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Ma bell of internet (TV's just about dead, and they depend on partnering with Verizon for mobile) In other areas, AT&T dominates horizontally and vertically.
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Netflix partnering with, or potentially acquired by, Amazon to take on other platforms makes sense. There needs to be consolidation and I think Bezos could do a better job bringing in bigger licensing deals.
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It's pretty genius. Go after vendors, don't go through the front door. The mindset to defend effectively has to treat everything entering or leaving managed network as hostile DMZ. Further, internal networks should be reasonably
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TorqueBox 3.0.2 (enterprise-scalable JRuby app subsystems)(torquebox.org)
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Rails app(project):Django project, Rails Engine:Django app Bonus: directory layouts, since they're conceptually connected: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#creating-... http://www.deploydja
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Except this move has the opposite effect on most people. The best move would have been to do absolutely nothing (except monetize).
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GC is similar to a chief security officer in the need to be as independent as possible to look after the interests of the company and be free from undue pressure.
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Assume that hotels, regardless of country, are filming, tapping the phone and the internet. The other bit to realize is that there will be sex, around 100k condoms worth. That's 35 condoms per athlete on average . Certainly there&#x
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Ask HN: Is this a stupid business idea?
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<rant>A few are shameless crooks with a badge and a gun, some are just unprofessionaly aggressive and there's a few good ones here and there. The prob is for them: does someone "betray" a fellow officer whom has their
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All socially-polished hustlers in the DC area might consider prioritizing some time to setting up meetings with congress people to continue this crucial conversation in person. It's important to underscore that their participation in
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Static type checking is a double-ledger bookkeeping of "what I am/have is what you are/want." Erlang and Haskell have the most interesting approaches to typing: optional and extensible respectively.
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Any organization that use intelligence accomplish its goal is going to try to hide its sources and methods, but we should not condone all means of getting there.
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Cool. And a fellow ops man. (Indie SA-SRE here.) Edit - Btw, what's that octothinker?
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Yes. It might be confusing the lack of apparent centralization for a need where a diffuse format already accomplishes the desired goal. Either there has to be an unmet Tragedy of the Commons that open standards/academia isn't ad
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Yeah: What's the goal and where's the value to investors? Goal: It's hard to see algorithms innovating except for large scale microoptimizations using higher levels of abstractions, because many everyday purposes have already
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Nice! :) Are there still the team sports leagues with/between other shops?
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It seems like a tongue-in-cheek stylistic parody of nerdcore on top of most rap music: bravado and aggression. ... but it's hard to tell whether it was a joke or not, but I'm leaning towards not. Next music app idea: every time it
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Most people can be manipulated. It's a gambit to be sure but it doesn't seem much more like news than a bar-room bet. Ebay does the same thing.
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Wow, github is all mostly grown up now. Hundred staff or so. Three 🍻 (:beers:) !
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The person behaved as an unvarnished moron which put everyone that listened to that rant into even more potentially very awkward situations with HR. There's a double standard of not narcing but also not letting it go unchecked. More
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Exactly. Life is hard. Business is hard. Coding doesn't eliminate work, it just enables new kinds of work. And, it's like coding an app that makes money isn't completely effortless but it is obviously possible. Coding !=
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dban is free and crazy good. http://www.dban.org/ (The same Darik from zfs on linux.)
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The scary thing about the consumerization of APIs and fleet accessibility is how black-hat hackable critical infrastructure can become. Folks really need to heavily unit test their kit as it leaves the "factory" and have a way to
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Build outside-in to validate the business model, so Javascript / HTML5 / CSS would be the first consideration. Node.js is popular for backend because code can usually be ported between the browser-side and server-side, so it&#x27
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The enterprise use-cases have to manage immensely more complexity than F(L)OSS projects, but at the same time, they want the agility and features of those lightweight services. (Without forgetting to CYA: document and hide as much informat
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HipChat was a clone of Campfire that out-did them. It's a smart tactical move to give up on that conceding to Pete, Chris, Gary, et al. which did a superb job on HipChat. Personally, I enjoy using FlowDock and Hubot.
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Execution is somewhat hard, but there needs to be durable competitive advantage: user base, brand, IP, talent, etc. All other things being more-less equal, a few apps will inevitably dominate. (I would acquire Asana and Rally Software whi
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Asana is really good. There are very few surprises and it seems to just get out of your way.
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There's different use cases. There are high-level / strategy oriented task systems and low-level microtask work systems that tend to have more specialist features for getting shit done baked in. As payware goes, JIRA is a pretty

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