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Well, yes and no. Yes, when a single-source strategy is adopted, the spec is written for that supplier, but that does not mean that all cases where the spec is written with a speci…

Single-sourcing is a procurement strategy, not an outcome of RFP manipulation. When a purchase is put forth, the end-user[1] writes the specifications, and procurement staff[2] det…

> The problem is, in the current system, it's impossible to figure out who's doing it. No, the problem is who is responsible for paying the fines. If the terminating carrier were r…

> The authentication info is bigger than the call data required to set up a call. That's not a counter-argument, it's a cop out. SSL negotiation uses more bandwidth than a vanilla …

In the US, voice time is rarely metered for domestic calls. Even discount providers offer unlimited domestic calling. The only case where you see metered calls is for pre-paid SIMs…

This is hard to explain to anyone who hasn't done business with the Federal government, but your visions of national security letters are very much on one end of a broad spectrum. …

Heh. Seems everyone has decided to shoot the messenger. You may disagree with the policy, but ryaymercer isn't wrong. Living in startup land where everything is light, you move fas…

I haven't commented in over 3 years, but you're the first person I've seen mention Vero Beach on HN in the 8 years I've participated. As a Vero native, your comment resonates.

Why would online cloud backup providers suffer because of a drop in SSD prices?

> Even with Time Machine backups, you still spend many hours setting configs after a restore. But how many hours do you spend establishing, testing, and maintaining a backup plan t…

In the README, this description is given of the process: "When the list of repositories has been compiled, it proceeds to gather all the filenames in each repository and runs them …

The phrase "sector defining" is commonly used to say that a car defines the target parameters of the sector at the time it is present. Not necessarily that that it was the first in…

G.K Chesterton, All Things Considered Light, but full of pragmatism.

The debate over whether mid-engine is superior to rear-engine is not an open and shut case. Although proponents of either camp would have you believe otherwise. The advantages of m…

Good thing you checked Wikipedia :) I was just about to point out that VW Beetle motors had a smallish oil cooler in (or near) the fan shroud at the front of the engine.

That's true, but there are hard limits to the heat conversion efficiency of an otto-cycle internal combustion engine [1]. Given two engines, both optimally designed to approach tho…

No need. You can recover the public key from a private key using ssh-keygen's 'y' option: -y This option will read a private OpenSSH format file and print an OpenSSH public key to …

> Was it necessary to make the point as he did when he did? I don't think so. Feynman was deliberate in his means of communication. Was it necessary? That's a tough one to answer. …

Congrats on the 1.0 release guys! We've been using Tabula since the days before the app packaging. It's been really cool to observe development progress, and especially to see you …

The first time I visited the site, I really had no idea what I was doing. I'm going to write up my experience here for the benefit of the author. I'll admit that I did not read the…

This doesn't alleviate the walled garden concern entirely, but I've been kind of held up in my desire to try iOS development because I always felt the $99 ADC subscription was a si…

If you have speakers attached to your computer, be sure to turn them down (or put on headphones) before choosing an item. You'll get a breathy, lusty sounding "Oh, yeah" when you c…

This is a great collection, but any listing of microbenchmarks needs a caveat. Consider the first example, parallel assignment vs sequential assignment. As we can see by the result…

Your car is insured and is easily replaceable. Car theft has declined precipitously in recent years. According to the NY Times [1], in 1990 there were 147,000 cars reported stolen …