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by jsty 4y ago
I think it would be a fairly novel interpretation of "persons carrying on a business in common with a view to profit" required to catch out contributors to an open source project. Outside of a project that takes contributions &#x2
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by jsty 4y ago
I'm on the side of the original wording here as far as correctness is concerned - "has proven to be" is a common expression for "in our experience, it is", whereas "has been proven to be" would give the co
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by jsty 4y ago
> the Kafkaesque experience makes me think question our reliance on other Google services, like Cloud and Workspace This last paragraph should really give pause for thought to anyone at Google whose OKRs involve revenue from non-Enterpri
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by jsty 4y ago
> Clearly they have the budget for a 32M failure. I’m inclined to think they’d be saving money. The company would, but the relevant executive would be worse off. A $xx million consulting engagement failing is the consulting firm’s fault
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by jsty 4y ago
> it's not a criminal offence for an employer to ignore those rules if they're happy to take their chances in an employment tribunal I'm not an employment lawyer, but to the best of my knowledge this is incorrect - mass re
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by jsty 4y ago
Perhaps it's as simple as "blow another one" - since they propose constructing them in space one might keep the construction mechanism nearby to replace any that are prematurely popped
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Can transhumanism save our species?(theguardian.com)
3 points by jsty 4y ago|0 comments
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by jsty 4y ago
Hi Dom, Enjoyed your pitch at Thinking Digital last week, good to see it popping up on HN too! How do you get all the show data backing this - is it scraped from the individual theatres? (since I'm guessing there's no nice API ...
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by jsty 5y ago
This sort of "feels wrong" non-native yet grammatically correct use of language is precisely the kind of thing that would be fine on an internal doc where comprehension is the name of the game, but falls flat on its face on extern
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by jsty 5y ago
I guess I'd caution that there might not be an issue now in a strictly legal sense, but come trademark registration time Argos-the-retailer might decide to put up a fight. My more cynical side wishes to express that this would make the
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by jsty 5y ago
Major incidents aside, I always think that cache-related bugs are some of the most likely to go undetected since if you don't test for them end-to-end, they're really not that easy to spot & diagnose. An article sticking aroun
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by jsty 5y ago
> Amazon keeps boiling the frog with pricing Do they? AWS's pricing may be eye watering in a few cases - looking at you egress - but one thing they definitely get right from my PoV is rarely if ever hiking prices
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by jsty 5y ago
> How much rust software actually runs on those? Some of rust's most well-known and widely distributed success stories for a start - Firefox & Dropbox
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by jsty 5y ago
As a (virtual) pager carrier, you've got my vote to mandate it for every service!
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by jsty 5y ago
Their internal platform is likely analogous in terms of accumulating complexity (and a bit of cruft) over time though
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by jsty 5y ago
A bit easier but more or less as effective is redact on pc -> print -> scan Pretty much as infallible and saves a huge amount of scissor time.
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by jsty 5y ago
> outfits like Blackwater Unless the mercenaries are back and diversifying into real estate, I think you might mean Blackstone?
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by jsty 5y ago
If you click through to the interview topic [0], it lists another article [1] with exactly the same format of a large profile shot pre-article. Makes sense to me - it follows the usual style of interviews having a photo of the interviewee f
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Weird dreams train us for the unexpected, says new theory(theguardian.com)
2 points by jsty 5y ago|0 comments
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by jsty 5y ago
I think the problem with the UK is on the whole we never really got past seeing software as an administrative / back-office concern, which leads to naturally wanting to place developers etc into "low-paid, low-leverage" posit
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by jsty 5y ago
If your product has a lot of corporate customers, and paying yearly doesn't put them above their personal expense authorisation threshold, I wouldn't be so surprised - filling out 12 expense reports is a lot more irritating than 1
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by jsty 5y ago
It's not a special employment status. As a contractor in the UK you have fewer rights (pensions, notice periods, unfair dismissal, etc.) than an employee, but used to have not-inconsiderable tax benefits to trade off against this. Than
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by jsty 5y ago
Whilst there might be some gains from bringing everything under one roof, cutting out the need for shareholder returns isn't going to do much for the average ticket price - IIRC most train companies in the U.K. have long-run profit mar
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by jsty 6y ago
Well they don't "have to", but completely non-hierarchical / flat organisations have a habit of either (1) descending into anarchy, or (2) developing hidden hierarchies.
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by jsty 6y ago
> If we measure by view counts the things that are around the mean in terms of skill will be more popular. I would instinctively have thought material conveying the basics would be the most viewed in the long run - since skill is cumulat
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Google says the SoC is the new motherboard(nextplatform.com)
4 points by jsty 6y ago|0 comments
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by jsty 6y ago
If you're going against an adversary capable and willing to drop multiple zero days to breach you, let alone 11, I wouldn't wager much on a simple system wipe getting you back to a good state (iOS or not). Given the price of iOS d
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Stripe became a vital cog in the digital economy(theguardian.com)
2 points by jsty 6y ago|0 comments
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by jsty 6y ago
Until 2018 at least it was ... wait for it ... a single server! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496344 (Anyone know if that's still the case?)
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by jsty 6y ago
Every new Vim instance would show instructions on how to :q and a million StackOverflow posts would become redundant

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