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by rocgf 8y ago
Apologies, I'm not sure if you are disagreeing with me in any way or not. :) Envoy is indeed open source and freely-available for corporations to use. That is not what I was implying. Amazon, out of all the big companies (Google, Netfl
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by rocgf 8y ago
At one point, there was an API available via the IBM Cloud that you could use in order to ask Watson questions. I've rarely been that underwhelmed. After using that, I realized that Watson was mostly a gimmick.
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by rocgf 8y ago
> App Mesh uses the open source Envoy proxy, making it compatible with a wide range of AWS partner and open source tools. Yet another Amazon product based on open source software, while still contributing almost nothing to this space.
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by rocgf 8y ago
Surprisingly, or maybe not, IBM is the company that has been producing the largest amount of patents per year by a huge margin. In 2017 they managed to get around 9000, about 25 per day. I used to work at IBM and having your name on patents
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by rocgf 8y ago
I don't have a lot of data points, but comparing the Dutch railway system to the one in the UK, there is a very clear winner. The trains in the Netherlands have a fixed price and are rarely delayed or cancelled. Also, the OV-chipkaart
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by rocgf 8y ago
Still not working for me.
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This can go on forever. Have you never thought of the possibility of your parents passing away? Of course you did, but you don't internalize that until it happens.
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by rocgf 8y ago
> That's how understanding works. In science this process is called peer review. Who are you trying to fool here, really? Your comments have been tendentious and definitely not on the neutral or inquisitive side. Your agenda is quit
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by rocgf 8y ago
Your attitude is not one of desire to understand, but rather of desire to dispute. Someone that comes across as you do can rarely be budged, so I won't waste a lot of effort. First of all, the archetypal psychedelic (e.g. mushrooms, LS
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by rocgf 8y ago
It's astonising to see what lengths people will go to in order to dispute something they simply don't comprehend because of pre-existing bias. It's a bit like trying to explain what being in love is like or what you feel when
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by rocgf 8y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo+name&t=h_&ia=web
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by rocgf 8y ago
Sorry for the dumb question, but given the total calories are the same, does this mean that it is generally healthier to eat one big meal per day rather than 10 small ones? Given my current understanding from all the intermittent fasting hy
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You can use DDG with !s or just Startpage directly.
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I worked at Booking.com for a while, though never in Perl directly. Take this with the grain of salt of any personal anecdote on the Internet, but I can definitely say that Perl is not loved there. Most people hated it deeply, some of them
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by rocgf 8y ago
I noticed that if I slow down and press left or right deliberately, after thinking about it, I win. If I do it really rapidly, the algorithms gets to 60-70%.
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> They often write better English than English developers as well. I do have a working theory for why that is. In my home country of Romania, as well as throughout most of Eastern Europe, it is part of the culture to actively and condesc
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by rocgf 8y ago
It is a catch-up in terms of how you feel, but it doesn't repair the damage done to your overall health.
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I am perpetually amazed by how often people feel the need to put a label on something, even if that doesn't _really_ matter. As far as I have noticed, the self-made "myth" is mainly a media trick. For some reason (maybe intri
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by rocgf 8y ago
> Small things are already happening, like school kids striking, people doing civil disobedience etc, people reducing or not eating meat, trying to avoid buying too many plastic products, using public transport etc, but I'm thinking
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Valid point, but I believe people will be less inclined to support this if basic income basically means "we can give all this money for free to people and they will do about the same as people we don't give money to". It&#x27
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by rocgf 8y ago
Thank you for your comment. I can't really relate, but it does sound very interesting and potentially useful to many others.
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> parking meters don’t charge different rates to users based on their income; you have to pay the same amount to park your used Jetta as you do your new Mercedes [...] That’s inequitable. I guess it depends on which end of the political
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by rocgf 8y ago
That's not quite right. What was promised in the beginning was a pretty friendly break-up, i.e. a "soft Brexit". The chunk of population that wants Brexit at all costs is very small.
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Please excuse me if this comes as overly harsh, but this sounds a lot like a complete misunderstanding of how the world works, if I'm being frank. Let's try this with a simpler example. Let's assume that the UK and the EU are
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by rocgf 8y ago
Apparently, decaf still contains about 25% of the normal level of caffeine. I read this in the "Why we sleep" book by Matthew Walker, but haven't double checked. Basically, that would mean that drinking decaf is not really th
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Ask HN: Is anyone using Google Cloud Platform for a non-trivial project?
7 points by rocgf 8y ago|5 comments
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I'm not sure if it's the same as what OP was referring to, but there are videos of an attractive Vietnamese woman and her children doing random things (e.g. playing with toys) on the floor, with the woman being in an otherwise dec
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by rocgf 8y ago
Know that feeling when you learn a new word and then you see it everywhere? Well, that's a bit how I feel now that I am reading The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone, by Philip Fernbach and Steven A. Sloman. It's a book
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by rocgf 8y ago
I've had these kind of intrusive thoughts since I can remember. I would never act on it and now, after having had them for so long, I am confident enough to play along sometimes if I don't have anything better to do. They are appa
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by rocgf 8y ago
If it's of any use to you, they did announce that they will integrate soon with Xero and FreeAgent. https://twitter.com/starlingbank/status/999915241843511297?l... (you need to scroll down a bit for the Xero

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