horusthecat

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by horusthecat 9y ago
Absolutely, truly hilarious to point to the Equifax breach when the same Struts vuln is present in Oracle products.
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by horusthecat 9y ago
"The COTS industry is under an anti-commercial attack". Oh no, not the COTS industry! > In my experience, the most technologically savvy F100's are all VERY familiar with utilizing in-house dev, and as recent releases from
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by horusthecat 9y ago
They hate us for our freedoms
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by horusthecat 9y ago
I would consider using it because: 1. I work in a backwards enterprise shop where "no one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft" and it would be easier (read as "possible) to get IT here to support it than Postgres. (That sai
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by horusthecat 9y ago
The thing I find crazy is that in 2017 $20M movies with B-list names are getting picked up as "independent". Ridley Scott's name shows up on IFC movies now; It Follows had an excellent ROI compared to most "blockbuster&q
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by horusthecat 9y ago
...except neither is, and Hollywood accounting is a real thing. Even domestic-market box office failures tend to turn a profit internationally.
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by horusthecat 9y ago
This is the most hilarious thing posted to HN in a while
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by horusthecat 9y ago
I heard some scuttlebutt about two years ago after Oracle got rid of some Java people that Oracle had wanted to leverage Java-as-a-Service as a cloud product, sort of like Google Compute, but just never managed to get there... The Sun acqui
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by horusthecat 9y ago
When i read about the "hardware integration" of OSX/macOS/whatever I really have to wonder. Power 32 bit is dead. Apple never ventured into other architectures. macOS (and OSX 10.whatever plus since the mid 2000s) are ru
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by horusthecat 9y ago
Bourgeois law in its wisdom protects individual property owners from their mistakes, unless they affect owners of larger property... that said, Equifax may have just fucked over the entire retail/consumer credit industry in the US, so
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by horusthecat 9y ago
Who is "we"? I'm not a Google shareholder.
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by horusthecat 9y ago
To Verizon, yes, but who said there isn't a secondary market for that information? I'm reminded of how Facebook is a net buyer of information from Oracle: there's a thriving resale market.
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by horusthecat 9y ago
Thank god, I was wondering what I'd replace Solaris with
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by horusthecat 9y ago
This isn't true. Even 10 years ago it was pretty normal for litigation involving the SEC to routinely have half a million or more hard copy pages shipping between law firms and the gov't, and 10 years ago about half of all documen
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by horusthecat 9y ago
Or conversely big players will pony up for larger operations to exploit marginal inefficiencies and other economies of scale, which is what seems to be happening. Additionally you're assuming the only motive behind mining bitcoin is th
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by horusthecat 9y ago
I'll throw in my 2 cents and say I've worked in "open" floorplans I didn't mind--but these were always at on ghost-town-empty offices for companies that were living on investor life support in spaces that could have
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by horusthecat 9y ago
"Buy don't build" becoming such an embedded piece of wisdom that there are literally a half-dozen COTS appliances that do the same thing, but not inventorying them, to the point that you might have just one or more likely zer
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by horusthecat 9y ago
> Corporate IT - which is now it's own behemoth in most modern organizations. IMHO it's actively preventing any work getting done I will co-sign to this every day of the week and twice on sundays. In our org chart, developers a
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by horusthecat 9y ago
Having been using BTRFS at home for years, i get the exact opposite impression... I've had bugs (kernel panics) that just disappear on the next update. I'm happy with the RAID1 ease of use. But even there, like some have said, man
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by horusthecat 9y ago
It's almost as if you can frame a 'data-driven' argument and limit the universe of what people imagine to be possible, while pretending to be 'rational' and 'scientific' the whole time! Of course it cuts b
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by horusthecat 9y ago
Apple has released some rumblings that it's going to bring back a modular Mac Pro and keep it on x86 even if it goes to ARM for the Macbook, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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by horusthecat 9y ago
My off-the-cuff response is that cryptocoins behave more like a commodity more than a currency, so their value is always relative to cash, not part of global cash reserves.
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by horusthecat 9y ago
Does anyone know where the money that initially went into the cryptocoins during the run-up this year came from, or where it went?
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by horusthecat 9y ago
I'm taking this and Nvidia's announcement it was going to sell a mining-oriented GPU as the shot over the bow for cryptocoins. But then again, only market-makers get rich calling a top.
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by horusthecat 9y ago
> Because Lennart has a lot of pull at Red Hat... We don't need a reinvent-the-world solution like systemd to address the most complained about problems with init. You work in software right? You never ever "just" replace
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by horusthecat 9y ago
It's not a holy war, but it does have a lot of politics, which engineers like to pretend don't exist. Here is the only solid criticism of systemd I've read that focuses on design (as opposed to bugs that surface from the spra
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by horusthecat 9y ago
> It's not proprietary groupware is why it's better you must not work enterprise much
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by horusthecat 9y ago
When you say "performance" do you mean at or below the price point? POWER is open but seriously expensive.
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by horusthecat 9y ago
W/r/t the OP, I have trouble thinking that the Linux Subsystem is as full a solution as it's made out to be, but on-topic discussion isn't not what comments thread brawls are for! I'm consistently amazed that the re
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by horusthecat 9y ago
We made it a requirement for managers to use our internal application. Har-har-har

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