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by kokey 14y ago
To me it sounds just like he framed what happened in the IT industry in most corporations from 2001 onwards in a 'IBM is evil' manner. Dotcom happened, bombed, local skills got paid less while jobs got shipped offshore or automated away.
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by kokey 14y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. I believe the ability to spot the error and bias in the one while being blind to that of the other is a good indicator of a person's own bias.
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by kokey 14y ago
I think what people miss is the fact that many scientists considered a 16 year lull in warming as very unlikely. Not impossible, but unlikely. It doesn't mean they have it all wrong or that it's just a hoax, and says nothing about the lon
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by kokey 14y ago
I've driven around the Los Alcornocales Natural Park in Spain, it's one of the largest cork forests in the world. The road on the edge winds a lot and I had to stop along the way from feeling queasy from all the bends which is unusual for
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by kokey 14y ago
The fact that several people commenting here spotted that error, and still managed to frame the useful part of the argument properly, has given me renewed appreciation for the HN community.
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by kokey 14y ago
I think it's generally full of gotchas similar to that of SQL databases like MySQL and Oracle. In fact, most of the issues mentioned in this article, like delayed replication, indexed queries and using 'explain' are issues I've had to deal
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by kokey 14y ago
I believe North Korea agrees with you, if one of their citizens set off UK nuclear missiles to attack UK targets, they would prefer to be tried in a North Korean court. You should respect their sovereignty ;-) Just to be clear, I don't bel
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by kokey 14y ago
From a very basic investigation by myself, I have found whiskey and water to be the alcoholic drink that's the least acidic.
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by kokey 14y ago
For sweetness, try rotating between non-fructuse sweeteners. like saccharin, aspartame, stevia, etc. I also find that Coke Zero is a nice way to cut down on sugar but still keep the Coke taste, and it's a lot less acidic than Diet Coke. Ho
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by kokey 14y ago
Most importantly, I think, is that you could employ a secretary or two for a year or two for the same money, and they would do the typing for you.
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by kokey 14y ago
Last night when I instinctively typed 'man ascii' on OSX and it came up with that man page, and when I do 'ls -lsh |sort -n' to sort files by size _and_ also have the human readable sizes visible, I keep being reminded that OSX is still ver
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by kokey 14y ago
There is something about Morgan Freeman giving $1m to the Obama campaign that I find comical, but I can't figure out why.
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by kokey 14y ago
For me, OpenVZ lacks most of the advanced networking features, e.g. GRE tunneling.
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by kokey 14y ago
Linode is Xen virtual machines and Edis is OpenVZ based containers.
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by kokey 14y ago
This whole article does feel like it was written in 2008, like the report it refers to. Many of the conservative boring corporations that used to have many underutilized servers in their data centers have been actively moving towards virtu
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by kokey 14y ago
This sort of thing happens all the time in business. There are a variety of common solutions, for example borrowing and repaying once prices are back to normal again, throttling demand in other ways, raising prices to the customer, cutting
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by kokey 14y ago
I read that as someone who really wasn't able to continue being a chemist into his 50s.
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by kokey 14y ago
I think pop music and bad investments both serve a very good purpose in society. It's to remove money out of the hands of those who are clearly too incompetent to have it.
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by kokey 14y ago
Nice, years ago I used to enjoy playing with Blogshares. I also started coding something similar to this years ago, while I was wondering how one could make money from it. I toyed with the idea of a virtual currency which would be a share
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by kokey 14y ago
I remember MCI letting you use something like 00000000000000 as your calling card, way back in 1994 I think.
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by kokey 14y ago
Not everywhere, just everywhere where supply of people wanting to work in a particular industry far outstrips demand. The entertainment industries always had this (music, film, television, computer games) as well as politics (where you hav
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by kokey 14y ago
I suspect this happens a lot. Many drugs should be dosed by weight and even gender yet we only see differential doses for adults and children most of the time. I'm smaller than your average male, so I often tend to reduce my dosage of cert
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by kokey 14y ago
I've also done a stint in big pharma, on the R&D side, running computational clusters for bio and chemistry modeling. The impression I got was that the majority of work was for improved science in order to create drugs that saves lives
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by kokey 14y ago
I think electric cars will only really flourish once self driving vehicles become more practical and common. That convergence, along with civilian drones, will expand and improve our options for transport immensely, while also improving ef
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by kokey 14y ago
Thanks! See, I should complain more there is probably a solution for all these things, even though it's not that obvious to me.
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by kokey 14y ago
I do share his frustration with the contact list on the iPhone. I also have over 1000 contacts, which built up over the years of painstakingly migrating them between models of Nokia phones, often having to write scripts to do it with. The
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by kokey 14y ago
How many people do you think are migrant workers? People who come from an area where that pay is a lot more than they get back home, work for a certain period of time before resigning. Then they either go back home or find a better paying
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by kokey 14y ago
The interesting part here is that they have 48 low paid workers with some good QA instead of setting up a robot to do a particular task. Setting up automation will become quicker and cheaper, forcing the labour alternative to become even ch
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by kokey 14y ago
That's assuming that in 5 years from now Windows is going to be the popular UI platform. If much of the program is not about the UI, then C is a good choice, since whatever finger nail mounted laser projection display computer will become
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by kokey 14y ago
I'm originally from South Africa, and I share your amusement with the British fear of driving long distances. That said, the drive I'm doing tonight, is only 73 miles and without traffic will take close to two hours. The roads and the tra

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