tybris

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by tybris 17y ago
Dutch fishermen for at least 6 generations on (transitive) father's side. Although I decided to become an expat computer scientist/software engineer.
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by tybris 17y ago
Problem is trust. You need to be a well-established retailer before well-established banks will allow you to charge credit-cards for an arbitrary amount without explicit permission.
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by tybris 17y ago
Bad CEO's: Keep the share holders happy Good CEO's: Keep the customers happy
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by tybris 17y ago
I haven't learned a new language for a while now. Perl/Java/C never fails me and I'd rather learn a new trick than another way of doing an old trick. I am learning about modern large-scale Internet service design, running hadoop clusters, d
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by tybris 17y ago
Weird question, what's wrong with C? A simple, elegant, efficient language that is close to the metal.
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by tybris 17y ago
Sweden's lost decade?
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by tybris 17y ago
but it's the first time someone didn't make it sound scary. The future is going to be relatively great. Just like the present is great relative to the past.
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by tybris 17y ago
It's not about efficiency, it's about need. These services need to stay at a basic level for everyone regardless of economic conditions. That's why you can't (fully) leave them to the market. However, hybrids between markets and governments
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by tybris 17y ago
The majority of society wants those things to be punished and encouraged and tax is not an especially powerful tool.
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by tybris 17y ago
Anyone using the form should be ineligible. Modesty is awesome.
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by tybris 17y ago
Cloud outages may not be frequent, but they sure are noticeable.
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by tybris 17y ago
I for one still feel the pain in my thumbs from taking lego apart.
703.
by tybris 17y ago
but.. but... I wanted to do that :(
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by tybris 17y ago
That's why/because he is the king of pop...
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by tybris 17y ago
Walmart is not that smart.
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by tybris 17y ago
Futurologists always think of what is technically feasible, rarely of what is economically feasible. Economic miracles like silicon valley happen once a century. The rest of the time we're just expanding the legacy.
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by tybris 17y ago
Inventing something is the easy part. If you don't do it, someone else will. Making it into a business is what's hard and that alone is what makes your invention special.
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by tybris 17y ago
I doubt it works. Lots of very smart researchers are looking at the problem of decentralized trust / reputation / economics. It all works fine until people start gaming the system in groups, which is further amplified by zero-cost identity
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by tybris 17y ago
That's quite remarkable. I didn't think there was anyone in the developed world over the age of 20 who hasn't seen the rise, moonwalk and fall of Micheal Jackson. His name is practically bigger than Coca-Cola.
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by tybris 17y ago
It never seizes to amaze me how people are able to dress-up bad business.
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by tybris 17y ago
At some point someone's going to set-up a succesful virtual currency exchange and the government is going to step in for creating an illegal currency.
712.
by tybris 17y ago
Lets just say it's the union of IaaS, RaaS and SaaS.
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by tybris 17y ago
Health care eventually recovered from quackery. It's bound to happen in IT.
714.
by tybris 17y ago
Probably 1px row/columns/divs. Does anyone know where to find an example? (of the Google Checkout logo)
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by tybris 17y ago
Personally I find Civilization 4 to give striking insights into the development of world history, with diplomacy being one of the key elements. I remember playing, with the USA no-less, and sitting on a piece of land void of any oil. With t
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by tybris 17y ago
Never thought wind power would destroy the environment.
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by tybris 17y ago
> Yahoo! has not developed any effective strategy to have any presence in the fast-growing social network sector. Fast-growing in buzz, slow-growing in revenue.
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by tybris 17y ago
That's what I thought for a second. I guess in the financial world being right once makes you a genius, being right twice makes you a prophet.
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by tybris 17y ago
Well, developing doesn't necessarily mean substistence farming. They're just developing beyond the rest of us. On the other hand, this is probably one of the last countries in the world where you still pay more than 50 euro's per month for
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by tybris 17y ago
I bet that for every unemployed MSc/PhD from a respectable CS department you can find >100 unemployed code monkies.

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