SpikeGronim

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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Why does continuous deployment help? It helps by pushing many small updates instead of a few large ones. For a large code base with many developers this is a big benefit. To use it you need excellent automated test coverage and a reliable d
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Hey Yuri long time no see. Facebook me if you're ever in Seattle.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I'll share my experience, which may differ from other people's. The largest system that I've worked on was Amazon S3. At the time that I worked there we were doing 100,000+ requests per second (peak), storing 100+ billion objects (aka files
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
You can do that quite cleanly in Python: import commands print commands.getoutput("your system call and args")
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
There's no point in adding however many MB of download for an add-on that so few people use.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
It is good for my mother. She fell 37 Windows Updates behind because she canceled them. Chrome is stable and most UI changes are configurable, what's to argue with? Google's disciplined six week cycle[1] is what makes Chrome get better fast
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Doug Cutting works at Cloudera. Also, this is non-tech media reporting on tech so if they are even sort-of correct then good for them.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
The difference is that I notice when Windows updates, and I don't notice each time that Chrome updates.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
If your backup provider elects to delete your data due to an obscure ToS clause then it is their fault for sure. The article does not say anything new about cloud providers - you have to trust their competence. But this is a critical failur
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
They are really deprecating whitelisted REST apps in favor of their streaming API. The streaming API is WAY better, especially for time sensitive apps.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I do not trust comscore's numbers at all. They rely on opt-in sampling of user data. There is obvious selection bias there. Large companies will never allow such tracking software, so anybody browsing from work will never be counted. There
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Wavii is hiring in Seattle, WA. We need frontend developers to work on a rapidly iterating consumer facing website. We are also hiring backend developers interested in natural language processing and the infrastructure needed to support lar
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I doubt that YC has $15 billion in opportunities every year. They also focus on using their expertise and networks to help their startups, so having 1,000 YC startups wouldn't work.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
It's nasty when the ISP returns an A record for an advertising filled spam page instead of NXDOMAIN.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I always put my keys in the same place. Very simple. Works.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I think that's a bad example. AFAIK you can't legitimately buy Viagra online, so what results should Google be returning? Where are the awesome web pages about Viagra that you want to see? They don't exist, so the query comes back with spam
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
That's very much a risk for Quora. But if they're still showing me my friends' activity that could ameliorate the problem. My friends are still going to be asking/answering questions that I am likely to be interested in.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
(concentric elite growth strategy || answers filtered by my friends) + email notifications == win Quora has so many respected tech industry people using it that I want to use it. That's similar to how Facebook was first Harvard only, then I
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
This article just covers the downsides of selling equity to raise money. Obviously there's an upside - having money in the bank with which to grow your business. Some projects need a team of people and that costs.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Nope. From what I've heard it is standard practice for later rounds to dilute the investors from previous rounds.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Parsing speed depends on the markup. One example is text layout, which is O(N) in the size of the text area. So 1 MB of text might be a lot slower to parse than 1 MB of no-op tags.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Any of the The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. You can start with the first, "Consider Phlebas". They're space opera with a lot of dark wit.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
You're right and I would prefer to link. It comes up in The Economist from time to time. I can't find the links right now.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Thanks for the citation. That same article says that "at least one study has found that it's possible to teach these visuospatial skills." I can interpret the result "males in the study did better at mental rotation tasks" to mean "males br
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
To me, it's not interesting at all to ask who can write a 100-1,000 line program faster in which language. The real interesting question is how efficient developers are once you're talking about a 100,000 - 1,000,000 line program that has b
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
The citation was [1]. It is typical for women that attend open source conferences. That really sucks, for everybody involved. 1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/there-sexual-hara...
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
You are being sexist - you're overgeneralizing from one example (your girlfriend). I didn't mean to insult you. I did mean to say that the aggregate behavior of many men has discouraged many women from participating in CS. That's not dising
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Yes, I have a citation[1]. I've also got anecdotal evidence from studying computer science at Stuyvesant High School and Carnegie Mellon University. To be clear, I didn't mean that programmers everywhere disrespect and harass women. I meant
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Several studies have reproduced a correlation between diversity and organizational success. I don't know of such a study for programmers specifically. I also haven't seen proof of causality - do better organizations have diverse hiring prac
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
How many times were you groped by a peer while learning to program? When you were in high school and first learning to code, did you have peers whose presence inspired all the women to leave the room because of their obnoxious behavior? The

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