hunterjrj

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by hunterjrj 3mo ago
I think you underestimate just how entrenched Oracle’s database offering is in the enterprise.
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by hunterjrj 10mo ago
> Steve truly understood the virtue and value of that cultural component to not just attract but _retain_ that kind of world-class talent, and _that's_ what he attributes Pixar's success to. Both Jobs and Pixar’s Ed Catmull bel
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by hunterjrj 3y ago
Unfortunately there was one in the Buffalo area in 2009: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407
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by hunterjrj 3y ago
Microsoft uses AKS for their production workloads, but only for “minor” projects like “Office 365” which only has a “few” (200 million) users. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1536483517282553...
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by hunterjrj 3y ago
Plug for Dave Plummer's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage Dave was an engineer on NT and creator of Task Manager and zip folders. Lots of interesting stories and anecdotes from that period on that c
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by hunterjrj 3y ago
The Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge, and A Deepness in the Sky in particular. If you check the series out, and I highly recommend you do, read it in order. Which would mean starting with A Fire Upon the Deep, which is excellent.
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by hunterjrj 4y ago
For more information on the technique the parent describes in point #1, I recommend the book "Moonwalking With Einstein" by Joshua Foer.
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by hunterjrj 4y ago
While your concern is certainly very personal, and a deeply rooted preference over which you have little control, I have to point out that body shaming can have disastrous effects on the recipient[1]. Aging spares no one. Worth reflecting o
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by hunterjrj 5y ago
Canada is a net exporter of food and agriculture commodities. https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/economics/canada-food-an...
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The Probability of Collisions with Earth(www2.jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by hunterjrj 6y ago|0 comments
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by hunterjrj 7y ago
> I fairly frequently post to provide a female point of view backed up by data and personal first-hand experience... Please continue. It’s sorely needed here.
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by hunterjrj 7y ago
How about “wrote the Doom engine, then the Quake engine”. Good start?
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by hunterjrj 7y ago
Actually, this was implemented by Dave Taylor: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1189567625631883265...
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by hunterjrj 7y ago
> but the plane itself is salvageable. You're probably right. From an engineering perspective. Would you fly in a 737MAX post-fix? We have an engineering mindset here on HN and so I would expect many of us to answer "Yes".
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by hunterjrj 7y ago
Come on now. What other plausible reason, besides being someone's daughter, would a girl that young have for being on that island with these old men? It doesn't take an MIT-calibre mind to ask this question.
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by hunterjrj 7y ago
Why not petition Google to donate the Go project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, since many of the core technologies (including Kubernetes, Prometheus) that make up the cloud native space are written in Go?
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Amazon's move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in one of its warehouses(cnbc.com)
5 points by hunterjrj 8y ago|0 comments
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
Interesting idea. How would ownership extend to metadata derived from your profile? For example, one of the claims made during the Cambridge Analytica hearings was that the data that they had in their possession could be used to derive poli
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
My prediction: they'll release yet-another-ITSM tool like ServiceNow, etc.
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
This happened to me. Several rounds of interviews with a well known colored-hat company, then... nothing. No response to follow-ups either. What was especially frustrating to me was that up to that point, the tone of both the conversations
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
Paging Scott Adams (or one of his sock puppets)...
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
Stretching in the evenings. Lower back pain is almost completely gone, range of motion in my neck is expanded.
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
> He wants everyone to magically develop on their spare time for free with copyleft licenses. This is craaaaaaazy. People gotta eat. You are flat-out misrepresenting him. Read his definition of "non-free". His concern isn'
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
For Red Hat, you can check out "The Open Organization" which details the culture that Red Hat espouses: https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
Ken Silverman, the guy behind the Build engine which powered Duke Nukem 3D and number of other games from that era, would prototype everything in QBasic before converting to C for raw speed.
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
>You don't know anything at all about the design of your targeted system and networks. >They must have spent years devising ways to get in, slowly gathering info about their target, figuring out a way to achieve the assigned goal
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
Can you clarify? Assuming you are talking about Travis Kalanick, are you implying he was ousted by a 3rd party with an interest in surveillance/control?
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
In this case, with the connotations that the name "coach roach" is associated with, you'd be wrong: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/molly-reynolds/why-brand-name...
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
The connotations that the name "coach roach" stir up aren't positive. People are grossed out by coach roaches. The good news is that DBs are a niche of their own and as such don't need to appeal to the masses, making the
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by hunterjrj 8y ago
Presumably Zuckerberg did not consent to this conversation being captured/recorded and shared. Do you feel even the slightest bit of embarrassment at the irony and hypocrisy of using this content, that you acquired without consent, to

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