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by verisimilidude 6y ago
Also: https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo It’s a contested open source project name, for sure.
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by verisimilidude 6y ago
In one instance, I literally watched a government organization buy its own open source software from a vendor that added a few bells and whistles and turned it into a proprietary product. GPL is a pretty good defense against this kind of
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by verisimilidude 6y ago
"Support" is the excuse, but it turns out to be a bad excuse in practice. It's easy for government organizations to become small fish in a PaaS provider's big ocean of customers. Even major providers in this space, like
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by verisimilidude 6y ago
Mass Effect 1 spent a huge portion of its attention on world building. And I agree, it's an outstanding achievement. Mass Effect's world is a very compelling place. But by the time you get to Mass Effect 2, that world is already b
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by verisimilidude 6y ago
I believe it's possible to write the ECS task definition as a JSON file, include environment variables, commit it to a repo, then use AWS CodeDeploy/CodePipeline to update ECS with a new task revision whenever the repo changes...
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by verisimilidude 6y ago
I think there's a place for Apple to get this right. They have a music streaming service that makes sense. They're a major player in the podcast space. They've long sold digital music, TV, and movies. Apple has been in the co
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by verisimilidude 6y ago
For what it's worth, I love the visual design of your site. It's stylish, distinct, straight-forward, and communicates purpose/process well.
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
> PHP nowadays has almost all the syntactical candy of Ruby Seems like a stretch. Ruby's whole mantra is about offering a very flexible and forgiving syntax. Matz wants to make programmers happy . The whole language is candy. You g
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
The abundance of "police boxes" in Japan, small satellite police stations, probably helps a lot. While living in Japan, I found a lost wallet on the street, in the gutter. That wallet was sitting just down the street from the poli
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
I can easily imagine influencers Instagram-ing about their awesome "offline" lives. You're assuming the offliners are going to be honest about it. [Edit] Also, I could see being offline becoming a kind of cultural prestig
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
(This is probably subjective, and I don't consider myself and expert.) I think Firefox feels best on Gnome-based Linux desktops: Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. Windows 10 is also a fine target for Firefox; I never encounter any problems there. I
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
They are making these choices on behalf of kids. So it's not just their own life and happiness. As others have already mentioned it also reduces herd immunity that's needed to protect people who cannot get the vaccine for legit me
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
You're right about switchers, but I wonder if this is a missed opportunity. If I switched to Android, I might still want to use iMessage. I'd probably still want to be plugged into shared photo libraries between family members. I
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
I'm not sure how to respond. I'm speaking from my lived experience here. My wife is an ethnic Japanese citizen who grew up in Japan and speaks Japanese perfectly, with a Japanese college education and strong Japanese work experien
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
> Maybe very small children. But in Japan, kids are pushed to walk themselves to school around 7 years old or so. Here in the US, parents would be arrested for that, and in a lot of places kids aren't allowed to be outside unsupervi
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
A lot of the reasons to stay in America are personal. * Compared to my in-laws in Japan, my parents here in the US are younger, more able, and far more supportive in general. We're getting way more help with our kids here than we would
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
It depends. I spent a few years in Tokyo. Work hours were long, but there was strong morale and espirit de corps among my team. As a young person, it was bearable. In Silicon Valley, hours were also long, but with none of the pride or loyal
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
Agreed, boutique online sellers can still compete. For example, I will always buy my stationary from JetPens if I can help it. Someone should put together a list of such retailers across various specialties.
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
In Tokyo, I'm not really trying to escape the heat. I'm trying to escape the humidity. So 26C sounds about right, and that's the typical setting I use there. In California, I'm actually trying to escape the heat, which s
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
Agreed. If Toys R Us could’ve failed on its own terms, without dragging all the play debt, I imagine their downfall would’ve come from other retailers moreso than Amazon. Walmart and especially Target are really good at serving kids of all
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
Toys R Us went down due to private equity shell games. I’m not sure if they could’ve survived the Amazon era, but they never got the chance. For what it’s worth, we went to Toys/Babies R Us all the time when our daughter was born six y
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by verisimilidude 7y ago
Japan. With roots in Japan, Ruby was very popular throughout Asia in the earlier days of the language, before Rails. Granted, this support was perhaps more cultural than corporate. There's something to be said for a community that grow
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by verisimilidude 8y ago
> the reality is govt just isn't well suited for the nuance and individual attention/thought different disadvantaged groups require This is a solved problem in other countries. Finland is a good example. Their education system
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by verisimilidude 8y ago
The article addresses this, pointing out that many of these teacher strikes are led by the workers themselves, rather than union leadership (which often tries to avoid strikes). This is HN, right? I'd expect someone here to seize on th
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by verisimilidude 8y ago
Pages was excellent during the 00s. Then it wasn't. They removed much of its power in one of the annual updates. I think it happened in concert with the launch of their iOS version of Pages. Fortunately many of those discarded concepts
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by verisimilidude 8y ago
My dream is a modern Star Wars TIE Fighter space shooter...in VR. But I doubt the VR market is big enough to justify the investment that’s demanded by the Star Wars license. Like you say, AAA is sometimes a straight-jacket.
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by verisimilidude 8y ago
Yes, many thanks for the correction.
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by verisimilidude 8y ago
Simplified Kubernetes is a thing that exists. OpenShift (and the open source version, OKD) jumps out as the immediate example. There are other non-k8s tools that cover some of the same territory, like Docker Swarm or Cloud Foundry. There&#x
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by verisimilidude 8y ago
Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last. For example... https://www.businessinsider.com/expensify-is-proud-to-use-hu...
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by verisimilidude 8y ago
This guy was previously among journalism's elite. He interviewed five U.S. presidents! Wouldn't you consider that robust ? Between the lines, his whole point is that no career is robust these days.

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