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by plesiv 7y ago
Real wages are stagnating. Workers are being kept in subsistence. [1] From my point of view, tech-job market seems to be rigged. There seems to be a huge demand for talent, yet companies willing to pay meaningfully more to attract it are fe
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by plesiv 8y ago
Blunt generalization incoming... it's naive to read this article (similar to the majority of others) as an info-piece. It's a marketing piece, any informational value is a by-product.
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by plesiv 9y ago
It doesn't help that most of the open source solutions to deploy a cluster are either poorly engineered (e.g. kubespray) or poorly maintained (e.g. kubeadm). You are on to something... organizations/people that have the capabilit
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by plesiv 9y ago
Your first paragraph says more about you than about the site.
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by plesiv 9y ago
It is not. In this talk [1] Eelco Dolstra touches upon that a bit also. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvH5qU1qBXY&feature=youtu.be
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by plesiv 9y ago
Your criticism is valid, but only temporarily. Lack of the packages in those 2 (in particularly Nix) is because the distro is pretty new in comparison and the community is not nearly as big as the ones of major distros. On the other end, Ni
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by plesiv 9y ago
> ... 80% of the skill is just keeping on top of the mindless but mechanically intensive stuff, which is trivial beyond trivial for an AI. This statement is wrong. SC1 has admittedly less tech-tree depth & strategic approaches than S
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by plesiv 9y ago
Your point? If you wished to imply that because Jobs did it - it's the way to go, you're committing a fallacy of "appealing to authority" [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authori
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by plesiv 9y ago
No. The Cloud is used to collectively represent all kinds different types of computing/storage/auxiliary services that can be managed on demand.
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by plesiv 9y ago
To misquote a saying about academia: "progress doesn't come with incumbents accepting new ideas, but with them dying-off".
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by plesiv 9y ago
Considering the architecture of the git and fundamental tradeoffs that you make after deciding on: content addressability, internal data representation, tracking content instead of files, taking snapshot of the content of entire commit as o
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by plesiv 9y ago
Is there any research done on attempting to use crypto for some smart scheme of anonymizing patient data bundles to: - allow for cryptographically safe usage of the bundles for research (with some limitations?) - make exact mapping of the h
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by plesiv 9y ago
Plot twist: CTO or senior staff needed to cover something up (maybe a previous loss of critical business data) and arranged for this travesty to likely happen permitted sufficient number of junior devs went through "local db setup guid
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by plesiv 9y ago
OP wrote "an extra couple million in the bank"; since he didn't allude to opportunity costs himself I think there are at least a couple people reading the thread that would want to know what exactly that means. I never heard
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by plesiv 9y ago
This sentiment seems a little bit unusual to me, since we recognize the Internet as the great invention only post-hoc. Throughout the years many people invested inordinate amounts of effort in making various things happen - just to have not
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by plesiv 10y ago
I'm aware that market is possibly the best kind of fitness evaluator for what kind of ideas the world needs - but every time I see smart people getting excited about making good money by doing what's been done so many times before
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by plesiv 10y ago
Gentoo's "compile everything" approach doesn't seem like such a bad proposition up front, but it really turns out to be the PITA. Since it's a rolling distro packages get updated often and if you haven't update
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by plesiv 10y ago
> I don't want yet another python package manager on my system. Use virtualenv. Having python specific packaging system makes sense with virtual environments. Tracking dependencies with requirements.txt and installing them with port
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by plesiv 10y ago
I want to congratulate the person who invited Scott Aaronson to speak (New York university, about integrated information theory) and didn't record and publish it on youtube. /sarcasm Seriously guys, we only have that many people l
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by plesiv 11y ago
This is the exact scenario I was worried about as well. Idea seems flawed security-wise; but then again in these kind of situations there is no real security. I was wondering though if there are some creative ways to improve this initiative
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by plesiv 11y ago
I love this app: http://www.habitbull.com/
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by plesiv 11y ago
Vision of helping towards sustainable nourishment of ever growing human population is the best argument for Soylent-like solutions in my mind.
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by plesiv 11y ago
Minor side-issue: 2014 WC final Germany/Argentina; Brazil/Germany was in semi-finals.
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by plesiv 11y ago
Trolling or a sophisticated bot?
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by plesiv 11y ago
ITMO managed to solve all the problems and win with 2 more solved problems than the second team [1] - which is extremely rare. Gennady Korotkevich extends his impressive list of achievements in competitive programming (contested by no one e
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by plesiv 11y ago
Having non-profit collecting crowd-funds for the solutions to the important scientific problems would be great. But I would imagine that for those most capable of solving these problems prizes are not essential , while grants that would al
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Spring 2015 AutoMicroFarm Progress(blog.automicrofarm.com)
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by plesiv 12y ago
I can imagine this being used for educational purposes. It seems that it could be useful to professions that use case-studies to improve trainee's competency. Not profession in it's right, but a more general technical skill is sys
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by plesiv 12y ago
... and you want optimal solution and not just really-good one.
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by plesiv 12y ago
These aliases (from ~/.gitconfig) proved to be invaluable countless times, I hope someone will find them useful: [alias] logo = log --oneline --graph --all --decorate logg = log --graph --all --decorate logt = log --dat

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