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by oldpond 9y ago
Google brought out something similar in 2012 https://code.google.com/archive/p/collide/
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by oldpond 9y ago
Why invest in something that is clearly being driving up and down by bots? Virtual currency will never work so long as there is speculation. Fools gold.
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by oldpond 9y ago
The web died the minute the first advertiser showed up.
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by oldpond 9y ago
The Single Truth about software development is that there is only one deliverable: working software.
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by oldpond 9y ago
Or upward mobility was dead and spurred contract working. Rates have changed little in the last 20 years. We know our masters sell us for $120/hour when we only make $40/hour. I was stagnated for 10 years before I went solo in
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by oldpond 9y ago
Spoken like a true believer.
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by oldpond 9y ago
Yes, the browser is now the universal thick client. Full circle.
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by oldpond 9y ago
Search for 'velocity of money'. It's a Fed chart and shows what happens when every citizen, business and government is swimming in debt. You printed all that money and gave it to the banks, but you didn't relieve the d
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by oldpond 9y ago
Thankfully, this is all just dust, so no worries.
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by oldpond 9y ago
I played this on the mainframe in the early 90's while mounting tapes on the night shift. It was hard. I cheated. I looked at the source code for the key to get out of the twisty little maze. Wonderful stuff.
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by oldpond 9y ago
When have you ever read, "How Acme scaled J2EE to 5M Concurrent Users"? I became an IT architect in 1998 at IBM, the year Sun released j2ee and IBM released Websphere. I have experienced 20 years of enterprise Java and object or
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by oldpond 9y ago
Pragprog has a good selection. https://pragprog.com/titles/category/elixir?f[include_mine]=...
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by oldpond 11y ago
In Canada, the government creates money in the banks and borrows it back at interest. This guy explains it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jghiU55O5eY
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by oldpond 11y ago
"seemingly unrelated" It's not hard to imagine that this is how a flight control system for a drone might work.
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by oldpond 11y ago
If your email account is hosted on the Cloud on US soil, and the email provider decides to migrate that part of their Cloud to the Philippines, for example, would that email come under the purview of the new program and be considered "
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by oldpond 11y ago
Fond memories. I was working for a financial services company when we went from an IBM mainframe complex to an Amdahl one. Besides being responsible for data center automation I was facilities manager, so I was in charge of the project. I
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by oldpond 11y ago
That can't happen without crashing the entire system. Interest rates are effectively zero because everyone (governments, businesses, citizens...) is carrying all the debt they can handle. If they try to raise the interest rates the e
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by oldpond 11y ago
Sure, but this requires a sponsoring company, and here are some stats. http://tnvisasample.com/2013/10/23/how-many-tn-visa-are-issu...
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by oldpond 11y ago
Canadian IT consultant here, and I don't even look at opportunities in the US anymore. I used to respond to the recruiters with "Do you know I live in Canada", and the conversation would end (I think most of them don't
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by oldpond 11y ago
Bring back the Inquisition for these guys.
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by oldpond 11y ago
The bootstrap link is broken.
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by oldpond 11y ago
+1 i3wm on Archlinux until I bought a Mac. Every once in awhile I get itch to go back. Then I go for a walk and the urge passes. :) Thx for sharing.
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by oldpond 11y ago
Strange considering IBM invented the utility model. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2578752/it-management/i... The thing to remember about the utility model (think electrical utilities) is that once yo
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by oldpond 11y ago
I am quite surprised by this, especially since it comes from Toyota, the company that invented Lean. This is very relevant given that the debate over upgrading vehicle software is raging on and the Volkswagen scandal has not settled just y
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by oldpond 11y ago
So, why is there still only one "Twitter"? Why has it not been forked? Please enlighten me.
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by oldpond 11y ago
I am sure there are hot spots or rings of higher density corresponding to earth locations. Still, it's big.
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by oldpond 11y ago
Very nice.
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by oldpond 11y ago
I'd pay to remove the ad makers.
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by oldpond 11y ago
LMAO! I love how Bloomberg (voice of the financial sector) stirs up shit and then suggests that taxation is the solution. This is great propaganda at work here, so study it well. They want desperately to steer the world away from financi
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by oldpond 11y ago
And what do they use it for? Driving advertising displays. Now those posters the kids put up on lampposts can really annoy the heck out of you.

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