brockers

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by brockers 5mo ago
Honest question. I love some of the additional capabilities and specifically the dependency commits, virtual branches, and JSON output... BUT why not just work with the git community to add this functionality? It doesn't seem like th
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by brockers 7mo ago
ad hominem? Please explain what makes the regulatory burdens onerous instead of impossible.
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by brockers 8mo ago
It might be just my perception, but it seems like every single time anthropologist make statements to the effect that complex human development didn't start until XX they are proven wrong. It wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn
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by brockers 8mo ago
Remote attestation requires a great deal of trust... I know this comment is likely to be down-voted, but I can't think of a Lennart Poettering project that didn't try to extend, centralize, and conglomerate Linux with disastrous
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by brockers 8mo ago
It seems to be, for most users who switch, that the driver is if they are primarily a consumer or creator. Unix systems have always been a preferred platform for some creators, but this effect seems to be multiplying as the focus for Windo
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by brockers 8mo ago
There is some strange irony in this. Apple initially used the khtml code-base to build Safari but it quickly became impossible to back-port the changes from the Safari branch of khtml back into Konqueror. Now, 20 years later, someone has m
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by brockers 4y ago
The vote will definitely demonstrate how seriously the employees are considering unionization but, in my experience, there are a certain sub-set of people that constantly push for unionization, regardless of the companies commitment to empl
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by brockers 4y ago
There is a cost associated with collective bargaining as well as benefits. While most of these costs (though not all) are carried by the employer to the benefit of the employee; I don't think dismissing these concerns by calling them &
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Ask HN: Books and Resources for CTOs growing pass the startup phase
1 points by brockers 6y ago|0 comments
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by brockers 8y ago
There are literally two in my office right now under my bookshelf. If you have them, you don't find one of these, you find dozens.
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by brockers 8y ago
Can someone tell me what possible value this has?
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by brockers 8y ago
Fine particle pollution is entirely different from CO2 emission and would not be included as part of any carbon tax I've seen.
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by brockers 8y ago
No this is simply bad implementation. As has already been mention, for internet services that also have websites for those services the www. subdomain makes total sense. > How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs
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by brockers 8y ago
I have to second this. CouchDB has a much better native interface than Mongo (pure HTTP/REST JSON) and automatic syncying. Honestly, most of the time I think the real problem is developers not being able to cognitively handle changing
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by brockers 8y ago
Thank you. I always getting a little angry at these "We should..." posts that are posted by a modern philosophe who has some idealized way of seeing the world and is more than happy to limit other peoples choices to maximize that
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by brockers 8y ago
Or grunt, npm, gem, etc... etc... etc... I don't know about brew and the MacOS ecosystem.
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by brockers 8y ago
Why the obsession about energy consumption from mining bitcoin? It is because many people still consider it imaginary or non-productive? It is because, unlike many other markets, it is fairly straightforward to find upper and lower bound
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by brockers 8y ago
I know Dev shops don't like processes and forms, but that "checklist" is exactly that. It simply shows that processes and procedures are tools that are useful if that use can be limited.
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by brockers 8y ago
As several people have already pointed out, there is almost no argument that can be made against giving it to him that isn't invalidated by Obama receiving it. That is the problem with turning everything into a statement of political
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by brockers 8y ago
Same here, out entire dev shop is X1 Carbons on Linux.
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by brockers 8y ago
I cannot imagine that is is a good plan. I just don't see enough innovation coming from the processor space to justify the overhead of design, development, testing, and manufacturing while effectively re-inventing most of the underlyi
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by brockers 8y ago
If something is carcinogenic is always a matter of volume. Most things are carcinogenic if consumed in quantities large enough. Most things carcinogenic if aerosolized and inhaled. Most things are carcinogenic if left on your skin long
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by brockers 8y ago
Yes, because the government has such a spectacular record for protecting privacy and NOT spying on its citizens. Of course, Facebook cannot come into your home with guns if they think something your doing is wrong, so governments have that
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by brockers 8y ago
Laugh all you want, but I just got done talking to one of these NC pig farmers yesterday and he is in the process of converting the sewage into methane gas for electrical production. Local, community electricity, with a lower CO2 footprint
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by brockers 8y ago
While I generally applaud the idea, I cannot help but notice that the most likely abuser of users personal data is the governments of the EU itself.
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by brockers 9y ago
I agree, even with the often quoted "the inventor of 401(k)'s doesn't even like them anymore" it always fails to identify the primary concern as being one of personal mismanagement and not the vehicle itself. There are s
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by brockers 9y ago
I'm not a big fan of Apple, but this is one obvious side benefit to the company that writes your software being the one that sells you your hardware. User experience extend to more than just the feel of you keyboard.
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by brockers 9y ago
I hate these "XXX found to eliminate cancer in mice" news blurbs. I really want there to be an easy, effective, and inexpensive solution to one of the worst medical conditions imaginable; but they make these kind of announcements
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by brockers 9y ago
It looks like the whole crux of the authors arugement rests on this paragraph: "But cities are not machines that can be optimized, nor are they labs for running experiments. Cities are not platforms with users, nor are they businesses
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by brockers 9y ago
I see what you did there...

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