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by tajen 10y ago
> 1)"temporal" / versioned tables / time consistent views of data Oracle doesn't have transactional DDL. It means if you drop a column or create a table, it commits your transaction automatically. This is huge, b
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by tajen 10y ago
Women resign everyday "because they can't manage effectively" when, if fact, it's harassment. You could justify any discrimination with "he quit, that was his choice". Today the discrimination is against someon
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by tajen 10y ago
"Bitten enough", for Windows 10, is: - the forced upgrade to everyone who didn't agree with the upgrade, - the telemetry - the OEM "drivers" that display ads/change 404 pages/install a CA certificate/
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by tajen 10y ago
Yes it could be summarized as a window manager if it takes over all aspects of managing the computer through a GUI. I develop with Mac OS and deploy my cloud services on Debian. I don't know much about Linux beyond apt-get upgrade, ngi
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by tajen 10y ago
First let's not say "beautiful", it's associated too much with transparent glass panes and shiny transitions. Let's focus on "functional": Fewer technical details, more do-one-thing-well and designed exper
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by tajen 10y ago
When I created my current startup, all product managers and bankers told me it wouldn't work. That was 3 years ago and I'm still living off it. (Can't disclose the details of the product because I've disclosed things tha
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by tajen 10y ago
"We can't do it because it's a different business model than Apple's" ;) ? From 9Gag to HN, Windows 10 is a recurring meme of disrespect for the -cattle- consumer, in a world of Snowden and Facebook where we don&#x2
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by tajen 10y ago
I remember RedHat as ugly. It would be closer to elementary.io, but paid. Well, the installation process of elementary.io displays unfriendly information too... At the extreme, choosing Mac OS X requires very few decisions, so I don't
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by tajen 10y ago
A paid Linux. To get stunning UX design, upstream bugfixing and excellent marketing. Let me explain myself. I love the levels of ergonomy and polish of Mac OS X. But it's closed-source software. If I use (and pay) Ubuntu, then great pa
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by tajen 10y ago
In a communist country, isn't every corporation a state actor ;) ? Also, although of course many states could do something with the data... I still wonder why they'd auction it on a marketplace. We'll later learn that Archive
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by tajen 10y ago
Living in France as a good Java dev, LinkedIn sends me few spam, while it is very relevant to get contacted by recruiters whenever I update my resume. I've found my last 2 gigs in my last 3 years (yeah I'm a software editor who on
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by tajen 10y ago
Other inventions that have taken 500 years are not comparable: We're now 7bn people whereas the total number of people since the beginning of Earth is ~100bn. That means research can advance as much in 1 generation as it advanced in a
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by tajen 10y ago
I don't understand your link, it lists this issue under "Open Issues" – Does that mean the fix for Debian isn't published yet?
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by tajen 10y ago
Dogs are capable of... if left unattended. Read TheOatMeal then fill in the dots ;) http://pleated-jeans.com/2012/09/17/my-dog-the-paradox-by-th...
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by tajen 10y ago
It's great that there is a decent pushback to define what is normal and what isn't. I'm fearful that the pushback might come from men today, but we're reaching the day women routinely participate in the self-derision of
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by tajen 10y ago
Pardoning is already a good step. It's acknowledging that leaders don't know whether he did something right or wrong, and that it's up for the citizen to decide. It may change the mind of many citizen who currently view him a
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by tajen 10y ago
You can't just compare the after-net salary income tax when you compare countries. How would you then compare a country with high income tax but low VAT? You need to take the whole cycle. As a software programmer, I receive money from
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by tajen 10y ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1168142/GRAPHIC-... http://abc7.com/news/video-shows-unarmed-mentally-ill-man-sh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-WjXLZbJn
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by tajen 10y ago
What about a country which has one forth of the China population which has institutional rules about the police being able to seize the money you carry, your money on cards you carry and your car without even charging you with an offense, w
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by tajen 10y ago
Had the same feeling about Australia vs France. In Australia I'd pay $120 for a tax agent (~1% of my income tax), it would be over and I'd be happy about it. In France I feel like I'm being chased, because it's such a so
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by tajen 10y ago
OTOH, I used to work as a govt contractor where they routinely give 1000-page software specifications with screenshots and non-unified titles. There was no safe way to save them, let alone work concurrently, so let's just say they&#x27
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by tajen 10y ago
Could Tesla get an alliance with the manufacturers to bypass the cardealer scheme as a whole? I get manufacturers would rather see Tesla have problems, but wouldn't everone win with removing the middleman? Or could Tesla, in their show
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by tajen 10y ago
The author addresses it in the essay. Flooding comes in the form of storms every X years and super-high, rare tides, so barriers don't help. If storms are unfrequent enough, people keep occupying the area. In Manhattan, they've al
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by tajen 10y ago
You've both captured my situation properly, and I didn't know what mrgordon mentione. Thank you!
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by tajen 10y ago
Aaaand this is why I don't even want to try visiting US, despite being offered to talk at conferences about my product. I'm using a false name on Facebook and HN, which makes me afraid of any agent asking "Have you ever imper
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by tajen 10y ago
> Tons of headphones obsoleted. They do provide the lightening-to-jack adapter in the box for free.
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by tajen 10y ago
> whose sole purpose is to interrupt me with notifications But this one has Pokemon Go on it!! Waiting for them to have a knob that goes to 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
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by tajen 10y ago
They provide the lightening-to-jack adapter for free in the box.
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by tajen 10y ago
As a side note, they're noise-canceling and also work as a (non-bluetooth) headset. I was expecting them to find a solution when you lose them, which is the first gripe people will have with them. Even if it's something along the
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by tajen 10y ago
As written above: > ...nuclear plants? Solar systems? More seriously, it's very important to consider that centralization of electricity production, even from coal or oil, allows a lot more pollution control than a hundred million

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