Netflix debacle is Netflix choosing not to pay for CDN and instead asking ISPs to take thier CDN for free or we overload your interconnect ports and blame you for it on our site.
Personally I want to be in an open office with the team I'm currently working with, an no one else. While IM works, it's a lot less band with in IM and you miss out on a number more spontaneous design discussions. A good team will not interrupt you with questions they could just as easily goggled.
On the other hand, I hate talk from other teams or projects. The mostly unrelated and in worst case interesting (thus 10 times as effective in distracting me.). So the current open office plan with 6-7 teams in an open area is occasionally really annoying.
I've had a similar experience with editors, good old vim and less works but most other editors will crash or become unusable as log sizes increase.
Of cause, for parsing logs a few well thought out awk commands combined with sed, sort, unique and other *nix utilities usually beats everything else in my experience.
I'm not sure, I was mostly thinking of something that will involve a lot of coding assignments. The idea being that if I code to learn there will be less pressure to deliver something and move on, instead allowing me to investigate it at a different level. While still having a framework to get me working.
I guess what I'm thinking about is something like c++ for grandmasters (http://www.cppgm.org/), but less epic in scope.
Casually joking about impossible, evil conspiracies by big business on the other hand is something completely different and also funny.
No one will believe its related and its certainly not slander to joke about it. Also you might want to leave the political opinions out of hacker news... there is no 50% of US who dislikes those things, they only have different ideas about how to support it.
There are an awful lot of maintainers for smaller individual pieces/subsytems of the kernel. Take a look at the MAINTAINERS file to see who is responsible for the smaller chunks:
I guess the sane way of viewing a kickstarter that way.
Personally though, the way kickstarter and (many) projects describe rewards as preorders, then I think they should be liable to fulfill the or return the proceeds. If the money is invested in this bast case scenario you describe, than kickstarter and the projects should clearly state that.
If they don't than kickstarter or some of the projects facing some kind of legal action when the money just disappears would be a good thing, so that the descriptions start reflecting reality again.
Edit: I've not donated on kickstarter, so I don't know if they clearly state this somewhere later in the process. But from what I've seen kickstarters "preorders" seem irresponsible to me.
Its not in the users interest to pre-order, unless there are steep discounts. So if the pre-order is discounted, i'd say a user can weight his/her risk and then do it. However, if it was a full price preorder, then its definitely not worth it.
I understand what you're getting at, but that's not the case in this question, since one of the four answers are stated almost word for word in the text. (caution point 4)
The rest of the alternatives are "plausible guesses" which you might think are reasonable if you don't remember the point above. So what they're REALLY testing is if you read the text carefully enough to remember that line or not.
Actually having knowledge of microscopes are probably a bad thing on this particular question since you're likely to skip over the boring warning part, like I did when I quickly read the question just now.
See first page about CDN for a description of how they moved from CDNs paying for access to demanding ISPs installed thier CDN for free. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/how-co...