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by ahupp 7y ago
There's a lot of debate about the electrical utility's (PG&E) responsibility for other fires. But I think this shows that it's really a matter of when, not if, fires will break out. If it's not an electrical wire s
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by ahupp 7y ago
> This seems like Microsoft with IE6 all over again. IE6 gave us XMLHttpRequest because they wanted it to build Outlook for the web. That seems like it turned out ok. In general I think building browser-specific features, seeing what wo
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by ahupp 7y ago
Both of these things can be true: that the top 1% own a large fraction of wealth, and that an even larger fraction is owned by the pensions and retirement plans of the non-wealthy. Wealth comparisons are tricky, e.g they'll show that A
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by ahupp 8y ago
I guess by "theater" you mean that there's no actual purpose to taking your laptop out of the bag other than making people feel better? I have a hard time believing that's true. There's people who spend their who
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by ahupp 8y ago
85% of new spending at netflix is for original content. That's building a huge moat that will be hard for others to cross. I'd personally cancel our Hulu or HBO subscriptions before we touched Netflix.
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by ahupp 8y ago
Which rights do you mean?
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by ahupp 8y ago
IIRC, signature permission means that 3p apps can't request it at all. They have to be signed with the same key as the OS, so practically only your handset manufacturer can use it.
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by ahupp 8y ago
This isn't a 3rd party, it's the server you're communicating with. Just like your own client could do the same.
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by ahupp 8y ago
A lot longer than that. There was a standard calls ANDF in 1989 (architecture neutral distribution format) trying to solve the same problem. I'm curious why it didn't work out, but I imagine part of the problem was that it had t
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by ahupp 8y ago
The VP/DE ratio just reflects how likely it is to have that level of impact. A VP is typically not just "a great manager", they drive the product vision and ensure you're building the right things. A great engineer c
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by ahupp 8y ago
That seems like fine feedback as long as it was coupled with further specific and actionable feedback. e.g, "You yelled at Alice and Bob in the discussion about project X, rather than helping build a consensus about the right solution
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by ahupp 8y ago
assert() is not run in release or optimized builds in any language I'm aware of, while invariant() is in the place I've seen it used. Similar to CHECK() in C++ codebases.
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by ahupp 8y ago
Which part? If you're talking about units sold rather than games made, then sure, the most popular games are often on their own engines. But that's a different measure than "games made". "Unreal Engine 4 uses the
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by ahupp 8y ago
PhysX is used in both the Unity and Unreal engines, representing well over 50% of games made.
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by ahupp 9y ago
They aren't directly comparable given the difference between common and preferred shares.
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by ahupp 9y ago
I think the simplest explanation is that the transport uses a fixed allocation of bandwidth between upstream and downstream flows, and they've chosen an allocation that matches typical workloads. It looks like full-duplex DOCSIS (data
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by ahupp 9y ago
I have never seen anyone define net neutrality as including symmetric bandwidth. I am also skeptical that lack up upload bandwidth has much to do with the lack of success for self-hosted social networks.
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by ahupp 9y ago
I'm at FB and switch between the two pretty regularly. Of course I'd prefer to just use one, but I haven't found this is a problem in practice.
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by ahupp 9y ago
From the page: "Desired End State: hg is a Rust binary that embeds and uses a Python interpreter when appropriate (hg is a Python script today)"
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by ahupp 9y ago
The Swiss system has mandatory private insurance. It's very ACA-like. Drug costs are 10% of health expenditures in the US. Not sure this is a critical issue for controlling costs.
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by ahupp 9y ago
Sure, nobody should setup incentives based on LOC. But in this case it's not about incentives, it just about seeing if something changed. Nobody writing code is going to be rewarded or penalized if this number changes.
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by ahupp 9y ago
> Both of those metrics are incredibly shit ways to measure productivity. LOC or commits are certainly bad ways of comparing two different people, teams, etc. But they are fine ways of measuring whether a specific event at a specific ti
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by ahupp 9y ago
I think it's referring to this: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcin...
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by ahupp 9y ago
[citation needed] I've been at FB for almost a decade and have never seen anything that even remotely looked like what you are describing.
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by ahupp 10y ago
As a general rule, when you find that many people have come up with different solutions to a similar problem it's a good bet that there's actually not a single good solution available. "Facebook couldn’t possibly use somethi
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by ahupp 10y ago
LEDs are significantly more efficient than CFL. Is there something about the spectrum plants needs that requires CFL?
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by ahupp 10y ago
"... the first officer of flight 587, Sten Molin, who was at the controls, overreacted, rapidly and repeatedly moving the widebody jet’s rudder from side to side,... . The vigor of his inputs caused the entire tail to fracture and fall
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by ahupp 10y ago
The RenTech Medallion fund is owned entirely by fund employees. It's not accessible to people who are not able to contribute to its success.
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by ahupp 10y ago
The claim of the book is that you, as a regular investor, do not have access to better-than-market returns, not that they are not possible. Anyone who can provide better returns will claim the difference for themselves (in fees) rather tha
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by ahupp 11y ago
"It depends on whether air quality matters or not. That is a fairly black and white thing" On the contrary, I don't think it could be less of a "black or white thing". It sounds like you're making an argument

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