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The Mature Optimization Handbook(carlos.bueno.org)
2 points by aristus 13y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 13y ago
> Adobe is not one of those companies that just lets you drag a binary into the right place... Photoshop used to work exactly like that, 15-20 years ago. It was actually quite nice when setting up an office full of workstations.
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by aristus 13y ago
You don't know the right people. :) Cash on the street is the way to go but unless you can navigate la vivesa criolla you'll get robbed. I was shooed into the corner because a gringo lookin guy would have killed the deal.
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by aristus 13y ago
Venezuela's official rate has been about 1/5 of the black market rate for many years. I remember my wife shooing me into a corner at the airport while she traded dollars for bolivares with the security guards. The differential has
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by aristus 13y ago
I know, right? If only there was a news organization focused on useful infor... oh .
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by aristus 13y ago
Nah, renaming during a reprovision is fine. You gotta stuff that information somewhere , and it might as well be in the name of the thing. Also remember that a machine / IP address can have as many alternate names as you want in the D
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by aristus 13y ago
First rule of running a farm: don't name your animals. You'll get too emotionally attached when it comes time to put them down. Yes it's funny and cool et cetera. But, and I say this with love and twenty years' experienc
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by aristus 13y ago
All it takes is some bad press. People still joke about the Ford Pinto.
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by aristus 13y ago
Oh, calm down. People said the same crap about "Gen X".
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Unusually Effective Debugging(carlos.bueno.org)
3 points by aristus 13y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 13y ago
The structure of the internet is largely controlled by geography, demography, history, and economics. And, politics: see the cables in the Caribbean, eg Puerto Rico vs Republica Dominica vs Cuba.
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by aristus 13y ago
A blank page at the top of HN. They've certainly got the Hype part nailed. Now where's the Loop?
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by aristus 13y ago
About damned time. Writing your own stats library is like writing your own crypto.
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by aristus 13y ago
Cryptographers understand this fact more than most; what we know of crypto is often rediscoveries of secret stuff, years late, kind of like how open-source "big data" software is a clone of whatever Google was doing 5-10 years ago
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by aristus 13y ago
The designs are less important than the fact they can change every day for a month. I remember having to wait 6+ weeks to get some things changed. The intl properties don't seem to be joining in on the fun, eg http://uk.ya
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by aristus 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at (higher standard of opacity?) but in general, the consensus has been shifting toward open data and more open publishing (eg, ArXiv). But regardless of the level of openness, it's quite poss
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by aristus 13y ago
I think this short-changes the "10X". Many high-functioning people have already figured out how to carve out a better deal from employers. They are supposed to be smart, right? The employee who becomes a consultant for their forme
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by aristus 13y ago
You optimize what you measure, and some things are easier to measure than others, so those tend to get optimized first.
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Accidental Apprenticeships(carlos.bueno.org)
3 points by aristus 13y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 13y ago
Did you know your library name is an adjective?
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by aristus 13y ago
I mean that the basic idea of GeoIP routing, ie that physical location is a good enough proximity for "internet distance" doesn't work, especially at the edges. The fact that the OP isn't hosted in EC2 but in "locations [that] map well to A
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by aristus 13y ago
The intention is good, but GeoIP is laughably wrong. If it worked you wouldn't need Route 53 in the first place. Figure out how to measure real user latency[0] and compare to whatever routing you had before. [0] Hint: http://carlos.bueno.o
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by aristus 13y ago
I'm curious why no one mentions Unimix, memorably described by Roy Blount Jr as "Purina Famine Chow", made and distributed by disaster relief organizations. This stuff has been done before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimix
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by aristus 13y ago
psst: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratellite
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by aristus 13y ago
You might be interested in this paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ldg/a10-stein.p...
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by aristus 13y ago
There's also culture. Among my friends, I have to keep straight whether they expect 0, 1, 2, or 3 kisses on the cheek.
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by aristus 13y ago
Pixelmator1 was nice because it was a bug-for-bug clone of Photoshop 5 (not CS5, v5) including shortcut keys. Pixelmator2 was a step backward, IMO, without adding many new features except stability. If you're going to throw away all your mu
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by aristus 13y ago
This is why Chinese companies buy older American brands. GE and RCA come to mind.
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by aristus 13y ago
"Knowing the argument signature" and "knowing how to implement the guts" are two very different things. I personally don't care if you can remember fine details of the API. We ask many kinds of questions; in the article these are only examp
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by aristus 13y ago
Hi, author here. With respect, I am a mid-career senior engineer too. I trained for a few weeks before interviewing at Facebook because, well, changing jobs is important. There is zero harm spending some time warming up mentally. I recommen

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