throwaway90999

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by throwaway90999 12y ago
If you insist on continuing to be disingenuous we can simply end the conversation.
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
This isn't a complicated statement. Why are you struggling with it? Google does not open source the VAST majority of their code -- it remains tightly restricted. Surely agree this is an accurate statement?
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
> What has happened with Java in recent years? Your feigned ignorance is disingenuous. An enormous legal battle over the platform took place within the past decade. We are very lucky that the outcome was favorable and that the platform h
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Microsoft's board cares, which is why there was a change in leadership. That's the subject hga raised and is what my reply is in reference to.
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
I see the misunderstanding. When I say "contribute code freely" I mean "without restriction." You are certainly aware that the vast majority of code is under strict restrictions and will be leveraged for competitive&#x2F
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
By all means contradict me. Do they open source more than 25% of their code written? More than 10%? More than 1%?
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Vista and Windows 8 aren't the problem. Lack of presence on servers and mobile devices is the problem -- those are the two key spaces where OSS platforms have won out. Linux is still not a significant player on desktops. Microsoft is s
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Microsoft is opening their codebase because they've been crushed by the enormous efforts of open source. This concession was hard won over the course of decades. Apple and Google do not contribute code freely, nor do they contribute a
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
It is also common to write cents/fractions either as superscript, superscript with a line below the cents value, or as a full fraction 99/100
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
"with goals beyond pure financial gains and rock-bottom self-interest." This doesn't paint an accurate picture. Google isn't deploying Fiber out of any notion of selflessness. This is a competitive play, and a very good
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
"Sad that we still don't have any kind of common libraries or whatever" We do have those. In this case the common library is called "libc." In this case (and in a few others) the Go team decided to intentionally avo
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
" A brand new Android flagship for the price of a months' rent. An utterly imaginably spectacular device." But this isn't an utterly imaginably spectacular device. It's merely a run of the mill consumer-grade portab
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
That's not true. Working 40 hours in a week is not a problem. A contractor can put in an unlimited number of hours if they wish. 20, 40, 80 - it doesn't matter. The differentiator you're probably thinking of is whether the wo
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Well I live a lot further away than Oakland. I commute from along the 680 corridor which is further than may are willing to endure, I think. Luckily there's still quite a lot of affordable housing in safe neighborhoods in San Leandro,
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Why would a lyft driver be paying SF rent? The notion that low income earners ought to be renting in extremely expensive neighborhoods is nonsense. If I can commute across the bay so can everyone else.
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
It's #1. Hiring is hard; everyone makes mistakes. Or sometimes people simply don't perform well in certain roles. Their deck goes into detail on this point IIRC. Try to fix it and if you fail, acknowledge the failure and move on.
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Yes I am aware. I am discussing the replies above me, not the article.
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
There were mentions of both technologies and I was replying to devindotcom who was talking about how high latency satellites are still useful. Here's a link to that comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920059
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
No, the latency for traditional satellite internet is between 600ms to 1000ms (one full second). Cite: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/satell...
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
I think you might be confusing "fires low performers" with "fires people who have occasional misses." There's a world of difference between the two. I have a few friends who I worked with at a large company, the kin
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Indeed. The ruling is quite clear that penetrating radio waves into the residence is presumed to be unacceptable. Even the dissent in Kyllo (FLIR) agrees on this point in regard to x-ray.
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
There's already been a ruling saying this isn't ok: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States Kyllo was about thermal imaging but the opinion is quite clear. There's a much, much stronger case
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Most of the perceived absurdity comes from disingenuous framing of the issues. Here are some examples: Over half of all quoted gun deaths are suicides. [edit: removed mention of suicide survivability as I don't have a reference handy.
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
It doesn't require it, but it does help frame the issue as to whether high school is a "waste of time." For example, much as you describe, I scaled back my high school senior year to less than a half day in order to make time
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
The field of history is fascinating and valuable but I completely understand this attitude towards history classes in the public high school system. If you're really interested in history take a college level course. Grade and high sch
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Yes, that's the honesty and transparency. The truth is that Google doesn't care; this bug isn't a priority. So the options available are 1) leave the bug open and ignore it or 2) be honest and close it as "obsolete"
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
The vast majority of humanity still depends on domesticated animals for labor and food. Goats are very commonly used to convert inedible wild plants into human ingestible calories in impoverished regions who do not have modern factory farmi
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by throwaway90999 12y ago
Applying your logic there is a vital need for us to imprison animals for the same reasons (sustenance, as well as utility). We've already made the utility-based decision to cage, raise and domesticate animals. You could argue that ca