mniejiki

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by mniejiki 14y ago
Except you were talking about startups originally, don't change the scenario when someone points out flaws. Startups don't have the power or money to enforce a monopoly. More than that, you're ignoring the reality of a merger which would be
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by mniejiki 14y ago
Wow, did a rasberry pi sleep with your mother or something? And who says that embedded hardware must run off a battery? You're sure one to talk about stupidity.
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by mniejiki 14y ago
You can get COBRA so it's not that you won't have insurance but rather that you will pay for it yourself. And have 18 months to find a longer term option if you can. It's what I did although I am single without kids so my rate was significa
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by mniejiki 14y ago
In addition to the money back that was mentioned, in the US credit cards provide consumer protection. If you pay $500 for something and it's never deliver you can get a charge back from the cc company. Good chance you'll get your money back
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by mniejiki 14y ago
I've never had any issues with ec2 instances mysteriously restarting and I've dealt with a lot of them (personal and business). In fact I don't think I've ever seen amazon restart instances or mess with them in any way without warning. Soun
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by mniejiki 14y ago
>this describes but one example of an edge case that could be elegantly handled by informing the node that it must go down and come up again a while later, after which its swapped-out guts with the potential to cause issue might be more
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by mniejiki 14y ago
Point being, that's only if you stop the instance. Since VMs can be migrated live on some vm ecosystems, "changing underneath" is very misleading in this case since it strongly implies a live migration. If you stop your ec2 instance then yo
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by mniejiki 14y ago
Also, what you seem to not get is that this isn't a zero sum game. Google translate doesn't cater to the same people as traditional translators. Google translate basically sucks, it can't compete with a half competent translator. It can how
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by mniejiki 14y ago
>So why are they not simply buying the rights of the translations they are using? Why do you think they haven't done that? Or rather they paid the entity that owns the rights who at some point in the past paid those translators. General
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by mniejiki 14y ago
Until you lose users because implementing that plugin infrastructure slows down your program or prevents certain features from being written easily (either directly due to trade offs in having the infrastructure implemented or indirectly in
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by mniejiki 14y ago
> The way I understand that: If you don't pay the people who do the work, and people who make a collage out of their work get paid, you'll end up with much fewer new translations being undertaken. That's silly. Those previous translati