andrewvc

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by andrewvc 10y ago
Well, here's my proposal then. Give uber users a 'living wage' option. Where when you use the app you pay at least 1.5x pricing as a floor. The prices for uber around here can't be livable, and no one pays cash.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Not to derail too much but this is the reason people are so overdiagnosed these days. All the criteria are vague, even psychiatrists overdiagnose all the time. Even the guy who chaired the DSM-IV thinks so: http://www.amazon.com&
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Joins in distributed databases all must make some sort of unsavory tradeoff be it speed or space or limiting what you can join. So, while any distributed database can do a join, it may not be fast or flexible enough to be worth it.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
Good luck getting people to truly go all out without supervision in a lab or with a trainer. These studies have been published before and they don't tell us anything about what people will actually do with the information.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
While this may or may not be true hacker news is particularly susceptible to exercise fads with unconventional scientific explanations. I think it'd be easier to convince the readership of HN to lose weight and get fit by eating live m
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by andrewvc 10y ago
A major point of the agile manifesto was that building any software to a waterfall spec results in unhappy users. Even enterprise software is iteratively designed these days (well at good places at least). Games are not special.
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by andrewvc 10y ago
It's the same thing for sports. Even with pain as feedback something happens during sleep that helps you better absorb new lessons. The other thing is that for an athlete learning a new movement pattern they need time to build supporti
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by andrewvc 11y ago
It COULD cost that much. But actually it doesn't. See http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/07/05/137530847/how-m... $78k production $1m in advertising
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by andrewvc 11y ago
FWIW the perf gains of doing large bulks are usually not worth the risk of blowing up your memory usage. Bulks in the hundreds are usually just as efficient as bulks in the thousands (YMMV), and don't cary the additional memory risk.
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by andrewvc 11y ago
Thanks for the thoughtfully considered response :). Regarding security with redis. Did you read the docs here? https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-out... Logstash does support Redis
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by andrewvc 11y ago
Hi all, Logstash developer here. It's always exciting to see new stuff in this space, however, this post has me confused. Maybe the OP can clue me in. I'm a bit confused as the assertion "This worked for a while, but when we
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by andrewvc 11y ago
You're right. It's funny listening to this. They're playing the same song, but it's not even close to as good as the Daft version. The daft version is loud and has a bite. This version just sounds lethargic and boring.
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by andrewvc 11y ago
The problem is that they're not enjoying it (as the article backs up with stats). It's our business as a society if we are failing to educate the next generation to have enjoyable sex. The thesis of the article is that the porn in
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by andrewvc 11y ago
I have no idea what this guy is on about. Chrome is lightning fast for me. Firefox is really fast..... With one tab. With any serious usage ff gets chunky
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by andrewvc 11y ago
What could I build with this that's actually interesting? Who are these people who need tiny crappy plastic objects on demand? I get 3d printing on serious hardware for more complex objects. This kind of stuff just seems like a novely
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by andrewvc 11y ago
This is why clojure is awesome. It's a nice enough language, but where it really shines is that it gives you pretty much every concurrency tool under the sun. You have the entirety of java.util.Concurrent + all the cool clojure tools l
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by andrewvc 11y ago
Can't agree enough here. The core deva act like it isn't a problem. The lack of encapsulation makes reusability impossible
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by andrewvc 11y ago
Maybe. Creating successful online communities has a huge luck element to it. I don't think there's anyone who can reliably create new online communities out of nothing.
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by andrewvc 11y ago
So, you're saying that since there are major issues with the current system the best idea is just to burn it to the ground by electing a reckless maniac? That's just a way to make sure everyone is equally screwed.
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by andrewvc 11y ago
If I had to guess people at the highest level of any profession are more likely to have mental issues. I wouldn't say that looking at the mood of Olympic weight lifters would say a lot about the general population's response to ex
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by andrewvc 11y ago
The idea that there is one "mainstream psychiatry" is somewhat naive. It varies quite a bit from country to country, and the US does it somewhat horribly. Don't take my word for it, the man who chaired the committee for the D
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by andrewvc 11y ago
Yes, but that's comparing mainstream psychiatry to an alternative. Compared to just not doing anything mainstream psych is often bad. See http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/books/greenbergs-book-of-w.
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by andrewvc 11y ago
A starting point http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/books/greenbergs-book-of-w...
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by andrewvc 11y ago
I've lost 2 people I know to suicide in tech. I've known others who've come close. We need to do something about it. What, I don't know, but mainstream psychiatry isn't that effective.
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by andrewvc 11y ago
1000x yes gulp is a nightmare. I too have replaced an extremely complex Gulpfile with a few shell scripts.
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by andrewvc 11y ago
Casting doubt here is pointless and detracts from the discussion. If the bar for discussion on hacker news is the same as for a peer reviewed paper no one will ever be able to say anything of use here.
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by andrewvc 11y ago
It takes an ungodly amount of resources to do not very much. It's very buggy, frequently the HTML charts time out or just break with no indication why. Upgrades require a lot of manual work. The javascript API is reasonably documented,
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by andrewvc 11y ago
If you've ever run tableau server, you know why.
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Logstash 2.2.0 and 2.1.2 – New Pipeline Architecture(elastic.co)
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by andrewvc 11y ago
Cloud datacenters are not complex heterogeneous mixes of components. There's no SAN head. It's one thing multiplied + some networking gear. Even if a top of rack switch fails they're still not going to yank the box yet becaus

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