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by bbq 3y ago
Yes, you're right. I failed to keep a full perspective when I wrote that. I won't defend that. I do feel it's significant that it took about a month from the sharing on that minecraft server for these leaks to be recognized.
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by bbq 3y ago
Yup, IMHO what was leaked in this case is not so important. What is important is how it was leaked, how long it was leaked for, and how long it took to notice. edit: OK, I was wrong here with my priorities.
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by bbq 4y ago
Lots of people in the comments here stuck on the boring semantic definition debate of mocks vs stubs vs nulls vs whatever. This is not really by what the article is about IMHO. It’s a great overview of how to grow and organize your applicat
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by bbq 4y ago
Importantly they said within a year they will go public OR do a private market transaction to make employees liquid
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by bbq 4y ago
Similar content for the US with a focus on trade: https://usitc.gov/research_and_analysis/tradeshifts/2020/ene...
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by bbq 9y ago
Frame your problem as a game, let AlphaZero take a shot. Now we just need the AlphaZero part.
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by bbq 11y ago
If you let me know how you use grep to search the internet as effectively as I do with Google, sure!
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by bbq 11y ago
Consulting firms will offer new projects every ~6mo. There are research engineering jobs that also might be a good fit - you deal with a lot of different problems and get to satisfy your need to learn additionally from the researchers.
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by bbq 11y ago
>Registration is still required in the US for some benefits, such as awards of statutory damages. [1] >You must register your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office before you are legally permitted to bring a lawsuit to enforce it.
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by bbq 11y ago
He sounds like someone who would give a great talk. I can see that happening for sure. I've devoted my life to a lot less before realizing there was more out there. These people put so much time into their work there's little l
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by bbq 11y ago
Can you point me to any historical titans of industry who regret their life's work?
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by bbq 11y ago
A physical reality we describe with mathematical constructs - like 0. People acting as groups exchanging capital is just as real as atoms acting as groups exchanging energy.
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by bbq 11y ago
The author goes from Every careful person equipped with a reliable thermometer will make the same reading of temperature. There are alternative scales, Fahrenheit and Celsius, but both record the same thing... to Economics is genuinely h
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by bbq 11y ago
Interesting to note that Jeff Bezos is an investor in Mashape: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mashape
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by bbq 11y ago
The analysis in the article shows that Aerospike is designed, intentionally or not, as a loosely accurate data store. It doesn't matter how you set it up or use it.
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by bbq 12y ago
Oh, that looks very nice. Neat to embed Lua as a sandboxed plugin environment.
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by bbq 12y ago
Agreed about logstash being too heavy for your app servers. It would be nice to have the functionality in a trim, native binary. As things are, one can always direct an app sever's syslog to a logging fleet running logstash (or elasti
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by bbq 12y ago
You're right, I said this accusingly and that's unproductive. I think legislation like this should exist. I don't think it's right to ignore the advantage (assuming we accept they have one here) and the legislation sho
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by bbq 12y ago
> Amazon supports federal legislation that would explicitly let states require tax collections by all online retailers above a certain size. This would give Amazon a huge competitive advantage (given their existing infrastructure). Of c
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by bbq 12y ago
The problem is taxes are incredibly complicated. There are companies that do "tax as a service"[1]. Governments should pass tax laws in some sort of industry standard tax rules specification[2]. This way, companies and the open
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by bbq 12y ago
Wish I could see what's on the monitor!
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by bbq 13y ago
Happily =)
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by bbq 13y ago
You're right. I think this goal is difficult if not impossible given the way things are. Missing, I think, is the requirement that open source projects are written with something like Repobuild in mind - consciously choosing to be par
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by bbq 13y ago
Providing incentives seems key. I wonder why CPAN came to work so well. Possible incentives: - automated testing (TravisCI does this in isolation already) - automated distribution (build .deb, .msi, and .pkg files) - usage statis
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by bbq 13y ago
You're right. There is hard work in managing a system of services where any service endpoint can change at any time. It appears to me protocols for negotiating upgrades between services are important and there's no widely deploy
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by bbq 13y ago
> concretely tho, it generally means hosting stuff on your own machine, on a connection you pay for. That's okay. But it's hard for non-specialists. To this end, I'm optimistic about lightweight containers, especially a la
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by bbq 13y ago
To be fair, saying everything on Hacker News is in San Francisco is like walking into San Francisco and saying everything is in San Francisco.
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by bbq 13y ago
Huh, that's interesting. Perhaps computing simply took the path of least resistance to express itself in society (for better or worse).
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by bbq 13y ago
I wonder how computers would process text if societies with more complex alphabets had been at the foundation of the industry instead of English-speaking societies. What if Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and Apple were all Japanese companies and g
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by bbq 13y ago
I would pay $100 easy; more than that I might convince myself to just wait.

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