mdekkers

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by mdekkers 9y ago
People who engage in public discourse, should not be expected to have their identities remain private Public Discourse? Like online? Please do tell me the story of how your parents settled on "bb88" as your name. Very quirky, do
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by mdekkers 9y ago
This is aimed at the netbook market. This is aimed at making the Windows Store more relevant. MS is looking to be the gatekeeper with an appstore
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by mdekkers 9y ago
This comment is ahistorical to an extreme degree. The EU was not founded until 1993. You could not be more wrong. The EU was built from the ashes of WWII: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/history_en th
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by mdekkers 9y ago
In order to obtain the optimal amount of benefit, the family unit must already be in a disintegrated state, eg non-married, non-cohabitating, with offspring present. This encourages an anti-marriage, anti-stable family pattern. Doesn&#x27
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by mdekkers 9y ago
You are misrepresenting fairly benign statements, and I think you know that. Not at all. You randomly talk about "socialist legislation that encouraged disintegration of the family units." without giving specific examples. You a
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Remind me, how many years have passed since last war in Europe vs America? Make no mistake, America's main export is war. Europe? Central Europe has been at peace since WWII - thanks mostly to the EU. America on the other hand hasn&#
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by mdekkers 9y ago
tl;dr - humans suck at making decisions, news at 11. This article is devoid of useful content
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I am deeply excited about Tesla's cars, technology, and vision, and as things stand today, I will not buy one. How they can roll out brand new, very expensive car in this state, and tell the customer "take it or leave it" is
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by mdekkers 9y ago
"Agile Build Factory" Love it. Management probably thinks it is "cool, hip and edgy"
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I charge a 30% premium for my time on site. Working from a location of my choosing is more productive. When on site, I am endlessly harassed for meetings and chats and people coming to say hello (and oh btw can you help me with <insert i
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by mdekkers 9y ago
His behavior and abhorrent and there is no excuse. Does he owe you anything? Are you co-workers? Are you in his employ? It´s FOSS. If you don´t like it, walk away. The Linux kernel is his creation, his baby, and he runs the show. You don´
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by mdekkers 9y ago
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Dear USA, can we please have our gold back? Sincerely, Europe
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by mdekkers 9y ago
The same way everybody else does after a traumatic event: One day at a time. Not sure how the article fits with HN....
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I followed this for some time, and eventually ripped out the Mazda system and replaced it with a Chinese Android system that just did what I wanted.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Pretty much all software produced, ever, has been cracked. I suspect an "unlock" will appear soon.
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...Eyewateringly expensive
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by mdekkers 9y ago
My methodology for estimating a development project: 1: Ask the team for estimates on each dev task 2: Double the estimated time for each task 3: Add an additional 25% contingency overall This usually comes more or less on time.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Airline Well, sounds like they are doing a good job at their mission statement....
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Can't understand why it hasn't happened still. https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/4016 - I read this as "it´s hard, and we don´t care." took them forever to look at and reject a patch that
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I can't help but wonder whether this is all just a show, and not addressing any of the core issues that are needed to fix this That´s exactly what is going on.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Travel
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Get off of Upwork, now. You're only getting into a bidding war with low-priced overseas developers. As an ex frequent buyer on Upwork I can confirm, that place is the pits.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Nice comment, thanks. GigaClear etc are new to me. I left the UK 5 years ago, but was heavily involved in the telco business. Agree with your statement (and benefits) of heavily and fairly regulated monopolies.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
FTTC is copper FTTC literally stands for "Fiber to the Curb"
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Its not fibre. Its copper. Everything is copper. BT/openreach own all of the last mile infra Incorrect. Virgin´s backbone is fiber and they own their own last mile. BT has been delivering FTTC and FTTH for some time now.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
In the UK, there are only two or three providers actually providing last mile, and the majority of the 50 mentioned simply re-brand the BT/OpenReach product. All you need to become and ISP is a browser and some clients. Some of the lar
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Spark is a terribly inefficient solution to any known/stable data processing or analytics jobs. You gave a typo there. Spark is a terribly inefficient solution to any known/stable data processing or analytics jobs I have ever c
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Register for FREE to finish reading this article I don´t think so, clickbait
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banks, small armies of them...

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