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An Infinite Fleet of Plumbers(medium.com)
7 points by allengeorge 8y ago|0 comments
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by allengeorge 8y ago
* in the most superficial way possible. I mean, the reason why people don’t work at banks is because: - tech is still seen a cost center - processes for change are onerous - heavy focus on maintenance - teams have non-uniform quality - poli
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by allengeorge 8y ago
It’s a negotiating tactic.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
It’s not ironic if one understands that his larger motivation is to “privatize the profits and socialize the costs” as opposed to a coherent worldview about the role of government in providing services.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
There was a book [1] written about the myth that there are ethical consumers. Basically, no matter what people _say_ convenience, cost and other factors win out on the whole. I heard about the book in a recent Planet Money episode [2]. [1]
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Laws mean nothing unless they’re enforced. And, people have a reasonable expectation - and confidence - via anecdotes and lived experience, that you won’t be pressured via informal means to take actions prohibited by law.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
A couple of things are unclear from the article (for NYC specifically, and, more generally): 1. Does NYC still lose people after accounting for the effects of international migrant inflows? 2. What are the education levels of the people lea
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by allengeorge 8y ago
New York made New York appealing to Amazon. Snark aside, it’s unlikely one can link Amazon’s decision to a single factor. New York being what it has has a large number of assets in its favor: a huge, mobile workforce, strong business commun
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by allengeorge 8y ago
People use sbt for Java? Thats’s...surprising. Most shops I know use one of maven or gradle. I can’t think of any other serious contenders in Java (if you still use ant: please consider alternatives).
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by allengeorge 8y ago
We’ve had a poor experience with Cloudwatch for logs. The UX is poor and queries over large data sets take forever. So much so that I’m sure we’re ‘using it wrong’. What have others’ experiences been like?
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Agreed. This was incredibly light on the details, and the only thing we learn is that they use nom and Cap’n Proto. I’d really like to know how they did their network code, and what their experiences with nom were like.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
The first half of the blog post talks about where they use Rust. They state that most of their system is written in Go, and they like it a lot, and they use Rust to complement it.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
They must have automated enough, or shifted enough work to contractors that this is now materially not a big deal.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
It was pretty clear to me on reading the RedisLabs page that Redis itself would be BSD licensed. And, FWIW, I totally sympathize with the motivations behind their decision. I suspect we'll see variations of this in a variety of project
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by allengeorge 8y ago
I can’t speak to their “smart” aspirations, but...it’s surprising to me that the author lauds the Echo. Sounds like that speaker is far more demanding to manufacture, which...isn’t necessarily a good thing.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
No. I said that it removed avenues for Chinese steel. Chinese steel is imported directly to the US too. It accounts for 2% of US imports. Please read above referenced documents.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Because the US applying tariffs has removed avenues for Chinese steel entering the US. That steel can be diverted to other markets (for example, Europe or Canada) and thus flood those markets as well, crashing the price there. There is no m
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by allengeorge 8y ago
What is the basis for this assertion? By far the largest source of Canadian steel imports is the US (55%). China accounts for only 10% of Canadian steel imports. Even if all the Chinese steel Canada imported (0.8 million metric tons) flow
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Bank of America claims Firefox is an “unsupported browser”, so, yeah :/
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by allengeorge 8y ago
So much swearing to make three points: 1. What's in practice conflicts with what the standard prescribes 2. The reason it conflicts is because the standard is misguided and everyone knows that; for reliable code-generation you have to
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Anecdotally I've found Github much cleaner-looking, much faster and more usable than Gitlab. Github was never opensource, and I think people used it for all of the above. I'd be surprised if the recent acquisition changes that.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Looks like what I’d imagine the mechanical hounds in Fahrenheit 451.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
In Toronto highly-trained cops are leaving because salaries in the exurbs are comparable and afford a higher standard of living (because you’re not forking as much over for housing). This is a loss for the city because training is expensive
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Danish submarine inventor given life sentence for murder of journalist Kim Wall(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by allengeorge 8y ago|0 comments
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Sounds like living in the GTA
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by allengeorge 8y ago
I think the author is making an implicit and questionable assumption: namely that the top end of the S curve doesn’t dip back down again. But that’s not true. Standards change, use cases change, operating systems change, and unless there’s
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Ah. You've not lived the experience that's Toronto transit: 1. Eglinton Crosstown started in the 1990s. They started boring, and when Mike Harris became premier he cancelled the project, so they filled in the existing tunnel. 2. S
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by allengeorge 8y ago
BoA still claims I'm using an "unsupported browser" when I use Firefox. Very annoying, because AFAICT everything works perfectly.
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Parsing with `nom` seems like a pretty aggressive introduction to Rust :)
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by allengeorge 8y ago
Given this massive list of falsehoods I have to ask: what can programmers believe about CSVs? How do you go about writing a good CSV parser given that you can't assume anything about your input data? Are there examples of safe, robus

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