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by atomic77 9y ago
This being HN, I should point out that getting goalies to play can be such a problem that there is even an "Uber for goalies" app in Canada: https://www.puckapp.ca/
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by atomic77 9y ago
It's fun to think of a goalie in hockey as equivalent to the database in a classic web architecture. How many of us that built apps in the 2000s actually had a codified plan of what would happen in the event our hot standby also failed
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by atomic77 9y ago
In a case like that I wonder if they did it partly for fun - they easily could have played the last 8 seconds with an empty net.
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by atomic77 9y ago
The hockey goalie is an interesting role because it is a very specialized skill relative to the other players, and typically done by the same person for most of a season, with a backup that plays maybe 10-25% of games. I think the closest t
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by atomic77 9y ago
They had to failover to a warm standby only minutes after their hot standby failed too. I'm impressed that there is a process in place for this. I would not have been surprised if the story was that the equipment manager has put on whi
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by atomic77 9y ago
Interesting, so you would tend to agree with the parent comment, especially if you hadn't known anything about the author beforehand? It's a great illustration of the range of interpretations possible of any artistic work. I'
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by atomic77 9y ago
Though it also doesn't contribute much, I just had to say that the laugh I got from this comment isn't properly compensated by a mere upvote.
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by atomic77 9y ago
I also coincidentally re-read Crime and Punishment a few months ago and was also struck at how differently I saw it today than as a college student. I would be interested to understand how you came to the conclusion that he argued for both
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by atomic77 9y ago
And for any that are skeptical about the gambling link, think about the now-ubiquitous pull-to-refresh gesture on mobile interfaces -- does it remind you of anything... like a slot machine perhaps?
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by atomic77 9y ago
I am not a lawyer either, but contracts can be breached and damages paid when it is a more favourable outcome [1]. I doubt he was suggesting anything that would undermine the rule of law, though. [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu&#
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by atomic77 9y ago
That was fascinating, thanks for sharing. I had no idea Disney World was about the size of San Francisco (!). It seems to operate like a sovereign city-state in the middle of Florida.
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by atomic77 9y ago
"Mr. Tory, who has praised the Sidewalk initiative but has not seen the text of the deal, says no commercial agreement could strip the city of its authority" Seems to fit with your explanation. I'd like to think the mayor wou
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by atomic77 9y ago
What strikes me about this is that Toronto notably gave relatively little in terms of incentives during the Amazon HQ2 hoopla [1], yet here we have a case where it seems that the city has ceded a bit too much in order to land a headline-gra
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Cracks in Sidewalk Labs' Toronto waterfront plan(theglobeandmail.com)
25 points by atomic77 9y ago|12 comments
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by atomic77 9y ago
Banks are better described as tech companies than the media / advertising behemoths. Information security is their bread and butter. As far as I can tell, the only thing that qualifies a company as "tech" nowadays is a techni
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by atomic77 9y ago
All the countries on the list are OECD members, and Poland is the only one that was not a member prior to the end of the cold war.
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by atomic77 9y ago
Maybe it's a reflection of a sort of long term, virtuous loop. Stability brings wealth, wealth reinforces the need for stability. Shocks can occur (e.g. Japan and Germany most recently) but note how quickly they're right back wher
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by atomic77 9y ago
Something I can't help but notice: all of the countries on the list are currently wealthy, advanced economies. Cause or effect?
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by atomic77 10y ago
Yes, it's a trap, but not much different than the traps other companies are attempting to lay for you. Remember that the majority of people working at Microsoft today probably have little to no memory of the tech world of the early 200
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by atomic77 10y ago
I also think the shift is genuine. The parallels with how IBM evolved from being the Prime Evil in the tech world to a large but relatively benign tech company are interesting.
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by atomic77 10y ago
Notably, the Canadians in my various social media feeds were not talking about moving back.
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by atomic77 10y ago
The fact that in Canada cheese tends to be more expensive than beef, by weight, has always struck me as a strange artifact of some kind of political arrangement
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by atomic77 10y ago
Presumably they preferred to stay within the mysql world. I didn't read the article in detail, but I couldn't help but wonder why not use innodb more directly [1]? Imagine how much CPU is wasted using a full blown RDBMS SQL engine
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by atomic77 10y ago
This is an interesting question, and seems to get to the core of Nassim Taleb's ideas [1] about fragility and the limits of what we can understand, and how many of our attempts to create artificial stability ultimately bring about the
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by atomic77 10y ago
From TFA: > Juergen Schmidhuber, a Swiss AI researcher, is also credited for trumpeting deep learning methods through its dark period. Several DeepMind researchers came from his lab.
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by atomic77 11y ago
You raise some interesting points. FB shelled out $15B for Whatsapp, and clearly the contents of these messages was a major factor in that valuation, especially once the subscription fee was phased out. Now they're voluntarily encrypti
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by atomic77 11y ago
I think this is among the best answers - getting to know your future boss and coworkers ahead of time is the best way of figuring whether you like these people or not, probably the single most important determiner of your happiness at that
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by atomic77 11y ago
... still waiting for someone to workflow+1
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by atomic77 11y ago
Pretty much exactly what I was intending (except I'd have used a hockey analogy instead of baseball :) Notice that many of the arguments presented here about why younger workers are favored would equally apply in more conservative prof
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by atomic77 11y ago
I suspect that ageism in tech also contributes to higher levels of risk taking - if we know or believe we will be put out to pasture at 40, it makes it more urgent to get a big payout at some point along the way.

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