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by perlgeek 4y ago
This is fairly sad state of affairs. Here in Germany if you have a court order and that isn't payed, the bailiff/marshall visit the recalcitrant party and confiscates cash or valuable items until the order is settled. (At least fo
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> How can they manage to productively use the time of 10000+ people? Sales and support basically scale arbitrarily large, as long as the market is there.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Charitable read: OP probably didn't mean "minimize collaboration" but "minimize the need for collaboration." Or phrased differently: design your teams so that the most common tasks can be done by a single team. If s
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Scaling isn't really a concern for everybody and every application. It's good to be aware of additional strain you put on your DB, but I've worked with lots of applications where scaling simply wasn't a problem, and ther
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> The other thing is, once disks are as fast as RAM, there's really no point in having RAM. You make it sound like RAM is only used as a cache for disks, but there are other reasons to have RAM: * RAM supports basically unlimited nu
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Skip lists. They are useful for checking in O(log(n)) if a number (or string) is in any of n ranges of numbers. You just keep a sorted list of endpoints of the ranges, and when you do a lookup, you do a binary search if the search value is
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... or with `git checkout` or with `rm` or `git clean` (for files not yet under version control).
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by perlgeek 4y ago
If there are mechanisms for autostart and disabling autostart, isn't there, like, official documentation for that? It's clear that Microsoft won't listen if a few casual home users demand documentation, but I would have expec
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by perlgeek 4y ago
It really depends on how easily you can sell it. For some shares, there is a private market, and typically the company has to approve of sales. If they do, and the market has willing buyers, no problem. If the company blocks every sale, i
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I would love to support this endeavor, but a distinct lack of remote jobs makes this not very feasible for me. Best of luck though!
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by perlgeek 4y ago
(Disclaimer: speculation ahead, never having met Sam). > I wonder whether Sam really believes in all these ventures, or if he's just building hype? Part of being a VC is having many moonshots in your portfolio; if only some of them
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Yes. This was an image of a relatively "empty" portion of sky (no stars nearby), so anything you can see has to be pretty bright by itself, which means galaxy, not star.
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Because then the Twitter board wouldn't have signed it.
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> You pay to peer your traffic. That's not the whole truth. At least here in Germany, there are publicly-ish peering points. You pay a small amount for colocating a single router in the data center, and each peering partner only acc
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You don't even have to assume tinfoil hattery to think that a future update might phone home -- just a change in internal politics / leadership can lead to that.
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A future update of the app might start phoning home.
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By that logic, somebody defrauding a charity out of $4500 should be punished roughly the same as a homicide. (Not saying that's necessarily wrong, just to give some perspective on the "fun" corners you get into when putting a
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Colocated in another company's data center.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Github renders lots of text formats (though not in issues, pull requests), but it's surprisingly hard to find a complete list. I know that POD (Plain Old Documentation from Perl) and asciidoc are supported, likely many more.
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I use Jira at work with a workflow that is highly customized to our development workflow, and I like using it. There are some annoying aspects, but it's way better for our workflow than anything else I've tried (which includes git
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Code review is a form of communication, and thus depends very much on culture. This can both be company culture and origin culture of the developer you're communicating with. For example, sometimes I write comments like "I don&#x2
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Things like this have been made, but there are challenges: * you have to prevent replay attacks, where somebody just records a session and replays the response * lower-power devices are usually vulnerable to side-channel attacks, for exampl
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I am surprised that "Know your customer" regulations have taking this long to arrive at a fairly reputable exchange.
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And here I had hoped that it was a fund for people who had a horrible experience with with an airbnb host or guest, to give them quick and easy compensation.
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There are lots of other causes of incidents, like cut cables, failed router hardware, data centers losing power etc. It just seems that most of these are local enough and the Internet resilient enough that they don't cause global issue
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by perlgeek 4y ago
It's the wiki, just add them to the article! Yes, these biases exist, help work against them by editing those pages that can easily be edited. Edit: I just tried, that article is locked. Could add it to the Talk page.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Loading fonts from a third-party CDN leaks information (namely your IP address, date/time of activity and possibly a HTTP referrer) to that CDN.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
The title is also very weird, considering that Voyager 1 and 2 have been shutting down instruments since 1990 and 1991, respectively: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/science/thirty-year-pla...
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Haven't lots of sports gone through competing leagues/tours on the professional level? And I'm pretty certain there was money involved too, and not just pure love for their sports.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
yay for listicils! Didn't Hackernews require you to remove that from the title?

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