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by praptak 3y ago
A proposal to open source will go to an SVP (or compatible) who will cover their ass by sending it to legal. They in turn will cover their asses and demonstrate their perceived worth by enumerating every possible risk however small. The SVP
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by praptak 3y ago
Prework for people wanting to dispute this statement: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evidence/
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by praptak 3y ago
Slap a synthetic key on everything, you probably overestimate how bad it is to have multiple records for "the same thing". Even if it is indeed bad, it's probably unrealistic to expect to never let it slip on entry (however g
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by praptak 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_(philosophy) For when you want to think real deep about what the identifier identifies.
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by praptak 3y ago
That was a mini plot in Bill the Galactic Hero. A group of revolutionaries recruits Bill. When they actually start a revolution, every single conspirator quietly leaves the crowd to join a hideout of the secret government agency they were w
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by praptak 3y ago
At least it's not a computer worm that takes advantage of a freshly discovered Hammerhead vulnerability.
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Law of the land also has some edge cases. For example what happens to the state border in case of a major tectonic shift? Is the border where the GPS tells you it was or is it where the border poles are now?
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by praptak 3y ago
Maybe it's a good point for a mini-ask HN: assuming you agree with the sentiment, what is your preferred alternative to GitHub?
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by praptak 3y ago
Econ can't hold a light to physics in terms of falsifiability of hypotheses yet people still treat it as hard science.
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by praptak 4y ago
It's free as in beer not as in freedom and the way they formulated that part made me wary of their intentions. (I'm still a huge fan of Clojure)
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by praptak 4y ago
Most of this advice applies to non-managers too. Even "staying on the critical path" is not entirely manager-specific. Line employees also sometimes stay on the critical path when they shouldn't.
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by praptak 4y ago
This was a case when following a trend was the good thing to do. But you don't make great companies by only following trends.
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by praptak 4y ago
It was three to four people who were poring over packet analysers, so probably a similar number of man hours.
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I remember observing my colleagues who had spent like a day troubleshooting an issue. The root cause was one end of a link sending super jumbo frames, which the other one was not configured to accept. It may sound simple but it was pretty h
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by praptak 4y ago
It's probably the other way around. Keeping it non-free requires doing nothing, so it is the default. OTOH, freeing such a code base is costly, especially if multiple licenses cover different parts of the code or if the code contains r
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by praptak 4y ago
Bitumen contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. I believe the typical exposure via inhaling the fumes was researched with no link to cancer found but I have doubts about that fish.
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by praptak 4y ago
Tarn Adams has this base covered: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xyjam3/what-will-happen-to-g...
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by praptak 4y ago
It's a personal blog. The author has no obligation to keep it to the standard of a trade magazine. Blogs are supposed to be subjective and it's okay for a blog post to be harsh if the author feels so.
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by praptak 4y ago
While I agree that dealing with fraud is tough, what they are doing is pushing this risk onto their customers.
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Web users hated Flash for being present everywhere and used for serving obnoxious resource-hungry ads.
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The talent pool is there, just wasting their talent being on the wrong end of the global economy, oppressed and exploited.
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"Free market is good for you, not for me"
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by praptak 4y ago
See Phoenix browser, now Mozilla Firefox.
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The Amish are aware of their small population problem. I believe their population bottleneck was a few hundred people. They do sometimes adopt children from outside their population. I don't know how common that is and whether it makes
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by praptak 4y ago
When it comes to radiation I only understand banana per day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
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by praptak 4y ago
I think that "You intended to create a painting, gotcha!" is a lazy dismissal on a technicality. Yes, there are obvious limits to not having anything in mind while doing anything but we can be more charitable when interpreting t
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by praptak 4y ago
"Even Sumerians complained about the young" sounds like an urban legend but it is not, there's a historical record of a scribe from Ur complaining about his ungrateful son, loitering about public squares rather than dutifully
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by praptak 4y ago
F seems to be the easiest letter to make this kind of headlines. "France fines foreign firm for free freight" - that time Amazon got fined for free shipping in France.
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by praptak 4y ago
I think this has mostly curiosity/show off value. Encoding messages into executable binaries without changing their running behavior is kinda cool.
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by praptak 4y ago
The article itself exposes some encoding redundancy too: "[...] the count is masked against 1FH, essentially using only the lowest five bits". So each rotation instruction is 3 bits free for out-of-band information.

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