ticktocktick

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by ticktocktick 11y ago
There are a lot of distros out there. That is what makes Linux so great. You can roll your own formula of kernel and userland for YOUR needs[and then share it]. You aren't forced to just take what Microsoft or Apple or XXXX gives yo
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
<joke> Lennart Poettering </joke>
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
This map follows the income distribution in my area very closely. Neat, but sad.
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
It is terrific that your end users are willing to spend the time and effort on building their own BI solutions. In my experience, at least with C-levels, that is not the case at all. C-levels also tend to want the most stuff.
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
A lot of what you are paying for in BI solutions is implementation costs and then to a lesser extent yearly maintenance and support costs. I wonder how they intend to lower implementation costs, since that is kind of lengthy and inherently
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
Every instance of this story omits the 'Windows only' part. It is sort of pertinent.
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
Hard to resist all that power under foot in Tesla's!
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
Just stay off the brakes as much as possible. No big secret really.
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
We are 12 developers in a room that is half windows opposite an auditorium. We call it the fishbowl. It feels like we are in some sort of science experiment to see how long we can last the indignity.
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
Because 20 year olds may not have the extensive government contacts required to land big money contracts.
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by ticktocktick 11y ago
Marginal bloat is always rational. Forest for the trees and all that.
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
If you are using Linux... You can use this... https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
The ONLY people who need to know about this is the manufacturer and their regulatory body FDA, etc. The company can then pull all the inventory that is in and out of the patients and apply fixes or facilitate replacements. If this could kil
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
The Surface costs more than the average laptop and tablet it is supposed to replace. That is my problem. And God forbid you want or need processing power or RAM >= 8GB...
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
ISPs are trying to become Netflix. Google is trying to become an ISP. Netflix is trying to commoditize bits. Netflix should try to become an ISP.
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
Now we know why common carrier will never happen.
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
Your emotional outburst is not a constructive addition to this discussion. Despite this tantrum it would seem that more people on HN agree with you than disagree as your comment is still visible. So I am not sure why you are bitching.
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
Are we better off using decoder rings and snail mail at this point?
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
So it will be consistent with OpenSSH, also a project of OpenBSD devs.
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
MIPS was fun to learn. Its instruction set is not nearly as gnarly as x86 or ARM.
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
Think of the government as being a member of Hacker News with nearly infinite downvote power. If it doesn't like what you've said it disappears what you've said...often without even so much as an explanation.
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by ticktocktick 12y ago
You are part of a society in which you have an obligation to protect and preserve the safety of others through reasonable and responsible actions. I don't think that locking your car while it is parked or not leaving your keys in it wh