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by personZ 12y ago
If we eliminated everything where implementations have had obscure bugs or security vulnerabilities, there would literally be nothing left. XML's complexity does not give you any additional benefit over YAML or JSON. This is so inc
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by personZ 12y ago
Note that they seem to be running a sample size of one. To add an anecdote, my own 840 Pro, after relatively little use, died completely and without warning one random day.
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by personZ 12y ago
There is also a reason why shysters and charlatans can't disclose their methods and mechanisms as well. This isn't to say that such is your tactic, but to be honest when I've heard your type of pitch before it has generally b
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by personZ 12y ago
Obviously I can't go into too much detail That isn't obvious at all. Quite contrary, I'd say a refusal to go into detail puts the whole thing under a pretty dark cloud, making the entire thing sound entirely scammy. Even if
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by personZ 12y ago
There is nothing complex about xml schema. It is so profoundly simple, the tools so well worn and proven, that anyone who pronounces difficulty with it is probably in the wrong field. And the notion that I must be unaware of protocol buffer
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by personZ 12y ago
XML schema sucks, really sucks, when you use XML correctly and ignore node order. How is ignoring node order "correct" (and on the flip side, how is demanding an order using it "wrongly")? In many XML parser implementa
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by personZ 12y ago
The single and only interpretation that goes from that to "designed for editing text documents" is the fact that the authors called them "XML Documents". But XML Documents != "text documents". XML Documents are
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by personZ 12y ago
designed for editing text documents This sort of argument has never held water, and it constantly perplexes me that it gets a pass in tech discussions. Even if we accept the dubious assertion that it was "designed" for editing t
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by personZ 12y ago
I was once talking to a psychologist I know about corporate CEOs You've spun a pretty broad claim out of a conversation you had. Yet you can find countless studies on the personality traits of leadership. This isn't just people
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by personZ 12y ago
Personally, I don't believe that it's a useful distinction to classify a person as "mean" or "nice". For sure, few in history have ever deserved such a binary distinction: Everyone mortal has made mistakes in
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by personZ 12y ago
So you have truth or evidence otherwise, or are you just waving your hands and implying that you do? I mean if we really want to talk about truth or evidence, the correlation between sociopathic behaviors and business success is very well s
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by personZ 12y ago
They transitioned through many variations of the "lots of inventory of small things" markets: Batteries, media, cables, connectors, converters, etc. Ebay and Amazon, both launched in 1995, spelled doom for a store that relied on s
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by personZ 12y ago
Quite a few comments about how Radio Shack lost their way and squandered their opportunity, but really their business model was dead. Nothing they could have done would have changed what happened. It was a store with a very large number of
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by personZ 12y ago
http://www.fooducation.org/2011/02/6x-c-egg-or-opposite-boil... Regarding the steak, the comparison made for steaks are often medium heat, pan cooked steaks. In that case the heat differential is high enough that
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by personZ 12y ago
Boiling water is 100 degrees Celsius and egg-white denatures at what, 40-45C? So your eggs will overcook, the sous-vide ones won't. This, along with the comments about cooking a steak (where you are simply wrong), seem to assume that
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by personZ 12y ago
Recall that you were the one who first said that I am an "enemy of quality". Somehow on HN your smiley-disclaimed trolls -- posts that are almost always the "enemy of quality" -- get a pass. So yes, accept it as some agg
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by personZ 12y ago
Most real world data is some mix of relational and unique / big bag of properties. The best solution is often somewhere in between (which is, for me, probably pgsql and its support of JSON, though I've achieved the same versatilit
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by personZ 12y ago
A "six minute egg" has been a benchmark for literally centuries . Apologies if there is confusion, but when I say "hard boiled", I mean all doneness levels of boiled eggs.
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by personZ 12y ago
As I addressed in the other comment, yes, indeed, this is a technique built for traffic spikes. It is not a technique made for cooking breakfast. As to steak, just to be clear (since there seems to be a lot of misinformation in here), the b
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by personZ 12y ago
this is about precise cooking, which yields very specific results This is exactly what I'm talking about when I mention people intentionally making simple things difficult. Do you think someone, somewhere was sitting eating a hard (o
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by personZ 12y ago
For the maillard reaction, obviously. I assume you were hoping I say something asinine like "sealing in the juices", to which you could tut tut, but sorry, searing has a very important culinary taste purpose.
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by personZ 12y ago
It is somewhat fascinating how much the tech community seems to strive to try to solve non-problems. In this case, poaching or hard boiling an egg is so utterly simple, done in mere minutes, that it is simply impossible that this device cou
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by personZ 12y ago
Netflix seems to operate like a tech start-up that is trying to glue together a ragtag collections of often unsuitable solutions because of limited funding. It is a deeply perplexing company. Similar is LinkedIn, as an aside -- despite bein
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by personZ 12y ago
Humorous related story -- I was a customer of GM's OnStar service, and had a login on their web portal that I used for account maintenance and to check on vehicle stuff. Sometime later, the GM team rolled out a new version that blocked
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by personZ 12y ago
Dell Venue Android tablets are also Intel powered. To the user it is completely transparent, through Dalvik/ART, cross-platform native code, and transcoding. Intel is very well supported by Android.
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by personZ 12y ago
he's also discussing sexual assault in such a trivializing way While I hardly want to be in a camp that defends him in any way, he was specifically addressed her claims. How is it misogynist for him to argue that the risk of sexual
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by personZ 12y ago
Most of the stuff in this article is superficial stuff that I don't think matters. What the article seems to describe are practices that generate consistent, predictable RESTful APIs, which is exactly how you yield easy to use APIs.
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by personZ 12y ago
The culture changes because new people coming in have different ideas and upbringing. Market forces and realities impact Microsoft's decisions far more than culture does. The reality of the Microsoft stack right now is that very few
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by personZ 12y ago
Given how it is mentioned at the outset and conclusion, I almost have to think it's stated ironically or something.
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by personZ 12y ago
Default means "the default when you install Ubuntu", not the unconfigured state of that process. For kernel and in-use things it would still require a restart, however maybe at some point DO forced a restart, even if unrelated.

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