thelastidiot

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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Amazon is the new IBM. Knock yourself out and jump into the AWS ecosystem. In a few years down the line, you'll understand that you've lost the leverage you had to potentially take your public cloud business somewhere else when yo
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...
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by thelastidiot 8y ago
Not to criticize the hard work that went into doing this feature (I worked on a project using wikipedia/wiktionary data), all the things that had to be achieved to come up with a "simple" preview features are just made hard b
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by thelastidiot 9y ago
It sounds like they are preparing themselves to the wave of EU class action law suits about privacy, that the US won't be able to do, by limiting the number of users under EU scrutiny. Haven't we seen that sort of move by Google
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by thelastidiot 9y ago
It is absolutely irresponsible. While facebook is in the news as a reminder that companies that unethically exploit the lack of regulations in emerging technologies for the competitive purpose of getting higher customer adoption will, at on
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by thelastidiot 9y ago
Driving a Tesla in the "auto-pilot" is like taking my 16yo kid for a teaching lesson while I am in the passenger seat, sweating and sometimes hoping for the best when she makes a mistake that could be fatal. And as a software engi
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by thelastidiot 9y ago
I destroyed my tire on a pothole last year and I had to change the entire wheel. I doubt a "fixed" pothole can be more damaging than an unfixed one.
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by thelastidiot 9y ago
I replied at the same time with the same concern. Shouldn't the municipalities be more concerned about injuries potholes can cause vs. the injuries one could potentially suffer from fixing them?
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by thelastidiot 9y ago
“It’s not safe or legal for people to fill potholes on streets that are maintained by the city,” says Rivera. “They run the risk of being injured in a traffic crash.... They also run the risk of being held personally liable if someone were