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by mjolk 13y ago
Citation needed. They are definitely making money on closed-source operating systems and operating system tools: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...
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by mjolk 13y ago
Did you type "Yahoo" meaning "Google" or is your social circle an anomaly?
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by mjolk 13y ago
>At the end of the day, csmithuk viewpoint is a solution/enterprise architect's view point which caters more to the overall business needs of a company. Not really. I've worked as an Enterprise Architect and worked in goo
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by mjolk 13y ago
>Thank you for explaining the reality of the situation. Where reality means a serious failure in tech leadership. >I've seen some programmers actually try to do the rewrites themselves. They code for a week or two, discover just
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by mjolk 13y ago
>The vendor doesn't exist any more. This is a realistic problem. Yes, it's a realistic problem of "if your vendor goes extinct, you should start moving." If you're in charge and you let your business get stuck i
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by mjolk 13y ago
>These are now no longer supported by the vendors with no upgrade path so people are stuck with IE7 whilst applications are rewritten or disposed of...I know a company that has taken 4 years to rewrite an ERP system away from this model.
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by mjolk 13y ago
why do you feel this way?
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by mjolk 13y ago
The "joke" is so tired that is just registers as more complaining that doesn't add to the health of discussion.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Yes, because that can be the only subtext. Because the President can only be concerned with the NSA, bitcoin, and tor. It's not like he's a person or father that could be having a conversation about social network applications l
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by mjolk 13y ago
If they would rather refuse free hosting and will "not allow the conversation to that way" then it means they want to keep support for some physical hardware that's hard to find in existing datacenters. This is like saying &q
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by mjolk 13y ago
>There's no point in saying "Drop them!" because the devs working on them probably could care less what the rest of us think. If it's worse for the rest of the ecosystem, there's a point.
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>I could say all sorts of things about different racial groups that nobody would find offensive except guilty white people who know nothing of real class struggle. Swing and a miss. Assigning job preference to a race is just a lazy vers
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by mjolk 13y ago
>Only if you're a twat... you need to get over yourself. You're adorable. You must be the life of parties.
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by mjolk 13y ago
I don't see an e-mail for you in your profile. I assume it's Amplify/WirelessGeneration/NewsCorp, Knewton, or Schoology.
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It's textbook racism in that it assigns characteristics based on race alone.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>That's not racism. He stated "doing jobs white people don't like doing." How do you interpret this? This is, by definition, stating that by being white alone, the population carries a characteristic. >I don&#x27
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by mjolk 13y ago
The near-rambling presentation suggests to me that the author would only claim sarcasm if the post was not well received.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>CEO spent months trying to destroy my reputation. What company? I feel at this point, public shaming via stating a sequence of events isn't morally wrong and it might keep one of us from taking a bath on collaborating with one of h
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by mjolk 13y ago
Your wife goes to work helping to save lives all day. I don't think she needs a device that will tweet "fart lmao i'm so random p.s. fuk u j-teen beeber" if she's 2 minutes late due to traffic.
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What's an AMA? Did he speak about coding and its role in society?
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>Liberal left wing types that supported the bombing of Afghanistan on humanitarian grounds... to them when Donald Rumsfeld was telling them. I think you're confusing your political parties. >There are plenty of immigrants fresh f
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by mjolk 13y ago
I suppose that's true, thanks for putting that in perspective. The real problem is that gobs of RAM isn't _cheap_. I wish that DDR4 would make DDR3 less expensive, but as manufacturers switch to making DDR4, I expect the price to
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by mjolk 13y ago
redis is key/value, not meaning to be full normalized database
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by mjolk 13y ago
Session database in memory, mirrored to another host for redundancy, and only events that need to be stored written to "slow" SSDs when I/O bandwidth permits. I could bring my startup from 10 to 2 hosts and have better perfor
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by mjolk 13y ago
Think this through, why would someone licensed a piece of tech be able to use on its behalf? This is like saying that I have the rights to use the Unity engine, so I should be able to sue Microsoft for parts of Silverlight that I think are
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by mjolk 13y ago
Yes, because your landlord accepts bitcoin. Or, if you have a home, the bank.
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by mjolk 13y ago
I wouldn't take advice from Andy Warhol unless you're trying to make a product that insecure, dumb people want because they want to fit into their subculture. Or selling drugs.
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Most of the European developers that _I_ know are using apple hardware. Anecdotes are fun!
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Then become a customer or donate money.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>Just as people say Guaranteed Basic Income will fail-- Let me ask 2 questions: 1: Is what we have now working, e.g. is there still homelessness, and poverty in America? 2: If our system is already failed, how does trying something new t

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