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691.
by mmt 8y ago
Sure. These were approximately chronological order (though Firefox's Sync has occasionally swapped a couple). They're also at least a couple years old, so some may be much older than that and are now dead links without the use of
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by mmt 8y ago
> There's a big gap between making a working .deb file and I assume none of us is even talking about this case. That is, a trivially working .deb could provide little more functionality than a tarball, so that's hardly interest
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by mmt 8y ago
I do recall that Debian packaging, coming from the RPM world, had a very steep learning curve, but that mostly felt like an outsized up-front investment, rather than ongoing pain. (RPM was too long ago to say if it was similar for me). I&#x
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by mmt 8y ago
I disagree that it's a waste of time. (But I upvoted, because I think it's an important question, thereby adding to the conversation). > for so many different package repositories and packaging formats? How many are there, thou
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by mmt 8y ago
> I can't always save excess food for the next meal (example: restaurant or delivered things like french fries and things like that). This doesn't quite make sense to me. Although there are certainly items that don't keep
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by mmt 8y ago
> Most folks overestimate their need for availability and lack a willingness to accept risk. I disagree. More specifically, I think, instead, many [1] folks just don't make that assessment/estimate in the first place. They just
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by mmt 8y ago
How many is that? Have network connections really become reliable enough across the entire country (where a major-ish chain fast food restaurant would be located)? I honestly have no idea, since we (on HN) tend to be more focused on broadba
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by mmt 8y ago
The article mentions training, specifically on-the-job training (being paired with a senior agent) and schedules that don't result in being sleep-deficient while on duty. The "tools" here are metaphorical, in case that was yo
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's more about the perception than the reality. What's the "it" here? The article's statement? If so, that's my disappointment. They could easily have added the adjective "perceived" or ommitted
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by mmt 8y ago
Redundancy makes sense, but that explains two computers, not three, unless they're engineering for abandon-in-place in case of failure. I routinely advocate (usually unsuccessfully) the latter for relatively inexpensive high-volume par
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by mmt 8y ago
This is not supported by, at least, this chart, comparing the US and Guatemala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... Now, it may still be true that pedestrians or child pedestrians are killed
702.
by mmt 8y ago
I'm not sure being for-profit has that much to do with societal pressure as being ad-revenue-driven. However, this profit (or revenue) above all else model is something Google's unusual stock voting structure was supposed to addre
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by mmt 8y ago
> Justifying the tax to provide a service with an existing private provider I think you misunderstood. The tax would be on the private provider (serving profitable areas) and for the benefit of the public provider (serving unprofitable
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm disappointed to see this article trot out the "unsafe" trope, especially after, earlier in the article, citing the Maya mother stating her child knows how to avoid traffic. > Now, many parents in the U.S. can't go
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by mmt 8y ago
> they can exercise that monopoly to transfer funds from the more profitable routes to the less/not profitable routes. As pointed out in a different sub-thread, using monopoly power to effect this transfer can be detrimental to cons
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by mmt 8y ago
You bring up an important distinction. I'd like to coin a term: externality arbitrage. Although an individual might be able to extract value, as you point out, the scale would be small. A business, especially a VC-funded one, is much
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by mmt 8y ago
> If building service to sparse areas is a concern, the government could step in to do it. This even happened in the past with wired phone service in some rural parts of Northern California. It worked just fine, with anecdotally better s
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by mmt 8y ago
> I'm curious what side you think I fall on That abortion is not murder, as you made the example of the presentation of such an argument in opposition to the presentation of something "useful". I realize, of course, that t
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by mmt 8y ago
Worse, they can potentially more than cancel it out, if they merely remove the "worrying about hardware" (yes, and network and load balancers and everything else) aspects, which are, at least, well understood by some us out on the
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by mmt 8y ago
For an early startup, though, I would think it's not necessary to be "fully" multi-cloud. Rather, it would likely be enough to have a cloud-agnostic infrastructure with replication to a warm (or even mostly-cold to save on
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by mmt 8y ago
> There's a degree of complexity that comes with multi-cloud that's ill-suited for most early stage companies. Especially in the age of "serverless" that has folks thinking they don't need people to worry about i
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by mmt 8y ago
> A prudent person might consider a cloud provider to be a domain of failure and choose a multi-cloud option, which would probably be the correct way to address this resiliency issue. However, that's not really an appropriate approa
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by mmt 8y ago
The robots, of course! Joking aside, though, I believe the idea is that, because UBI is subsistence-level, there's still an incentive for those who can earn more (presumably by producing something) to do so, such that they can afford
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by mmt 8y ago
> Is it appropriate to rank extremely high for something you're directly opposed to? I'd say that's an important question, which I would answer with "yes", so long as it's understood that "rank extremel
715.
by mmt 8y ago
My point is that overall context matters. My point is also that making sweeping, moralizing statements like "doesn't make it ok" (nor the repeated forays into other enterpise software topics) isn't helpful in general, an
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by mmt 8y ago
> I made the same arguments then, and I will stand by this evaluation now. To whom? This particular business? 999 out of 1000 businesses (each of whose needs you evaluated and found only one of whom really needed Oracle and therefore exc
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by mmt 8y ago
> Today's prices. Perhaps not relevant, then. > Why are you bringing up a version from 2001? Was that mentioned in parent posts? Yes, Oracle 9i was specifically mentioned, which is why I find it bizarre, if not inappropriate, to
718.
by mmt 8y ago
That seems unlikely. I think they're in Boston, but, even in New York, which, for office space is even more expensive than SF, the excuse that square footage is too expensive seems shaky, especially since it's been trotted out rou
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by mmt 8y ago
So what you're saying is that you don't believe the GP because you come to a particular conclusion as to the signal that such a reaction in the interview sends about the character of the candidate? Are you asserting it's im
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by mmt 8y ago
> that they don't want to do This seems like a strawman. If your point is that the author presented an interview vignette where the "Me", interviewee, character reacted to an unpleasant situation with less grace and courte

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