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by bliving 13y ago
"At the present time, pre-built binaries are not available for Tarsnap — it must be compiled from the source code." https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html
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by bliving 14y ago
In Canada, the slope is very slippery. Hate speech, under the Canadian Human Rights Act, is anything "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt". For better or worse, it certainly has a chilling effect. http://en.wikipedia
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by bliving 16y ago
Yes. And they're not shy about it either. "The way in which the J-20 was unveiled also reflects China’s use and control of information technology to support national interests. The test airfield is located in the city of Chengdu and is not
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by bliving 16y ago
"extremely complete library" I'm interested in how the completeness is defined, as the standards available are loose at best. I couldn't see by what measure they considered this work 'complete'. That complaint aside, it's a great effort to
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by bliving 16y ago
It was the sentence before that which caught my eye: "The cost of a move, in terms of training, hiring experts, rewriting entire application and tool suites, rounds of testing, and final deployment, will easily run higher than continuing to
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by bliving 17y ago
The Bureaucracy won't give up paper easily. Please tell me the iPad will kill (at least that part) of The Bureaucracy? Maybe a paperless society is happening closer to the center of the universe. But it isn't here. Apple's site does list a
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by bliving 17y ago
Yes, there's a lot of inertia in infrastructure. And the Internet's infrastructure isn't as centralized as, say, the power infrastructure. There's a lot of links in the DNS chain that will have to be replaced. And I shudder to think about
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by bliving 17y ago
It's not obvious to an outsider that "Hacker News" is Paul Graham's playground and that he is the one "you are having a problem with". As an outsider, I would have assumed as the poster did, that the community would be supportive in resolvi
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by bliving 17y ago
And the Macintosh project at Apple; complete with pirate flags!
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by bliving 17y ago
It's emotionally draining to wade through all the crap being spewed around (I'm not blameless!). But in a "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" kind of way, I'm hopeful this mess spurs renewed efforts to (re)construct a healthier, s
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by bliving 17y ago
Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes. I often fall into the trap of visualizing "entrepreneurs" as the stereotypical lone wolf, jack of all trades type. I remind myself that it's the "entrepreneurial spirit" that is more important, a
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by bliving 17y ago
I apologize if I've distracted anyone with the "industrial" reference. I'm much more interested in the science behind the climate change [insert synonym for industry here]. I am very sorry that any industrial effects are more interesting th
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by bliving 17y ago
You're referring to the dataset that is the basis of enormous de-industrialization projects. Is it too much to ask to have it properly designed with sufficient documentation? ~A Jedi hand wave~ "These are not the smoking guns your are looki
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by bliving 17y ago
2.7 was the first CD set I purchased. Haven't regretted it. It was their 'man' pages that sold me. Complete and helpful. Their great documentation is one of their unsung accomplishments.
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by bliving 17y ago
Specialization would be my first guess. But then the problem is, how do you identify a niche that stays under Google's radar long enough to exploit any advantage? So, you just have to find a knowledge domain to specialize in that Google doe
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by bliving 17y ago
This isn't suprising when teachers are required to ignore "teaching moments".
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by bliving 17y ago
reminded me of the line in "Roxanne": "Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83,
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by bliving 17y ago
Acard (acard.com) sells battery backed RAM/CFcard solutions for well under $500. There are compromises. It will fit your budget, but may not fit your needs.
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by bliving 17y ago
Apologies for not being clearer. I believe that they agreed to this co-development project because they are getting a good deal; as in, no being charged 10x because they're chinese. They will have ample opportunity for the technology transf
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by bliving 17y ago
Apologies for not being clearer. I believe that they agreed to the co-development
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by bliving 17y ago
Construction will happen in China (Qingdao), with project management and components(?) split between China and Europe offices. And not that funny; I know of heavy manufacturing companies that multiply their selling prices by 10 for equipmen
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by bliving 17y ago
That and... "Your parseLinks() and processDocument() methods must complete within a total 10 seconds per document processed" ... as a limit on processing leaves room for competition. One advantage of the BYO-Cloud solution is that you can p
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by bliving 17y ago
"You can organize it [what people are saying about you] by highlighting the good stuff and rationally responding to the not-so-good stuff" Of the example links, only Trader Joe's had a list of "Not so happy" Twitterers. And all they complai
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by bliving 17y ago
It's great to see multiple open data formats being supported. But I expected more "meaty" data, such as: http://crimemapping.edmontonpolice.ca The cynic in me believes that the police will use this somehow to increase their funding. But i
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by bliving 17y ago
So... I'm unnatural, and should be put down?
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by bliving 17y ago
A journalist? Too "enthusiastic"? Huh. You're right of course, but a dirt-digging, speculative, news-free 4000 word article has got to attract some advertising viewers somehow. I want to believe "Newspapers are the walking dead" when I wast
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by bliving 17y ago
Not going belly-up. They are just re-structuring debt using the bankruptcy process. Still, not a good-thing.
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by bliving 17y ago
Yes, there is a need. It brightened my Monday morning! If you think this guy is cantankerous now, wait until he's 60. I think this is a valid role for Microsoft to play; to be a place to drag the deadwood into the future.
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by bliving 17y ago
How about "don't run that story about Monica Lewinsky"? That call was taken seriously by Newsweek. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal
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by bliving 17y ago
Good point. Don't sell the security. Focus on ease-of-use.

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