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by Fordec 5y ago
I get why some people were saying it made them a better programmer. Of course it did, it's copy-pasting Carmack code.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Personally I find there is one important factor, and one factor alone. Context. Seasonality is the context that there's a seasonal driver at play. The context of a public holiday can explain a decrease in sales on that day. The context
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by Fordec 5y ago
Is it possible to get a probe out that far in time to make a good intercept? I imagine with this (relatively) short notice this is cutting it a bit close to orchestrate a proper orbital insertion by a designed, manufactured and tested progr
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by Fordec 5y ago
Can I just say I would love a detailed break down of the glorious mess behind the Pokemon GO launch. As a person who both wanted to play from the very start and couldn't even log in and a DevOps person who empathized heavily, I'
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by Fordec 5y ago
One's measure of these VCs changes quite distinctly when you change from viewing them through the prism of leaders of the industry to viewing them as self-interested marketeers acting as gatekeepers of a subset of wealth with the expre
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by Fordec 5y ago
Actually, because of legacy support issues and quality of service requirements, a lot of Emergency services are still using it instead of newer tech. Also, a lot of low data consumption IoT devices use older, but also cheaper, chipsets that
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by Fordec 5y ago
Tbh, I've just been down a few wikipedia rabbit holes in my time and came across it reading up on religions. If I was actually at all religious, I'd like to have been Zoroastrian. It at least would be closest to making the most se
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by Fordec 5y ago
Interesting fact, 80% of satellites are now built outside the US. A surprising number of cubesats are built in the UK for example. The US regulatory framework, which has decades of legacy and history working with the likes of Lockheed has f
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by Fordec 5y ago
Wow, I think that's my new go to example for bad documentation. That may actually be worse than no documentation because you wasted time looking for what is in essence a mere repeating of the function call and nothing else.
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by Fordec 5y ago
And if they do, it will be a shattering of taxation sovereignty and a fundamental dividing line on what makes the EU a group of cooperating states instead of a unified single country. Hungary and Greece alone would leave the EU over that.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Yep, I've stopped owning Open Source projects. All projects are for me now, and I reap the minuscule rewards from being all the only benefactor of the effort. But at least it's not a net negative burden of time sink, support, serv
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by Fordec 5y ago
And if your rules are to deliberately avoid opportunity, don't be shocked if somebody else makes the money not following your rules. Free market applies to the entire economy, not "the whole economy except the VC part because we&#
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by Fordec 5y ago
Let me tell you how this plays out, from an Irish perspective. 1. G7 countries can't do anything, trade treaties are sealed, Irish taxation rates are their sovereign right. Vetos baked into things because of the first rejection of the
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by Fordec 5y ago
On point 1., EU countries can't do state subsidies. It's illegal under Single Market rules. It was one of the arguments for Brexit that if they leave they can engage in state subsidies again.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Entry level Snowflake is $2 per hour. Or $48 per day if you transfer the metric. Entry level DO compute instance (so boring, I know) is $5 per month . There is a large gulf of pricing ranges that can undercut them in the coming years. It d
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by Fordec 5y ago
The economy is not 100% office work. Worker productivity is not measured in GDP. It is a component of it, but asset and resource prices also factor into the equation. Nobody is going to suggest taxi drivers can go fully remote and work from
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by Fordec 5y ago
If you can't trust your people in an office you have a hiring process problem or the leader needs therapy, not an office space problem.
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by Fordec 5y ago
On point 4, I think this is where co-working spaces have a moment to shine. A fully remote environment that you still get to leave the house to go to and no impact on how the rest of the team live their lives.
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by Fordec 5y ago
+1 to this. Travis, Circle and Jenkins are entirely in the rear view in this area for me now. My only concern about Actions has become that I use it too much.
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by Fordec 5y ago
And even that will continue to change. Kubernetes is overused right now, it has its place but it's not nearly universally the right tool for the job. Snowflake will eventually fall to something else due it's poor economics. S3 and
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by Fordec 5y ago
Barge in to a client meeting when they're trying to close a deal to talk about the latest Marvel movie. I'm confident the sales person will get frustrated with your actions real fast.
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by Fordec 5y ago
Honestly, this is kind of a blessing in disguise. Before there was ambiguity between where to go, what had legitimacy or continuity of service issues for certain channels weighing up switching costs. This sort of stuff puts a line under thi
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by Fordec 5y ago
Medium used to be fine but then they paywalled everything and it's basically now the Pinterest of blogging.
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by Fordec 5y ago
No forgiveness for Martha Stewart!
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by Fordec 5y ago
I'd be willing to be the word "able" is doing the heavy lifting here. Not because everyone has vocal opinions on BLM, but that this is America, land of the free, you can't tell me what I can and can't say. Not to me
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by Fordec 5y ago
Society is a democracy. One where we as people provide labor for money. During contracted hours you belong to the company, sure. Outside that you are free to do as you please. Wait no, you were at an Antifa rally on the news outside office
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by Fordec 5y ago
Sounds like a great use case for a future iteration of captchas. "Please verify you are human by judging if this user is abusive". You don't need agreement, just consensus. You don't need unanimity. Bias can be analyzed
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by Fordec 5y ago
Yeah, I originally bought Material Design hook line and sinker. A lot of assumptions that bled over from desktop needed addressing in a mobile touchscreen environment. Today? Android UI changes are starting to feel more like fashion than de
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by Fordec 5y ago
I get the sense that the only reason this happened is because amp sites were returning less advertising revenue for sites implementing it vs regular web. If the money was the same or better then I can't assume it would have ended up th
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by Fordec 5y ago
So did the IRA back in the day. They were still terrorists, regardless of if they phoned it in beforehand.

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