ExactoKnight

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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
This is why every open source project needs a basic CircleCi.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Well that never happened, did it? I really, really enjoyed the US Geological Service's Yo system for Large Earthquakes. Then a year in... it stopped working, and I stopped caring.
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Government warns of additional James Webb delays and exceeding cost cap(nasaspaceflight.com)
8 points by ExactoKnight 9y ago|0 comments
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Not necessarily. Hiding how much something costs versus what you charge for it, is the secret sauce to making money in Business.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
There may be a kernal of truth to this, but the fact is, to do this with overwhelming force there needs to a strong social impetus to do this. With drugs you had families ruined by drug addiction desperate for a solution. With bitcoin you h
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
You will have a drug war on your hands, only way harder to enforce thanks to encryption. It's a losing game, and I think you forget that there are way too many rich people in positions of power who like crypto for it to be successfully
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
The same way Bitcoin can't realistically be stopped by any government. (Short of seizing network hashing power..)
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
I was so impressed by this, I went snooping into your Github and saw you are now working on https://altheamesh.com/ Which I have to say, is a very cool project and one I would love to help spread when your protocol can hand
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
We should get rid of this whole "C-" idea anyways. Comes from rigid social ideas about how to organize companies, that tends to push down the importance of product and technology roles in favour of giving more social power to role
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Sorry, but I couldn't take a single actionable thing from that long rant... Lots of really mushy sentiment instead..
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Just wait until your 30 and all this really starts to hit you. Tremors, heart problems, and a sudden realization you're no longer invincible.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Ah, said like a classic startup bro who really doesn't realize how badly he's getting screwed on equity yet. Such brash optimism and such little appreciation for the pleasures of life beyond winning.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Like the idea about after_commit callbacks. There's nothing nastier than a valid object saving (especially one calling an API somewhere else), and then that save rolling back due to a callback exception. A good rule of thumb I heard a
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Crystal is so strict about type coercions, it's actually way harder to use than you realize. Seriously, try converting over a decently complex script to crystal from ruby, you'll run into complicated problems.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Lately I've been having a hard time telling the difference between "unique hash id" and UUID's. If all your blockchain is, is something akin to a decentralized database using UUID's, then you don't need a block
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
"Brobeck's professional interests and bursting ingenuity extended way beyond the field of accelerator design. In 1972, for instance, he was hired by the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop pollution-free vehicles. Even in
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Bill Brobeck was an engineer ahead of his time(www2.lbl.gov)
1 points by ExactoKnight 9y ago|1 comments
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Americans might realize this was proven if they look beyond their own borders and to Norway, which has the lowest recidivism rate in the world.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
I don't see how literally denying a person anything resembling a stable basic existence makes sense for helping them become productive people again. Norway has it right on this: their prisons are highly structured and rehabilitative,
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
That FBI spy got sent there too. There really ought to be a judicial process for determining which prison you ought to be serving your sentence in. If you become enemy to the feds you get a life of absolute hell thanks to some guy high u
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
It doesn't sound harsh. It is. It's worse than that. It's a moral abomination with no rational basis in humanity whatsover. Don't sugar coat the reprehensible to sound agreeable.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Popular databases at scale can be tremendously popular too. This is the profit model of databases like Neo4J. Not sure if it worked out for them, but it seems like a viable route to popularity: go big at scale. Amazon or Heroku style.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Citation dramatically needed. Maybe for querying read values of unspent transaction balances from blockchain ledgers, but the data integrity where it matters is on the chain where people can't screw with it...
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
I'm using Postgres for a financial app, and the idea of never updating a value in place sounds very appealing over PostgreSQL's construct of updating in place. I'd love to hear your thoughts about how using Datomic in this im
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Then people using PostgreSQL remember how their database is free, rather than a $100,000 a year despite having more flexibility and features, and you see why Larry Ellison would do this. !@#$ Oracle...
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
This is absurd. All databases, at some point in time, run into scaling and performance issues. Documentation by blogging and performance metrics are the only guiding light of sanity we have when these hard problems hit your app.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Tech is a ruthless meritocracy, because people face challenges constantly that exceed their capabilities. If something sucks, they will shout it to the skies. If it performs better or saves their ass on a key feature, they will shout it to
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
"Moving myself to BCC" is another favourite trick I like to get out of an email chain quickly that I start.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Thin resume? She's literally got a Nelson Mandela-style resume for the position now...
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Can you name one good reason for having it be 10 minutes rather than 30 seconds? If you can't then you are going to lose this argument.

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