the_real_bto

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by the_real_bto 12y ago
They could just get warrants for surveillance, like they used to in olden times. As distasteful as secret courts are, even they might be workable if everything becomes open after a certain time expires.
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
I don't know how to read your comment. I, for one, do believe that surgical procedures should be designed for the average surgeon. You want the procedures to be built around superstars? If I were building a software company that I wan
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
Expectations are really important. I tend towards higher level languages (Python, JavaScript, toyed with Haskell), but I can empathize with the author's frustration of using a tool that breaks his assumptions. Software is complicated
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
I like this use case. I've had the misfortune of trying to cross compile Python for ARM. It's very difficult, because the build process runs the freshly compiled python executable. This obviously doesn't work when you are
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
I agree, there are problems all around. I was responsible for getting docker adopted on a fairly small (but a number of moving parts) software project. It has been somewhat painful.
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
Agreed. I was referring to the rocket/systemd remarks. There were some pretty big docker hate going on when rocket's announcement was posted here on HN. Most of that hate was because docker was getting into the orchestration bu
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
There are a lot of problems to solve, and docker by itself only gets you part of the way. Orchestrating docker containers is the interesting problem, not so much Docker in itself (for me anyway). The handwringing that docker should do les
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
Thanks for putting the price tag in perspective. It's still wrong no matter what the price tag is. It isn't just wrong, it is a symptom of a broken system. It's a very simple and easy to understand example of the brokenness
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
I'm really sorry to hear about your struggles. One wonderful thing about software development, is that credentials and pedigree are not required. If you can make software, you can get a job. Even if you can't write software, th
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
Are there any online sources for this? I'm looking through google news, but everyone is focused on what information was leaked...
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
I don't see the venom. I see someone who is taking a lot of flak from internet experts and probably too eager to satisfy them, when such a thing is impossible. What is Solomon supposed to do? He explained very clearly his thoughts ab
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
Oftentimes, foreign citizens working in the US are not able to freely participate in the job market. If they can't freely move from job to job (as US workers can), then they will be paid less money. If they want to be in the US badly
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
Different tools for different jobs. Being able to develop code quickly is a huge win that Python delivers. Sometimes that makes Python the right tool, e.g. Youtube. Other times slow execution speed makes it the wrong choice. [0] http:&#
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
"If you are a good, loyal citizen, true to the ideas of the founding fathers and possessed of respect for the rule of law, there is no reason to be anonymous." You are incredibly optimistic here. The US government has the ability
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
Assuming he isn't desperate for a job, isn't it better for him to be himself? Then at his job, he could be confident being himself. I read the 'Go Fuck Yourself' post and became more interested in him. If I were lookin
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
It's easy to be a critic. Dropbox is a prime example of this effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
The formatting on your comment is messed up, hopefully this helps: I should have added that I'm a .NET developer who's recently returned working with in an open source shop. The problem I see is not that they don't have good
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
You make a very fair argument. The real question is, how do we decide what is fair for each of us to pay? Companies playing legal games around taxes is exactly the behavior that the complicated tax code incentivizes. Play games, get money
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
If you have any tips on how I can avoid paying taxes, please share them. Is tax avoidance supposed to be wrong? Should I feel guilty about my own personal tax avoidance?
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
I've been playing around with docker, so I will lend my two cents. If kvm gold images work for you, then by all means use them! What I like about docker: The layered filesystem [0] is easy to work with and seems pretty smart. I can
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
they did: python -m pdb my_code.py
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
This is a great idea, although repr() would probably be better than str(). I've spent a lot of time debugging Python over the years. This honestly never occured to me until you mentioned it. Edit: Everyone else jumped in before me. I
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
The escalation from written warning to banned for life is a huge leap to make in one step. A month long suspension would get the point across.
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
I'm not sure I follow. I see the constraint of the first system as the natural fear of failure that comes from doing something new. It is an implicit constraint. The second system is less constrained in my view than the first.
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
Fred Brooks has some gems. I'm especially fond of the Second System Effect [0] [0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SecondSystemEffect
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by the_real_bto 12y ago
I think you are a bit harsh on Toyota here. I can't resist playing devil's advocate. Some googling turned up Toyota has fleets of fuel cell vehicles already [1], this includes some buses. [2] Seen any battery powered buses late
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by the_real_bto 13y ago
The telcos have been granted a monopoly on the copper (or fiber), is it really accurate to think of them as a private business competing on equal footing with other private businesses?