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by melted 11y ago
I'd argue that promising what you can't deliver is a mistake in sales, too.
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by melted 11y ago
Since when "Google Ventures makes a minority investment" means "Google makes a bet"?
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by melted 11y ago
Trying to cure cancer or Alzheimer's requires actual medical research, which is a money sink at the scale Google is ill prepared to tolerate. So it'll be some kind of data management one way or another.
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by melted 11y ago
Google did bet on healthcare once before. I don't know if you remember, but they noped out of that after about 2 years, and Microsoft noped out shortly thereafter IIRC. Once you nope out of something so suddenly, it becomes difficult t
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by melted 11y ago
Underpromise and overdeliver — that's the secret to professional success.
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by melted 11y ago
Oh well, then it's just an apt-get away. Same thing, zero dollars.
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by melted 11y ago
There's http://backintime.le-web.org , which basically does the exact same thing as Time Machine. Comes standard with Ubuntu IIRC.
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by melted 11y ago
NTFS-3G didn't have to perform well at NVME latencies and speeds. This has to, to be taken seriously.
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by melted 11y ago
I was just installing an older version the other day on FreeBSD, and having to mount (unmaintained) procfs was quite annoying. So after seeing this link I specifically went to their site to check what they mean by "cross platform"
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by melted 11y ago
How do you deal with hierarchical data and repeated fields? Do you support those in queries (a-la Google BigQuery)? Do you support aggregations?
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by melted 11y ago
That's how http://zfsonlinux.org/ approaches it. Maybe Ubuntu will just package it in the standard distro. That'd be a bit underwhelming if that's what it is. From what little I know about ZFS, its designers
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by melted 11y ago
Then perf will likely suck.
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by melted 11y ago
Contrary to popular belief Microsoft doesn't really care what phone you use. Nor does it care if you use an iPad or Mac at home. I'd wager most Microsoft employees use Android, with iOS as close second and WP as distant third. A l
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by melted 11y ago
I thought the license was incompatible? Also, what does this mean for BTRFS?
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by melted 11y ago
This only solves a part of the problem. This is basically to collect and grep your stderr, useful for when you need to debug something, but that's about it. A far more interesting problem is to collect, ingest, and query structured (Pr
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by melted 11y ago
Have no idea. But also have an inkling that distributions would differ (and not necessarily the way you'd expect) in projects that require a specialized skill set, such as e.g. top notch design skills or knowledge of DB internals and s
107.
by melted 11y ago
Sigh. Authors are unaware of Simpson's paradox. Such analyses are meaningless if you don't control for such obvious factors as the distributions of projects people of different genders choose to contribute to. See the classic coll
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by melted 11y ago
It's not sensible if you're principled about your technology choices, but if you just want to whip something up quickly and all you have are "full stack" developers, Node gives them the ability to use just one language f
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by melted 11y ago
But the question is: are those magazines themselves stripped of all ads? Or do I pay for the magazines, and then find out they're 50% ads?
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by melted 11y ago
The first step to getting out of the hole is to stop digging. The author of this article clearly hasn't learned this lesson yet.
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by melted 11y ago
Fixed buffet-style fee would be difficult. Per-page micropayments, however, could be accomplished with some form of blockchain (probably not Bitcoin though, it's collapsing under its own weight as it is), perhaps with an extra layer of
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by melted 11y ago
It's completely unlike Google Contributor. Google Contributor keeps Google in the loop and only removes _Google_ ads if you win an auction. All other ads keep shitting all over your page. This would let you disable _all_ ads, yet still
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by melted 11y ago
I'd prefer to pay, say, $10/mo for _all_ the content I read, and that's basically the very upper bound. I figure $120/yr is a much better deal than what they (where by "they" I mean all the news sources I read)
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by melted 11y ago
Much as I dislike inheritance, "annotating a POJO" is even worse. How do you debug it if things go wrong?
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by melted 11y ago
Micro framework that just pulls the world using Maven. I'm not sure you understand what "micro" really means.
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by melted 11y ago
Yeah, I was kind of taken aback by raw horse meat sushi in a conveyor belt sushi place in Kyoto. Couldn't work up the courage to try it.
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by melted 11y ago
Don't know about Clang/LLVM, but in GCC you can give the compiler a hint if a branch is likely to be taken. As far as I can tell from disassembly, most of the time it just puts that branch first in the instruction stream, but I ha
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by melted 11y ago
This design is fundamentally hard, I don't think the removal of ports will make it much simpler. Same with Tokamak. Lockheed's design (as disclosed) is much simpler. OTOH Lockheed's design is also vaporware until they publish
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by melted 11y ago
I wonder what's up with Lockheed's reactor prototype at this point. This is some truly badass engineering, but the complexities involved inevitably make you wonder if there's an easier way. "Only Germans can build it&quo
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by melted 11y ago
Basically same here, but a few years earlier. I consider a three hundred line stack trace to be a valid reason to replace a system with something less operationally challenging. When engineers are $100+/hr, and some way more than that,

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