ajamesm

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by ajamesm 9y ago
No, that doesn't constitute implicit moral approval. We all understand that platforms and providers can't police each individual user. That's a concern about logistics, not moral consistency. That said -- there are products
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by ajamesm 9y ago
They frame it as "imposition of morality" though the issue is broader than that, i.e. Breitbart's tendency to incitement and spreading disinformation. Crying "free speech" over issues of incitement or violence is th
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by ajamesm 9y ago
As someone who owns a couple rental units, the prospect of being a rent-seeking gentrifier or a slumlord
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by ajamesm 9y ago
Lmao, if you paid $10 you got ripped off.
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by ajamesm 9y ago
Genuinely lmao at the narrative that the taxi unions all got together and conspired against greener rides
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by ajamesm 9y ago
yeah, real shame that the unmitigated sexual harassment got in the way of their complete avoidance of regulations
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by ajamesm 9y ago
You send a message to [the person who can prove ownership of HN username 'perfmode']. c.f.: https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs Soon, you'll be able to throw data into /keybase/private/yourn
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by ajamesm 9y ago
Companies that grant options could fix this in a heartbeat by extending exercise windows; they choose not to do that. Nothing to do with AMT here. If AMT repeal would 'fix' stock options, companies will change the terms to '
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by ajamesm 9y ago
Nothing says "normal demands of everyday life" like bouncing quarters off of bedsheets
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by ajamesm 9y ago
You'd... know if it was him. He'd, uh, have some choice words about Bomb Man.
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by ajamesm 9y ago
I was most surprised by this CEO who goes around messaging randoms on LinkedIn to start friendly conversations. Does that happen?
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by ajamesm 9y ago
70x faster? If Crystal gets its own port of Ruby on Rails, oh boy.
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by ajamesm 9y ago
If you're a tech company, and your stack is so tightly coupled to Amazon that it represents an existential threat to your server fleet, you were never going to make it anyway.
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by ajamesm 9y ago
Wal-Mart, probably. They bought Jet.com, which is effectively Amazon retail. I've tried it and it works just fine. Amazon's definitely the 900 lb gorilla of convenience, but the BATNA of simply not using them is not really a mat
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by ajamesm 9y ago
Off the top of my head -- protobuf, thrift, avro, XML, lua tables, properties files, yaml.
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by ajamesm 9y ago
Heh, people sure to use it like it's the answer to everything, and "don't use it" stops being an option if you're writing to a JSON-based interface. JSON's fine if you don't have any requirements around da
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by ajamesm 10y ago
s/CIA/arbitrary third party/ Headline makes it sound like the Cisco routers come with a CIA SSH key baked in.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
facepalm Thanks.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Yeah, private equity is a natural response to business failing in the wake of a bubble, but bubbles themselves are market distortions caused by insane valuations. Highlighting the value of reclamation just draws the heat off of the irration
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I'd almost pay a premium just to AVOID branding associations with Bono.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
All this needs is a "This is good for Bitcoin." and we've reached full success-fail.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
In that case, I guess we're just drawing from different glossaries. I've always heard "blocked" used to mean "can't execute because of something other threads are doing" regardless of whether that's
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by ajamesm 10y ago
In this post, I will summarize my understanding of a non-blocking (lock free) design of linked list data structure... The author conflates blocking with lock-free. Starvation is a form of blocking, non-blocking implies no starvatio
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by ajamesm 10y ago
You realize you cherry-picked a snippet of my post, and then made the exact point I just made, which is: There aren't deadlocks, but there is still waiting and potential starvation, all of which can be informally called "locks&quo
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Oh god, "non-blocking" is even worse, no thanks to Javascripters. Lock-free data structures can wait, and can block if they deal with failed operations by spinlocking. The muddled concepts are: waiting - what you do until you eve
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by ajamesm 10y ago
The linked list discussed in the article forgoes mutexes, but in exchange, operations aren't guaranteed to succeed: Because we are no longer taking explicit locks, there is no guarantee that insert operation will succeed. There
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Right, I think you looked past what I said, and why I put "lock free" in quotes: > I don't like usage of the term "lock free" to mean "locks that are less costly". There's a difference between bein
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I've only ever heard that with "lock" being qualified as a deadlock, not a synchronization primitive.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
So if solar flux is zero-sum, then farmers are appropriating sunlight that would otherwise be productive in other ways. All they're doing is using carbon as energy transport, not "creating" anything per se. What I'm say
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I don't like usage of the term "lock free" to mean "locks that are less costly". There's a difference between (A) locking (waiting, really) on access to a critical section (where you spinlock, yield your thread

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