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by shubb 13y ago
You are arguing that distorting the market to increase pay for developers is a good thing for you. Some work can be easily moved around the world. Some can't. For instance, workers on your local railway can for up wages because the rai
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by shubb 13y ago
For a lot of people there is going to be an encode (CPU) bottleneck as well. From trying to do webcasting a while ago, I can tell you that encoding HD video in realtime on last years PCs was a major problem. Then again, it takes this kind o
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by shubb 13y ago
Every time one of these articles comes up, the author posts blood tests, 'health screening results', and bizarre plots from sleep EEG machines. These are all worse than useless. Because there is only one sample. You have no way of
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by shubb 13y ago
After some resistance from my family (and 8 virus infections), I managed to steer my grandad onto Linux. He wasn't a hugely skilled computer user to start with, just knowing a few patterns of clicks to open a web browser or a word docu
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by shubb 13y ago
People should spend their time doing things they like. I don't think people should feel bad, or like they lack balance because they enjoy programming side projects. People should do them because they enjoy them. (Like exercise, people
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by shubb 13y ago
I got a CV through the other day from a stranger. The guy had some great experience but the CV was weird. It was 10 pages long for 4 jobs. He listed every course he'd ever been sent on, including health and safety and diversity trainin
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by shubb 13y ago
I know you meant 'Anyone who takes risks gets fired eventually. Great people take risks.' But I got fired from a burger place once because I wasn't much good at making burgers. They also say 'Judge a man by his enemies.
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by shubb 13y ago
Are AWS nodes/services themselves down, or just the Amazon web interface?
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by shubb 13y ago
But a movie isn't just a movie. Every movie has a narrative that makes a point, and that makes it valuable. If what we are hoping to learn from 'Jobs' or The Social Network is "How did this guy do it? What personal quali
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by shubb 13y ago
>>have you seen a benevolent monopoly before? I write too much, but you make an interesting point. More interesting because I find it hard to imagine a world where governments do not have a monopoly on force and the things function. C
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by shubb 13y ago
See, you are trying to say that there are two possible positions - either the government is allowed to interfere with peoples lives, or it is not. Most people believe something in the middle - there are situations where they would like the
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by shubb 13y ago
Not really, not only would brute forcing take impractically long (you'd need all IP addresses as well as allocated domains), but the blocking system does individual pages within sites, which could not be found by this method.
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by shubb 13y ago
@drivebyacct2: I'm hoping what you read wasn't what I meant. I meant that, I can't agree with the view that people should have the right to decide what they put in their bodies, because it is based on the idea they are making
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by shubb 13y ago
I don't know if you work at a huge company. Maybe you do. I've worked at a couple. Like government, large companies provide a sheltered environment where things happen that couldn't survive out in the real world. Sometimes th
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by shubb 13y ago
Sometimes large companies do a layoff program to 'trim the fat'. This is about 5% of the total workforce, which is a bit aggressive for that. Reduced headcount forces automation which might have been politically resisted for years
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by shubb 13y ago
So I smoke normal, legal cigarettes. About 10 a day, 20 when I'm stressed. I started about 20, borrowing them off friends, and it's been maybe 8 years now. The first 2 years, I didn't realize I was addicted to them. I just sm
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by shubb 13y ago
The security advantage of this over SMS would appear to be that SMS could be intercepted. Err... okay... The practicality advantages are that it can sign you in with a single button press, and that it works places that have wifi but not mob
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by shubb 13y ago
Oh I agree, for the price you can't expect great service, but I think from a customer relations perspective, lack of communication from OVH has done a lot of damage. The forum they run is pretty angry. This is interesting because I thi
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by shubb 13y ago
Things to worry about - - Have you used a password on more than one site? (if it is guessed on one, perhaps a forum susceptible to rapid brute force, it may be used against every other site) - Do any services you use allow emergency authent
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by shubb 13y ago
Summary of the situation - OVH is a large data center company with a good reputation. They launched a series of servers for €2.50 a month. - Almost all orders by Paypal in the past 10 days by Paypal were frozen without communication. They
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OVH KS 2013 Clarification(forum.ovh.co.uk)
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by shubb 13y ago
I misread this for a wikipedia link, and accessed it from my work computer. For a lot of people, unfortunately, this kind of link is NSFW in the same way as pornography. Do other readers think it should be tagged 'maybe NSFW' in t
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by shubb 13y ago
Your question RE who pays the insurance - the renter will pay for it in either case, directly or by having the cost passed to them from the lender. I'd suggest that the lender should decide if he wants insurance or not, and it should b
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by shubb 13y ago
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/10/inside_the_... This link is worth reading for context.
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by shubb 13y ago
This is kind of awesome. Things that need fixing though - repeat lines, lines that don't rhyme together. You should look into RapMetrics, and implement something like that to figure out how good the generated lyrics are, and then use a
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by shubb 13y ago
Could you explain what you mean a bit more clearly? Traffic can be anonamised hopping it around many peers (assuming that a critical mass of them are not observed, which seems entirely likely these days). If you sent a request to a single m
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by shubb 13y ago
I understand that high frequency trading algorithms are often predatory, identifying other algorithms making trades, and exploiting their known behavior to trick them into making bad decisions. Although it may not be the case here, one can
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by shubb 13y ago
Children spend ~ 35 hours a week, essentially preparing to be efficient workers. That is, if you ask them, usually what they will tell you they are at school to do. They will phrase it 'score high in exams, in order to get a good job&#
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by shubb 13y ago
Working with satellite data I can tell you that the maximum resolution data you are likely to get from a satellite is 0.25m resolution (i.e. a pixel is the size of a car wheel). And that's talking about likely military satellites - the
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by shubb 13y ago
To be fair to the agent, I think uploading company code to your private third party repository is pretty bad. Especially if you are thinking (later in the article, quoting the programmer), 'they wouldn't like it', 'it wa

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