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by mseebach 9y ago
Oh, to be plagued by people showing you a zero-barrier-to-entry method to increase your revenue. The absolute rascals.
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by mseebach 9y ago
It seems like there'd be a market for a "ISPaaS" style company. This company would consult on the setup, in the style of this guide, but would remote-admin all the gear, keep track of updates, security settings, make sure eve
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by mseebach 9y ago
I recall hearing a Peter Theil interview a couple of years ago where he hypotheses that social awkwardness is over-represented in successful founders because such people have been conditioned to heavily discount mainstream opinions. More so
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'll take progress that actually, literally happened over armchair declarations of what people should be doing, thanks.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I read an article in FT this morning about how the Carillion problems were hinted in annual reports going back to 2011 (and also how shorting them was popular throughout 2016 and 2017). Hindsight is 20/20, but there's a real chanc
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by mseebach 9y ago
Hot or warm spices? It's a language-weirding in itself that the quality of having spices means that something is hot. Plenty of spices (most, really?) aren't hot. Too many places, especially in Europe, fail at making spicy food, t
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by mseebach 9y ago
And (as covered in the article, but bears repetition), confusingly also in many areas simply means the dessert course. You can have apple pie for pudding.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The Swedes also have Frokost at breakfast. The word, via germanic roots, means "early food" (present day German früh = early) and used to denote a meal taken before noon (as made sense when farm workers rose with the sun), but not
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by mseebach 9y ago
I used to do that, then I realised that a minimum wage call centre employee's salary/bonus/happiness probably depends in some small way on my answer, so I stopped being clever and just gave the answer they're clearly ask
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's a pretty important difference between humans and HVACs, which is the reason the two systems end up being very different. You can always rip out the HVAC and put in a new, off the shelf unit with roughly the same specs (often be
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's a really low bar for "industry famous". Yes, to get to a non-trivial consulting rate, you need to be established and have references, and yes, this probably implies a number of years at a lesser rate. But "famous&
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by mseebach 9y ago
Forever is such a long time. There are no new projects started on mainframes and there's a definite, if still quite flat, trajectory towards moving things off the mainframe. So eventually it will die, but it will be decades.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Probably for "mythical man-month" related reasons. It's far from trivial to manage a large number of relatively small contributions from a large group of diverse developers.
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by mseebach 9y ago
My mother was working in a hotel booking office in the 70s, and they routinely communicated with travel agents around the world by telex. It was a really impressively comprehensive network, but largely invisible to "regular" peopl
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by mseebach 9y ago
The backing technology would probably have been telex. This seems to have superseded morse-telegraphs some time in the 1960s, and the US telegram office (Western Union), if they had a connection, should have been able to telex directly to y
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by mseebach 9y ago
A regulation can be oppressive even if you had a vote in forming the regulation. The two are only marginally connected to each other. "Democracy is the idea that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
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by mseebach 9y ago
Was the message sent in norwegian from the US? In that case, depending on the actual infrastructure it had to travel through, it would have been transcribed at least once, probably more than once, by operators that did not know norwegian, a
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by mseebach 9y ago
Because that will pollute the history and diminish its value as a record of what happened in the code base. For instance, blame will no longer tell you when a line was changed, but rather point to the revert commit. Bisect breaks if it divi
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's not ideal, at all -- and if someone else has pushed in the meantime, they risk losing the commit. But if you're in a situation where doing this would be a significant problem, you should probably not be pushing directly to ma
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by mseebach 9y ago
If you haven't pushed, it's as easy as resetting the branch to the last good commit. If you have pushed, well, it's the same, then push -f, and then making sure that all your teammates pull the fixed branch. If that's a
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by mseebach 9y ago
Smart money has always been on selling shovels to the gold diggers.
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by mseebach 9y ago
0) Ask neighbor if they have any idea what's going on. Modern alarms usually at least indicate which sensor triggered. > What does your neighbor think of this lmao > > I don't have time to stay around because I tend to la
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by mseebach 9y ago
> OK, this story has a definite "urban legend" ring to it. Mythbusters wouldn't have tested it with a real dog, I guess. It would be easy enough to test without involving a dog. They've done plenty of electric-shock m
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by mseebach 9y ago
The orthodoxy (aka "standard") is there for a reason. It's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot. If you're only doing small-scale internal interop, especially where you control both ends of all connections, you don&#x
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't agree that the situation is all that different. Early grocery stores represented a significant loss of control from growing your own. Early supermarkets represented a significant loss of control from the personal, local service
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, we're not becoming serfs, we're riding the tip of the wave, where more things are tried out and thus more things fail. There can be no progress without failure. The gas for your not-Tesla has been provided as-a-service since t
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by mseebach 9y ago
It seems a bit like a baby-and-bathwater situation, honestly. It seems feasible to put in the standard something like that comments must be stripped out in the first pass and may never influence the interpretation of the non-commented JSON.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> way more upward mobility than they could ever dream of It's worth keeping in mind that it's relative upwards mobility - upwards mobility in the US conjures up some slightly different mental images. Top 10% in Denmark is abs
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by mseebach 9y ago
Malls have roughly the same function as "main streets" do in European towns - a relatively neutral public space - and I suspect the worry for their demise is largely the same as the worry for the demise of the main street in Europ
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by mseebach 9y ago
Major airports and some routes between clusters of major airports, such as western Europe to the US east coast are already quite crowded with several at capacity. Also, flight radar, especially at the zoomed out views, looks a lot more crow

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