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by kordless 11y ago
I argue frequently that the cloud causes cognitive dissonance. People want the ease of use and reliability of centralized outsourced services, but other people want data privacy guarantee and control of those services. If anything is a thre
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by kordless 11y ago
I've been kicking around the idea that "living a thousand lifetimes" is a highly inefficient computational process with little positive outcome. These wasteful thoughts are usually based on assumptions and the practice of spe
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by kordless 11y ago
Buddha would have fun with this, I think. :)
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by kordless 11y ago
> This observation fits together with studies that show the best way of maintaining mental harmony during mind-wandering is to be able to be aware of the fact that you are doing it Given that being aware of something is the primary inten
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Everything Gone but the Water(modernluxury.com)
1 points by kordless 11y ago|0 comments
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by kordless 11y ago
> unconstrained by a need to generate financial return AI should definitely be constrained by financial means. Computing, unbounded by financial constraints, will eat everything.
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by kordless 11y ago
This is so wrong. The title was send money with a text message . Regardless of the limitations of M-Pesa, over $25B in value was transferred with it last year, which indicates to me that it's useful and functional, regardless of what
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by kordless 11y ago
There are a few of these. :)
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by kordless 11y ago
That silo is still aggregating data. Trying to argue its "less" centralized by using quantification of the amount of centralization is still akin to dissonance. Clearly people here don't agree with this, but that's to be
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by kordless 11y ago
Self hosted analytics is still centralizing behavioral data on the users. It's not really any better from a privacy standpoint than GA.
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by kordless 11y ago
> Sadly, we didn’t like the answer to that question. “Yes, by using Google Analytics, we are furthering the erosion of privacy on the web.” The only thing "wrong" with using an analytics service to better understand your custom
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Kernel Load-Balancing for Docker Containers Using IPVS(blog.codeship.com)
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by kordless 11y ago
> What could you win? Firstly, your whole team will get an exclusive invitation to visit the Bank. You’ll meet some of the key people in our Projects, Data and Technology team. My advice would be to not share your ideas with anyone who w
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by kordless 11y ago
> Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic Actually, children are necessarily and healthily narcissistic. They need this to help them move from a codependent relationship with their parents to a
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by kordless 11y ago
For a variety of interesting reasons I wasn't surprised, but there were moments where I could see how other people could be surprised by it. I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff, so I saw it coming. The average Joe, well, ma
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by kordless 11y ago
You could argue data structures represent business models and that a startup's true nature is how their data structures are tied to their customer's needs. Or lack thereof, in some cases.
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by kordless 11y ago
I think "assholes" might be people who personally care AND practice direct challenges, but do so in a way that shame and blame individuals. Calling out mistakes is fine, as long as you don't assign biased blame to the person
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by kordless 11y ago
Before there was Addicted to Distraction , there was Hooked on Gadgets : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html
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by kordless 11y ago
Anyone who thinks they are a good multi-tasker is disillusioned. Multi-tasking requires context loading and unloading, which always seem to have some challenges associated with it that are less than obvious. Don't sweat it. Being able
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by kordless 11y ago
Read up on MSaaS or CaaSi: http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/09/goodbye-saas-hello-contain... . The promise of this stuff is that you run the servers and control what gets deployed, but the vendors manage the sof
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by kordless 11y ago
In Buddhism, nothingness or emptiness is actually a "thing".
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by kordless 11y ago
I immediately thought of this: http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/05/22/cisco-ceo-predicts-...
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Continuous Deployments with Docker Hub(blog.giantswarm.io)
4 points by kordless 11y ago|0 comments
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Continuous Container Delivery Using Docker Hub's Builder and Giant Swarm(github.com)
2 points by kordless 11y ago|0 comments
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by kordless 11y ago
I'm 100% OK with Slack, even through all this, but it seriously needs to be decentralized a bit. I'd like to see pricing on an on-prem version of it.
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by kordless 11y ago
Starting about 30 minutes ago, my Slack clients all started having issues connecting to Slack. It went from working to not working in about 10 seconds. I've also been trying to access the Slack Status page with little success. Their Tw
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Slack is Down(techcrunch.com)
63 points by kordless 11y ago|55 comments
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by kordless 11y ago
> Back to my point (I think I have one). Customers rarely understand the feature set and deliverables they need for a given use case when there is a major shift in the way the system delivers that use case. I've been working with a
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by kordless 11y ago
The primary problem with this approach is "suffering accountability". When 85,000 people die of car accidents, there's typically no singular group or individual to blame for all the accidents, in total. With a terrorist act
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by kordless 11y ago
Someone must keep the faith. Without it, we're all fucked. :)

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