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by richmarr 10y ago
Nothing says "I love you" like super-compressed canisters of acid hurtling through space at interplanetary speeds :)
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by richmarr 10y ago
> .. and they're not really describing the same things I'd apply this to the other end of your argument too. The reason there's wild disagreement, i.e. "too many programmers, or not enough" is that they're t
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by richmarr 10y ago
Yep. Good clarification.
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Not sure I agree that it was Google and Yahoo's respective security architecture that caused people to switch, even tech-savvy people.
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> ...That clearly changes the meaning the sentence If you look at my reply I talk about gestation period. Only 6 European countries have thresholds for either gestation or weight. You can accuse me of playing "gotcha" if you li
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by richmarr 10y ago
Me. Iceland is awesome.
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by richmarr 10y ago
> ... most European countries will not count premature babies if they don't make certain weight Factually incorrect, as shown by your own link which lists 6 countries that have weight/gestation thresholds. Or maybe there are le
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by richmarr 10y ago
Data, or it didn't happen.
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by richmarr 10y ago
All well and good saying "you can't generalize" to dismiss criticism of US healthcare. Here's a generalisation for you: The US has lower life expectancy than most of the 'developed' world and yet spends twice
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by richmarr 10y ago
> String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise (emphasis mine) How long should we wait? There should be a Samuel Beckett adaptation... Valdimir: "Should we start work on some other theories?" Estragon: "Yes
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by richmarr 10y ago
My suspicion is that maintaining a call centre is more expensive than using progressive enhancement... but it's a fair question. You're also assuming that starting from a simple HTML implementation is more expensive than other met
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by richmarr 10y ago
You're conflating user and service designer here. The user has a problem (including but not limited to those listed) and so turns off JS. The service then has the problem that JS is disabled... no amount of SSL will help if your pa
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by richmarr 10y ago
> EC2 is just part of a larger ecosystem... Exactly. The idea that Oracle can catch up based on pricing & machine specs ("36 CPU cores, 512GB of D-RAM") is really naive. My current position on this is that IaaS is pretty mu
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> ...if the Chinese start making better products... China is ahead in biotech, IoT, AR, and a bunch of other areas, and have grown the only serious IaaS competitor to Amazon. The future is here already, much the rest of the world (partic
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by richmarr 10y ago
Appreciate it, thanks. Don't misunderstand I totally respect anyone willing to get stuck into this stuff... I just think you're making a rod for your own back by adding this "distributed" requirement. I don't see cu
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by richmarr 10y ago
The sheer scale required to attempt a new search engine is pretty staggering... it seems like one area where decentralisation might actually be worthwhile; the key obstacle being everyone's interest in gaming search results. I wonder i
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by richmarr 10y ago
Guevara (heyguevara.com). UK motor insurance. We started after Friendsurance in Germany but before Lemonade in the US.
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by richmarr 10y ago
> ... cancel out... This assumes that investments made with premiums are precisely equal with the margin kept by the insurer. Considering the variety of insurers, insurance products, seasonal variation, etc. this is a pretty wild assumpt
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by richmarr 10y ago
>...pointless Pointless and unacceptable to financial regulators, meaning nobody will be able to use it for anything worthwhile.
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by richmarr 10y ago
Speaking from the perspective of someone getting small projects off the ground, the value of Heroku (and similar) is that they help you stay focused on dev rather than ops. In your example of security, you take an increased risk due to atta
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Why? The baby has been constantly screaming and not eating for two days, you're physically and emotionally exhausted, and googling tells you a dozen things that could cause the symptoms, each one ending "make sure you consult
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Software should model the (human) world* ; the human world shouldn't be changed to model what's most convenient for software. Agreed, but my point is that daylight savings time is a huge human-world complexity that brings a
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by richmarr 10y ago
Completely agree. I'd actually like to list the worst things (IMO) to happen to the software industry. (1) Marketing of computers at boys resulting in a generation of girls being excluded. (2) Software patents suffocating innovators. (
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by richmarr 10y ago
But does it compile to Javscript?
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Gamification... because we know our app isn't interesting enough without it
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by richmarr 10y ago
> ... but you also face developer unhappiness and attrition. I don't think this should be assumed. The unhappiness and stress around Tech Debt are directly caused by sub-optimal communication, not by the debt itself. The debt is jus
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by richmarr 10y ago
> ...lack of transparency about design quality Totally agree. Technical debt isn't a problem as long as the team has good communication & low levels of political behaviour. IMO articles like this that paint Tech Debt as a univer
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by richmarr 10y ago
> innovation is not one of their "fortes" Downvoting because almost-entirely off-topic, and TBH slightly racist.
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by richmarr 10y ago
> At what point would you start asking questions then? mikeash has already answered that. He's fine with questions. You're arguing against a straw man of blind obedience to authority figures that (as far as I can see) nobody ha
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Breakthrough solar cell captures carbon dioxide, produces burnable fuel(phys.org)
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