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by liotier 8y ago
They would kill if they could... And Amazon wouldn't if they were weaker.
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by liotier 8y ago
Really ? I remember seeing the big 14th July fireworks in Cannes from an aircraft on the Nice landing approach - I found it disappointingly small...
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by liotier 8y ago
> Imagine if your Linux laptop was restricted to the specific kernel version the particular vendor had decided to ship initially In older times, kernel patches for exotic hardware often tied the user to a specific version - of course a v
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by liotier 8y ago
Games mostly, some photography RAW post-production applications, an Android language learning application for some African language... Things I'll take as finished products and for which I accept giving up even the pretence of control
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by liotier 8y ago
Ignore the naysayers. I loathe having to trust proprietary software for anything critical or anything I want control over, but there are things for which proprietary software got my money... So focus on your market segment - elsewhere, as a
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by liotier 8y ago
Especially since the normal use of an APK intermediary is that one does not have access to a known good source such as Google Play
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by liotier 8y ago
> if you're not programming any more, how can you define a modern technical architecture ? Knowing one's limitations is key - I certainly won't get in the way of implementers. But functional requirements do drive some arch
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by liotier 8y ago
> your employer may want to consider hiring fewer programmers and paying them higher wages I do advocate a high-low mix with fewer people and a higher proportion of the higher tier, but the purchasing department loves low unit prices and
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by liotier 8y ago
Development requires analysis and programming. Some people are both analysts and programmers - they are the elite, not the norm. I can manage large business requirements, I write functional specifications and negotiate them with users, I pl
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by liotier 8y ago
> It appears that buyers prioritize lower upfront cost rather than better warranties, a trade-off that ought to be theirs to make. Not just an individual choice but a social choice too, therefore the State has a role to play. In trading
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by liotier 8y ago
> We have to pick up and drop off our daughter at her day care on a daily basis and without Uber I'm amazed that Uber is considered an affordable commute device. Is that a SV phenomenon ?
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by liotier 8y ago
Pro tip: dry shirt in your backpack.
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by liotier 8y ago
Troops in the field for long durations tend to have dress and grooming discipline more lax than what would be enforced on a base in peacetime. Special forces seem to have especially large leeway about that with their infamous "tactical
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How to kill your tech industry(logicmag.io)
2 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
Weaker in terms of processing power, but the robustness of telco hardware up until the mid-80's is ridiculous - over-engineering was the rule and did deliver excellent availability, though at high cost.
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by liotier 8y ago
> At what stage do Gazan start behaving like responsible adults rather than blaming the Great Satan? I stopped breaking your legs - at what stage do you start behaving like a responsible adult and run again rather than blaming me ? Also,
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by liotier 8y ago
> No one one wants an odd-sounding name Odd-sounding name are specifically what I looked for when naming my daughters. No one wants a banal name !
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by liotier 8y ago
Same - this movie brought back a lot of my memories of remote backpacker's camps among the palm trees on the Mozambique coast... It did a great job of capturing the human interactions among the backpacker crowd.
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by liotier 8y ago
> As a former F-18 pilot, I don’t think v2 of the Tomcat is what we need. Unmanned missile trucks are the future. "Tomcat v2" and "unmanned missile trucks" are mutually compatible assertions, considering that standoff
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by liotier 8y ago
> the value of centralized services like Twitter is the really interesting people I follow Same as that shitty club with overpriced beers... We go where the interesting people are and the bad ones kept under control.
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On Transitioning from Google Maps API to Leaflet.js and Openstreetmap(neilgunton.com)
5 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
Considering the existence of a two-years old thread at https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/4i5o1h/osm_f... this prototype is at least two-years old.
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by liotier 8y ago
> ///Maps > OpenStreetMaps Openstreetmap only supplies data - to use it one needs an application such as https://osmand.net/ or https://maps.me/
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by liotier 8y ago
Also, try https://osmand.net - great and getting better all the time !
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by liotier 8y ago
> I'm not sure why people are diving into modern techniques without knowing how to properly specify a simple (but powerful) regression model. Because math is hard whereas the ML hype carries the promise of effortless automagic - ove
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CIA archives document Agency’s decades of ASCII woes(muckrock.com)
1 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
and the 5GB binary has been aggressively obfuscated, with dead code, duplications, random jumps and weird coupling all over the place - and you don't really have a hex editor, just regexes...
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by liotier 8y ago
> techno parties that start at 9 PM But then all the old people like us will show up...
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by liotier 8y ago
> then use their own employees to go out and actually splice them into the previous lines or into an active network. Hahahaha - no. We use contractors for that too - no one who is outside our offices is an employee. GIS jockeys are contr
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by liotier 8y ago
... unless you have a "pre-existing condition"

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