andrewvc

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by andrewvc 8y ago
As an ergonomic nut I have to recommend the kinesis edge gaming keyboard. Most mech keyboards are just fancy design plus mech keys. The kinesis lets you find the best horizontal distance apart and change their tilt from center. It's no
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by andrewvc 8y ago
It's a nice gesture, but it's a perverse incentive. These retail jobs need to pay a living wage. The philosophy that these jobs are stepping stones, not destinations, is clearly false. This perspective lets Walmart justify perpetu
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by andrewvc 8y ago
It's still the case! At the end of the day, the person making the call is a hiring manager. It's pretty hard for a hiring manager to be called out as too selective. However, if you let in a few bad apples then you look really bad.
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by andrewvc 8y ago
If you go to an Ivy, everything you wrote is incredibly true. Going to any Ivy or other elite (or even semi-elite) school is a HUGE benefit if for no reason other than networking. As you move down the scale that becomes less and less true.
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by andrewvc 8y ago
A lot of these problems would go away if we made student loan debt dischargeable in bankruptcy. We've created a system that reaps huge profits in encouraging people to go to school, regardless if that's the right place for them. I
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by andrewvc 8y ago
College is probably a great thing for some people, but it's been oversold. It's not the destination, it's just one way of getting there. One reason why it's so easy to sell, is that college is a near universal experience
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by andrewvc 8y ago
The problems listed were with the interaction model. There's nothing I've seen in GitLab's UX that would indicate it's any better.
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Have you seen https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... ? Elasticsearch does take into account disk usage when balancing shards. Perhaps you haven't yet hit the (configurable)
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by andrewvc 9y ago
I just don't get it. How can you make a tool for the pro market with no thoughts about price/performance or upgradeability? Apple seems to think that deviating from their consumer oriented design philosophy is anathema, even when
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by andrewvc 9y ago
The other problem is that 401ks let you do dumb stuff pensions don't. Dumb stuff like pulling most of your funds in the 2008 crisis and holding it in cash to miss out on the rebound. Or investing in borderline scam products like variab
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Neural Coding(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by andrewvc 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 9y ago
If you're a successful working programmer you shouldn't need to study to pass your next interview only to forget it all again after a couple more years on the job. That is why these tests are bogus. If they measured useful skills
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by andrewvc 9y ago
This sort of attitude is why tech has a reputation as a privileged boys club. These qualities may have helped in the early days but he also applied them internally and to great negative effect. How you can conveniently ignore that is beyond
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by andrewvc 9y ago
This is a great example of how not to interact with customers. Telling a customer who's been waiting on a feature for over a year to relax is just insulting. I picked Fastmail due to their excellent support reputation, you all could le
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Why should GM invest in new cars as opposed to returning capital to investors who can perhaps allocate it more efficiently? Why should I believe they can do a better job than anyone else? This is a long-standing debate over who should alloc
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by andrewvc 9y ago
The whole reason companies go public is to raise capital. Without buybacks and dividends as at least potential future possibilities this would be hampered. Additionally, companies guarding mountains of cash is problematic. Sometimes compani
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Nearly all wild fish have worms https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/d755kx/almost-every-... Not really a surprise. Before sanitation massive quantities of people had them too. Parasites are still a proble
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Yes but then you need to support a whole additional piece of infrastructure and you have to write and support more code. For a lot of use cases that's a waste of time and money. This is a case of YAGNI for the use cases I mentioned.
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by andrewvc 9y ago
I would argue that is not a pragmatic approach. The article makes a good point about the huge benefits of this approach for relatively small workloads. Transactional guarantees are hugely useful! Being able to rollback something like a user
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by andrewvc 9y ago
The UPS store will notarize stuff for like $10-20 bucks FYI.
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by andrewvc 9y ago
These were called insulae[1]. Part of the reason the lower floors were higher prestige was due to the constant risk of fire. In the event of a fire those on the upper floors were in a far worse position in terms of survival. 1. https:&#x2F
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Elastic cloud doesn't require any more management than AWS. You just need to click some buttons to add capacity https://www.elastic.co/cloud
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Oh, this old chestnut. It keeps coming around again and again and again. Instead of complaining about this thing point by point I'll just ask a question. Has anyone taken this self-serious pseudo-quantified thing and tried to actually
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by andrewvc 9y ago
While I love travis for what it is, this is a foreseeable result here. At the very least they need to add a failsafe that checks all outgoing logs for any secure tokens and replaces them with ' *' or something. If you sign up to
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Well, I work full remotely at a good size company (Elastic) and it works great for us.Our entire company is fully remote. The secret is that you need to be fully committed to remote. If you do this you force yourself to actually find workfl
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Is This How Discrimination Ends?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by andrewvc 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 9y ago
I think there are plenty more people who would lose all their u2f keys than be attacked via the phone company. Sure, that's easy for you to manage, but not for most people.
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by andrewvc 9y ago
The big problem that SMS solves that nothing else does is that you can be completely irresponsible/unlucky and it still works. You can lose your u2f key , lose any one time backup codes on paper, and so long as you can convince your ph
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by andrewvc 9y ago
We are hiring across a wide number of roles here at Elastic, makers of Elasticsearch, Logstash (what I work on), Beats, and more: http://grnh.se/v38rcs1 . We are a 100% remote company, with a lot of flexibility, and a very
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by andrewvc 9y ago
I just signed up for Nautilus prime after reading this. http://shop.nautil.us

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