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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Twitter - ephemeral, too condensed or else a huge thread Blogs - permanent, can explore at depth RSS - Multiple chances to go back and read something if you don't right away
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
I have yet to be in a standup where I felt safe admitting I was blocked. The manager and project manager are there to glare at anyone who isn't "maintaining velocity".
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
We burned through $HUGE_AMOUNT_OF_VC_MONEY before we realized this.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
One advantage of CGI is that the worker process terminates, and all the resources get freed. Not that I recommend CGI for anything but very low usage sites, typically internal ones with a fixed user base.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> Tomorrow we will try to understand our $43,398,207.34 bill for April's AWS usage.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
24 hour urgent care would reduce the load on ERs.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Similar happened to friend a week ago, he sailed right in instead of the hour or more wait he expected. Not giving details, but he turned out to be just fine.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
The man page in the link has further links to source code. Seems like the API is built on top of sockets, which is not a bad idea. I certainly agree that sockets can get tedious.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
He also created Berkeley sockets, which pretty much powers networking today.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
It was also a way for small timers to get into mail order business without an inventory. Of course it meant thin margins, especially if you were getting print ads as well, but some people got it to work.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
I meant, why can Google run now with WFH, but they didn't allow it before. That is, what was the motivation for forbidding WFH?
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
What was the reason GOOG didn't have work from home before March?
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Usually the concept of a limit, which assigns a meaning to 0.999..., isn't studied until calculus. There are approaches to mathematics that avoid infinite constructions, and a "strict finitist" would not assign 0.999... a mea
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
The old saying (hence "men") was "Better a 100 guilty men go free than one innocent man is convicted". One reason unanimity is a long standing principle.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Blender icons are also microscopic on a 1920 x 1080 monitor of usual size. We don't all have astronaut vision.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
"Grandfathered" - any time a preexisting status means newer rules don't apply. Another example, a licensed occupation, requirements made stricter, those already licensed don't need to meet the new requirements. The sinis
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
That book is big enough to visibly distort space-time on its own. I'm impressed that the reader learned the math on his own. And, uh, what's my excuse?
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Not really a full overview but a nice intro that covers much of what is done day to day, maybe most of it for a basic client or straightforward low capacity server: http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
California, for example, is handling the increase in applications without many problems. On the other hand . . . In 2009 recession, I had to call about some issues with unemployment benefits. It was a harrowing process. Like many, I pract
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Sometimes there are ways to guess: "long illness" - cancer, but can be other things "short illness" - heart attack, stroke, pneumonia, for instance "died at home" - polite euphemism for suicide, though can be n
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Or even lose money if they are reducing the value of an asset. Specifically, running their car into the ground doing driving.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Some think it was Chagas disease, contracted while he was in South America during the Beagle's voyage.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Both he and President McKinley had their wounds probed excessively, under not too sanitary conditions. With modern medical procedures, both would have likely survived.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
That is, they use other engines besides Bing. They are not simply repackaging Bing.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
This wasn't noticed for a few years after Win95 was released. The joke was that nobody had ever had a Win95 system stay up for 49 days. Mwah-hah-hah.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
No they use other search engines and have their own web crawler as well.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
http://usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf is the classic. It has some unusual notation you might need to get used to, but it's a real goldmine of ideas.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Pick the lowest resolution, usually 144. The audio quality seems unchanged and the video network bandwidth greatly reduced.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Google has something similar and promotion is tied more to novelty than to keeping the lights on. That tends to promote product churn. Don't forget that Amazon is essentially a retailer, and their a certain amount of customer trust is
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> But people say Does everyone say that? Then you have a problem. Do just a few people say that? Then ignore them, or figure out a way for them to save their data off your site.

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