npinguy

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by npinguy 5y ago
> It reminds me of the made-up but often used story of terrified audiences running for the exits upon watching a film of a train for the first time. The cultural recontextualization of stories like this in my lifetime has been one of the
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by npinguy 6y ago
> Do not try and compare an animal to a historically tragic event to justify word policing. Your use of tragedies to justify your woke word policing is quite frankly disgusting. deanCommie was trying to get you to see that SLAVERY was al
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by npinguy 11y ago
Let's start from 80 hours a week spent at work. Red flag #1. Don't know why you would assume that's necessary 3.5 hours/week showering. Red flag #2. Even if you shower every single day, if you're spending 30 minutes
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by npinguy 11y ago
The same reason that the Civil Rights act had to be passed in the courts and the first students in integrated schools in the south had to be marched in with armed guard. "Democracy" is frequently used interchangeably with freedom,
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by npinguy 11y ago
Because it's bizarre and stands out. The clarifying sentence of marrying people that live elsewhere etc screams of "the lady doth protest too much". There's nothing wrong with saying "Over time, and over the natura
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by npinguy 11y ago
The ability to do something does not hold any weight with the people you're trying to convince. "Oh sure, Apple can revoke my access time, but they never would!" It's the same thing as "Oh I'm sure the governme
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by npinguy 11y ago
Off-topic question: Why do people insist on calling The Hoover Dam "one of the top engineering marvels". Surely, a dam that doesn't even make it into the top-25 tallest dams in the world, and is 57th in the world in power gen
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by npinguy 11y ago
He also authored one of the two competing standards for JSON: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159
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by npinguy 12y ago
It's kind of how people are scared of dying in plane crashes but not in car crashes - the illusion of control. One easily imagines doing something to avoid a car death but not a plane one. I think the same applies here: Death by starva
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by npinguy 12y ago
Your comparison is bang on, except that's the point. Amazon isn't trying to be Ikea. It is absolutely trying to provide the building blocks for small companies and large to use their cloud platform in a very foundational manner.
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by npinguy 12y ago
Clickbait article. Not a single explanation to be found. Just some history and background
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by npinguy 12y ago
You can criticize Amazon for a million things, but underpayment is not one of them.
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by npinguy 12y ago
Are you insane? VK has horrendous UX (best and simplest example: Browsing through image galleries resizes the image viewer so that the next and previous buttons constantly move) And they call it a Facebook clone because it was a direct copy
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by npinguy 12y ago
Real problem. Terrible article. > “What these techies don’t realise though is that we’re no different to them - they’re just one misstep, one paycheck away from being us.” I don't presume to know Jimmy's life, and everyone goes
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by npinguy 12y ago
Is it just me or is stuff like this way harder to appreciate these days (with the ubiquity of CGI), unless you work in the industry, or see a behind-the-scenes look like this? This is simply incredible, and yet I don't normally pay the
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by npinguy 12y ago
I always wonder about people like you. How do you manage your receipts for all these things? And what about the additional time to go back and return lightbulbs. Does that not more than cover the money you save from the bulb?
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by npinguy 12y ago
No, don't work at AWS, for the record. But responses like this is why I'm a big fan of the Amazon platform and the point I was trying to make. Oh well.
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by npinguy 12y ago
I apologize for your poor experience with Amazon, and have no doubt that many mistakes were made with your account. But you should recognize that your experience is the exception not the rule. The vast majority of customers have nothing but
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by npinguy 12y ago
Interesting idea. Certainly a large percentage of our smartphone usage is turning on the screen to glance at a notification, then dismiss it. Smartwatches allow you to not have to do that. But the notification still comes to your phone, an
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by npinguy 12y ago
Tesla was launched with the investment and vision of a man who's already made billions in the industry, not some teenagers with an idea and a garage.
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by npinguy 12y ago
Sounds like it fills a need effectively for the Disposable Income San Francisco Dweller. But "everyone" has got to be misleading, right? No way this is cost-effective for someone whose shipping margins are thin like an eBay seller
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by npinguy 12y ago
From 5 days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2eawhw/how_serious_is_...
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by npinguy 12y ago
Someone white needs to die, and maybe people will start giving a shit.
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by npinguy 12y ago
That is because any new product has an upfront fixed cost in investment. Amazon is investing like crazy into growth, and as a result all their new costs are new products. Quarter to quarter their loss numbers are so low that it seems like t
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by npinguy 12y ago
I would really like to see some data on the memory savings using this technique. How significant are they?
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by npinguy 12y ago
A lot of common expressions don't hold up to scrutiny when examined in their most "literal" explanation. This particular one has been used to associate with social civil rights. The implication is that 50 years from now gay a
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by npinguy 12y ago
Since noone is explaining it to you honestly, I'll tell you. By implying that the LGBT interests are a campaign to be bought, or convinced by, or tricked into, you are showing a complete lack of understanding of the true reasons why pe
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by npinguy 12y ago
Since noone is explaining it to you honestly, I'll tell you. By implying that supporting gay marriage (which is the opposite of what Brendan Eich did in his active campaign against it) is a "campaign by the elite" you are rev
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by npinguy 12y ago
I've been using Simple Workflow (in particular, the Flow framework: http://aws.amazon.com/swf/details/flow/ ) a lot recently to manage complex asynchronous distributed workflows, and it's a revelatio
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by npinguy 12y ago
Firstly, the premise of that scenario, is the house is cold while the person is gone. That means SAVING on energy costs by not heating the house unnecessarily while no one is inside, which is the current de facto standard. (Do you turn off

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