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by vacri 9y ago
As a parallel, one of the reasons Slack has won in the paid-chat stakes is because of it's buttery-smooth onboarding process. The chat client isn't anything special, really, but it's just so easy to get set up and running. Th
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by vacri 9y ago
> I've heard ES isn't that much of a PITA to manage on its own I just run ES for my logstash setup, and ES is lovely and rock-solid... except when it isn't. For example ES deciding to just silently refuse input when its
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by vacri 9y ago
In my experience, any 'improve logging' ticket goes straight to the back of the dev's backlog. Followed the next week by complaints about the logging system not being all that good... :)
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by vacri 9y ago
> In the good ol' days businesses had longer-lasting relationships with their employees and didn't view them as disposable goods. This is the kind of thing the GP is talking about, and you've fallen into the trap. The ri
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by vacri 9y ago
HN-the-original hasn't survived the onslaught. It used to be a business + tech forum, with about a third of the articles being relevant to the business side of startups. Now it's a hacking + politics + general interest forum (no d
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by vacri 9y ago
HEADLINE: Reconcile and refresh the Debian Wiki DESCRIPTION: The wiki is frequently stale or incomplete. A lot of people get information much more readily out of a wiki than mailing lists. Like me, for example :) Mailing lists have a very h
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by vacri 9y ago
Stable moves much slower (if at all), so breakages are much less likely, and packages are battle-tested. A cutting-edge or rolling distro, like Unstable, gets a lot more changes, and you get to do the battle-testing yourself. Basically you
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by vacri 9y ago
I've been running debian on an x1 carbon as well (gen 3). I was impressed that it 'just worked' to the point that I even got an inbuilt wireless modem, popped the SIM card in, and the only bit of configuration I had to do was
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by vacri 9y ago
Debian Stable is just that: stable. The default browser is an Extended Support Release (marked as such by the vendor, not Debian), so it'll stick around longer. An ESR is more useful for use cases like education or companies that roll
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by vacri 9y ago
> their wiki is the one that speaks the most to my mind I'm a debian user, and I love the arch wiki. The debian wiki is often stale and/or incomplete, and usually you're told to go to the mailing lists (which are an awkw
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by vacri 9y ago
I don't know about the version of curl you use, but mine doesn't give download progress in binary format, and doesn't contain any content of the target you're curling. $ curl news.ycombinator.com > /dev&#x2
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by vacri 9y ago
I'd prefer they stop curl from detecting a pipe on STDOUT and assuming that the user must want download progress garbage. Why would I want it in a pipe any more than I'd want it standalone? Inconsistent behaviour violates POLS.
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by vacri 9y ago
> If a REAL artist ... That's what a movie or theme park would [do] ... because theme parks are noted for the quality of their art.
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by vacri 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing. For something like Fox Games, the use of bread rather than a permanent material is incidental. But for a bust made of chocolate or an art piece where meat is nailed to a wall, the impermanent material is c
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by vacri 9y ago
WWII's mass propaganda did not have the 'zero bar' suggested in your article. It was state propaganda, not 'the babel fish'. It's also not like WWII Europe was a 'harmonious group' (or Europe of alm
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by vacri 9y ago
> Douglas Adams totally nailed it when he wrote that removing barriers to communication could become the cause of conflict. Where are all the really big wars since the advent of mass media? There's a large amount of forest-for-the
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by vacri 9y ago
SV is significantly overrepresented with east and south Asians, compared to the general US public. If you wanted to make SV match the general US demographics, they'd have to hire more white people. Just because black people specific
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by vacri 9y ago
> The website seems to implicitly say that white men equals bad vs > Lately, I have even witnessed people complaining that most donations come from white men charities and that this is bad So... you complain that the website is ge
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by vacri 9y ago
The issues around "booth babes" are not about the individual women doing the work.
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by vacri 9y ago
You're totally misrepresenting the point of that item. It's referring to the knee-jerk yellers. We have them here on HN as well. Look at any article regarding women's experiences, for example, and you'll find a few comme
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by vacri 9y ago
Meh, that's a cop-out. "You don't need complex sentences to express complex ideas." and "They don't use more complex sentences, just different words"? It's pretending that the complexity in the langua
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by vacri 9y ago
You can bikeshed interviewing processes that leave out this or that potential candidate forever. And any candidate who bombs in any kind of interview could turn out to be the next Einstein. There is no one-size-fits-all interview te
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by vacri 9y ago
Mining is only 7-8% of our economy. We survived both the GFC and the recent years of mining downturn. Mining isn't a small part of it, but it's not really the key player in our economy. Agriculture is much bigger, but still, the r
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by vacri 9y ago
> I think the hostility is more about how the problems millennials face now are man made problems previous generations didn't have to face The GP is bitching about a potential war between the US and China, and conveniently ignor
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by vacri 9y ago
> Given a population growth rate of about 2% per year, like it was in the 1960s, an average mass of 60 kg per person, current world population of 7 billion Economic growth in developed countries is driven by population growth, and this
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by vacri 9y ago
> The result is that we settle for low-paying entry level jobs. uh... isn't the point of entry-level jobs to be the kind of jobs where people entering the market start out? > Young people are better-educated Actually, while e
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by vacri 9y ago
I'm not sure why the focus is so much on the death rate. To me, my comment reads more about the arsehole behaviour of various groups. I even literally state that at the start of the second paragraph. The GP is talking about drivers act
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by vacri 9y ago
Everyone kicks down. I've seen drivers treat cyclists like shit, and seen cyclists treat pedestrians like shit. In my hometown there have been a couple of deaths of pedestrians because cyclists are too busy being macho on their morning
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by vacri 9y ago
When driving, you're supposed to leave an 'emergency stopping distance' between you and the car in front.
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by vacri 9y ago
How do you disprove guilt-by-default in a "he said/she said" legal case?

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