algeoMA

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by algeoMA 6y ago
You can get a small cluster from Digital Ocean pretty cheaply. It's more than $5 (I forget the exact price) but they'll provide a free master node and then you just pay for one additional kubelet (and you can add more as you need
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by algeoMA 6y ago
I won't reconstruct the reply I wrote to someone else but I agree hackathons are not a silver bullet (and I probably misused the term). Solving the tech debt problem is a whole other can of worms.
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by algeoMA 6y ago
I don't think hackathons are always a gimmick, but then again I was probably too loose with my word choice. I mostly meant a period of sustained cooperation with a small group where most of the time is spent together, all meetings are
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by algeoMA 6y ago
The benefit of the tiny tasks model is that you don't build stuff people don't care about. Features/bugs exist in a survival of the fittest world and the lowest priority ones never get built/fixed. This was one of the bi
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by algeoMA 6y ago
The ebird app is handy. You can use it to get a crowdsourced rarity estimate on an unidentified bird when you're in the field - handy when you're trying to decide between two species (the more common one is a safer bet).
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by algeoMA 6y ago
Still, you must concede that the parade of "rusty muffler" arguments are a silly compared to a legitimate housing crisis. Not everything our neighbors/family/friends do makes us happy. And hey, they might have a rusty mu
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by algeoMA 6y ago
Declaring that low-income people won't obey noise ordinances is extremely classist in my view. Yes, tell residents before they move in that the area has strict noise ordinances, and then hand out tickets for violators. But don't b
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by algeoMA 6y ago
It's more the sneering, condescending tone of the comment that I thought was jaw-dropping. Sure, noise ordinances are reasonable. But labeling poor people as loud - and thus undesirable - is not okay. I can't believe I even had to
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by algeoMA 6y ago
From the article: "“Low-income people tend to own cars that are in disrepair and ride motorcycles adding to the noise of a ‘lights out at 8 p.m. community,’” Marylyn Rinaldi, a neighboring condominium owner, wrote in 2011 in a letter t
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by algeoMA 7y ago
I also hope this happens. It would be interesting too, if it was bidirectional (services paying you to use them. Payment for your data, essentially).