andrewvc

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by andrewvc 9y ago
You never really learn a language, and you never really are an expert in using it. While you may know a lot about what the language is, how it works, and accepted ways of using it, your opinions on how to do things will always be evolving (
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Well it's not as if people who don't go to college sit about twiddling their thumbs. Additionally there's an argument to be made that people who don't spend those years having their life structured and defined by a unive
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Well it's not as if people who don't go to college sit about twiddling their thumbs. There's an argument to be made that people who don't spend those years having their life structured and defined by a university learn o
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by andrewvc 9y ago
That's totally confirmation bias. Smart people are more likely to go to college. Almost everyone becomes wiser between the ages of 18 to 22. Why are you so sure that college is causative here? I don't doubt that college is where m
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by andrewvc 9y ago
Well, in your article you mentioned that you tried to use Cassandra for one task and had to jettison it because of unexpected performance problems. You had to re-approach the problem with a whole other DB. I would say contradicts the point
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by andrewvc 9y ago
I agree that machines go down, but there are sane (and safe!) ways to build this sort of thing without adding in cassandra and Redis. Additionally, the max placement rate of 333/s is reaaaaally slow! Maybe that's due to the websoc
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Holder may do a great job but even the appearance of impropriety must be avoided in these cases. Holder should have declined; Uber should have found someone else.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
These sorts of comments are (no offense) worse than useless. Benchmarking is one of the most difficult things to do in software, and anecdotes like this just make things confusing for new engineers and feed the perpetual hype train around n
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Why weren't the risks better known before? I'm sorry, but the truth here is that DuPont knew for decades and hid those results from the public. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-06/du
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by andrewvc 10y ago
And the EO has an exception for 'religious minorities', which are (surprise) never muslim in majority muslim countries.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
As a former customer (it has admittedly been a few years) I'm not surprised. Sendgrid's entire business is based on price. Emails are one of the few costs that don't really scale that well. They cost a lot more than people th
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by andrewvc 10y ago
This may be true, but it's really a bad thing for ergonomics. While changing your position is vital, you still need a real work area. Having a proper adjustable height desk + large monitor + ergonomic seating is a good idea. Whether t
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by andrewvc 10y ago
I haven't used many of the new AWS services. Someone tell me, what's the quality level? I'll be surprised if all the new AWS stuff works that well given how divided their focus must be now.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
FWIW I found biking terribly aggravating for RSI. It really is not an ergonomic position. I'd recommend nearly anything other than biking. Swimming, weight lifting, basketball, etc. Anything where you aren't still sitting.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Read this: http://observer.com/2016/09/colin-powell-is-right-birtherism...
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Oh please. There's been 8 years of racist conservative commentary about Obama. Trump was leading the racist 'birther' movement charge. Don't act like its a double standard.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
I loved weightlifting, but you're right. Currently recovering from a nasty back injury despite doing all the right things, and having a dedicated trainer. You'll never do it all correctly every single time. I'd love to do it
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by andrewvc 10y ago
I'm not a customer, but seriously, you could at least apologize for disrupting customer's service. The tone of this message is pretty terrible.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Well if you're using Heroku you already have that man in the middle via their routing layer
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Well, our (buy side) realtor really did earn his money helping us. We were first-time home buyers and he did a great job helping us understand what buying an old house in our neighborhood would be like, as well as vetting the mechanicals of
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by andrewvc 10y ago
I can't speak for go specifically but in some languages you can use a manually allocated subset of the language to write the gc.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
You're adding complexity to a situation that doesn't need it, and masking some serious social problems here with what can only be described as FUD. There is no way a man going undercover in North Korea would ever get his work labe
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by andrewvc 10y ago
As the author mentions AWS Elasticsearch does lag behind in versions. They still only support 1.5.2[1] which is over a year old at this point and is missing a lot of performance optimizations and operational improvements. Elastic (the compa
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Christ, I can't seriously believe this argument. As I understand it, the author believes that employees who have earned their options but can't afford to exercise them are a problem? Such arrogance, A16Z should really have thought
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Extrajudicial mob justice is killing someone who you think is a murderer. Firing someone because of their behavior does not require a court of law (though they can challenge it in court). Banning someone from a community function does not r
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by andrewvc 10y ago
If someone repeatedly raped and made inappropriate sexual comments about your family members banning them from family events would be considered about the mildest thing you could do. This guy should be in prison for rape. But even disregard
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Well Ashton kutcher has been investing in startups for years now. If that's your metric we should have been in a bubble years ago.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
I'd go a bit further than 'crackpot' in describing someone who literally gave Malaria to people with AIDS on purpose.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Maybe I am an outlier, maybe not. That would need to be quantified. I don't think I'm an outlier. I think there's a wide range of skill sets across the percentiles in the non-CS set. Maybe those %s are different than in the C
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by andrewvc 10y ago
What a load of crap. What, they bred the capacity for abstract thought into you in college? College attracts a generally higher quality applicant pool. You're mistaking selection bias for an effect. Let me tell you, I've interview

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