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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Call me a pessimist but I suspect Google will just do both: Take the money for the Play ecosystem and continue exploiting your personal data for financial gain.
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Probably more likely: Override sensor malfunction while in the air. Kinda sucks if your multi million plane gets shot down because it couldn't fire a missile because of a 50 Euro sensor malfunction...
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Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance(aviation24.be)
217 points by jsiepkes 8y ago|125 comments
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BSD's, etc. not covered by MS patent pledge, only Linux(twitter.com)
2 points by jsiepkes 8y ago|0 comments
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
> For many years we thought the aggressive Soviet behavior during the war was a ploy to undercut American influence, or gain access to oil or warm-water ports. The new evidence suggests it was simply a case of bad crisis management. Neve
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
> The real thing that put Hitler in power to begin with was the horrendous war reparations Germany was saddled with from WW1 because it was "last man standing" on the losing side. I live in the Netherlands and I remember being
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Well for one because with the current leadership in the US there is for the first time in history enough incentive to actually push through.
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Package management was actually replaced with IPS around the same time DTrace was introduced.
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
You can do it with the restic server ( https://github.com/restic/rest-server ). Don't know if it is implemented in the S3 backend.
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
While everyone is of course free to start his/hers project there is a whole bunch of projects which basically does the same thing like: deduplication, client can append backups only, server side client backup rotation / pruning, e
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Oracle has been working on cutting EE loose for some time now. Its actually part of The Eclipse foundation now and its called Jakarta EE. There are a lot of legacy Java EE deployments so it will stick around for quite some time. Though in m
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
The TCK's have always been the center of much discussion / cause of friction in the Java community. Although most discussions were about the Java SE TCK, not the EE TCK. All this friction goes back to the Sun days. Apache Harmony
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
I never said they were off the table. I'm saying it makes no sense to replace Java with .net based on the reasons provided. Comparing evils is always hard. Oracle is definitely not my favourite company. However today this was posted ab
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
I have some doubts A.B.C.D.E would be the best ipv4 (semi) backwards compatible solution but the IP space problem could have definitely been "fixed" easier if that's the only problem you want to fix. Maybe a better question w
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Your suggesting .net as an alternative but ironically the licensing of Java is largely shaped due to the Sun vs Microsoft lawsuit. Microsoft tried to do their famous Embrace, Extend, extinguish on Java (and failed: https://www.cn
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
I wonder how much that really matters. In the end a brand has a certain amount of money it can "give" the grocery; They can give this money by buying shelf space, lowering purchase prices, giving marketing money, etc. But it the e
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
> Despite his numerous (and appreciated) contributions in the past, it has been very clear for quite some time now that he has decided to cease making constructive contributions to the Lerna codebase as well as actively and willfully dis
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
> Now, how are all these things that you mentioned actually relevant to your or me? Well that depends on the kind of person you are. To stay with my earlier example; I personally like the person who cleans my windows to not have to go li
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
If its cheaper because you found some way to circumvent labour laws and pit all the Joe average's against each other in a race to the bottom (like most of the "sharing economy" disruption does): Because it does not make the w
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Ultra bendable, flexible screens are here(cnet.com)
2 points by jsiepkes 8y ago|0 comments
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
I've always been puzzled by this; Nobody seems to care about Joe average. Even worse is that saying that you are "disrupting" Joe average's world / life is regarded as a good thing. All these ideas to disrupt all se
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
> To operate the facilities each year, $800,000 is set aside for security and on-site social services. I don't think you can trust a private company whose main goal is to make a profit to make social services and minimising negative
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
> While I have a good conceptual understanding of how cyberspace and the internet work He forgot to mention his epic escape from the cyber police.
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Same goes for Twitter, they wont delete your account either. You can deactivate it, but you cant have them delete it.
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Meh...the patch is a nice improvement and I can see why a CVE is allocated but I never considered my username a secret anyway. If you only allow strong auth mechanisms like public keys I don't really see how knowing someone's user
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
With ARM making chromebooks more powerful and therefore a better notebook alternative (and also Microsoft working on Windows for Chromebooks) and the security issues with Intel CPU's (which hit cloud provider especially hard) and AMD l
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Looks really cool! Though a simpler solution for most people will probably be OpenBSD's CARP protocol to share a single virtual IP between multiple boxes (with for example relayd). ECMP routing can get complex fast.
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Totally understand why they did it but couldn't help chuckling since 6 months ago in this blogpost: https://blog.buoyant.io/2017/12/05/introducing-conduit/ they literally said: "Conduit is not
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Buoyant's Conduit Officially Becomes Linkerd 2(infoq.com)
1 points by jsiepkes 8y ago|1 comments
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by jsiepkes 8y ago
Yeah Oracle DB has the most bells and whistles, sure. But other DB's have caught up far enough to a point where the cost (and potential lock-in) of Oracle simply isn't worth it any more.

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