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Yes, you're right. I failed to keep a full perspective when I wrote that. I won't defend that. I do feel it's significant that it took about a month from the sharing on that minecr…

Yup, IMHO what was leaked in this case is not so important. What is important is how it was leaked, how long it was leaked for, and how long it took to notice. edit: OK, I was wron…

Lots of people in the comments here stuck on the boring semantic definition debate of mocks vs stubs vs nulls vs whatever. This is not really by what the article is about IMHO. It’…

Importantly they said within a year they will go public OR do a private market transaction to make employees liquid

Similar content for the US with a focus on trade: https://usitc.gov/research_and_analysis/tradeshifts/2020/ene...

Frame your problem as a game, let AlphaZero take a shot. Now we just need the AlphaZero part.

If you let me know how you use grep to search the internet as effectively as I do with Google, sure!

Consulting firms will offer new projects every ~6mo. There are research engineering jobs that also might be a good fit - you deal with a lot of different problems and get to satisf…

>Registration is still required in the US for some benefits, such as awards of statutory damages. [1] >You must register your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office before you ar…

He sounds like someone who would give a great talk. I can see that happening for sure. I've devoted my life to a lot less before realizing there was more out there. These people pu…

Can you point me to any historical titans of industry who regret their life's work?

A physical reality we describe with mathematical constructs - like 0. People acting as groups exchanging capital is just as real as atoms acting as groups exchanging energy.

The author goes from Every careful person equipped with a reliable thermometer will make the same reading of temperature. There are alternative scales, Fahrenheit and Celsius, but …

Interesting to note that Jeff Bezos is an investor in Mashape: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mashape

The analysis in the article shows that Aerospike is designed, intentionally or not, as a loosely accurate data store. It doesn't matter how you set it up or use it.

Oh, that looks very nice. Neat to embed Lua as a sandboxed plugin environment.

Agreed about logstash being too heavy for your app servers. It would be nice to have the functionality in a trim, native binary. As things are, one can always direct an app sever's…

You're right, I said this accusingly and that's unproductive. I think legislation like this should exist. I don't think it's right to ignore the advantage (assuming we accept they …

> Amazon supports federal legislation that would explicitly let states require tax collections by all online retailers above a certain size. This would give Amazon a huge competiti…

The problem is taxes are incredibly complicated. There are companies that do "tax as a service"[1]. Governments should pass tax laws in some sort of industry standard tax rules spe…

Wish I could see what's on the monitor!

Happily =)

You're right. I think this goal is difficult if not impossible given the way things are. Missing, I think, is the requirement that open source projects are written with something l…

Providing incentives seems key. I wonder why CPAN came to work so well. Possible incentives: - automated testing (TravisCI does this in isolation already) - automated distribution …

You're right. There is hard work in managing a system of services where any service endpoint can change at any time. It appears to me protocols for negotiating upgrades between ser…