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by rickmb 15y ago
In other words, you will do what 99% of all applicants will do, even the ones that didn't really want the job in the first place: you'll tell the interviewer what you think they want to hear. The lesson here is: "asking questions" does not
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by rickmb 15y ago
"Those countries are (...) net consumers of IP". Seriously. Only if you discount the entire human history before the last two centuries. Because beyond that, the biggest net consumer of IP in history is the US, and they got it all for free.
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by rickmb 15y ago
I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. A few petitions, some critical articles (finally) and some minor demonstrations (unlike the US, Europe is used to regular massive demonstrations, strikes, riots etcetera without governments cavi
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by rickmb 15y ago
Please. If an account is called @DehorsSarkozy, it's perfectly obvious to anyone that this is not impersonating anyone, at least not in any way misleading. @_NicolasSarkozy I can understand, but suspending the others is completely ridiculou
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by rickmb 15y ago
The main reasons for me to choose duplicity is the multiple protocol support. I've had so much issues in the past switching to other storage facilities only to have to completely change the backup process. Plus I'm using multiple storage si
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by rickmb 15y ago
I don't know which distribution you're used to, but in many modern Apache setups, the config has been split up into multiple smaller config files each with their own purpose. The average user only ever has to access one small file with 10-1
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by rickmb 15y ago
If you think your data "in the cloud" (which is just a way of saying "on other people's physical systems") is safe from theft, breakage or some foreign government agency pulling the plug, you haven't been paying much attention to reality la
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by rickmb 15y ago
Excuse me, but despite Google's opposition to SOPA, which was purely motivated by self-interest, they have put themselves firmly in the camp of the copyright mafia. They have been very outspoken in their support for the "fight against pirac
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by rickmb 15y ago
The thing is, for the average site run under Apache, adding 5 lines of config is all the configuration needed for the entire life cycle of the server. On the high end, provisioning is fully automated. Not to mention the fact that after &#62
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by rickmb 15y ago
Although not untrue, this is also typical for the somewhat myopic HN-crowd way of looking at it. For 99% of all LAMP implementations, the performance of the stack is not an issue.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Here's why a hosting company doesn't make backups by default: it costs money . You can either be a premium hosting party where the service is all inclusive, or you can offer your services a la carte, where customers can choose what they wa
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by rickmb 15y ago
Methinks that for a critique of someone's writing this is the wrong forum. Which wouldn't be a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that shooting the messenger and/or his writing style seems to be a treatment exclusively reserved for Gruber.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Just based on anecdotal evidence and personal experience: no, that's not it. I work in a field where algorithms are not relevant for 99% of the time, an neither me nor anyone I know tests for them when hiring. Few us are Google, most of us
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by rickmb 15y ago
To make matters even more complicated, the good bug fixers aren't necessarily "just" maintenance developers with some savant-like bug fixing talent. Many of them are perfectly capable of building completely new features on top of an existin
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by rickmb 15y ago
At a risk at repeatedly beating the same dead horse: outside the US privacy valued highly as a civil right, and is heavily protected by law. The same countries also typically have strong consumer protection. Warning labels alone are meaning
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by rickmb 15y ago
Like many people deep inside the startup scene, the author completely forgets that much, if not most, developer jobs are with neither startups nor "big companies". There are thousands of small to medium sized companies out there that can of
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by rickmb 15y ago
> we’re definitely going to try to take a more “real” tone rather than the false formality that pervades most company communications This makes me wonder if by now there is an entire generation of tech entrepreneurs that has never rea
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by rickmb 15y ago
Privacy laws in most Western countries outside the US (at least all of Western Europe) are based on the principle that you own your data. The rest simply follows from that. If you tell Facebook to remove your data, they are, within reason
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by rickmb 15y ago
How about if you replace " appeasing a few geeks " with " adhering to the privacy laws in most countries Facebook is active in "?
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by rickmb 15y ago
I've never heard of this difference in perspective between Europa and the US. Do you have anything to support that? But anyway, this was written in 1988. As someone who was already a programmer at the time, I can assure computers weren't vi
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by rickmb 15y ago
Exactly. Which is why I don't see much difference in most of the scenarios jamieb describes, except for 5. In our current office, we don't have the luxury of closed offices, but we do have separate spaces (kitchen, meeting room, small "loun
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by rickmb 15y ago
Wow, I thought the illusion that other cultures are simply behind the US instead of genuinely different had all but disappeared. (With the exception of Micheal Arrington of course.)
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by rickmb 15y ago
This must be one of the most vapid pieces I've ever read via HN. It just doesn't seem to be about anything in particular, and there is absolutely no connection between the title and the text. This is just one step away from one of those fak
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by rickmb 15y ago
I'm not passing judgement on you personally. In fact, I twice emphasized that I'm not saying that is what you should have done. You may have had a Very Bad Manager. There may have been nothing you could have done about it, other than wa
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by rickmb 15y ago
The licensing for streaming music online has resulted in geo-tarded extortion, leaving all but a few of innovative initiatives struggling to survive and at the mercy of the whims of the license holders. There should have been as many Spotif
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by rickmb 15y ago
You're missing the option of copyright reform that will no longer protect the business model of the entrenched players. It may not happen in the US, were most of the industry resides and politicians are bought and paid for before they ent
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by rickmb 15y ago
So we can't build a system that allows copyright holders to automatically claim audio and video on YouTube, but we can't do that? I'm not saying it would be a good or even desirable solution, but to quote some dude's election slogan: yes we
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by rickmb 15y ago
Although I can completely identify with your story (been there, done that, more than once), you have to realize that you haven't given her a solution, nor have you taken responsibility (except for your own career, which sometimes is of cour
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by rickmb 15y ago
Wow, this is a classic. It's been ages since I first read it. Awesome to see the author has published it under a creative commons license. Wonder how many great short SF stories people will never get to read because they are locked up under
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by rickmb 15y ago
How do you think this is ever going to change if programmers, some of the most sought after professionals in this economy, keep taking orders from these people? For a team with mature, responsible and professional developers, it shouldn't b

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