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by xchaotic 8y ago
I was in the unfavourable position of trying to implement a commercial, performance product on top of a triple store with OWL inferencing. It was unworkable. A slightest error in the entire dataset was able to break inferencing elsewhere (
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I'd always wondered if crypto exchanges actually bother to buy the crypto that you ask them to. For most people they wouldn't know the difference as eventually they'll withdraw in fiat money anyway
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by xchaotic 8y ago
If they're really having 100MM recurring revenue, couldn't they just borrow money from the bank without losing equity?
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Just because that particular CEO couldn't manage the 4day approach does not reflect badly on the approach - it reflects badly on him. Other can make it work, he can't. It doesn't mean that the approach is flawed.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I'm sure he cares a lot about Debian and a lot of my early learning was on Debian derivatives but I feel that the production server side world has largely standardised on RedHat. Non RedHat/CentOS, non-Ubuntu debian distros are pr
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by xchaotic 8y ago
simple first step would be to do the extra things in the morning rather than after work. It's no surprise that you're mentally tired after a work day.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Syntax aside, are verified smart contracts a solution looking for a problem? They were supposed to be the killer app for blockchain-based solution, but they are computationally (and architecture-wise) prohibitively expensive, slow and just
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Side effects include chronic migraines and death.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
a better one than Elon's tweets
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by xchaotic 8y ago
"a degree that the developer no longer has to think about anything but his application code." a developer still has to understand the implications of resource consumption etc. For performance-critical pieces of code, IMO it's
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by xchaotic 8y ago
You can't 100% guarantee anyway. But you can pay your cloud vendor to do that for you, with the right legal contacts. Should work out cheaper due to economies of scale.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Such delays in shipping and yet the hardware designs are rushed. I'm switching to Linux laptop with 64GB RAM. There might be some pain for a bit, but IMO totally worth it for Apple to have viable competition in the 'pro' spac
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by xchaotic 8y ago
like everything else in 2018, live-streaming is overhyped and competes with everything else - work, sleep, netflix, social etc. I also don't think the focus on gaming / live streaming is enough of a differntiator - youtube does li
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Sadly, the great GDS team that is bringing about the great design/technical change in the UK gov is falling prey to politics from the same people that brought you #brexit. GDS used to be an initiative directly from the Cabinet Office,
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by xchaotic 8y ago
He's probably pretty uncomfortable in his grave knowing that his name is used to sell overpriced Bluetooth speakers.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
It definitely takes passion. Commercially, there isn't a lot of chance that the game will earn more than 7 years worth of earnings...
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I think I'm being more pragmatic and immediately jumping to what needs to change to make this situation treatable. An abstract statement of a problem like this is probably great for teaching people concepts about consensus, but hopeful
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by xchaotic 8y ago
For such generic statement of the problem, it's certainly unsolvable. But with encryption, timeouts and defaults it can be - as seen by many the distributed systems on the Internet
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Damn Putin and his KGB/FSB - Crimea, brexit and now this - trying to undermine my fave programming language...
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by xchaotic 8y ago
We're finally getting close to discovering the spore drive.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
If it really was lower gain then sure. But as it is, on average, startups give you more chance of ending up with nothing but an entry in a CV.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Exercising with small weights just means you will burn through calories. To gain muscle mass you literally need to tear muscle fibers so your body rebuilds with stronger ones.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Don't give up on tomatoes! You say that they do need maintenance, but you plant them, water them, give them sun - I bet you can automate a lot these steps - watering and nutrition, for example. You can give them extra boost with some a
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I had mine removed with only mild anaesthetics and I still have nightmares about that. It also didn't help with various nose and throat infection at all. In fact I had pneumonia couple years later so not much respect for the butchers t
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by xchaotic 8y ago
it's not too hard to see the cons - poor, rainy weather, which can be depressing in itself. Old, mouldy houses with poor thermal insulation and generally high cost of living. Traffic in towns and cities. Uptight, insular, class based s
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by xchaotic 8y ago
As a EU Citizen, whose grandfather fought for the freedoms in WWII alongside British pilots, those freedoms, including Schengen area freedom of movement that UK never bother to adopt, are being thrown away and they dare ask people to apply
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by xchaotic 8y ago
except people have vested interest in not keeping it very open and potential contributors also have vested interests. I don't think 'blockchain' adds value here
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Ok, so, assuming that all the things he mentioned are just nitpicky, what's the upside of Kotlin over Java 10? Lots of people would need adequate training, perhaps some new tools and rewrites. There needs to be a serious upside to get
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by xchaotic 8y ago
They are building all this on very weak foundations. The assumption is that all these services built on top of crypto currencies will somehow be more efficient than existing systems. They are not. It takes more time and electricity to confi
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I've used Technical Director and I use "owner" as I trade via my own company. I know some bolder people who elevate themselves to CTO, even if they are the only employee - to me that's a bit BS so I stopped at owner. In

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