jarek

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by jarek 11y ago
I will keep my future HN posts strictly ideology free!
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by jarek 11y ago
UK voted to sell itself out to rich people with mobile capital when they decided to stop being a manufacturing country and start being a finance country. That started in the 1980s and hasn't stopped since (witness Labour only ruling wh
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by jarek 11y ago
Yeah but it's hard to say it wasn't a waste of a beautiful location plopping down crap like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jp... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by jarek 11y ago
> Seems a great waste of a beautiful location. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One might inquire what the First Nations think about white man's towers of glass and Vancouver Specials in what used to be beautiful temperate rain
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by jarek 11y ago
Depends if you like talking to people IRL (Disclaimer: I usually don't)
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by jarek 11y ago
Ah but I bet that the animations were beautiful and the icons all lined up perfectly
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by jarek 11y ago
I make no assumptions, I only contrast A_fow's experience with that of the Coast Salish
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by jarek 11y ago
> For some reason I get the feeling that adopting all of these "smart" devices actually makes me more vulnerable to risk and gives me less control over my life. Oh, of course it does. Consider: when are you more in control, whe
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by jarek 11y ago
> It feels like my home is being sold out from underneath me to the Chinese. ... But it makes me very sad to feel like I don't belong in the place where I grew up. Don't worry. If how the English treated First Nations is any gu
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by jarek 11y ago
> There are a lot of ways to do that, and many of them involve the current team members being proactive about going out and trying to recruit someone to fill that role. Orrrr the current team members can be proactive and do something tha
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by jarek 11y ago
How many of the PMs you know have you contacted suggesting that they volunteer in such a capacity? What were their reactions?
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by jarek 11y ago
How many have you suggested volunteer, and what were their thoughts after a semester?
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by jarek 11y ago
No, I'm not actually suggesting that he should volunteer. But saying "surely someone can just volunteer" is pointless in the absence of evidence that someone actually wants to volunteer. If anything the evidence points to n
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by jarek 11y ago
Do any students/newbies actually want to triage issues, or is it just something the old hands thought up and think might work nicely?
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by jarek 11y ago
> Get someone to join the team who wants to fill in a PM role. That sounds simple. You're volunteering, then?
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by jarek 11y ago
> I do not hear the "necessity is evil but we have to live with it". If people are not willing to prove their worth to the community and being scrutinized they should gracefully resign and admit they are not fit for the mission
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by jarek 11y ago
This is completely untrue. You can't look for planning information the same way you look for code snippets. This is like looking for medical research on Youtube. StackOverflow? Try https://www.planning.org/ and the Jou
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by jarek 11y ago
You can log into an @gmail.com Hangouts account through XMPP. The instructions on https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoGtalk worked for my account which is also accessed by Hangouts on Android L. (At least person-to-person messagi
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by jarek 11y ago
Honestly, I agree, and I love having my house low-tech and simple. The best solution is avoiding the problem altogether. But your argument can be advanced against electric light. I could do just fine with candles in my house. But in 2016 I&
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by jarek 11y ago
Eh... there's some value, it's just really badly implemented currently. A selling idea of the Nest is that it keeps your house warm when you're there, and not-frozen when you're not, and it will do so efficiently, so tha
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by jarek 11y ago
> 30-50 years of replacement time is apparently not sustainable, since most of the things we buy have 3-5 years of expected lifetime tops. In practice, yes, most things we buy are designed to fail. But in principle 30 years is possible,
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by jarek 11y ago
Eh... yes, but. The "rot" is because the environment is changing (the hardware you're running it on, other software you need to interact with) or the software is being carelessly updated. If you need to, software rot can be e
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by jarek 11y ago
Well sure, but there's an ultimately sustainable business model if your product needs replacing in 30 or 50 years. (Leaving aside the things like marketing claims of a "30 year" or "lifetime" warranties from a compa
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by jarek 11y ago
Arguably, many of the "slide" images aren't directly relevant to the content, they're just there because you're expected to have images in a tech conference talk.
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by jarek 11y ago
Software is the perfect product - it doesn't wear out, it doesn't go bad, if you really need to you'll be able to use software you got in 1990 in 2090. For the software creator, once you've sold someone your software, th
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by jarek 11y ago
> I think my biggest takeaway from Japan was that it's stuck between two worlds -- one 20 years ahead, and one 20 years behind. Sure but you can give examples of that for just about every country. The Britons will laugh at U.S.&#x2
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by jarek 11y ago
It has been incredibly interesting reading through those threads. People are arguing two completely different arguments. tptacek is saying that the dude keeping AWS keys without disclosing this was bad and guy is lucky to not get a early mo
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by jarek 11y ago
> My point was to challenge open source cheerleaders to actually give a reason beyond their own gain for why a company should do this. Instead, we have blithe dismissals and narrowly constructed hypotheticals built on optimistic assumpti
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by jarek 11y ago
> I don't even understand what this comment is trying to say. If you use HTTP to communicate between services, and those services are not publicly accessible, the use of HTTP makes it no longer a private interface? Yes - if you mak
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by jarek 11y ago
When Pa == 0, so like, most of the time. It's an email app. It talks IMAP^H^H^H^Hto Gmail. It runs on iOS. How many secret, commercially important techniques do you really suppose it contains?

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