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by allochthon 8y ago
One thing I ran into recently: a signup form that did not allow pasting a password (one generated by my password manager). It was very annoying to have to type it in manually.
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by allochthon 8y ago
I'm working on this problem myself [0]. The app allows you to map out topics of interest as though making a mind map, building out subtopics that are as specific as needed to really become acquainted with an area of knowledge. And lat
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by allochthon 8y ago
I'm using k8s for a side project on Digital Ocean. I'm familiar with k8s, and deployment and maintenance are easy. The only devops I've gotten into so far is setting up DNS for the external load balancer. I think people a
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by allochthon 8y ago
Interestingly, the article linked here argues that monorepos are good at small scale (e.g., startups) and multi-repos are good at large scale (e.g., Twitter). The author does not discuss the fact that Google has used a monorepo. (Not sure
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by allochthon 8y ago
PG has recursive common table expressions, which allow you to traverse a tree or graph represented as an adjacency list in a single query. (No doubt there are other important things that graph DBs do.)
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by allochthon 8y ago
> In general, compared to more typical solutions, you have more expensive ... query costs Not to detract from your general point, but curious whether you looked at Dgraph in your analysis. It's quite fast and was built for speed.
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by allochthon 8y ago
Earlier today I simply visited the early access page for Robinhood, and this evening I got an invitation to join it, without having submitted my email address. Presumably it was a blanket spam mailing? Kinda scary.
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by allochthon 8y ago
In this instance, this observation is equivalent to saying that some of the false reviews that people complain about sound like someone's genuinely expressed opinion.
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by allochthon 8y ago
I can't relate to the negativity I see here. I like Yelp quite a lot. There have been a number occasions where I've found an excellent local restaurant that I wouldn't have otherwise found. Admittedly, you have to know what
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by allochthon 8y ago
See: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/buffalo (verb) https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dog (verb) "buffalo" is almost never used as a verb in everyday speech.
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by allochthon 8y ago
I think part of the challenge is fostering a culture in which people are discouraged from taking credit for other people's work; e.g., doing so is seen by most as being tacky and tasteless. That is a different culture from one that pr
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by allochthon 8y ago
The author of the survey should have allowed "don't know" as an answer. I didn't finish the survey because I didn't want to choose responses I knew probably weren't the right ones. If there are others like me
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by allochthon 8y ago
To restate the question that was raised below and then downvoted, I'm curious what the business model and business strategy are with these funds. The press release gives us a sense of the benefit to consumers; what is the flipside?
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by allochthon 8y ago
It's really cool to see present-day artifacts as someone 400 years from now might see them. "Flippo disk." "Mobile telephone."
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by allochthon 8y ago
YAML is not 100 percent awesome, but it's machine consumable, not too hard to edit by hand, and preferable (in my opinion) to a plethora of application specific DSLs with different requirements for curly braces, semicolons and assignme
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by allochthon 8y ago
Looks like you have to have a Web site up and running to be invited to the preview.
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by allochthon 9y ago
I have this problem a lot as well. There was someone with my name with a Bank of America account that regularly bounced checks, and BoA provided no way to disassociate my email address from the account. These days I'll flag any email
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by allochthon 9y ago
Good luck with your book. I worked as a software developer for 6-7 years in San Francisco and Emeryville, CA, and never became aware of or suspected widespread drug/stimulant use apart from coffee (a beloved thing in my view). Alcohol
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by allochthon 9y ago
Wrapping my head around Elm took a little while. I was enjoying my progress until I attempted to abstract out some view render code into a separate module. I fought with the type system for a long time and had difficulty getting beyond an
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by allochthon 10y ago
I wouldn't contemplate it, except that I'm looking at migrating a Rails/Postgrep app to GKE, and containerizing PG seems like the lowest-friction path. Are there better alternatives for getting to GKE, or is GKE a bad fit fo
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by allochthon 10y ago
> This article is a great example where in using docker for the first time they chose to attempt to run the state layer(database) in a container. One question I've had as I evaluate moving a Rails/Postgres app to GKE is whether
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by allochthon 11y ago
I am now 40. Reading this article, I felt like an anthropologist observing an alien civilization. So many questions.
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by allochthon 11y ago
People should take a look at vixra.org for distributing PDFs if they don't want to go through the filters at arxiv.org and similar places. At vixra.org, the person downloading the paper does not need to give any auth permissions and lo
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by allochthon 11y ago
Those emojis, including the taco, will be there for generation after generation of people to ponder and behold. The taco seems like a pretty transient thing to put into something as important as unicode.
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by allochthon 11y ago
> "I started getting requests from users wanting niche data,” says Brewer. “For example, I was being asked if I could put together a list of sites in Australia using a CDN or that were using Magento for their ecommerce stores. Every
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by allochthon 11y ago
Why are bad management experiences the norm? There's a good reason for the desire for flat structures. My question is whether they can be made to work; I think they can.
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by allochthon 11y ago
For any who might be swayed by the argument that companies are forced into heavyweight performance review processes in order to protect themselves from the threat of litigation, I'll just add this countervailing consideration: there ar
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by allochthon 11y ago
Yes, indeed. "Agile" can have its share of manufactured crises, too.
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by allochthon 11y ago
> As an employer however, we've found it hard to always keep our developers ... executing on time. There's something off about this -- it has the whiff of micromanagement or waterfall; perhaps I'm misreading your point. F
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by allochthon 11y ago
American here, and I can relate to your comments somewhat. Your summary captures a lot of what I dislike about the business side of business in the US.

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