Jefff8

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by Jefff8 2y ago
Firstly, it's important to note that on Hacker News, responders are probably going to be biased towards writing software that solves your problems. Secondly, it sounds to me as if you are jumping ahead, and favoring one particular solu
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by Jefff8 2y ago
I've done this sort of thing a few times. - Build a small core team who know the problem in depth. You really need to understand v1 and v2 data and the mappings, as well as the functionality in each. - Build a test system that is insul
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by Jefff8 3y ago
No, that isn't exactly how insurance works, and it would be almost pointless for individuals if it did work that way. Instead, it works by bucketing risk. In the simplest form, everyone is in one bucket, ignoring individual risk. That
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by Jefff8 4y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. I have different nicks most places I frequent and I forget that others are far more consistent.
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by Jefff8 4y ago
Another out of topic - I keep seeing your comments and in a comment about two years ago you said your profile had a link to your research. I looked at your profile to find out a bit about the things you are working on, but since then you&#x
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by Jefff8 5y ago
It's perfectly possible that Interfax is a reliable source of information about Ukraine, although it seems to be mostly based in Russia and mostly staffed by Russians, but we do need to remember that they are subject to the "15 ye
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by Jefff8 5y ago
As currently set up, with proof of work, it is an environmental disaster.
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by Jefff8 5y ago
Physics has had a 470 year head start, if you measure from Copernicus. Of course it looks simple. It wasn't simple at the time; it's taken something like 14 generations so far.
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by Jefff8 5y ago
Well, he threw something else at somebody I know, so there's that.
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by Jefff8 5y ago
I'm not especially pro-Samsung, and I'm just one consumer and I'm sure that for every unhappy one, there's someone who loves LG or loathes Samsung, but I will never buy any LG product at all if there's something els
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by Jefff8 6y ago
There are several prevailing schools of thought: - True hard-core Brexiteers really do care about sovereignty. They are nationalists.They want nobody but themselves to have any element of control. If that means the destruction of the econom
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by Jefff8 6y ago
I don't think that brought in bee keeping exists very much in the UK. I live near the edge of fields, in a semi-rural setting. I've never seen it. I have see plenty of wild bees and bee hives.
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by Jefff8 6y ago
Databases do have copyright protection under EU law if they are original.
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by Jefff8 6y ago
Databases have protection under EU law. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/protection-dat... The EU is also interested in Google, and this looks like a slam-dunk case on the face of it.
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by Jefff8 6y ago
In answer to the the question posed on the linked page 'who's the author?', probably Anthony Edwards ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._W._F._Edwards ) see https://quentinsf.com/software&#x
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by Jefff8 7y ago
I guess, I can say that I worked on a project for introducing interactive advertising displays into their branches. It was killed because they didn't like the power cabling.
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by Jefff8 7y ago
Thank you for posting this: I had been considering using them.
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by Jefff8 8y ago
I disagree a bit with the article. The premise is that you shouldn't make login forms behave badly for password managers, and I agree with this. But at the same time, people using password managers are not necessarily the major use cas
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by Jefff8 8y ago
Similar. I can't quantify, but I seem to be getting less useful results, certainly on the first page, and often beyond. I'm not sure it's not just perception though because I've not kept any log and it's also possib
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by Jefff8 8y ago
I've worked in the same market as you, I think, from the hints in your comments. I've run or had a hand in running conferences and trade shows, as well as having built software and systems to keep the show on the road, from regist
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by Jefff8 9y ago
Speaking as a Drupalista, I think we are better than the norm in the tech world. I don't think there's been a recent survey but we wre 15-20% women about 4 or 5 years ago. I don't think the numbers have dropped, but that&#x27
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by Jefff8 10y ago
I'd just like to note that in some interactions I had with Linus, he was very polite, when he had some reasons to be impolite. I think the blunt interactions are almost always to do with things done by people who should know better. It
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by Jefff8 13y ago
1. Won't happen at 100% penetration. Horses are still ridden. Some people still use quills. People without adblockers become more valuable. 2. Personal, targeted advertising rather than mass advertising. [Only you can see this: Why not
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by Jefff8 13y ago
I'd like to see another reward level: I would pay $50 for an option to buy the phone at $650 at launch or soon afterwards. Say 2 months after launch to give the people who have paid outright up front an advantage. You'd get an ind
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by Jefff8 13y ago
@mkbrody - Panel 3 'We clean' on the front page of your site - 'professionaly' should probably be 'professionally'. And before anyone steps in to be disparaging or #irony, lots of creative people have dyslexia and this is a typical error. E
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by Jefff8 14y ago
'Sold' in this context means 'in the channel', as the article confirms. It doesn't mean in the hands of consumers. It doesn't mean that cash has passed to Microsoft since most of those will have been on credit. All it means is that in an ef