talltimtom

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by talltimtom 8y ago
The law once mandated that you hire the services of a licensed electrician to replace a lightbulb. Imagine if the same laws where applied to tech. Need to update Microsoft office? No way arround it you need to hire the services of a license
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by talltimtom 8y ago
To understand that you need to understand “if”, “or” and assignment expressions. You think this is hard to understand, and that’s fair, but the hard point here isn’t the assignment expression, it’s the short circuiting or-statement. You’d h
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by talltimtom 8y ago
When you go from 100 corporations. Each having infrastructure teams of 50+ people to one provider running the same thing with 20 people from that pool the wages go down. While there certainly are well paid individuals behind Azure or AWS, t
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by talltimtom 8y ago
As a listerne og the Starup podcast almost since the begining that would be such a wonderful “end” to the tale. “And they bought by a giant and everyone lived happily ever after”. Also from a Historical point of view it’s such a great line
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Docker, cloud hosted VM from templates, vagrant, Azure, AWS, it doesn’t really matter much to me. The important thing to me is that I no longer have any need for anyone else doing company wide infrastructure. We have several department head
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by talltimtom 8y ago
So.... they aren’t going to stop steeling tips, just limit how much they steal? And they are claiming that it was an algorithmic glitch that cause them to steal a drivers tip that one time... yet they aren’t going to stop it all together ju
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by talltimtom 8y ago
As a patient, you don’t care if the drug costs 25$ with 20 covered by insurance or 2005$ with 2000$ covered by insurance. That is what he means. List price doesn’t matter to insured patients.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Let’s say we do this, and you create a state funded company that creates cheap insulin, let’s say they can sell it for 25$ in Walmart. What then happens is that to sell that drug to the insurance companies they negotiate with the Phamacy Be
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by talltimtom 8y ago
If a ship is sinking it’s perfectly logical to first save the ship and then criticize the crew afterwards. Calling someone a hypocrite because they critique the captain but didn’t let the ship sink seems kind of odd.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
They did more than just “a little reddit/facebook”, there where more posters in busses/metros/buildings than for any other single movie everywhere. They went big on all types of add spending, in addition to pushing it on thei
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Sounds like he was too focused on inventing and forgot the production/sales aspect. He literally had the product and had thousands of people emailing him directly ready to buy! And he still complains that he couldn’t sell. He should ha
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by talltimtom 8y ago
An interesting thought for the future is if wasm will make other languages viable on the web. It would be interesting to see if anything else picks up steam as a serious competitor to JavaScript.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
That sounds nothing like politics. Politics would be if you promotions depended on how Well your manager likes you.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
How does an error code make it easier to look up an error? The workflow is either “get error, google it”, or “get errorcode google it”. In both cases the docs will be the top hit. If we where talking 20 years ago I might agree, but I really
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by talltimtom 8y ago
What’s immoral here? You know someone who can’t work so you let him rent your phone so he can work. I mean it’s not respecting the law, but it’s no more immoral than companies renting out cars, houses, or tools used by others to earn a livi
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by talltimtom 8y ago
I seem to remember that the store did transfer the costs to the customer in Denmark at least, Maybe 12 years ago. It led to an oproar by consumers faces with paying ~4cent per transaction, and some stores not allowing card payment on purcha
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by talltimtom 8y ago
This seems borderline scientific fraud. They are showing that participants get better at a test when they practice the test. They use this to make outlandish claims about the test-training app which is sold by a company previously fined for
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by talltimtom 8y ago
True, 1 d0nt get h0w anyone c0uld f1nd that an0ying 1n a font, when c0ntext make5 it readily apparent that they are letters.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
It also locks you out after that neighbor you don’t like intentionally types a wrong code five times, because you where playing loud Music yesterday until 21:00, which isn’t against the rules but he/she doesn’t like it. Extremely smart
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Are you asking how a child is different from a dog? It’s cruel to exterminate a million humans because they annoy you, yet substitute humans for ants and suddenly it’s not cruel. The subject matters and what is cruel to animals is not neces
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Where’s the joke in that? You buy the installation on a 30 year fixed loan and reducere your power Bill tomorrow. To compare, what is the “break even” point of buying a property and renting it out?
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by talltimtom 8y ago
It sounds like an extremely lowball price, so either google wanted more control of ther collaboration or Fossil needed cash and wanted to kill the dept anyway.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Hah, that’s just golden. “We have this amazing feature X however we have to charge you a lot already because the server load of feature X is extremely high.... also feature X is not available yet”
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by talltimtom 8y ago
SSPL is basically trying to say we are open source unless you make money, in which case pay us or you need to be open source(not the kind of open source we are, the actual kind). And at the end of the day it just means that they aren’t open
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by talltimtom 8y ago
True. It also seems rather odd to be mad at HR for not being able to find the person who posted anonymously about you on the app you specifically went on due to it being anonoumous. I mean it sucks that the world has racists, bigots, homoph
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by talltimtom 8y ago
> Showing that something is done purposefully and knowingly instead of negligently and recklessly is hard. That goes for murders just as well, it’s not an argument against fake news or murder being criminal.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
It’s not impossible to prove intent.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Also there are plenty of gullible friendly souls online and if even 1 person writes him “hey, I can help you out” he’s established a possible payday. Scammers just throw stuff out there and see if anyone bites. Asking “but why would he twee
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by talltimtom 8y ago
You can’t blame the voters for trump or for brexit. They voted their hearts as they should. It was the job of Hillary and the remain campaign to push their message and educate the people on what their choices could lead to. They failed. Tha
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by talltimtom 8y ago
We do know when some things are true, and when observing the world we can talk about truth under certain assumptions. As in “it’s True the sun didn’t explode yesterday, assuming we aren’t all living in a simulated reality run by aliens in a

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