awshepard

8 ms·

31.
by awshepard 9y ago
We did at my last place, an ad tech company. It replaced Cassandra as a KV store in some streaming pipelines.
32.
by awshepard 9y ago
Right - that was my point to the parent who said "it's scary they [Mercedes] didn't figure that out" (that there was a unit change, and thus proceeded down the road of "must have been a rollback"). I was trying
33.
by awshepard 9y ago
but if they did just make the assumption that any odometer reading that was off by 0.62 must have been a km->mi error, couldn't someone attempting to rollback an odometer just always make sure it was rolled back to 0.62 x the number
34.
by awshepard 9y ago
Can anyone compare/contrast this with geohex.org? I've used geohex in a past life, just curious what, if anything, H3 might offer over it.
35.
by awshepard 9y ago
> Customers seem to be happy with a flaky, feature-lite products and pay for it. They'll pay to have something that kinda-sorta works now and pay to improve it on an extended basis Yea, I was going to say - do customers expect flaky
36.
by awshepard 9y ago
Yep, this is akin to the Freakonomics "why don't real estate agents always push for the highest sales price" question. The gist being, it's a numbers game for them. The extra 5-10k they negotiate when selling your house
37.
by awshepard 9y ago
Some other warning signs: - When you get rid of your QA team in the name of "quality" with everyone being responsible for testing, but then never provide adequate testing resources or environments. And when quality and velocity in
38.
by awshepard 9y ago
Can you clarify this a little? Have you seen or worked with ATC code? I can believe some of your other comments about poor API specs, old code, aging infrastructure, etc., but I'm curious about your loop and allocation comments. My und
39.
by awshepard 9y ago
My last company used Atlassian Stash and switched from a single project and monorepo to lots of projects and repos. I wrote a python script that uses the Stash API (via the stashy library) to update or clone selected (or all, including new)
40.
by awshepard 10y ago
Check out https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00061 - "Towards A Virtual Assistant That Can Be Taught New Tasks In Any Domain By Its End-Users."
41.
by awshepard 11y ago
There's a coursera session on digital signal processing going on right now, figured I'd take a crack at it: https://www.coursera.org/course/dsp
42.
by awshepard 13y ago
Someone just recently sent me a low-tech version of this - http://imgur.com/gallery/MekVijC
43.
by awshepard 13y ago
> even people who practice half-hour daily buddhist meditation praise its beneficial effects on mental and physical well being. Wanted to lend some weight to this. I've practiced mindful meditation on and off for a year or so. I&#
44.
by awshepard 13y ago
> this tool is truly excellent for breaking the subvocalization habit I found the exact opposite when playing with the demo on the site. Perhaps I fall into the camp of the 1k+ wpm readers, and by extension am a non-linear, non-vocalizi
45.
by awshepard 13y ago
Or, why don't they automatically roll up windows when it starts raining? They already have automatic wipers that use a sensor in the windshield, and they have hands-free automatic windows with a safety cutoff in case anything gets in t