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hunterjrj

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    I think you underestimate just how entrenched Oracle’s database offering is in the enterprise.

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    > Steve truly understood the virtue and value of that cultural component to not just attract but _retain_ that kind of world-class talent, and _that's_ what he attributes Pixar's s…

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    Comment #38918675

    Unfortunately there was one in the Buffalo area in 2009: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407

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    Comment #38672867

    Microsoft uses AKS for their production workloads, but only for “minor” projects like “Office 365” which only has a “few” (200 million) users. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us…

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    Comment #36726242

    Plug for Dave Plummer's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage Dave was an engineer on NT and creator of Task Manager and zip folders. Lots of interesting stories an…

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    Comment #36021231

    The Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge, and A Deepness in the Sky in particular. If you check the series out, and I highly recommend you do, read it in order. Which would mean…

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    Comment #34369773

    For more information on the technique the parent describes in point #1, I recommend the book "Moonwalking With Einstein" by Joshua Foer.

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    Comment #32279047

    While your concern is certainly very personal, and a deeply rooted preference over which you have little control, I have to point out that body shaming can have disastrous effects …

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    Comment #29946450

    Canada is a net exporter of food and agriculture commodities. https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/economics/canada-food-an...

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    Comment #22285671

    > I fairly frequently post to provide a female point of view backed up by data and personal first-hand experience... Please continue. It’s sorely needed here.

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    Comment #21531928

    How about “wrote the Doom engine, then the Quake engine”. Good start?

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    Comment #21427462

    Actually, this was implemented by Dave Taylor: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1189567625631883265...

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    Comment #21299182

    > but the plane itself is salvageable. You're probably right. From an engineering perspective. Would you fly in a 737MAX post-fix? We have an engineering mindset here on HN and so …

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    Comment #20996972

    Come on now. What other plausible reason, besides being someone's daughter, would a girl that young have for being on that island with these old men? It doesn't take an MIT-calibre…

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    Comment #20023632

    Why not petition Google to donate the Go project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, since many of the core technologies (including Kubernetes, Prometheus) that make up the c…

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    Comment #18202995

    Interesting idea. How would ownership extend to metadata derived from your profile? For example, one of the claims made during the Cambridge Analytica hearings was that the data th…

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    Comment #17933914

    My prediction: they'll release yet-another-ITSM tool like ServiceNow, etc.

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    Comment #17853220

    This happened to me. Several rounds of interviews with a well known colored-hat company, then... nothing. No response to follow-ups either. What was especially frustrating to me wa…

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    Comment #17727031

    Paging Scott Adams (or one of his sock puppets)...

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    Comment #17292843

    Stretching in the evenings. Lower back pain is almost completely gone, range of motion in my neck is expanded.

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    Comment #17274975

    > He wants everyone to magically develop on their spare time for free with copyleft licenses. This is craaaaaaazy. People gotta eat. You are flat-out misrepresenting him. Read his …