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by sqldba 10y ago
Ummm the article isn't very clear. It says the damage was estimated at 30 million. It says IBM paid something. It didn't explicitly say IBM paid $30 million.
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by sqldba 10y ago
Frankly the article is whiney and doesn't provide much of a case except, "I don't like it, and strings are bad."
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by sqldba 10y ago
It's weird that there's no general law covering this in America. In Australia we have the Australian Consumer Law which covers basics like, "It has to do/be/contain what it says it does," otherwise you get a re
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by sqldba 10y ago
1) Always assume that you are being lied to. 2) Gather evidence that can be used to prove whether claims are true or not. 3) Make your purchasing decision. If you think about it this is not that crazy. When you buy one of these products fro
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by sqldba 10y ago
The article as a whole is quite sensationalist. Once people have access to your underlying device - what exactly do you think is going to happen? "Oh but if you disconnected your microphone then think again". How many bloody peopl
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by sqldba 10y ago
I've had a metallic blue electric guitar for ten years now. Bought so many beginner materials and they're fucking awful. I can't understand jack shit. The closest I got to sticking to anything were the eMedia programs, at lea
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by sqldba 10y ago
Definitely stuffed my opinion of them. I thought they were for the people and made good decisions. Nope - corporate suits - and they give us a response which doesn't even make logical sense. Do they think we're idiots?
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by sqldba 10y ago
You've completely screwed up.
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by sqldba 10y ago
I'm on a roster 1 week on 2 weeks off and so it becomes very bearable given proper resources (i.e. a laptop and 3G/4G dongle). You throw it in your car boot and forget about it. You might get a call but unless you're out clif
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by sqldba 10y ago
I also feel like the "on call" thing is oversold a little. I work in operations and I'm on call. Some months I hear nothing, some weeks everything goes wrong, but on average I get about one call a month. That's not so ba
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by sqldba 10y ago
GitLab and GitHub are both pretty active on HN. I look forward to their response - where is it already?! I'm especially disappointed by GL. GH is already too big to care about such things.
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by sqldba 10y ago
+1. Some systems aren't used heavily on weekends so it acts like a beta test.
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by sqldba 10y ago
> I talked about the need for proper QA. About thoroughly testing my changes. About taking the time to make sure the job gets done right. Oh good, a bunch of useless platitudes.
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by sqldba 10y ago
Security will be awful. I'm an SS DBA. For one they seem to use the single known account (sa) which we disable EVERYWHERE because it's the first biggest known most common target of attack. In fact it's dangerous to use becaus
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by sqldba 10y ago
You can't. I think they mean docker clusters of some kind.
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by sqldba 10y ago
Wish I could see how bad the Australian one is.
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by sqldba 10y ago
Names 1. They're separated because other data sinks you share with want them separated, like the tax office. 2. They're separated because people want to call you by your first or last name depending on the situation, and they don&
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by sqldba 10y ago
I work in IT so I'm used to weeks without results. But yeah this is going to be a huge black mark on people's resumes and how the hell do you hide 3 years with a company that was basically all about committing fraud? "I didn&
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by sqldba 10y ago
I have a 5 year old Samsung fridge also. It's a piece of shit - since Day 1 the freezer makes ice and everything else stink of chemicals. Even after numerous air-outs, cleans, baking soda, the works. I can't wait until it dies. Fu
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by sqldba 10y ago
It's just FUD. This whole thing is a boorish marketing exercise about throwing money about and which will go nowhere. That's why Apple is out. It doesn't waste it's money.
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by sqldba 10y ago
Click bait. It's one interpretation masquerading as the truth while decrying the other interpretation. Until Lenovo issue a proper, detailed, official statement we need to keep the pressure on. Self aggrandising posts like this don&#x2
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by sqldba 10y ago
Evidence? Also FSF <> GNU.
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by sqldba 10y ago
> Why didn't they feel they had the power to object to a plan like this? I can't speak for Germany, but managers in large companies in general view EVERYTHING as a check box. It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't m
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by sqldba 10y ago
Poor little thing. God speed.
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by sqldba 10y ago
LOL. There's no "even if it's technically legal". It's legal or it's not. The police aren't going to let you go from something because you were only "technically breaking the law."
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Ask HN: Any cool stories about old DOS extender, EMS or Extended Memory?
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by sqldba 10y ago
I might check that book out. One thing that strikes me is that you're right - these things are unequal. Uber develops an app but this has made it very difficult for anyone else to get their foot in the door. Given enough funding they c
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by sqldba 10y ago
But they should totally have golden key back doors to everything and can surely keep THAT safe.
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by sqldba 10y ago
It's not about being the best, it's just about comparing offerings.
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by sqldba 10y ago
I don't want to know about what he did unless there's some information on why he did it also. Was he pushed over the edge after years of mistreatment? Or was he mentally unstable and it was petty revenge? Most of us have the keys

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