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by kokey 11y ago
I used the % on the calculator as a kid a lot. Then for about 25 years I didn't touch a desktop calculator and was thinking in 75 x 1.05, so when I recently tried to use the percentage sign it didn't work intuitively for me. I t
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by kokey 12y ago
I wonder if this is going to work out as well for them as working with Silicon Valley in the 90s worked out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
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by kokey 12y ago
It also means Amazon has massive room to shrink margin to stay competitive.
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by kokey 12y ago
It is also interesting to see a company using elasticsearch and riak together. I have considered looking into that combination after having some grief with riak 2.0 with a bundled in Solr.
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by kokey 12y ago
Experienced sysadmins knows that it's very likely for a successful application to be in place for well over 5 years. They will know this from having been the person who had had to take over such systems from others, several times. The
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by kokey 12y ago
I had a bad experience with riak v2. I think something went quite wrong in the process when going from v1 to v2, especially around Riak Search.
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by kokey 12y ago
The issue was probably something like a broadcast storm because of defective fault detection on some redundant network kit. That won't stop people blaming it on the fact that the stack isn't built on the latest hipster frameworks
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by kokey 12y ago
My thoughts were more along the lines of how does he get to rattle on with this level of detail about his history and style to an interviewer.
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by kokey 12y ago
I am starting enjoy imagining what would happen. Without much thinking people worry first about people losing their mundane jobs to machines, and the machine owners making bigger profits. The variables to consider run much wider than that
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by kokey 12y ago
The fantasy future presented in the introduction is different from mine. I don't think you will hear the car start. I think a car will be on its way to pick you up at home, and it will probably have electric motors so you are unlikel
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by kokey 12y ago
It's making me think that we're not in that tech bubble phase yet. We would be in a tech bubble when the incumbents also feel under pressure to be acquiring more aggressively. If this happens, it can cause a fairly significant b
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by kokey 12y ago
I got persuaded to join a start up full time, one I co founded years before joining the bank. In retrospect I should have remained at the bank.
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by kokey 12y ago
Yes, it was huge, and made up of a lot of units independently. They used to joke that the company was a technology vendor's delight, since they weren't very strict with what technology a department can choose to use, leading to f
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by kokey 12y ago
I worked for JP Morgan Chase a couple of years ago, as part of the main technology division for the entire bank. If I remember correctly, this 'IT department' had the same headcount as Apple. It was an interesting place. There
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by kokey 12y ago
Many European countries have a working holiday deal with Australia, that allows under 30s to work in Australia for one year.
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by kokey 12y ago
I think this will be great in industries where we like to interact with people. If robots cook the food and mix the cocktails, it will free up people to provide a better experience at the bar and table, with better food for cheaper, or les
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by kokey 12y ago
That brings some interesting questions. Like, will they use this power to use humans to do the jobs of robots, for fun? What will they use this wealth for? It can't be to pay for things because you wouldn't have to pay people t
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by kokey 12y ago
You shouldn't forget the impact of luck and the environment on people. For every successful band in their early 20s there are probably many thousands of better musicians out there that are just getting by. I also know a number of peo
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by kokey 12y ago
I always feel a number of important metrics are left out, either by accident or on purpose, when people talk about inequality. Most importantly when it comes to wealth itself, by most measures there is a very, very long tail of people with
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by kokey 12y ago
I got it from politics and Rumsfeld, long before I read Taleb. That said, Taleb certainly influenced, or entrenched, my approach to technology decisions. People often look at the known improvements a new technology makes over the known pr
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by kokey 12y ago
Reading about these tests on monkeys in a biosafety level 4 facility reminds me of The Andromeda Strain. I remember watching the movie for the first time a few years ago and saw how the strain killed a monkey. I was thinking to myself per
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by kokey 12y ago
It's refreshing to see more writing popping up from people that 'get' it. It's a shame that most of it is after people spent a decade campaigning for the wrong thing.
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by kokey 12y ago
Someone from South Africa also reported that he gets the same.
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by kokey 12y ago
In 2004, I had a friend who was in the UK on a working holiday visa and didn't want to have a 'normal' job, so he pushed the limits of how cheap he could live. He got a room in a reasonably good part of Bristol for £220&#x2F
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by kokey 12y ago
When I read the title, I thought it actually referred to an enterprise version of python. Something along the lines of ActivePython, where certain versions of the language and packages are supported. It's strange that the post doesn&
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by kokey 12y ago
I read this as a rant from someone saying technology hasn't come far enough, but spent decades of his own time not doing anything about improving technology for society himself. He sounds like a consumer, complaining about the servic
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by kokey 12y ago
I remember the bad VR helmets that were around during the first Descent, it's probably a good time to bring it back during a time of Oculus Rift.
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by kokey 12y ago
Have you read The Black Swan yet? If you haven't, it sounds like you might enjoy it.
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by kokey 12y ago
It's destroying traditional middle class jobs of his peers, like teachers, doctors, architects, etc. but I think he has missed the fact that the new middle class jobs are things like developers and data scientists.
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Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems(0pointer.net)
2 points by kokey 12y ago|1 comments

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