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by timv 10y ago
I'm going to nitpick in reverse. You are being _charged_ - This is a charge against your card - They are not a bank, so the money in your "account" with them is just an unsecured, general liability to you. If they go bust
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by timv 10y ago
I assume that the clause or more specifically was intended to say something like or more specifically, NSW
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by timv 10y ago
I believe the original contract with IBM was only in the order of $10m See: http://www.smh.com.au/business/ibms-reputation-at-risk-in-wa...
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IBM to pay more than $30m in compensation for Australian census fail(abc.net.au)
87 points by timv 10y ago|42 comments
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by timv 10y ago
In every area that I've looked, GCP is so much better than AWS that it's offensive, bordering on obscene GCP's major weakness for me is locations. They will (if they deliver on their plans) get a proper global footprint in
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by timv 10y ago
> If a certain key generator is generating predictable or not-entirely-random keys and you can identify which system use those implementation, it can help script an attack vector Even then it's only relevant if fingerprinting make
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by timv 10y ago
Happened to a colleague of mine while he was on leave after the birth of his first child. He was allowed to come into the office one weekend (escorted by security) to collect his things. Welcome to fatherhood.
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by timv 10y ago
In Australia that's generally called "special projects".
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by timv 10y ago
That is definitely the approach I would use. Something like: "The company went through a series of restructures and down-sizing, and I got caught up in that. They mostly kept the junior staff and a lot of the senior developers were let
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by timv 10y ago
I'm not yet sure whether I agree with the action/timeframe here, but but broadly speaking the argument is that you need to set a deadline, and enforce that deadline in order to pressure companies to fix their issues. It's not
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by timv 10y ago
From the article: It can also be fitted with heating elements to melt snow in colder climates (not quite "run current through", but ...)
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by timv 10y ago
An escape key. (Sorry, it was too easy)
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by timv 10y ago
[ I'm not the parent poster ] > * your statement equating eating soylent to making food and drink a footnote in life sounds at least presumptuous if not judgemental.* But that was a core part Rob Rhinehart's original propositio
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by timv 10y ago
I'm not the parent poster, but I agree with his/her sentiment. I understand what your purpose was, but the blog entry would have felt more balanced if you'd said something like: It's true that for a small subset of quer
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by timv 10y ago
I disagree. In order to run the benchmark they had to modify the SQL in it. I much prefer it when a benchmarking exercise is sufficiently transparent for another party to come along an replicate the result. That implies that they should pro
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by timv 10y ago
It depends. If they do it knowingly , then usually yes. But eBay profits from people selling stolen goods. A telco profits when people conspire to commit crimes via email or phone. A pharmaceutical company profits when an addict buys drugs
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by timv 10y ago
But companies that earns a substantial portion of the revenue from their users' illegal practices either need to actively participate in the investigation and enforcement of those laws, or expect that new laws will be created to work a
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by timv 10y ago
I hear that argument a lot, but it only seems to be true if you never need to look at code from outside your immediate team/project (either because you don't use it, or you use it without ever understanding it) In the case of Scal
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by timv 10y ago
I have absolutely seen it in the wild, but at least in my case it seemed to be more a case of "People who wish they were writing Haskell, but found more commercial opportunities with Scala" compared with "People who found
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by timv 10y ago
Imagine if it had been defined as the time it takes to make 9,192,631,771 transitions. All our music would sound wrong .
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by timv 10y ago
I think it depends a lot on the nature of the startup. If you're doing things that don't scale, then you might have enough work for a part-time general admin/support person quite early on. The idea is to find the things wher
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by timv 10y ago
The background is a canvas element - the gear turning is implemented with javascript.
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by timv 10y ago
"They told me so in primary school" is clearly anecdotal evidence. You really need a proper citation. Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu44JRTIxSQ
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by timv 10y ago
This sounds more serious than that I think you're slightly misunderstanding the plan (assuming I have interpreted your post correctly) [ Edit: I just re-read your final couple of paragraphs and you're basically saying the same
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by timv 10y ago
I quote > tihonovova • 7h > There are no ukrainian dollars. We have hryvna. I write about $160000 USD here. https://m.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/570gco/facebook_s...
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by timv 10y ago
No, but if you had a crystal ball that could distinguish between those who had been given lots of opportunities but never improved, and those who just need a little bit of training to make them a world class engineer, then you'd have a
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by timv 10y ago
What about when someone was (permanently) transferred between ships? Was there ever an indication that their AI-level data was transferred along with their personnel file? For example did the replicator know what food to offer them on day o
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by timv 10y ago
But what is the machine learning to do? It sounds like it could be optimising for sales. I actually mean that quite seriously - a machine learning system needs to have some goal to optimise for, sone way to tell whether the rating it produc
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by timv 10y ago
PaaS is "Platform as a Service" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service Think Heroku, Google App Engine, AWS Beanstalk, etc. Cloud providers that give you something like a managed runtime. As di
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by timv 10y ago
> Article states UK region "due in coming months". No location announced? At the bottom of the English section it says it's London The new European region, coupled with the existing AWS Regions in Dublin and Frankfurt, an

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