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by HillRat 11y ago
It seems very similar to experiences I've heard about from friends running businesses in Russia and, to a lesser degree, in Mexico (where your business partners are more reliable but the government is horribly corrupt and obstructionis
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by HillRat 11y ago
Well, it's profitable for the general partners . Whether it's a good deal for the LPs is another issue entirely.
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I've never seen a 60+ programmer workweek schedule that didn't start generating negative productivity through reduced quality, technical debt and poor design choices. In part, this is because high workloads are symptomatic of poor
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by HillRat 11y ago
One interesting thing that I found out, having renovated a loft in a brick building from the early 1900s, is that modern mortar is much more friable and shorter-lived than older mortars (specifically, European recipes) made with a higher pr
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by HillRat 11y ago
Specifically, Amazon's marketplace subsidizes everything Amazon sells itself. That 15% cut for listing and checkout is a hell of a rentier model, and makes up for their losses in things like warehousing and shipping actual goods. If yo
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by HillRat 11y ago
Try the USENIX archive: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/pai...
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by HillRat 11y ago
I'm about to do a Java to iOS shootout, so this is fairly apposite for me. RoboVM's big advantage for us at the moment is that it's a commercially-supported product in a space where you are completely at the mercy of your too
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by HillRat 11y ago
I suppose it's slightly better than the usual alternative of ignoring, or suing, the outsiders, but yeah, this was pretty predictable. He's obviously a gifted programmer, but developing new software for a division without evidentl
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by HillRat 11y ago
It's a pretty standard line of products at most upscale grocery stores (Whole Foods, HEB's Central Market, etc.), with the advantage of fresh ingredients and preparation. Though, to be fair, the Gobble menu looks pretty good. I&#x
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by HillRat 11y ago
I have ended a few interviews early when I was absolutely certain that a candidate wasn't a fit, but only when they were objectively not right for a position. What I try to do in those cases is end the main interview set gracefully,
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by HillRat 11y ago
Or they will require such detailed functional specs that by the end you're almost literally just paying for ten fingers to do the typing. An example that I wish weren't true: one specification had detail to the level of specifying
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by HillRat 11y ago
Just to add a little more context, the international honey market is incredibly fraught; lead, antibiotics (including chloramphenicol, which can cause fatal reactions in humans) and artificial sweeteners are all commonly found in Chinese-so
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by HillRat 11y ago
Great point! I was actually riffing a bit on Stalin and trying to make the point that Amazon doesn't need to worry about having, e.g., what HN readers would consider a decent Android fork; a low-quality, low-price product with the Amaz
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by HillRat 11y ago
Because the hardware is basically a near-loss leader meant to dump another sales acquisition funnel into the market. Which is actually what AMZN should have done with their Fire Phone; no one's buying an Amazon-branded product as an as
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by HillRat 11y ago
No one's ever going to see this, but I feel like your reply merits a response. I believe, simply put, that hours-per-week are as useful a metric of progress as SLOC. The fact is that for any nontrivial development effort, adding work h
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by HillRat 11y ago
They also have, as I understand it, a metric fuckton of content sources (not including Flickr, Tumblr and so on) and a very highly-tuned content and advertising presentation system, plus the default footprint on various browsers. Essentiall
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by HillRat 11y ago
Pretty sure the latter situation ends with homeless engineers and dead test pilots. Einstein developed his seminal theories working as a patent clerk; not sure you can argue without evidence that an insane, high-stress workload is conducive
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by HillRat 11y ago
To be honest, I don't find anything surprising about this, as what he describes is a traditional "small world" network (high clustering coefficient with short path links). The strong links within clusters efficiently amplify
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by HillRat 11y ago
That, I think, is the key observation that the article essentially ignores in favor of trivial sidebar issues (like acronyms for procurement systems that haven't been used in three years). Governments are structured as large, top-down
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by HillRat 11y ago
By definition member states don't have oversight over the UN, though they can refuse or delay funding (as the US has done in the past). Technically, the UN Secretary General and the Office of Internal Oversight Services are responsible
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by HillRat 11y ago
What is FSNP? Old tax police, I forgot that they split it between GUEBiPK at MVD and SEB at FSB years ago (and, I guess, more recently SK picked up some of that portfolio). Can't keep track of all the different security organs these
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by HillRat 11y ago
Ah, you know how it goes; generally, it either comes from a report filed to Roskomnadzor by a "concerned patriotic citizen" (like famed private citizen Vitaly Milonov), or it's a case of, "Gosh, it sure would be terribl
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Russia bans Reddit(meduza.io)
174 points by HillRat 11y ago|105 comments
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Thirty years ago, she inspired Real Genius' Jordan. Here's what happened next(slate.com)
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by HillRat 11y ago
Roach-motel markets: you can get in, but you can't get out. More technically, monopsonistic or oligopsolistic factor markets, where the number of employers is small and thus control hiring in the local market. (Though I would expect Ne
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by HillRat 11y ago
What's your skill set and background? I hired a dev team a few months ago in Dallas and it was incredibly difficult to find qualified candidates, of whom only a few made it through the tech interviews (and I'm not that tough an
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by HillRat 11y ago
Parenthetically, the "dots" mentioned were a later diacritical feature added to Qur'anic texts to mark the placement of short vowels; since Arabic, like Hebrew, elides short vowel sounds in the written text, Muslims without A
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by HillRat 11y ago
There's even odds it's a response to the Gemalto hack; all three major AUS MNOs use Gemalto SIM cards, and at the time only NSA and GCHQ were specifically called out as being involved, not ASD. Canberra might be feeling a bit left
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by HillRat 11y ago
A year or so ago I attended a talk by a professor whose research team is doing a lot of fascinating work with vagus nerve stimulation, particularly in the realm of physical rehabilitation after major trauma and ischemic events. Murine model
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by HillRat 11y ago
It's all a matter of degree. In the 1950s and '60s, African-Americans in Mississippi were terrorized by the State Sovereignty Commission, a kind of Cracker Barrel Stasi that had files on virtually every black citizen in the state,

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