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by shpxnvz 16y ago
They might have had list pricing but I never saw that page. Not just a page for pricing, they had an entire webapp for configuring and ordering systems. You could go in, select a server or workstation, configure it (CPUs, memory, disk, e
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
They didn't seem to lose mindshare with the customers that they were serving now did they? Sure they did. I have personal experience with a company that dumped Sun/Solaris to move to Linux servers in the last 5 or 6 years.
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
If your hardware lists for $1M+ per box, you don't sell that with a webpage… The appearance of a price on a webpage is a clear indication that you will never speak to anyone at that company who understands your business or requirements…..E
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
it seems to be the regrettable situation where someone is being punished for moral behavior Someone is being held accountable for a contract they willingly entered. The morality of the behavior is not at issue - moral or not they legall
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
What exactly do you expect them to do? Do you have any idea of the overhead of running a bookstore? I suppose he expects them to go out of business. The cost of operating a bookstore is irrelevant to the buyer - if the overhead is such t
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
I'm not sure there's much of a problem to be solved. The customer can already refuse delivery if the packaging is damaged. If the package is fine, but the contents are damaged, you can still file a claim and (after going through the inspe
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
Not nearly as much as it is for the passengers. For all the uproar, as of the last time I went through TSA security (about a week before the new "sexual assault" procedures started), the screeners seemed to be perfectly happy in their roles
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
How exactly does distributing MySQL as part of your application make your application GPL as well? It doesn't. The acceptance of the GPL (as of V2, haven't read V3) for a software component does not compel you to use any particular licen
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
and are not a woman There are plenty of us fathers who can fully appreciate it, as well. Truly, it's just one of many (seemingly) little things that takes on a whole new meaning after child birth.
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
A minor nit - it's not a sales tax that is due on out of state purchases, but rather a use tax (though it's commonly the same rate as the local sales tax). The issue isn't so much that it's rarely collected, but that purchasers who have a l
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
I don't know what that value is. Me either, which is of course part of what I was hoping to get some insight about from the discussion here. I've some ideas about what I would have been happy to have found when I was starting projects,
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
That's what I thought, and I figured this would be a good way for startups to save time that would otherwise be spent finding, deploying and maintaining job scheduling infrastructure. But, given the lack of interest I wonder if it's just no
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Ask HN: Any interest in this API as a service?
3 points by shpxnvz 16y ago|4 comments
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
My view on governance has evolved as I've gotten older - these days I don't believe in one best form of government, and I think people should generally live under the government that they wish to. Truly, and this too is at the heart of ou
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
Maybe not, but the idea that 51% of people voting in the USA can enforce their will on all 300 million citizens is pretty scary to me… Luckily that's not quite how it works - we're not a direct democracy. But, even when a majority of rep
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
An appeal seems unlikely given that the Attorney General's office issued their own opinion that recording an officer during a stop is legal under state law, but who knows?
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
However, I know from personal experience that they treat their sellers (see seller central) terribly. I've personally witnessed arbitrary changes in listing policies (a couple of years ago they started banning all low volume sellers from of
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
What about the equally-valuable employees who are very happy with their jobs and don't choose to interview? Won't they become a little less happy, once they know they're making less than the guy who was a little unhappy and chose to interv
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
One example of CouchDB offline replication: http://one.ubuntu.com/
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
That's fine, of course, but then it's not open source until you release the source . I agree with the OP that it's misleading if labeled otherwise.
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
Looking at ubuntu.com and going through the download process, the only mention I see of supported hardware is worded as "certified hardware" and placed in the footer under "Partners". I don't recall finding an exhaustive list of supported
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
Did the guy really have rights to the name? In the U.S., for instance, you have to actually use the mark in trade in order to establish a right to it - simply having thought of a use isn't enough. Is there no similar requirement in the UK
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
That may be the case in some places, but certainly not everywhere. One of the public companies I've worked with uses Oracle to the tune of several million per year in licensing fees. The CEO is responsible for maximizing shareholder value
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
It's already being done, based on Postgres. http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/postgres_plus_as/overvi...
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
There are two important differences between the two stories, which may well explain the different endings. First, the post is about taking unpaid leave, rather than (as in your example) effectively demanding a raise by reducing work. Seco
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
Thanks for the apology, and the links that you did have. Those were much more interesting videos, I thought. And it would particularly cool to see a vortex blimp in action. Oh, for the record, you got an up-vote from me.
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
The air canon itself is very interesting, and I don't fail to appreciate it. I'd very much enjoy seeing a video or reading in-depth about how one is designed and constructed, or about real-world uses for such a technology. I do fail to app
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
he's firing vortex rings at 200mph from an acetylene powered cannon Which, while sounding impressive, apparently is only powerful enough to knock down things that are equally vulnerable to being bumped into by a toddler. Perhaps it's just
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
I'm very curious how well the online disk changes work with something like the QNAP NAS. Is it really as simple as changing out the disks one at a time and waiting for the RAID to rebuild?
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
My understanding is that it's typical for the most impactful decisions to be released last, so it's likely that Bilksi and McDonald at least will be closer to the end of the month.

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