kikoreis

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by kikoreis 8y ago
It's not that simple. Where public transport was already king, Uber and Lyft are harmless. But where public transport is still fighting for relevance and investment, they take the wind out of political sails by providing am alternative
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by kikoreis 8y ago
I think the BBC is pretty well regarded on HN; I can recall seeing many posts on the front page.
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It's an option. And it's disabled by default.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Are you sure you know you didn't? I don't remember wanting to help either but with 3 toddlers of my own I realize there is an innate desire to participate in household tasks in every one of then. I should ask my mom.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Except that's not really what break-fix support covers. Specifically, support doesn't typically touch your infrastructure; it provides advice, documentation and patches which a local team needs to actually implement.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Users don't read. We have warnings in my state next to elevators that read "Ensure elevator is at this floor before entering". This is literally accurate but practically ludicrous. The solution to problems of this nature is a
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Having spent a few years focused on this (and other semiconductor enablement-related problems) my guess is they have evaluated their own patent portfolios and the risk of their implementations triggering a war, and have concluded it was wor
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Where I have worked I am semi famous for a style of code review which almost exclusively is based on asking questions. A lot of the questions are around design rationale, because the "why" is often not captured. Questions can eith
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by kikoreis 8y ago
I started my career as a developer, working at Promon on the Tropico R and RA exchanges, and then shifted completely to Linux and open source development, which is when I founded my first companies. I don't really do a lot of real codi
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Yeah, that's how we have always hired, and I don't see a big problem with CLT (the Brazilian employment law), perhaps with the exception of how vacation time and union membership is handled. It's bizarre that the threads on t
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Since I can't downvote, I just wanted to note I find your comment really offensive. Is the current zeigeist is to devalue anything remotely Brazilian? My experience is the absolute opposite of yours. I've built companies here that
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by kikoreis 8y ago
I'm a Brazilian, living in São Paulo state. I've lived here for 35 years, and before that lived in a number of other countries. In my current role, I do roughly 50% international travel. There's only one thing I'm certai
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by kikoreis 8y ago
If it's a limited access beta version, restricting redistribution and benchmark publishing makes a lot more sense.
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But wow, what a beautiful place to end your life in disgrace.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Yes. Are you claiming some form of correlation?
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by kikoreis 8y ago
It's my country too, and I don't recognize any lies in what was linked. Can you link to sources for your claim?
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Sure but to create a login there is a transaction of consent.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Your post made me wonder whether I'm missing something obvious: what sort of global wallet platforms exist for underbanked users? Credit cards are the only platform I know to work reliably, but most people don't have them, and the
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by kikoreis 8y ago
I'm from Latin America, and I can't agree with that: lower middle class people don't tend to have access to credit cards. Besides, even for people who do have credit cards, the friction of using one for payment is non-trivial
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by kikoreis 8y ago
To me there was always a fatal flaw in WhatsApp's original business model, namely, lack of a viable payment method that could scale to the userbase they were targeting. Most people using WhatsApp don't have a credit card. Telcos o
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Server is based on a very minimal seed. There are no graphics drivers or anything X or desktop related. The seed is ultimately very close to what a cloud instance of Ubuntu will include if you want to give it a spin.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
You know how everybody is worried about machines taking over human jobs and the resulting unemployment? Well, sort of like Calvin's rant on never being able to die, I think there will be so much demand for staffing in the field of dyst
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by kikoreis 8y ago
“When it comes to execution, I think people need to understand that the death penalty is not a humane act.” -- Robert Dunham in http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180604-is-there-a-humane-w...
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by kikoreis 8y ago
You write the 60s, but wasn't the FKA passed in the 1930s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Kidnapping_Act
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by kikoreis 8y ago
(2014) Fascinating -- particularly the change in Ultima maps that I had never quite internalized. It's also interesting how analogous this is to real life, where attention to situations modifies our perception of time passing.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Those annoying dependency graphs provide both standardized visibility and also the ability to fix and patch components independently of each other.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
ABI stability to support binary-only loadable modules is probably the most important reason.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
I know what you are feeling, but there's a balance to making bug filing easy. For a large visible project, make it easy and the statistical noise drowns everything out.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
You have articulated brilliantly something which as a Brazilian disturbs me to no end. I despair seeing cities change their structure to accommodate the desire for segregation.
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by kikoreis 8y ago
Sadly heralding the end to an incredible run of blue boxing..

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