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by fpp 2y ago
IBM today is mostly a service provider - with those in the 50+ age bracket being "kicked out" there will be at least 2 groups: (1)The ones with skills "to keep the lights on" for these services - those will be hired back
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by fpp 9y ago
Are you not concerned that this move (relabeling the open source version different from how the product is known to the broader public) might further diminish the number of contributors that are now already down 50% / back to 2014 lev
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by fpp 9y ago
same result - only one issue like that known to me So of course I could be wrong and this issue is not the only one in that protocol implementation / sys component(s)
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by fpp 9y ago
sorry mixed it up. If I look at glove & WordNet usage e.g. for topic extraction, bagging / clustering or semantic similarity would you say we would need to get rid of such a bias, e.g. create something like a Geiger counter for NLP
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by fpp 9y ago
sounds familiar - we found that one 1996 when doing system programming on NT (NuMega SoftIce was your best friend together with material published by Mark Russinovich prior of him working with MS - remember when you were doing e.g. a file s
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by fpp 9y ago
very interesting topic - could you please share a link to the original paper. best probably to read that one first.
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by fpp 9y ago
The Brexit is just one of key changes hitting the UK tech working / start-up / corporate environments in the moment. Brexit, IP Act, changes to IR35 (in / out), the £ drop, announcements of major city firms to reduce staff by
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by fpp 9y ago
Out of personal experience hiring many new staff members, this might be true for entry level to mid-level jobs with broad supply of candidates being a good match with their (claimed) skill set. Unfortunately even that oversimplifies the act
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by fpp 10y ago
Running / monthly cloud cost and comparison to other options (e.g. run on a rented dedicated machine / co-location) should already been looked at when you do even the most basic business plan. Generally most of the time the best a
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On Saturday morning, 200 hackers at UC Berkeley gathered(wired.com)
2 points by fpp 10y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 10y ago
I believe focusing on potential technical problems is the wrong approach. What you have to look at is lock-in or no lock-in. Any responsible IT Manager should avoid lock-ins / silos as far as possible. This then allows to standardise a
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by fpp 10y ago
additionally relying on specific applications / services that can relatively easy singled out with DPI and by that also stick out their users for "further inspection". Their suggestion to use TOR does not really help - Turkey
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by fpp 10y ago
From a first cross-read, this article is bluntly discrediting UBI. Starting with numbers: about 204M working age population in the US - hence the USD10K to each of them example would just make somewhere what is spend yearly for military and
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by fpp 10y ago
To better understand changing house prices in London you first might want to look at longer term development of prices - one UK estate agents chart at http://www.winkworth.co.uk/articles/30-years-of-house-prices and a
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by fpp 10y ago
I'll see from your reports that you're migrating 1000s of 2TB drives to 8TB drives - what is actually happening to your old 2TB drives? Guess you are not throwing those away so what are you doing with them.
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by fpp 10y ago
similar also with magarine / chemical industry vs butter / farmers - for decades they paid for favorable research to say that magarine is better for you than butter.
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VertiGo: The Wall-Racing Robot(youtube.com)
1 points by fpp 11y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 11y ago
The date (14-Jun-2013) would fit. "... The disclosures were published by The Guardian and The Washington Post on June 6, 2013. Subsequent documents have demonstrated a financial arrangement between ... " [ https://en.wik
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by fpp 11y ago
"... and from Monday, the official language of the USA will be Swedish. In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, a
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by fpp 11y ago
Their example dedicated host adds up to $2'226 per month - had a quick calc on the retail HW cost for a machine like this - should not be more than $6.5k with 2 * E5-2670 v3 12 cores. What I understand so far - it is physically bundlin
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NodeOS 1.0 Release candidate announced(github.com)
1 points by fpp 11y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 11y ago
"They" can get these almost unlimited monies basically for free from the Chinese banking system while similar funding in the US and Europe ends up with so called investment banking or similar where it will never arrive with new en
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by fpp 11y ago
Do understand that your target with this setup was to load test the Swarm manager and 30K is quite impressive. Did you do / are you planning to do a test with other than the low end T2.micros to see how much of the API latency might be
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by fpp 11y ago
"...The report identifies stark gender and race gaps, too. The 10 largest retirement packages belong to white men, for a total of $1.4 billion. The funds of top female CEOs adds up to $280 million, while the top 10 executives of color
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Top 100 CEOs will get $4.9B for retirement – same as 41% of Americans(thenation.com)
9 points by fpp 11y ago|2 comments
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by fpp 11y ago
The price is quite a disappointment particularly when comparing to the Shield pricing (and how long NVidia has taken to present the kit - the X1 was introduced now almost a year ago / Shield on the market since early this year). Let&#x
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by fpp 11y ago
Not at all a good salary - they will most likely get developers that have tried out some of these technologies and they will have to train on the job - people with these skills are sought after (£50K+ outside of London). Guess most importan
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by fpp 11y ago
I believe it is more incompetence, lack of technology understanding and / or complete ignorance. You can't explain otherwise how a person like Oettinger can be put in charge of such an important part of the economy. I'm still
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by fpp 11y ago
just half true - you're right with regard to recorded broadcast, but... Do you drive a modern car, do you have surveillance cameras at your property / your offices? - Bang you have to have a TV license in the UK even if you don&#x
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by fpp 11y ago
wrong - you need a TV license for "ANY" live broadcast in the UK - as mentioned in another comment here this includes any live camera feed (surveillance / in cars / etc) - so even if you never watch any TV (recorded or l

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