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I think something more powerful could be done here. Imagine app that lets you understand all the politics and dirt on companies. Like how green are they or do they do animal testing . I see so much shit and choices, but who am rewarding

Aren't plants deterministic with water consumption. I can see the value of this in so far as data mining an optimal schedule, but it isn't green nor scalable.

Bad passwords really scare me.

Ditto, very sad. Based on the comments alone, it's better to turn off electronics to be safe from other passengers regardless of any merit to the authors actions. Although, I feel like not bothering with turning things off now and just put it in my pocket. After all, I get a thrill from risking my life along with a bunch strangers. Yeehaw!!!!

Fingernail clipper: I have 9 of them, yet only two are around at any given point

So s3 is like memcached now but slower.

The ability to do suffix based deletion would be nice since I lacked the foresight to prefix my thumbnails with their dimension. Although I could wipe all my thumbnails and rebuild them on the fly...

The problem is that instead of worrying about price, compete by being different and better. Make a store that people want to be in rather than a store.

Amazon will win on price hands down. If you think only on this dimension, then close up; instead, ask yourself why your customers come to you at all.

This is why I have anxiety!

Atwood law in full swing!!!' awesome

Why??? How can you be proud of something you dont control? Its irrational.

I'm more curious about how they hacked the officials. None the less, I think hack is now more or less generalized to doing that wasn't meant to be.

The fundamental problem is that people don't like change. I've encountered this a few times. I invent a system process to make a work flow simpler, people resist because they don't want learn.

One key example was an intranet out of office board. The secretaries maintained a list of who was in or out (context: 13 years ago with very little good groupware). Engineers would sign out the scratch themselves off. Was it consistent? No. The system was very simple and engineers loved it. Did the secretaries? Nope. Did it get traction? Nope.

We should hang out

The problem is that "best" is relative to people.

So, why can't the ball cost .01?

I have to agree with him. I bought into it, but it feels like I'm getting fucked in the ass.

Or teams of 2-3 when trust is high. Good teamwork can trump any methodology.

And employees would also put bugs in to reap the reward.

It's our fault too. We automate the easy and empower the capable.

I don't think so; he seems bitter about the state of the OCaml community and the ability to build companies with it that has maintainable code.

That learning curve is the problem. Building a business ultimately requires people to be cogs at some level.

I think this is one of the commentaries I've read on FP. I was a FP junkie and DSL addict until I realized my business was going to fail because I couldn't hire the right people at the budget I had.

It is why I'm an alcoholic now. Java makes me drink as I wait for Ocaml to be main stream

No.

Work that fulfills people is done hard until finish and gets the love of polish

I think Earl is suggesting that more than whining is needed. Like, get smart people fresh and give them training so you can get them when they graduate

This should be a great howto guide on not getting screwed.

This is just static types

Based on this discussion, it would behoove innovative people to start writing fiction now and design the future.

Don't worry, I'm working on a java script bayesian network library

I call bullshit.

Basically, Nosql is not just about scale but flexibility. Give me a schemaless engine anyday