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by kokey 9y ago
During the dotcom boom there were a lot of people attracted to the industry that were ill suited to it. I feel it's a bit like that now again. Then the dotcom crash came and many of those people lost their jobs in the industry but it
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by kokey 9y ago
Not just the risk of them jumping ship, the problem is that because mid to senior dev salaries are highly desirable it attracts juniors into the field who are not suited to the job but like the idea of working in the industry or the potenti
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by kokey 9y ago
My son is hyperlexic (and on the autistic spectrum) and he basically taught himself to read phonetically when he was 3 by watching youtube videos of phonics. I was not taught reading at a young age, it was considered bad to teach kids earl
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by kokey 9y ago
FreeBSD, where that one floppy was enough to set up a modem and dial up to establish a PPP session and then download the rest of the installation. All while allowing you to open another terminal to telnet to a shell somewhere else and pass
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by kokey 9y ago
I'm the same, but with screen. I usually have an iTerm2 tab for each screen session. I have a screen session on a work machine and one on a personal machine, each usually with close to 10 virtual terminals. I connect to both with mo
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by kokey 9y ago
Ruby has replaced Perl for me as that get-things-done scripting language on the system. It would be weird to go back especially now that Ruby has the right ecosystem and fairly good backwards compatibility.
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by kokey 9y ago
Personally, I think it's an issue that should fall under the legislation and authorities that deals with antitrust and with censorship. However, the big unspoken motivation behind network neutrality is people's perceived human ri
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by kokey 9y ago
After spending a rather long time without Windows and Outlook I've recently been using the current version of the desktop and web client. It's quite functional and the workflow and features work intuitively and it actually looks
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by kokey 10y ago
Well, it's not a bank, yet. Their banking license restrictions could be lifted next year. That said if they are successful it will probably go a long way towards disrupting the customer experience of retail banking. The banks will b
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by kokey 10y ago
Matt Levine's comment always stick in my head: 'I say sometimes that the tech industry is about moving fast and breaking things, while "finance is an industry of moving fast, breaking things, being mired in years of litigatio
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by kokey 11y ago
That might actually be a problem at the moment, mobile and web content producers making good money off advertising from other well funded startups in the B2C space (e.g. mobile), and all of the ad tech industry in between. It hurt when the
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by kokey 11y ago
I can see how hardware would benefit from someone taking a risk with investment. It's better to sell hardware at the price point it would be at if you are doing it large scale to test the market, even if you are selling it at a loss.
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by kokey 11y ago
Europe average R&D spend cross industry is just above 4%, but that's mostly pulled up by R&D on healthcare (which is closer to 18%). Without healthcare I think it's around 2%. I would hope to see them spend at least £100
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by kokey 11y ago
I would hope so with a £5.1 billion budget. That's more than half the FTSE 100 companies.
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by kokey 11y ago
There is something about the collared shirts. From my experience, I have seen more women in senior, specialist positions at large multinational enterprises like banks and accounting firms. It's also the only kind of place I've s
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by kokey 11y ago
That shouldn't be a problem if the trains are on time.
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by kokey 11y ago
I currently deal with a few disk failures every week, all on RAID6 (on Dell H7xx controllers) and a few RAID-1 on HP and Adaptec controllers. Mostly SAS drives, but a few older model SATA SSD drives (that are dropping like flies after lots
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by kokey 11y ago
Combining this with virtue signalling, it might be why many people are so surprised at certain election outcomes.
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by kokey 11y ago
are people worried about bond market liquidity?
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by kokey 11y ago
Funny, I bought BP after the oil spill and did quite well on it. I have found that bad news can hurt deeper and longer than anyone thinks, in that case I got it right. I tend to approach it as if I'm going to hold for ten years at l
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by kokey 11y ago
I can think of two good reasons. One is if they want to offer these for virtual desktop environments (as an alternative to the VMWare on Cisco UCS setups many current IBM mainframe customers run) The other to offer an alternative platform
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by kokey 11y ago
Thank you for that. I think this is very complex to explain without a lot of diagrams.
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by kokey 11y ago
I think Tesla is somewhere between Apple and Amazon/Ebay/Paypal. Trying to sell a desirable Apple-like product but at Amazon-like margins to try get wider uptake which is important for this type of product where critical mass is
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by kokey 11y ago
When I was living in Johannesburg where carjacking was rife, one of our senior managers went on a business trip to the USA. At some point he was carjacked, by a white woman. He is black, and his friends and colleagues never let him live d
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by kokey 11y ago
Well, it's bring-your-own-device friendly as far as you can run the thin client on your own device, to your virtual Windows desktop. I don't develop on my Mac, I prefer to do development for Linux and UNIX servers on a Linux deve
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by kokey 11y ago
Funny, I had JPMC in mind when I was reading this article. They're already relatively bring-your-own-device friendly and supply dumb terminals with virtual desktops at the moment, which is probably the best and most cost effective gen
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by kokey 11y ago
It's strange that an article about the potential scarcity of Arabica doesn't once mention the country where most Arabica is grown: Brazil. Not only that, the expectations have been improving because of improved conditions this ye
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by kokey 11y ago
I think the incentives are high enough for them to make it work, and those who can't make it work are not participating. The parents of the person in the article is probably also not that old and they have a network of relatives back
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by kokey 11y ago
I'm become a bit hooked on Levine, good thing he pushes out articles often.
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by kokey 11y ago
Will this also work as a 1 to 11M gearbox? If so it might allow a strong force (e.g. the weight of a large body of water) to spin a small electric generator. That will allow small scale hydroelectric storage for renewable sources. If not

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