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by aorloff 9y ago
The best interviewers have 1 big thing in common : they are the actual team the candidate will be working with.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Agree entirely. Free throws are a different matter than in-game shots.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Fantastic. If someone can figure out a better way to implement the constantly dug up and paved infrastructure, early childhood education, and basic services of the modern economy (electricity, internet, water, sewer and maybe gas) that wou
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by aorloff 9y ago
Bingo !
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by aorloff 9y ago
The cost of housing cannot go below the cost of servicing the debt required to construct the housing, otherwise that capital will flow elsewhere to find returns and no housing will be built. Realistic solutions will focus on ways to lower
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by aorloff 9y ago
Just makes it cheaper to get started and automate. But compared to setting up a server and running something on it, modern cloud platforms are about as complex IMO (to do right at least).
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by aorloff 9y ago
I would be hella surprised if the $86M solution was better than what this guy would make given $8.6M. So there's not a lot to debate around the overrun costs of government purchasing. Plenty of ethics to debate, but when it comes down
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by aorloff 9y ago
A door to your office that closes. Not exactly a $19B moat IMO.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Aerospike for low-latency small row sizes, HBase for everything else.
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by aorloff 9y ago
I'm not suggesting that literally, I'm saying that's what the overall system does. Someone will gamble their time on beating powerful established businesses, and they will figure out some efficiency to win by. Some of the fa
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by aorloff 9y ago
> At this point, there will be a genuine question: why do we need to work to benefit from the goods of these industries? For the same reason you can't look over to your neighbor's driveway and say, since he doesn't use his
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by aorloff 9y ago
15 years ago all the software jobs I worked at were retiring clerical workers with software (oh you have 15 people doing spreadsheets ? We can automate that and you won't need them for the same report generation). So this has been goi
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by aorloff 9y ago
You might have picked M&M peanuts randomly, but sugar is a big part of the creeping force of civilization, and hard to fathom its impact on you until you take a break from it for several months.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Things that are natural : all galaxies, including ours.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Actually, only since August 15, 1971 here in the USA. Not "always."
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by aorloff 9y ago
Not if laws weren't broken with the meddling. Buying ads and making fake news sites isn't necessarily illegal, and we shouldn't expect FB to police something that's not illegal.
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by aorloff 9y ago
And really, who isn't looking to raise at a $6B valuation that hasn't released a product yet ?
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by aorloff 9y ago
I believe for this to be a 1031 you would need a qualified intermediary to handle the USD portion. Once you touch the funds, you've broken the exchange.
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by aorloff 9y ago
I am surprised by this - h2o.ai seems to have many if not all of the features of this, and is open source. "Specifically, there were no systems in place to build reliable, uniform, and reproducible pipelines for creating and managing t
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by aorloff 9y ago
CHECK CONSTRAINTS
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by aorloff 9y ago
I'm a host and send people back through Airbnb anyway. The fees they charge are minor compared to the insurance and ease of use. Plus you want the reviews from those repeat customers.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Plenty of investors do that - they are called hard-money lenders. And it was such a great business its given rise to LendingHome and others in that space.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Rather than coming up with a set of emotional safeguards to deal with poor engineering management, why not just find a better manager ?
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by aorloff 9y ago
Three things I try to find out in a manager / director level interview : 1. What is the process for reviewing, committing, merging and deploying code ? How are technical designs vetted before starting development on large projects ?
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by aorloff 9y ago
I think the problem is the notion of "cups." When I make 8 cups in my automatic, I drink about 4 cups - our mug size is about 2 "cups."
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by aorloff 9y ago
This seems like such an obvious use for robots, and given the explosion of robots in delivery and other fields now, I'm curious if anyone has tried it ? Why can't battery powered robots, with sleds, controlled from base camp, cle
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by aorloff 9y ago
Aerospike should be considered if you need low latency and have relatively small row sizes
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by aorloff 9y ago
> Do we need another search engine ? A valid question even when Google came to the fore. We had Yahoo, HotBot, Altavista, and then Google came along. And while the others were search engines, Google was superior. Will people switch to
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by aorloff 10y ago
Exactly. What they should do is have the status system be independent of AWS so it can report issues regardless of AWS service status.
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by aorloff 10y ago
What's missing is addressing the problems with their status page system, and how we all had to use Hacker News and other sources to confirm that US East was borked.

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