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by simula67 11y ago
I assume they are part of Google itself. From the earning's report [1] it seems like total revenue was $21 billion for quarter ending in December. Around $19 billion "Google advertising revenues" and $2 billion "Google o
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Mind elaborating ? If you should be for free trade, should you also not be fro free exchange of labor ?
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Foreign policy is not decided based on consistency. Every democratic government has a responsibility to defend it's own citizen's interests. USA does this also, it wants free trade when it wants to export goods and services to oth
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Yes and this is great. I have felt Ubuntu to be way too bloated ( last time I checked it had many python scripts running by default on startup ) and Debian is hard to use on the desktop ( "stable" is too slow, "testing"
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Atleast two signatories if Agile Manifest has stated that the movement has lost its way [1][2]. I think it never had a chance. With the old waterfall model, projcet managers had some power : they could continuosly interrupt engineers and as
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> we don't want to insult their culture, now do we? Please do. Sometimes it takes someone outside of a system to see how flawed a system is. Also, it sometimes gives ammunition to people trying to bring about change ( 'Even for
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I guess the difference between bash scripting and powershell scripting is that you have to learn a lot of things upfront to be productive with Powershell. Bash, on the other hand, with its simpler syntax and collection of text based utiliti
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by simula67 11y ago
Why not focus on the good qualities of the team members already there ? This type of dialogue does not inspire trust in anyone. How can you trust someone who speaks ill of people behind their backs ? How do you know they won't do the s
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by simula67 11y ago
Microsoft did not invalidate anything > claims to own the concept of "product activation" in software, had all claims ruled invalid by the Patent Trademark and Appeals Board (PTAB) >The PTAB case against Uniloc's patent
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by simula67 11y ago
Wouldn't this be useless as a primary machine with their <64GB hard disks and no Google Drive support ? Anyone care to share their experience with this as their primary laptop ?
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NPM module that returns 5(github.com)
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> A more apt metaphor would be separating a book into many small paragraphs that each serves a single purpose makes the book easier to understand No, that would not be an apt metaphor for the problem he is describing. > Regardless, th
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by simula67 11y ago
Google, stop teasing us and release a free Linux desktop OS and compete with Microsoft ! There is no reason to fear Microsoft since they already have you in their cross hairs. They have been losing loads of money trying to compete with you
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And sometimes they are unbelievably set in their ways, for example using procedural code ( STATIC ALL THE THINGS! ) in Object Oriented languages like Java.
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Obligatory xkcd : https://xkcd.com/949/
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Each chapter in the book 'Making Software' by Greg Wilson and Andy Oram, takes one claim usually made by software developers and examines the body of research surrounding that claim. Chapter 12 is on TDD. The conclusion was that t
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by simula67 11y ago
You can get paid support with Postgres : http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/subsc...
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by simula67 11y ago
Why is HN obsessed with Yahoo ? See for example : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11121796
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Babel is probably the new Dojo.
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The problem with multiple monitors is that it becomes harder to acquire UI elements placed at the corners. Like for example the "Close" button, "Start" button, "Show Desktop" button, scroll bars etc.
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Much better explanation for CS people here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gS9tjACwU This is why I gave up my second monitor.
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I am unsure as to what the central point is to this post, but I will try to rebut two ideas I think are central. 1. Coders are paid way more for the effort and hardship they put in at work. This reduces the value of hard work. Even if progr
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So does this means we can create ISOs of Ubuntu etc with all the media codecs pre-installed and distribute them freely in India ?
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Maybe that is what you value. I use software from free software ecosystem for the no bullshit, high quality software that it delivers. People like me would benefit from free software being more mainstream.
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How is Olx for this purpose ?
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Arranged marriages are probably a vestige of ancient society were alliances were designed to solidify clan associations. If more women enter the workforce hopefully a Women's Rights Movement will take off. Maybe it will induce a sexual
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There are multiple ways to do it, but the defaults matter.
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Still no parallel download support ? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20056
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> This is the type that refuses to tell you if they think, completely ballpark, whether something will take a day or a week or a month Software development is about figuring out how to do something. Sometimes you can still kind of esti
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As programmers, we need to know atleast one level below the abstractions to which we are programming to. For example, if you program in C you need to know a little bit of assembly, how objects are laid out in memory etc. This is how you wri

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