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by opendais 12y ago
It is basically Uber for Delivery. So, if it can pull it off, it'd be a rival for Amazon's ecommerce crown. I think that is what he was getting at. It has the potential.
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by opendais 12y ago
http://news.usni.org/2014/05/14/can-chinas-new-destroyer-fin... http://www.wired.com/2011/06/stealth-tech-obsolete/ It is more complicated than "LOL LONG WAVE RADAR I WIN&
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by opendais 12y ago
http://status.linode.com/ vs. https://status.digitalocean.com/ I don't trust people's opinions unless either of them get caught outright lying on their status pages. ;) Anecdotal: I've seen ~
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by opendais 12y ago
Well that is super convenient. :)
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by opendais 12y ago
Tbh, "I've learned that changing your mind is one of the most difficult things we do. It is far easier to fool yourself into believing a falsehood than admit a mistake." That is probably the one from which many other's s
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes. But it probably doesn't help at the hop from their and onward.
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by opendais 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Comcast could effectively deliver 150mbps to all subscribers on their network and just uses the excess capacity to provide wifi. Of course that sucks if you paid for the full 150mbps. ;) Of course, that doesn
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by opendais 12y ago
Human needs are finite. A person only truly needs so much food, so much housing, so much medical care, so much socialization, so much entertainment. Human wants are likely infinite for many people.
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by opendais 12y ago
Yep, it is going to be pretty much Industrial Revolution 3.0. The people that are too old to learn new skills are going to need to end up on social security [and capital will need to be taxed for it]. For everyone else, there will need to b
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by opendais 12y ago
Bah, well that is inconvenient. :/
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by opendais 12y ago
Well if these aren't public... Would a FOIA request on the FCC for them since they are technically Comcast, Verizon copyright?
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by opendais 12y ago
"Sign this or you can't work with anyone you've worked with so far in your career after this point" doesn't sound reasonable to me, sorry. It is basically one way ticket to being unemployed for a period of time. Con
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by opendais 12y ago
> Part of the reason I asked on HN is because I don't know if feeling awesome is the norm in a startup: the work is expected to be stressful, isn't it? Yes and no. Waking up to a call at 3am because something you wrote broke an
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by opendais 12y ago
As someone who works with a legacy codebase from c. 1990 as well as a more modern codebase [that is still 10 years old], both of which lack unit tests... I work for a healthy business that has annual revenues of about ~4 million in gross pe
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by opendais 12y ago
At which point you are hostage to a UNION, that turns around and holds a $50,000 gun to your head if you break what is effectively a noncompete. Remind me again how the UNION is the solution to this particular problem? Unions solve some p
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by opendais 12y ago
Did you not read the part of how there was no vote? "The threat can be traced back to a contract drawn up by the AFM two years ago. That contract—which Wintory says wasn't voted on by AFM members—was universally rejected by game m
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by opendais 12y ago
> If you want vouchers, you need to fund every child equally...including the fact they may live in the wrong neighborhood. You don't get to say "Too bad, kid, you live in Compton. No one can get you to a good school on time unl
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by opendais 12y ago
Ya, this should be considered an abuse of Union power. :/
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by opendais 12y ago
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7884376
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes, they have different policies depending on what you purchase and whom you purchase it from. Frequently with physical products Amazon is able to place the majority cost [they only lose out on their commission] of the refund onto the supp
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Law Enforcement Agencies ... Claiming The United States Is A 'War Zone'(techdirt.com)
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by opendais 12y ago
Cool. Thanks for the link. :)
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by opendais 12y ago
Proving people know how to implement an algorithm [even one that is a pretty bad solution to TSP] seems relevant to me. It doesn't to other people. Think of it as a more relevant FizzBuzz. > It seems silly to test someone on somethi
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by opendais 12y ago
Cool. https://github.com/equalitie looks like you are open sourcing some of it as well? Or all? :)
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by opendais 12y ago
Oh, I'm sure. But it would be relevant which was my point. Someone at Uber at some point had to solve that sort of problem. Many of the questions I've been asked in interviews are more or less, "Someone had to do X at some
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by opendais 12y ago
This seems link bait-y to me: "That said they created a life-threatening virus that is only 3 percent different from the 1918 Spanish flu" I bet the flu itself changed that much in nature between 1918 and now all on its own. For r
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by opendais 12y ago
If your core business is built around a specific CS problem [e.g. Uber would be the traveling salesman, Google is searching with NLP], picking candidates that demonstrate they can solve that sort of problem effectively [not perfectly, just
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by opendais 12y ago
I suppose I wasn't very clear then. Ah well, life. > I'm more curious why we don't start large-scale investigations in response to each DDoS attack: each one gives you a list of machines likely participating in a botnet.
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by opendais 12y ago
I think the fundamental problem is cost. Much like raising an army, protecting against things like DDoS on the scale of 10Gbps+ costs real money. Services like Cloudflare, Blacklotus, etc. act like insurance companies [e.g. You have a pool
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by opendais 12y ago
My mistake. I'm confused easily :)

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