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by Itaxpica 8y ago
It’s ironic that this was passed this morning, because this morning a power issue at Canal managed to knock out all service on the A/C/E line for hours... leaving me to have to get a Lyft to work. For the second time in a week. I’
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Thank you for an extremely detailed answer to a question that I only just realized I’ve been curious about for two decades!
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
This is true, but there's opportunity cost as well: those same first hires would be significantly more likely to make that 500k-3mil over a few years at a FAAMG-type company, anyway.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
This article is basically a laundry list of why any legitimate money and most legitimate developers are and should be extremely wary of blockchain. Lots of buzzwords, big promises, and smoke, no real problems solved or paths to actual profi
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
People’s issue isn’t with Musk trying to help, it’s Musk trying to help as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt. If Elon Musk has reached out quietly to the Thai government and asked what he could do with his resources and connections to help, T
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I’m not talking about the name he used, I’m talking about the content. Insisting that a dev can be a DBA, or a QA person, or any other support role is a great way to have an extremely shitty DBA, or QA person, or support role. It’s the kind
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I had to stop reading at the totem pole part when it became clear the author has no idea what the hell he’s talking about. This is basically weaponized Dunning-Kruger.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I came here to say this, once you're calling a 9+ billion dollar company is 'startup' the word has no meaning.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
A company of significant size will always have cracks that can be fallen through, and accounting and payment systems are often so automatic that no central authority will ever notice unless it’s brought to their attention. Such places usual
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Did you read the part in the article where server racks set up in apartments not designed for the load are starting electrical fires in residential areas? Kind of a weird definition of “not harming anyone”.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
It makes sense from a business perspective; their current core competency is mainly "blazing through VC money at an astounding rate". Uber's only shot at approaching any kind of profitability is from self-driving technology a
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
There was a store in Brooklyn a few years ago called Walk-In Cookbook. They did exactly this, plus if you called or set up a recurring subscription they would deliver the kits to anywhere within a mile or so of the store (which in New York
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Home Chef is by far my favorite of the meal kits I’ve tried (and I’ve tried a lot) in terms of both variety and quality. Fingers crossed this is one of those “keep doing what you’re doing but now with the funds for greater scale and distrib
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I’ve seen occasional store-branded ones at supermarkets in upstate NY, so it looks like the tide is at least starting to shift. I agree with you that it’s surprising it didn’t happen sooner, Blue Apron has been around for years now.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Even leaving aside the other myriad economic benefits of the subway and the fact that your numbers are off even by the standard of fuzzy back-of-the-math envelope (you should consider tourists and commuters who live outside of the city but
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
There’s a bar near an old apartment of mine that started as a steampunk bar but pivoted in to a more generic sci-fi themed nerd bar (though it kept a lot of the original steampunk fixtures). I asked the bartender about it once, and he basic
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Back when I was just graduating from college I picked up a book called "Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software". It was basically written for people who knew how to write code, but not all the stuff
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
There wasn’t really any MMA-style professional western fighting scene before jiu jitsu. Boxing is strikes only, and (traditional, non-WWE) wresting is very close to jiu jitsu in a lot of key ways. MMA as we know it was literally invented by
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I’ve done Krav for years, and while the principles are strong the lack of sparring makes it nearly useless in most real combat situations. For example, we’ll drill kicking someone in the groin repeatedly on pads but ignore the fact that it’
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
“Systema” is Russian aikido dressed up in a bunch of mysticism about how it’s ~so deadly~; there’s no meaningful distinction between the two. Krav is some useful principles crippled by the lack of sparring in most (but by no means all) scho
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Bonnie Frumkin Morales, The chef at Kachcka, released a cookbook recently which is a must-buy for anyone remotely interested in Russian cooking. Everything I’ve made from it has been a gem.
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
The biggest issue I have with Duolingo is that they offer "grammar notes" to explain why specific elements are the way they are... but only on desktop web. In-app, which is the main way that I (and I'd imagine most users) use
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
A coworker of mine once referred to := as the 'Zoidberg operator', and the name has stuck with me since.
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
It mostly just sounds like bog-standard leftbook with an urbanist skin.
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
That’s the case for most American CS masters; the linked one is specifically for people without a bachelor’s in the field and is by far the less common type (though generally the American bachelors is 4 years, and the American masters is 1-
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
This is the case in North Korea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbun ), and it's terrifying to see it spread to other, less-totalitarian states
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
The irony is that Google actually has a separate eng job ladder (Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure) which is designed to reward that kind of work specifically. If he had ladder-transferred (a fairly easy process) and gone up befor
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
From the article it sounds like it happened in the course of a fight that the other guy started; the grand jury may have just viewed it as self-defense.
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
The spec is on github: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/tree/master/spec and the code itself is one level up (github.com/ampproject/amphtml) Here’s the section on guidelines for implementi
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
The AMP spec, as written, allows anyone to host an AMP cache and serve AMP pages. Google’s is the biggest and the one you reach through Google search so people tend to assume it’s the only one, but Cloudflare runs one as well, along with th

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