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by xchaotic 8y ago
While I agree with you, especially with the benefit of the hindsight, I used to spend many CPU cycles on SETI, looking for freaking aliens. It's pretty hard to objectively judge what's a waste of energy. My biggest concern is that
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by xchaotic 8y ago
The current gold price is a combination of industrial usage value (price higher than coal as it's more rare) and perceived value, but the difference is not that huge compared to other metals, so I would say the goldbugs are not complet
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Well if they don't like the new job, they may be posting again. Clearly not an ideal marketplace - I see lots of companies like GitLab doing repeat posts in who's hiring and this thread shows that there is a lot of waste in the sy
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I too have found the issue of scaling consulting to be insurmountable, but there are others who have succeeded. One key factor would be to take someone, no matter how junior and start charging for him at least the normal if not senior rate
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Given that there's special clouds just for gov agencies and now even an HQ near DC, somehow I can't see gov being able to oppose Amazon lobbying
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I use them too, but note that they are not a bank, so your money is not protected, also consider Revolut
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Marble run is a safe bet for a surprising range of ages
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by xchaotic 8y ago
So much about quantity and nothing about quality? How about If women had better premarital sex they were more likely to get a divorce?
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by xchaotic 8y ago
By the way, that's probably more than $100k/year if he does. Probably triple that with the overhead of the office space, HR and middle management.
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I think you are downplaying minimal
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Roll the dice? What are the consequences for you, especially if you can shift the blame? What are the odds of you having better uptime rolling your own tooling? Can you afford the complexity of multi cloud? Is the added complication worth i
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Somewhere near DC is must to cater for DoD and other federal government contracts
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Very anectodal, but some things are better on Azure, because they were late to the party, for example azure blob storage. It costs the same as s3, but it supports journaling, so you can do journal archives. You can run your main thing on aw
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by xchaotic 8y ago
You're looking at historical data to infer the future. If it was so simple you could predict tomorrow's lottery our stock movements. In reality, circumstances have changed and there little incentive to go public, there's fix
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by xchaotic 8y ago
There's plenty in between, think Salesforce and corporate in general
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Like any sane person, I totally accept the global warming is real and most likely mostly man made. But rather than fighting that change which is already underway, can we not adapt to the higher temperatures and entropy? I appreciate that t
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Given that 7nm is already shipping in iPhones, it shows how far behind has Intel fallen
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hmm, so this or glitch or codepen? Good to have so many good alternatives I guess...
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Basecamp seems to be an exception, see their latest book - "it doesn't have to be crazy at work"
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Funny enough I went from exactly that to gitlab+netlify setup. You get loads out of the box, HTTPS being the big one. In case you didn't get the reference, the other comment was the top comment for dropbox when it announced funding. In
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There's the media posturing and then there's reality. A lot of people in Poland have not had any contact with other cultures and make inappropriate jokes about that, those who traveled a bit are totally ok with it, the last 20 yea
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by xchaotic 8y ago
have you actually been around Krakow much? There's climbing spots in the city itself, skiing slopes 1-2 hours away, Tatra mountains 100km away and beautiful Jurrasic valleys to the North-West, lots of green areas in the city and huge f
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by xchaotic 8y ago
healthcare + mandatory pension contributions are $130 for the first two years of running the business here. After two years you should get a good feeling of whether you can make the larger $350 payments. IMO with any decent income, the rela
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by xchaotic 8y ago
While that's true, there's a long tail of older people still trusting the Church a lot and there's a knock on effect where children are still sent to learn 'religion' at school. I think it will be some decades befor
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by xchaotic 8y ago
It's an old cliché, but car analogies rarely work for explaining computer phenomena. You won't be running a 1000 little kubernetes cars, and that's what k8s approach is all about running thousands of disposable little server
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Perhaps I've been eating the 'devops' cookies for too long, but live editing doesn't replace git and versioning. Even if you're running only 'latest' version and your product is hosted, you still need vers
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Institutional investors = lots of money desperate for positive (inflation adjusted) returns. The earth doesn't get any bigger and somehow the whole world economy is currently built on the expectation of perpetual growth.
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The only sane reason that AirBnb or Uber are worth as much is that they promise to be more efficient than traditional companies. SO the 'market' pays for efficiently and a lot of digital revolution has been all about making existi
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by xchaotic 8y ago
and also calculating the cost savings if any. On a technical level the whole exercise seems to lead to a slightly more elegant, consistent code base, but it's still a long way from earning or saving any actual money.
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Smart contract do not override existing law os if there's sanctions for say selling PS3s to Iranians, even if smart contract could let you do that, it wouldn't be legal. In any case the existing case law in the US and UK already h

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