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by signal11 5y ago
I had heard about the Wirecard scandal, but didn’t know the details. Having read the article now, I do wonder how Ernst & Young signed off on Wirecard’s accounts.
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by signal11 6y ago
A lot of this also applies to other interpreted languages widely used in production, such as Ruby, Python and Clojure. You don’t like interpreted languages in production, fine. But rejecting candidates who think differently from you just cr
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by signal11 6y ago
I have this exact same feeling with some Java programmers' fascination with coffee terminology, especially Beans. Maybe because I grind my own beans at home, it always triggers me in some sort of Pavlovian way.
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by signal11 6y ago
Apparently Google owned Duck.com ever since it acquired Duck Corp. in 2010[1], and only 2-ish years ago transferred the domain to DuckDuckGo. However, Duck is rather generic-sounding and will require $$$ in ad-spend to get name recall. Even
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by signal11 6y ago
> I don't think any of your example of shrunk companies going on anything like the acquisition spree that these tech giants have. IBM has a long history re acquisitions[1]. Xerox hasn't done it quite as much, but they started a
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by signal11 6y ago
Great point. SSPL is basically the open source equivalent of “we had to destroy the village in order to save it.” In order to protect their IP from being “taken away” because of their original licensing decision, they basically chose a new
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by signal11 6y ago
> Then they should pay taxes just as a storefront. If they haven’t paid whatever tax is due, then the relevant national tax body should throw the book at them. But I suspect you’ll find their tax lawyers & accountants ensure they’re
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by signal11 6y ago
Size imposes a penalty on companies anyway. And companies shrink as well as grow. IBM shrank. Microsoft closed up its entire mobile efforts after acquiring Nokia (another company that shrank). Then there’s Polaroid, Blockbuster, Xerox, DE
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by signal11 6y ago
Chennai's extremely hot. Having been there, intuitively I'd suspect a Spain-like siesta would work very well there and boost productivity. The nights there are extremely warm too. I wonder if that's a factor in ensuring that
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by signal11 6y ago
> the stupid and annoying teaser pictures that force me to scroll down on a 27" monitor to even see some text I think they're called hero images[1]. I think it's okay to have them, but scaling them up with monitor size is
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by signal11 6y ago
> I've always thought that images within emails would also serve as a read receipt to the server that sent them when enabled or shown Yes, that's exactly what happens. Proxying the image only hides the user's IP address. I
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by signal11 6y ago
An email user's viewpoint: pretty emails formatted like web pages (e.g., like what GOG.com sends) may provide a sense of accomplishment to the designer, and their employer a warm, fuzzy, Brand-CompliantTM feeling -- but as a user I kin
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by signal11 6y ago
Law of unintended consequences -- will we see more usage of the 'Report' button, now that there's no way to signal that "this video is BS"?
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by signal11 6y ago
> support it's SOCs for more than a couple of years That works, even works well, as long as device makers feel that supporting SOCs for a limited period helps them sell more phones. Apple has changed the rules of the game by support
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by signal11 6y ago
Maybe a Twitter account that focuses on what's new and what's coming down the pipe? Most people don't really follow forums. The current Twitter account last tweeted about Sublime Text in March 2019, I think -- exactly 2 yea
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by signal11 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but Samsung is also huge and Bluetooth is used in lots of electronics that Samsung sells -- including laptops, tablets, smart watches, TVs... or conceivably could sell, like future IoT products. If someone sen
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by signal11 6y ago
> Oh wait, will we need to pay to upgrade to ST4? Maybe not. Depends how/when you bought it, I think. From https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text : > Personal licenses are a once off purchase, and come with 3 y
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by signal11 6y ago
I'd start by computing the number of ships that went around the Southern tip of Africa as a result of the stuck ship. I wonder how much the cost of extra fuel and food/pay for all of those ships doing additional miles will be? And
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by signal11 6y ago
This code is MIT licensed, it should be possible for someone to re-create the old UI and still use this calculator's modern calculation engine (with all the bugfixes)?
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by signal11 6y ago
This is a really good story about how not to be a customer-centric organisation and not take user feedback. What I take away is that just because they’re not paying customers doesn’t mean they won’t remember and judge you. And clearly peo
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by signal11 6y ago
A very minor point (sorry): please could you search-and-replace all “advices” to “advice” in the text? Advice is its own plural form.
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by signal11 6y ago
> So their reason for adopting Java is not because it's "moving fast". I was replying to the parent poster, who said that moving fast is a roadblock to enterprise adoption. Whether enterprises adopt Java because it's
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by signal11 6y ago
That somehow rapid-release is antithetical to the enterprise is a very archaic view of enterprise computing. Enterprises use cloud HR software, Office suites (MS365 and Google Workspace), Salesforce, etc all the time and those update on a f
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by signal11 6y ago
Yes; thanks for pointing that out, that's an important factor too, I guess.
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by signal11 6y ago
This is very cool, thank you! Interestingly the difference between some of these colours is (to my eyes / monitor) ... very little? E.g. chartreuse and lawngreen, palegreen and lightgreen, mediumturquoise and darkturquoise, etc.
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by signal11 6y ago
HDFC deserves all the opprobrium it gets, but the fact that the RBI dinged HDFC and not SBI amazes me. Back when I had an account, SBI’s website would go down frequently, including for maintenance in the middle of the day. Also, the lack of
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by signal11 6y ago
A new JVM release is always cause for cheer. The demo language it comes with also keeps getting better :-)
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by signal11 6y ago
> is there any serious development in java NOT using Spring? Yes. And I don't just mean people doing Android development. 1) DI: Don't always need DI. For things like injecting values from config, it's really unnecessary g
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by signal11 6y ago
Note that blindly following LTS is not a great idea for many teams that deploy applications (as opposed to libraries), including teams working in large companies, if you have access to modern CI/CD tooling. Personally, I'd let pro
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by signal11 6y ago
Yes, Texas in the realm of power distribution is probably a paradise by comparison with South Africa, but compared to its peers (other US states), Texas has a very non-resilient, or fragile, power distribution system that we know will &quot

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