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by me_again 7y ago
I'm having a hard time picturing a 1.5M LOC front end Javascript framework. Can you tell us more?
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by me_again 7y ago
IShares CRBN does something similar, I think.
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by me_again 7y ago
Wouldn't this make containers way more difficult?
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by me_again 7y ago
Taxing transit use directly is called a bus ticket. However when you provide unmetered road usage you also need to provide subsidies to persuade people to use transit, which is what transit taxes do.
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by me_again 7y ago
But changing policy at rapidly and at whim makes it difficult for businesses to invest in anything that has a longer payoff. I think on balance business people would prefer to have a fairly stable macroeconomic and regulatory environment. L
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by me_again 7y ago
"Dance like no one is watching; Email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition" -- Olivia Nuzzi
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by me_again 7y ago
They can issue as many decrees as they like but they can't solve the problem with decrees any more than they can decree that water is dry. All they can decree is that it is illegal to use effective encryption, which would be, um, unfor
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by me_again 7y ago
Many cloud customers have regulatory or business requirements that their data be held within particular regions or national boundaries. It should also help somewhat with latency, though in most cases CDN points of presence will be more crit
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by me_again 7y ago
I'm curious why you don't name your organization?
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by me_again 7y ago
I have a theory that commercially successful software development methodologies are like diets: they have to be almost impossible to follow. This ensures that when you fail to lose weight/achieve bug free software, you blame yourself f
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by me_again 7y ago
My manager gathered our team in a conference room to listen to the audio book of "Who moved my cheese". Which, if you're unfamiliar, is a lame allegory about how you shouldn't complain if you are fired or otherwise screw
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by me_again 7y ago
Yes but if everyone tries to take their all their money out of a single regular bank, the FDIC will cover it.
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by me_again 8y ago
No, it is not.
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by me_again 8y ago
There's something similar for PowerShell: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Start-Demo/1.0.1
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by me_again 8y ago
"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly" - David Hackworth
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by me_again 8y ago
The person writing the article was able to obtain data despite not even being a "real bounty hunter" (whatever that is). And it seems entirely plausible for a stalker/abusive ex/etc) to obtain the same data. So I think t
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by me_again 8y ago
Shameless self-promotion, but see also http://edyoung.github.io/gnofract4d/
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Please pay me to read your email for charity(code.dblock.org)
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by me_again 8y ago
"So you have no excuses not to build your CLI tools in Clojure now." Except that the toy program is 25MB and takes multiple minutes to compile...
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by me_again 8y ago
That sounds very interesting and cool. But the lower-tech approach in the original article sounds radically more practical in real terms than either drones or liquid-hydrogen-powered ramjets ;-)
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by me_again 8y ago
Discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8qb660/microso...
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by me_again 8y ago
Most US immigrant visas (h-1b etc) are conditional on not becoming "a burden to the state" so you would be deported if you tried to claim unemployment etc.
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by me_again 8y ago
Verifying a solution is harder than producing one. Identifying a flaw in a solution is easier than either.
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by me_again 9y ago
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/102182393150/... is a lovely philosophical rumination on this kind of thing.
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by me_again 9y ago
No, because he says he's supposed to avoid using it. It would be absurd to prevent a Microsoft engineer from using a Microsoft product "to avoid the appearance of impropriety"
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by me_again 9y ago
Skype for Business IS Lync, mildly rebranded. The executable is even called lync.exe...
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by me_again 9y ago
So now they lack lustre? I'll get my coat.
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by me_again 10y ago
Brooker's brilliant,misanthropic project 'Unnovations' seems to me like the closest spiritual ancestor to Black Mirror- even bleaker, if anything. It's disappeared from the web but still exists in the archive, https:&#x
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by me_again 10y ago
Actually that is an area the Gates Foundation is active in: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development...
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by me_again 10y ago
The quote much predates ESR or any other TLA'ed individual: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/22/stand-there/

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