tacos

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by tacos 10y ago
The second there's a Tesla icon on my phone that summons a driverless car, goodbye Uber. Not sure how they're going to buy and maintain a fleet of cars below Musk's cost.
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by tacos 10y ago
I'm not sure there's much overlap is between people who can get Docker Machine limping on VirtualBox with storage and networking flowing properly on Windows 10 fast ring and those who don't know how to check their spam folder
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by tacos 10y ago
Worked great for Yahoo.
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by tacos 10y ago
They never emailed me from the last "private beta" before announcing this. And now deploying this on AWS or Azure requires me to sign up for yet another "we'll get back to you..." private beta. Love the tech, hate a
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by tacos 10y ago
The product states it's compatible with a bunch of browsers; of course the devs use a mix. That's not interesting. But like the requisite non-white person in every group photo, Microsoft's choice of browser screenshots most c
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by tacos 10y ago
I guess they've given up on making the text part of their product make a damn bit of sense.
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by tacos 10y ago
> That's like saying "until people start demanding safety on cars and become willing to pay for it there will always be fatalities" Uh, that's how it sorta works -- for better and for worse. https://en.wiki
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by tacos 10y ago
Deming! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
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by tacos 10y ago
No love for the typical MBA consultant here, but one thing they seem to have over the philosophy crowd? Brevity. Good lord this post needs an editor.
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by tacos 10y ago
It's always nice to feel appreciated, but the validation-seeking pile-on in that Twitter thread is a little awkward. Reward yourself with a cookie then go read your Github Issues tab, guys...
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by tacos 10y ago
Thanks for the downvotes! Theory confirmed two days after I posted this: http://www.recode.net/2016/6/16/11958588/salesforce-also-mad...
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by tacos 10y ago
Fantastic writing style. Modern, clever, pre-emptive. Hopefully even accurate. Loved this: "Since the stuff is synthetic, it’s guaranteed that Joe Mercola and the rest of the anti-chemical Internet dopes are going to try to scare you,
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by tacos 10y ago
Geeze. Click the damn "web" button. There's so little quality news information left on the web the least you can do is spend five seconds to hack around the plebwall.
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by tacos 10y ago
There was a ton of FUD around PGP and encryption export legalities and commercial use. There was a window to make this stuff standard 20 years ago and we, as technologists, totally whiffed on it. The "these are not web technologies&quo
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by tacos 10y ago
So many articles from just ten years ago are dead links now. But I found this amusing: "lonelygirl15 is the hottest thing on YouTube at the moment (18,222 subscribers, 1.5 million views)" https://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by tacos 10y ago
I personally told these numbskulls multiple times that width = x2 - x1 PLUS one. Maybe it was the weed, maybe they just sucked at coding, maybe you didn't notice that FAXes were blurry in Windows for 20 years either. The real problem a
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by tacos 10y ago
IE was the centerpoint of a lot of turf wars between Jim Allchin and Brad Silverberg. Lots of tech was mishandled as nobody could agree what was personal, what was business and what was consumer. A browser had to reach all three, Microsoft
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by tacos 10y ago
The biggest pothead team at Microsoft was the Internet Explorer guys. So if you want another 20 years of calculating bounding rectangles incorrectly, by all means let's get the rest of the company baked.
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by tacos 10y ago
If you stack books horizontally on shelves by year it would form the textbook exponential curve. If you stack them vertically on the floor it makes the textbook log curve. It's a visual metaphor. Apparently not a very good one. http:&
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by tacos 10y ago
The web client is the only reason I still use the damn thing -- it's really quite great. Full text search includes text contained within image files, FAXes, and wonky old PDFs. It shows file extensions for me.
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by tacos 10y ago
"Ignore the details, consider the premise." :) Have an upvote and go read the guy's Wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price
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by tacos 10y ago
A visual log curve, not log growth. Log curve is a reflection of an exponential curve. He stacked the journals on the floor.
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by tacos 10y ago
I don't think it sells for anything close to $10B. At the $3-5B range there's no shortage of people who'd snap them up. EMC, Cisco, IBM. My money's on Microsoft.
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by tacos 10y ago
More detail but less beauty. I'll take a second whack at it. Ignore the details, consider the premise. The university library was under renovation. He wound up in charge of safekeeping a pile of journals. So he stacked them neatly by y
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by tacos 10y ago
> Dropbox says it is cash flow positive, in no rush to IPO This means the fundamentals are a shitshow and that they couldn't even if they wanted to. Investors believe they can get a better valuation via private sale than risk lettin
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by tacos 10y ago
In 1951! "The number of scientific papers published each year may be taken as a rough indication of the activity displayed in any general or specialised fleld of research... The growth factor of the exponential portions is such as to d
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by tacos 10y ago
Yes, it's the default Wordpress "Twenty Fifteen" template. It contains very important books corrupted by cut and paste into the wonky WordPress editor / blog post renderer. Someone in a hurry might think it was an autoge
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by tacos 10y ago
It was a Greek device. Theory is that it was pilfered with the other artifacts found in the shipwreck, en route to Julius Caesar. Rough couple years to be a Greek scientist.
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by tacos 10y ago
Derek de Solla Price is an interesting character. 50+ years ago while stacking and organizing scientific journals by year, he noticed the stacks grew in height in a logarithmic curve. From there, so much. "He was The Avalon Professor o
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by tacos 10y ago
Smart people think that being smart is the most important character trait (frankly it's not in the top 5) and coders think code is the most important thing. Meanwhile artists, musicians, photographers and writers continue to be margina

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