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by shubb 14y ago
Reading through the IRC chat log it didn't look like he'd proved he had the CC numbers. I mean, if I was a linode customer I'd definitely be on the phone to the bank, but this guy presented no evidence I'm aware of that he had the kind of a
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by shubb 14y ago
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the author, but I think if you are going to 'do agile', especially in a breaky language like C++, you need to do tests. Lots. The current shop I'm at is maintaining a huge code base, parts of which go ba
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by shubb 14y ago
Not to detract from your metaphor, but I think the main problem with scaling is to make as much as possible parallel, so that you can throw more cores / servers at it. Often this is at the expense of raw big-O efficiency I guess. I guess in
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by shubb 14y ago
I think you might have got it - Lots of bad press about kids spending $1000 of mum's credit card dollars on Google Play Store. Better to give the kid an Amazon Coin account, like a charge card. Amazon do offer an alternate android ecosystem
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by shubb 14y ago
What you posted sounds sensible, but it looks like we did get a crash: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/04/bitcoin-crashes-losi...
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by shubb 14y ago
Asking for a detailed quote (where the one time effort taken to create the quote is significant compared to the value of the contract) probably isn't reasonable. If you ask 500 freelancers to spend a day making a quote for a months work, yo
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by shubb 14y ago
I agree, you just need to look at the graph: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/130327160138-chart... That doesn't mean the crash will kill Bitcoin though. In the longer term, government regulation may do that. A lot of fiscal pol
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by shubb 14y ago
The term 'self study' is strange here. He was trained to MSc level by his employer. The army do this all the time. The Chinese government do it very often.
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by shubb 14y ago
It's intriguing to see how someone clearly very comfortable on unix works on the terminal.
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by shubb 14y ago
But I wonder - if they spent it, would it still have the same value? Imagine one year, everyone spent all their income on stuff - earned and unearned. How much would an ipad cost? There is a limited capacity to raise ipad production - build
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by shubb 14y ago
And yet, having a 35 hour work week for 30 years is a huge achievement in itself. That's a billion hours not worked. International economics is too complex to pin France's woes on one single factor, especially when they have a lower debt to
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by shubb 14y ago
This is a sales pitch by HP - they are trying to sell 'big data analytics' to huge clients, like General Electric. Oracle and IBM are also trying to sell this stuff. It's supposed to be the next big thing. I think there is some doubt here t
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by shubb 14y ago
South east of where? I'm certainly interested if it's south east UK!
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by shubb 14y ago
I'll exactly agree with the author - 25K GBP = 1500 GBP per month after tax. minus 600 for shared flat in bad area of London 240 for bills (gas, electricity, internet, phone) 80 for council tax 200 for train to work 180 for food = 200 I'm