lbriner

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Man left shocked as his house is 'stolen'(bbc.co.uk)
318 points by lbriner 5y ago|350 comments
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by lbriner 5y ago
I call BS. We already have about 100 times more laws than we have the capacity to prosecute so it's just noise. We already have laws about malicious communications but yet social media is still swimming with incredibly malicious conten
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think the example is very poor, it sounds like a atraw man argument. Asking about fundamentals in an interview is, surely, a given? I don't necessarily need everyone to know everything about everything but if I met a dev who didn&#x2
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by lbriner 5y ago
I agree, as long as the attempt at expertise is not at the expense of getting stuff done. I have met people who have a great grasp of foundational principles and it shows. I have met other people who take so long trying to understand someth
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by lbriner 5y ago
An apartment for $800K is understandable. A small bedroom @ $333K is not. If they already own the building, it is only construction costs whereas buying an apartment is possibly extortionate land or property prices from the current owner, w
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by lbriner 5y ago
Which is great except 50% of people are introverts and need space to recharge. How many people live like this in real life? That speaks to the choice of hanging out followed by "leave me alone". It sounds like an experiment but it
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by lbriner 5y ago
I have, although nothing deadly serious. I guess that SQL statements in a text file are not really the correct management tool for a production database. If we are needing to do these sorts of things, we should have an admin app or tool tha
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by lbriner 5y ago
Yes, in an ideal world but so many companies don't value the small details which can make everything nicer. I have spent the day trying to work out why a container runs in one environment and not another. I still don't because bas
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by lbriner 5y ago
..and the deluge of feature requests begins! Do you know what else would be a good idea? Lots of things. The difference between the successful company and the unsuccessful one is the ability to say, "not really the most important thing
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by lbriner 5y ago
How is it brutal? Dependeing on the job and the applicants CV/interviewing skills, it would be easy to consider that she/he is not a good fit for the company or the role. The fact that they have created their own site is not a ref
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by lbriner 5y ago
It's not in-human if you can't trust your drivers to do their job honestly. It won't be used everywhere but if you constantly wonder why some drivers seem to deliver far less than others and then it magically disappears once
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by lbriner 5y ago
All well and good but no company ever had multiple years of stock and in most cases you had more stock of some things than others so companies might have felt the bite later but they would still have felt it.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I have a friend who co-wrote a book on TCP in the early days and it still sells because it hasn't really changed much in the interim. On the other hand, how many times do you see something like Java 2.0 or C#2 books which are out-of-da
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by lbriner 5y ago
I don't think it is the costs necessarily but the availability of people with the right skills. Even with the money, you can't just magic up qualified mariners. Also, a significant amount of money is spent providing 24 hour cover
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by lbriner 5y ago
There are already gps-based systems that can do this on large ships but they are designed for open-water and can keep the boat surprisingly stable even in high winds as long as the ship has thrusters. You are right though, being by the dock
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by lbriner 5y ago
Yeah, there is an irony that in attempting an efficient model of updates, they have something that is often dog slow and not even that small to download. If you separate things like librariy content, you could easily package most things as
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by lbriner 5y ago
This is a massive problem for large windows hypervisors. We have to shutdown around 20 vms for about 40 minutes for the host to reboot after updates. We are looking to move to a Linux host instead but that is a big up-front cost to get the
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by lbriner 5y ago
Pile them high! Remember that if you have unusual books, you mostly have to sell in a shop otherwise those books don't get discovered. If you are just selling the latest best-seller, Amazon will mostly win on price. I went there last m
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by lbriner 5y ago
Experience is important. It is obviously much quicker to browse hundreds of books in-store. Amazon is cheaper (usually) if you know what you are looking for. Sometimes, books are cheaper, especially second-hand, in a store compared to Amazo
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by lbriner 5y ago
Of course they do, it's just they don't care as much as they do about profit. This isn't as bad as it sounds. If you don't look after your profit, you don't stay in business. That doesn't mean you have to mak
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think this about lots of products or programs. I doubt anyone complained about the tabbed interface of Firefox rather than other things but yet a considerable amount of time and resource was spent on changing the UI. Ditto for GMail, Micr
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by lbriner 5y ago
That's what Mozilla was originally. However, like many things, maintaining the very fast moving world of web is easier when you have a paid team, which leads to the business, which leads to corporate politics and thinking that a good C
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by lbriner 5y ago
I use FF at home and work and have done for probably 3 or 4 years. I think I can count on 1 hand the number of pages that have not worked and needed to be loaded on another browser. Mostly, it was horrible old sites that were designed for I
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by lbriner 5y ago
The argument is that by paying too much for one exec, you are taking away money that could be invested into the product either directly or via more staff with different skills.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I guess the argument against this is that some super-rich don't spent on th emainland or not even at all, just bank a tonne of cash. In that case, the overall income from tax would be lower than it is now. I don't necessarily agre
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by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is the same thing but insecure people like me find the lack of affirmation of others troubling sometimes. How many of us get upset/offended if what we think is a high-quality comment on HN gets voted down by a
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by lbriner 5y ago
You are right that the basics are often misunderstood but an Intro course this is not! Knowing what prime factoring is can be interesting if you like maths but definitely not required to understand on a practical level the difference betwee
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by lbriner 5y ago
No-one has mentioned the Egg of Columbus yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus A tale of something that is "very obvious" only after it has been done. I mean MP3 is about reducing information for
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by lbriner 5y ago
tbf, DDG can't know that they have no requests because they don't collect history, although that wouldn't be a completely mad assumption. It is also conceivable that their market share is simply so small that no-one the polic
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by lbriner 5y ago
True! Also, not everything can be described as right or wrong, true or false. Does current flow positive to negative or the other way round? Well electroncs flow negative to positive but current flow can be however you define it. If we al

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