ISV_Damocles

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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
I found that the Coke-alike syrup could taste a lot like Coke, but you had to add a little less than half the amount of syrup they recommend. I eventually dropped it, though, because the CO2 canisters were too expensive and didn't want
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
H3 has advantages in the analysis of the gathered data. Movement of users between cells is guaranteed to go through edges instead of points, so you can do flow analyses with electric current modeling. A hex grid is the most efficient way to
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
I also agree that application -> cluster of machines is where we're going. I think it needs to be baked into an specialized programming language to really work well, though, and all of these things we rely on the OS for would have t
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
I'm aware of those sorts of application level logs. I used that sort of thing when I worked at Uber, and I saw it built up over time as more classes of errors were encountered. :) But there are a whole class of application failures tha
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
Instead of straw-manning the GP, why not address the very specific concerns raised? If there's an error you're seeing in a cluster of, say, 30 machines that only seems to happen once every few days, how are we supposed to debug th
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
What you've described doesn't sound like a value-add at all to me. In stores they can manipulate your senses to get you to make emotion-based purchases whether or not it makes economic sense or if you're going to actually get
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
No offense meant, but that couldn't be more wrong. If you're writing for the server, you can already use whichever language best suits the problem at hand. WASM will eventually allow the same choice in the browser. The extent to w
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
Shortest path was something we were thinking of implementing, but yes, we didn't have an immediate need for it so we didn't. The main complexity is switching between different IJK coordinate systems across different icosahedron fa
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
Yep, Dr. Sahr came to the office a few times when we were first getting the original version done. He implemented the core of the algorithm and we took on many of the utility methods, most of them in https://github.com/uber&
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
There have been many uses of hex grids and maps for a while, such as Civilization V, and this awesome hex grid resource from a gaming company: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ Others have pointed out v
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
I used to work at Uber and worked on H3. They're working on a blog post to explain some more, but if you clone the repo and build the doxygen docs, you'll get more explanation. The big difference between this and S2 is that hexago
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
Those were examples. The key point is that this is generic behavior for any window at any time. It doesn't have to be special-cased (with the calculator) and it happens all the time (making the terminal stay in the foreground is at lea
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
Greybeards who still used SunOS because they didn't like the Mac/Windows way of doing things. It enables things like: 1. Found a web tutorial on how to do something in *nix with a bunch of shell commands interspersed between parag
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
The keyword is "trying." When they intentionally disable functionality they are throwing away the userbase that depends on that functionality for the hope of getting a bigger userbase in return. But there's no need to be th
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
KDE 4 to 5 was very smooth, though I waited ~3 months for reports from others before I jumped. :) It feels like KDE 5 was focused primarily on polish rather than new features. (I honestly can't think of a feature in KDE 5 that wasn&#x2
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by ISV_Damocles 9y ago
Absolutely not for me. When Gnome and Canonical both went crazy (Gnome 2 -> 3 and Unity even existing, respectively) I stayed with Gnome 2 for a while, switched to Mate for a bit, and eventually found that KDE 4 had settled down and was
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by ISV_Damocles 10y ago
No? That just links out to the Lyft app. Booking an Uber in Google Maps no longer leaves the app at all.
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by ISV_Damocles 10y ago
This is what should have been in the article. The only other thing I wish I knew was that I could early exercise 6 months before the 1 year vesting cliff at my company (it was in the stock agreement, but I didn't comprehend what it mea
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by ISV_Damocles 10y ago
What community? The only community around OpenOffice.org were the Sun/Oracle devs + the Go-OO devs getting it to work on Linux. The Go-OO devs forked it into LibreOffice and then Oracle shuttered their own work and reassigned their dev
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by ISV_Damocles 10y ago
> No organisation should have more than one regular-use repo (special-use repos, of course, are special). Multiple repos are a smell. Totally agree with everything else, but gotta completely disagree on this last point. Monorepos are a h
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by ISV_Damocles 10y ago
Not theoretically, with [OpenGrok]( https://opengrok.github.io/OpenGrok/ ) you can register all of your git repositories and then search for the dependency declaration of your library across the entire company's sou
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by ISV_Damocles 10y ago
I haven't really seen a letup in recruiters emailing me. Not one of the ones who was laid off, though.
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by ISV_Damocles 11y ago
Would like to note that kik is the company that threatened to go after an open source developer and get accounts terminated because he wrote a library with the same name. https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about
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by ISV_Damocles 11y ago
No, there's a very simple definition for these XXnm numbers and a very good reason why they only roughly correlate with transistor density. These numbers refer to the length of the channel in the MOSFET or FinFET between the Source and
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by ISV_Damocles 11y ago
Anyone else read this article as an advertisement of Gokul Rajaram to other companies?
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by ISV_Damocles 11y ago
A heart full of neutrality? http://40.media.tumblr.com/0ac5bd12e03fb4781c66b32d45a3da58/...
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by ISV_Damocles 11y ago
The /value/ of "discrete software" has always been close to zero. Just a few megabytes of disk space. The value of software creation is something else, though, and ages ago the one was tied directly to the other. But eve
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by ISV_Damocles 11y ago
Pretty sure they all have a way to get a fare estimate if you enter the destination before requesting.
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by ISV_Damocles 12y ago
I was really hoping they had a second layer to their prank by having a search for "Java" show java source code with the `import com.google.whatevs` be replaced with `import whatevs.google.com`
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by ISV_Damocles 12y ago
I'd presume if they can get the recovery rate and refurbishability rate high enough, they'd charge extra to companies that make them launch without recovery versus more flexible scheduling to guarantee recoveries.

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