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ms4720

318 karma · joined November 25, 2010

a geek from NYC, living in Beijing and willing to have a cup of coffee and chat about your problems
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ms4720··on Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
Loop back address, 127.0.0.1, is really a class A block, 127.0.0.0/8, that only uses 1 address
ms4720··on Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones
In China yes it is, it is against the law to do it and China is not a place where rule of law exists
ms4720··on Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartphone vendor
They have basic rules, follow might be a bit strong
ms4720··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
Wouldn't rust be a better fit?
ms4720··on Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Spreadsheet and Calendar
Have you looked at integration with taskwarrior? A bidirectional sync for tasks would be very handy. Look at asanawarrior for an example.
ms4720··on Syscall Auditing at Scale
Yes it is
ms4720··on Why kernel development still uses email
So was NNTP
ms4720··on Gitless: a version control system
Or the original syntax for tar
ms4720··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016)
I have 15+ years ops experience, send me a email at mspitzer@gmail.com and we can talk
ms4720··on Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow?
Private Reddit Server?
ms4720··on Postgres vs. MySql Over Time in `Ask HN: Who Is Hiring?`
nice to see
ms4720··on Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
Most just don't bother, well done
ms4720··on Show HN: LanceList – A directory of ways for freelancers to find work
I would like to know this too
ms4720··on CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired
too bad
ms4720··on [dead]
Well the app was in very bad taste in my opinion. Women have the ability pretty much wholly under their control as to whether people want to take sexy pics of them in public, it is called clothing choice. There is absolutely no restriction on a woman wearing more and looser clothing so that this never happens to them. The exact same thing can be said about makeup and how they style their hair. And if you seriously dress like you do not want attention men will not notice you and not take pictures of your boobs.
ms4720··on We may get fired and I don't know what to do
Then Success goes to the manager and lead and failure goes to the team for not doing what they were told and agreed to do in writing. You are handing them a scapegoat.
ms4720··on Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Sized TechShop
not Confederates it was the Democrats that argued it
ms4720··on Prenda Law's Attorneys Take The Fifth
pity that, professionals were suposed to be held to a higher standard then common criminals
ms4720··on California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills
Well just a personnel preference, but I always go for accuracy before manners. It may make people uncomfortable but at least they WILL know why
ms4720··on California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills
shouldn't that be "we take more money" ?
ms4720··on The High Price of Being Single in America
No I am saying that under the social system in which marriage was formalized it was expected that people would have kids because there was no birth control and people like to have sex, kids were pretty much assumed as a general byproduct of marriage. And for the vast majority of the couples it was true so the barren were rounding error and were not considered as a separate case.
ms4720··on The High Price of Being Single in America
I was an orphan from age 11, dad had a bad heart.

But if you look at the conditions that existed up until say the 1950s work was mostly muscle powered, ie being able to lift 50-100 lbs all day was expected at work and there was much less office work to be had. That meant that men being bigger and stronger had a big edge so they worked and women took care of the house/children, this was also a full time job that just took less strength to do. Doing laundry, cooking and cleaning by hand is a lot of time. So since this guy now had to feed 2-7+ mouths on one check he was cut some slack.

and up until very recently the atomic family was odd, why would you abandon all your relatives(ie the people who will help you) with out a very very good reason.

ms4720··on The High Price of Being Single in America
This is a crock, the social purpose of marriage is raising children that are properly socialized to inherit society the financial benefits are there to help partially defray the cost of raising children. And as was stated below throw some kids in and see how the numbers work out.
ms4720··on Hollingsworth for US Senate 2014, implementing direct democracy
As was stated by jrs235 it takes the state governments out of the picture at the federal level. This has lead to a much more powerful and invasive federal government for internal matters in America.
ms4720··on Hollingsworth for US Senate 2014, implementing direct democracy
Well this is just polling, it still is a stupid idea even from just poling point of view.

To tell the truth I would like to see the 17th Amendment repealed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

if there is interest I am willing to write up why, but now I need to make coffee

ms4720··on Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines
A safe path is 99+% clear, this is not a 99% solution. And please keep in mind human nature, a false sense of security will kill you. If it is a flat out no go zone people will avoid it, if they think it is safe they will find mines on there own. Fear can keep you alive and anything that lessens the fear of the minefield without rendering it safe is a net loss of human life in my opinion.
ms4720··on How I Beat The Textbook Industry (With A Shoebox Contraption)
First of all he was not forced into this against his will, it was a voluntary choice on his part to go to college and pick his major.

no the morality is clear as well, he could have done many other things to protest or just reevaluate his decision and study/do something else. instead he chose to steal and then decided to brag about it.

and having read textbooks I would not call them literature in general.

and I am sure there were cheaper/free alternative books out there that he could have made due with.

my opinion stands he is a thief with a big mouth. he is not much of a thief but still one.

ms4720··on How I Beat The Textbook Industry (With A Shoebox Contraption)
its high tech shoplifting, the tech is fine but the morality of the act makes me wonder when he needs to make hard choices professionally will he revert to type and get over or do the right thing. It is odd that someone who is going into an integrity based profession thinks it is cool to brag about being a thief.

I do not have any problems with anyone scanning their books for personel use and its legal, but this was not.

ms4720··on I want to go to college
Well first of all I do not equate education necessarily with college, education is a process and college is a place where that may or may not happen. My main point is that assuming large levels of debt should be approached as a business/investment decision, as should anything with such a large down side. And even if you are college material having $200,000 in debt and a degree in something that gets you a $35,000/year job is just not a reasonable thing to do. And with a debt/salary load like above college will be the best 4 years of your life, loan payments will see that it is so in the best case.
ms4720··on I want to go to college
Re: There are simply some things that you cannot put a price on.

Debt that will follow you through bankruptcy is not one of them. I know of people who took exactly that attitude about college and it destroyed their lives.

If you are not paying for college, or not paying much, it is true that it can be a fun 4 years and does not need to be considered a financial decisions. But when you are collecting more debt than an average mortgage you should really consider if the house you are buying is worth it.

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