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by incision 11y ago
> How does this address either of my points? It addresses it as a human being discussing the meaning of the article as opposed to a pedant-bot dicing words to 'win'.
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by incision 11y ago
> I find it weird that guides like this still suggest seperate root, home, boot and swap partitions. The classic reason is preventing space / inode exhaustion of / by user accounts and preventing time of check, time of use vuln
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by incision 12y ago
Thanks for this. Lots of great sequences from the 80s presented there along with on my of my all-time favorite openings - Ghost in the Shell [0]. I've always felt failing to put together a compelling opening is a missed opportunity, pa
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by incision 12y ago
Wow, it has probably been 15 years since I read something from Raph Koster. So long that I had to think for a bit to recall why that name didn't quite feel right - until Designer Dragon popped into my head. I can't disagree with a
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by incision 12y ago
The episode of This American Life referenced is well worth a listen if you've ever been curious about what trying to do good work inside a crushing bureaucracy sounds like. 1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-arc
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by incision 12y ago
What are there, 1B Android users? I'm sure Google would like that to be 7B. I'd wager the complaints of the sort of people who frequent lobste.rs or HN are not representative of the majority of current users and almost certainly n
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by incision 12y ago
>"The new VLT results indicate that the rotation axes of the quasars tend to be parallel to the large-scale structures in which they find themselves. So, if the quasars are in a long filament then the spins of the central black hol
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by incision 12y ago
As the article points out, Woz was Chief Scientist at Fusion-IO [1] as well. That company struggled [2] before being acquired by SanDisk for less than the IPO price. It was a different story in 2011 when Woz went on CNBC and said that the c
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by incision 12y ago
Yeah, those are layers in the image. That image [1] (727MB) is built on buildpack-deps [2] (695MB) which is itself built on the base jessie (154MB). It would be pretty straightforward to adapt those Dockerfiles to create an image which incl
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by incision 12y ago
>"They don't even do what they're advertised to do, ie give you a reliable way to reproduce a build, and they're inflexible for my idea of real-world work with Docker." Not exactly, as the thread you link point
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by incision 12y ago
>"We don't need more complex provisioning tools. We have plenty of provisioning tools." Absolutely. Thankfully, the Docker team seems in agreement with this based statements about avoiding making Dockerfiles "too cl
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by incision 12y ago
While I certainly question a system that allows a person to run up such a steep tab in the first place, this story smells. >"So what does it take to rack up $1200 of internet use? In my case, just 155 page views, mostly to my email
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by incision 12y ago
Disappointing book and disappointing voting that saw both submissions of this post buried so quickly - this one was on the front page #30 when I got up for a stretch and buried among weekend posts at #147 when I got back. I expect this sort
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by incision 12y ago
Pretty confusing. My guess/hope... This is aiming to be GMail + Google Now for the enterprise. Something that will parse your mail, schedule and contacts to generate suggestions or reminders and create an easily accessible "contex
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by incision 12y ago
I'm not sure how to interpret that quote. In the context of Docker it's inconvenient, but entirely straightforward to create images that don't include those elements. It's a matter of creating an unwieldy chain of build
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by incision 12y ago
>"...but she was deeply unhappy with her life and the path (and expectations!) her parent put on her." I find myself thinking about this an awful lot as I raise my first child. I've never encountered anything on the leve
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by incision 12y ago
>"A child learns to speak and recognize objects from much less data than contemporary machine learning/data mining/AI/whatever you call it needs." You think? When a kid starts talking at 1.5, 2, 3 years or when
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by incision 12y ago
I'm disappointed that this requires an invite, particularly so close after Container Engine which I was able to try out immediately while still watching Cloud Platform Live the other day. Is this typical for new AWS offerings? It makes
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by incision 12y ago
>"HR is not your friend. HR is not there to protect you and your career." Right. Being a friend, advocate and protector is the role of a professional union. Unfortunately, the labor in tech seems convinced that each is better
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by incision 12y ago
>"Why should the comment-parent be flagkilled for expressing an unpopular opinion?" A comment shouldn't be killed for expressing an unpopular opinion and I don't think this one was. That comment is a perfect examp
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by incision 12y ago
> "Apparently, the $5k minimum order was too small for them to care (at least that's what my side says)." I find this to be pretty typical behavior when representing Government to vendors. It doesn't impress me as be
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by incision 12y ago
>"I hope downvoting has nothing to do with a agreement; I thought it was for comments that aren't valuable to the conversation (e.g., not substantive, poorly reasoned, false, or poorly communicated)." I agree. Thing is,
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by incision 12y ago
>"this irrational overemphasis on frugality i always see on hn just seems like a different form of elitism / pedantry to me. since most of us have money, it's just a covert way of signaling an extra level of self-control
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by incision 12y ago
Privacy questions aside. What I'd really like to know is whether this thing will have some form of speaker recognition - identifying who is speaking, not just what is being said and further whether the learning functions will make th
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by incision 12y ago
>"I can understand not being able to fit in to a homogenous culture, but this guy is just an asshole." Clearly. Problem is, in my experience... 1.) No one wants to get involved. 2.) It's easier to be accommodating of ass
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by incision 12y ago
>"I feel like there isn’t anyone who can identify with my story, so I don’t tell it." I absolutely identify. I've experienced a lot of this, but I'm a man as well as forthright and according to some - intimidating.
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by incision 12y ago
I know three people who work 100% remote, full-time for rates equivalent to 130-185k+ per year. Interestingly, I'd always thought of remote workers as either high-end technical specialists working as-needed or cheap bodies being delega
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by incision 12y ago
I think you're spot on. >"1) Yes, engineers and other in-demand workers have ready access to jobs. I remember when I was looking for a good engineering job out of Amazon, I was basically spammed nonstop by virtually every part
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by incision 12y ago
>"Before if you had minor medical stuff insurance was there. But as soon as you got legitimately sick (e.g. cancer) they quite literally went back through every form you ever filled out looking for an error, typo, or omission in or
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by incision 12y ago
If your rates went up, but your previous coverage was never actually put to the test in a serious way you might want to consider the very real possibility that the old plan never would have paid out [1]. "Since insurance companies now

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