10y ago
I did. It's way too heavy for no apparent reason.
918.
by johansch 10y ago
Just rembember to shit in a corner if you do visit.
919.
by johansch 10y ago
The Tim Cook version of Apple is all about milking the now, with no view towards the future. I think it was an insanely crappy decision for Steve Jobs to hand the controls of Apple to a logistics expert.
920.
by johansch 10y ago
Every current Mac laptop user: "Why the hell don't you release a retina macbook air? (A toy 'macbook' does not count.)
921.
by johansch 10y ago
Wednesday May 25 the Swedish parliament is scheduled to vote for the very controversial NATO "host country" agreement. In short this means NATO forces will be able to operate out of Sweden in case of a nearby (meaning the baltics)
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Swedish authorities in crisis talks over telecom 'sabotage'(thelocal.se)
2 points by johansch 10y ago|3 comments
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by johansch 10y ago
No, it's just anecdotal from my experience online. I do feel that I have felt a very heavy nationalistic response from americans in the past, e.g. during the time of that browser ballot, for example. This always struck a nerve with me.
924.
by johansch 10y ago
You pretty much fit the description of a financially irresponsible person, I have to say, I'm afraid. (You seem to be aware too so that's good I guess.)
925.
by johansch 10y ago
In my experience many/most Americans dislike Google (because they don't trust huge companies that have lots of personal data - this is sane.). However, those same Americans will often become really hostile towards the EU if there
926.
by johansch 10y ago
Do you think of VC the same way?
927.
by johansch 10y ago
> Worked on many 10+ year code bases? Two separate codebases got 10+ year old while I managed the development on them, so, yeah. The latter one is something I started together with one colleague; it's now twelve years old and has 25
928.
by johansch 10y ago
This obsession about avoiding technical debt is quite strange. It's a tool to use when it makes sense, like loans in the bank...
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by johansch 10y ago
One example of a weird EdgeOS bug that affected their Edgerouter products: http://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Updates-Blog/EdgeMAX-Ed... (During boot the router was working as pure ethernet switch - i.e. in a ty
930.
by johansch 10y ago
I think Google would let us know in advance if they ever decided to retire AppEngine.

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