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12901.
by api 11y ago
It's gotten better since the 90s. There are more people in sales with some dev background and therefore at least a bit of a clue.
12902.
by api 11y ago
I still don't understand why anyone thinks tablets are "the future" for anything other than passive consumption of content. Convertible tablets like Microsoft Surface don't count -- those are laptops with detachable keyb
12903.
by api 11y ago
If you want a DO competitor check out vultr.com -- I've used them for years and been quite impressed. They seem at least as good if not better and they have some very interesting features like turn-key BGP and AnyCast hosting. I have n
12904.
by api 11y ago
This makes tremendous sense on all kinds of levels. As long as you have a stem cell population, eliminating senescent cells will trigger their replacement. When you think about it, reproduction and the birth of a new human being is an extre
12905.
by api 11y ago
Only petro-states and places with little economy to speak of as far as I know. Net debt equals net savings, so the vast majority of developed economies run deficits because somebody has to soak up the surplus they create. But Venezuela was
12906.
by api 11y ago
"Why not? The answer is that Chávez turned the state-owned oil company from being professionally run to being barely run. People who knew what they were doing were replaced with people who were loyal to the regime, and profits came out
12907.
by api 11y ago
Ahh... that's too bad. Their (and our) loss.
12908.
by api 11y ago
No idea, but it was and in some ways still is superior.
12909.
by api 11y ago
OpenVZ is very unfairly left out of this history. It gave Linux Solaris-style containers in the mid-2000s, is still used in production in many ISPs and private clouds, and is still security-wise superior to cgroups, LXC, and Docker. Its sec
12910.
by api 11y ago
I just see a lot of... well... the post's title was honest and accurate. I see a lot of "scene" navel gazing the strikes me as just bizarre and defocusing. If I were in the Valley I'd worry that the "scene" wou
12911.
by api 11y ago
Agreed but I doubt we are anywhere close to this. The majority of the world's critical transportation infrastructure is oil powered and the sunk cost is massive. Electric vehicles are only a blip. Oil has decades left as the "rate
12912.
by api 11y ago
"Founders put a lot of weight in Shark Tank, and invest too much in getting there and performing." I'm not in Silicon Valley and when I see things like this I wonder if that's a good thing. The fact that any of the thing
12913.
by api 11y ago
Intergalactic travel or communication is exponentially harder than interstellar.
12914.
by api 11y ago
Bottom line is we only have one example. We simply do not know. For all we know the frequency could be less than one per galaxy per billion years, in which case we are likely alone.
12915.
by api 11y ago
Turn San Jose into a mega city and build good transit and let SF be the culture center it is.
12916.
by api 11y ago
The fix was to (1) take steps to make sure the image was entirely pre-loaded into RAM before the test was given, and (2) randomize the latency of the load. That worked and I actually got some real results, which unfortunately were decent bu
12917.
by api 11y ago
I think it's been too long. I don't even have the exact code anymore. One of my faves was a GA that evolved circuits on FPGAs that would evolve wonderful, sometimes almost magical results... that only worked on the exact FPGA t
12918.
by api 11y ago
The hard thing here is reinforcing the right thing. I did a bunch of work on genetic programming and RL and it worked... uhh... too well. Once it succeeded in learning, near as I could tell, my hard disk geometry. There was a subtle timing
12919.
by api 11y ago
That's beautiful. Thanks.
12920.
by api 11y ago
I was personally told this once, and I also extrapolate it a bit from insight into the differences that often exist between actual and stated beliefs and how the latter serve more for social signaling. I generally find literalist interpreta
12921.
by api 11y ago
I write a lot of C and C++. Considered Java for a recent Web api backend project but went with node in the end due to the richness of available libraries, somewhat quicker development for simpler things, and lower cognitive load from same l
12922.
by api 11y ago
For some it's a "protest belief." Few really believe Apollo was a hoax, but many more say so as a way of saying f u to the near cancellation of the space program and the general direction away from visionary things the countr
12923.
by api 11y ago
There's a happy medium somewhere between the wasteland of legacy "enterprise" jobs (.NET 2.0 and such) and the nutzo SF/SV orbit. I live in Southern California (LA/OC). It's not cheap by any measure but it&#x27
12924.
by api 11y ago
China is facing a demographic cliff similar to what happened to Japan after the 80s boom. India and Africa could experience growth for a while but they have major problems, chief among them very deep structural corruption at all levels of s
12925.
by api 11y ago
I was being a bit hyperbolic but I think the level of anger is nearly there, yes. For all but the highest skill brackets of the workforce, real wages have fallen since around 1970 while everything else (food, energy, real estate, tuition, h
12926.
by api 11y ago
"Zero-bound" means "at or near zero." Inflation is easy to kill in today's world: just raise interest rates a little tiny bit for a short period of time and the deflationary downdraft will snuff any little inflati
12927.
by api 11y ago
If by "small minority" you mean "blue collar working class" then yes. These are the losers of globalization and they are seething with rage and would vote for Hitler if it would bring back jobs.
12928.
by api 11y ago
Tangent but: I doubt the rate raise will stick. They'll probably have to cut it again. I see a "planet Japan" scenario in which global central banks are zero-bound for decades, if not "forever". Rapid growth is over
12929.
by api 11y ago
Fairly accurate but missing the is it a bubble is it not a bubble merry go round.
12930.
by api 11y ago
I'd change it to "if you depend on third party services, be sure to architect things so that you could migrate if you have to."

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