quetzthecoatl

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by quetzthecoatl 8y ago
It worked for Portugal - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
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by quetzthecoatl 8y ago
Storage and thus speed at the expense of memory utilisation. RAM vs HDD.
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by quetzthecoatl 9y ago
I think it means the teams deliver what the market wants in agile-pugilist speak (cadence of delivery is in sync with the cadence of changing requirements of market).
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by quetzthecoatl 9y ago
why/how? Agile is based on decentralized decision making and is not very big on hierarchy - the exact opposite of communism. Not everything that has a manifesto is communist related.
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by quetzthecoatl 9y ago
Both above and above one's parent comment is about rails, not about ruby. It's understandable that most people got familiarized with ruby because of the popularity of rails, but confusing between the two?
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by quetzthecoatl 10y ago
Isn't it because the high end hardware becoming useless because of the very lack of drivers? Nobody wants to spend lot of money on hardware and don't get to use it optimally. Driver support on platform -> Games released on plat
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by quetzthecoatl 10y ago
4) an economy built on borrow and spend (essentially betting on the future) now coming in terms with built up debt, aging population and slowing economy 5) this is a correction.
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by quetzthecoatl 10y ago
Although there were some discouraging voices, I have to say HN in general has been very supportive of India's efforts in space exploration and technology/R&D in general. Especially considering the general negative narrative of
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by quetzthecoatl 10y ago
also, the image of a pig's face as electric socket while hilarious, shows how much the original author mis understood duck typing. It's not just look like duck, but also quack like a duck. Since when does a pig's nose behave
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by quetzthecoatl 11y ago
>Also the funny thing: the very ethics of capitalism was always "if I mind my own business and/or maybe even benefit for myself at others' expense, things will turn out Good for everyone". Greedy optimization ("g
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by quetzthecoatl 11y ago
Another factor is location. My company acquired a startup in a tier two city in US, and have the toughest time in getting people there whenever they want to fill up a position. At the same time, there isn't much of that problem in othe
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by quetzthecoatl 11y ago
Agree with the sentiment, except for RTE. How in the world is RTE anything but pure evil? For a country that is in dire need of new schools, how can any law that closes existing schools with flimsy reasons and zero due process (not that it
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by quetzthecoatl 12y ago
Convention over configuration is awesome, if you know the conventions. If you don't, it's all magic. At least with configurations, you can read them and get some pointers.