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by vertis 9y ago
It's a bit sad that my first reaction is to go, "oh it's Oracle" and then look at the license. It's GPL LGPL and Eclipse, which is convoluted but otherwise uninteresting.
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by vertis 9y ago
I have used Amazon for many years happily, but I'm struggling to understand what you consider to be vastly superior? Google has some very solid product offerings. Google Container Engine for instance is amazing. Granted Amazon has rece
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by vertis 9y ago
I think he mean electrons as in power, not as in the joyous copper phone line that gives me barely usable internet at times. Hi from Australia.
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by vertis 9y ago
I would guess using a charting SaaS that charges based on views is to blame
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by vertis 9y ago
You can pay for for it and still be served what someone else is paying for you to see.
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by vertis 9y ago
I really hate to be a naysayer, but this seems doomed to failure. For a start, people don't want to be challenged. I'd love to know how much of the bubbling is self imposed. E.g. Ignoring everything else until Google, etc, gets th
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by vertis 10y ago
Not directly related to the Mac Pro, but my 2014 MacBook Pro has annoyed me only having 2 USB ports. It feels like I need to plug in more than two devices every day. So I end up carrying around a USB hub. Which is just annoying. What is the
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'Exciting times'? Changes in technology can boost inequality, authors say(theguardian.com)
3 points by vertis 10y ago|0 comments
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by vertis 10y ago
Slightly off topic, but where does a layman start learning the fundamentals of DNA and proteins, etc? It seems to be such a huge body of knowledge and the field seems to be moving so quickly.
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Australian Call of Duty 'fanboy' Sicen Sun in court for 3D printing guns at home(ibtimes.co.uk)
1 points by vertis 10y ago|0 comments
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by vertis 10y ago
Just loaded up GoCatch for the first time in Melbourne (Flemington) there are taxis around for me, but no private cars. Will give it a shot next time I actually need to go somewhere by Taxi.
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by vertis 10y ago
This is a great/disturbing read. Stross can definitely connect some dots to make a compelling argument.
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by vertis 10y ago
That would be thousands of dollars a year in value. Do you happen to have anything to offer besides your browser history? An email list perhaps?
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by vertis 10y ago
I feel for Lena Rohrbach. That was a nightmare presentation, gets 5 minutes into her part of the talk and the power dies on her laptop.
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by vertis 10y ago
My guess is the OP is referring to the Republic that directly preceded the Galactic Empire as 'the Old Republic'. Despite the confusing nature of having another storyline, it is the previous(old) republic from the context of the e
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by vertis 10y ago
What do you use instead when searching for something?
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by vertis 10y ago
Amazing books. I was pleasantly surprised by Kill Decision as well, not quite in the same league, but more interesting than I expected. That, and Ramez Naam's Nexus, Crux, Apex are recent additions to my collection of awesome books.
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by vertis 10y ago
For those that have never heard of Infinite Jest, it's a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace[1]. It's now on my to read list. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest
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by vertis 10y ago
Accelerando, Glass House, Halting State & Rule 34. His short story collection Wireless also has some great ones. Unwirer (with Cory Doctorow) being one of my favourites.
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by vertis 10y ago
The reason I love books from Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Charles Stross, is that, for me at least, they're massive catalysts to my own thoughts and imaginations of what might be possible. If I had to pick one book above others fro
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by vertis 10y ago
I read it much later so I think I missed some of the ability to be swept away as an imaginative teenage (sad). I did spend a month trying to be as efficient and awesome as Seven of Nine though. Sleeping standing up didn't really work t
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by vertis 10y ago
Snow Crash actually deals with this if I remember correctly. When you go out onto the street you're likely to encounter people in the shape of Penises (etc). Most chat and social apps deal with this already by limiting your interaction
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by vertis 10y ago
I can't actually try it yet, since it's invite only, but it's an interesting concept. I mentor a lot of people learning programming, and one of the key problems they tend to face is that a week between sessions gives them ple
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by vertis 10y ago
Recently I moved house. I had to wait 6 weeks for the internet to be connected (first world problem). While I was waiting for the connection I inevitably tried to fall back on local content and discovered, much to my discontent, that my Chr
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by vertis 10y ago
This week is national homelessness week in Australia. I attended a panel by a bunch of charities here in Melbourne earlier in the week, and one of the things that kept coming up was the need to do more about affordable housing. In Australi
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by vertis 10y ago
Love it. I forked it to add a few more hosts that I use, bitbucket and gitlab
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by vertis 10y ago
I have a weird static blog that I almost never post to.
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by vertis 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099757 (of the fusion.net version of the same story)
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by vertis 10y ago
I started archiving all my emails a long while back. There are several good tools around, but I'm currently using offlineimap[1][2]. Easily installable via homebrew. [1]: http://www.offlineimap.org/ [2]: https:/&
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by vertis 10y ago
I feel like there are lots of lessons for distributed systems and machine learning from the way hives and colonies work.

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