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by azylman 7y ago
Exactly, given a timeout you can't assume the server is clearly successful (or unsuccessful!). That was my point, we're definitely agreeing :) Usually you'd generate some kind of idempotency key (randomized token as you said)
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by azylman 7y ago
> the client should just error out and stop processing and return the error to the user, who will have more context and knows whether or not a retry is necessary or desirable... Even banks do that. It's fine If a user at a bank trie
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by azylman 7y ago
> failure to receive back any reply within the stipulated deadline If you get this error back, the client doesn't know if the server actually processed it or not, so knowing where the client failed isn't actually useful for kno
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by azylman 7y ago
Most of the tax payer population, but not most of the gains available for taxation. Small increases in taxes to the very wealthy would far outweigh large increases in taxes to the middle class in terms of government revenue. On top of that,
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by azylman 7y ago
> Amazon is going to vertically integrate shipping, no question. The market demands it, and Amazon will probably eventually ship more packages than any of its competitors. Amazon already delivers half of its own packages. Currently they&
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by azylman 7y ago
Large companies spend a LOT of money trying to increase conversions by even tenths of a percent. Yes, 2% is substantial.
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by azylman 7y ago
The third line of thinking is a combination of the two: "In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine". This is a popular quote from Benjamin Graham ( https://en.w
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by azylman 7y ago
WeWork takes this much further than other SV companies. In their S-1 filing, they had to disclose something like 100+ related party transactions: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alapshah/2019/08/19/just
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by azylman 7y ago
If you're going to rely on personal experience in an argument, "in six weeks I learned enough to criticize many engineers with decades of experience" is not a strong argument. That's not even claiming to be a 10x engine
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by azylman 7y ago
This is an interesting read about the hotel industry. I don't think it disproves the idea though that there are people who want to low-skilled jobs who can't find them. For instance, from that article: "The popular Mackinac I
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by azylman 7y ago
My point was that there's not an unlimited supply of low-skilled jobs. The fact that if you're qualified for one, you're qualified for another isn't really relevant when they can be very hard to find in some areas.
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by azylman 7y ago
You're assuming there's unlimited demand for employees by McD's... which, in point of fact, is absolutely not the case.
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by azylman 7y ago
You're comparing apples to oranges. I know a lot of engineers at a lot of companies who look at porn on their work laptops (which isn't illegal). I don't know a single engineer who would take documents from their previous com
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by azylman 7y ago
Currently they're unprofitable and their target market is other, unprofitable companies (e.g. turning away Fortune 500s, from the article). If that changes then it looks more sustainable.
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by azylman 7y ago
This comes up in a lot of Australian TV, like Pine Gap ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap_(TV_series) ) and Secret City ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_City_(TV_series) )
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by azylman 8y ago
I have some friends at AirBnB and I've heard it's much more modest, like $300/yr or something. My experience with these type of "dogfooding" credits is that companies are much more generous when they're smaller
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by azylman 8y ago
Lying to investors is illegal regardless of whether your company is public or private
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by azylman 8y ago
That's very important in cooking in general, but is definitely not the most important part of baking pizza. Heat transfer is a lot more important, that's why different cooking surfaces (e.g. stone vs. steel) can yield dramatically
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by azylman 8y ago
That only gets up to 280C it looks like, at that point it's not really any different than an oven with a pizza stone
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by azylman 8y ago
It's interesting to hear him say that npm and node_modules are regrets since lots of complaints about Go packaging from people new to Go ask for something similar...
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by azylman 9y ago
Something seems off here - they mention using 100 workers (a worker for every request). I would expect that to perform way more than 40% faster unless there's a ton of overhead in creating those workers.
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by azylman 9y ago
Allowing people to put in-law units in their backyard seems like a good move in the short term (to increase supply), but also seems like it might cause problems in the long term: NIMBYs are then _even more_ incentivized to prevent new housi
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by azylman 9y ago
Have you seen Grafana? I've had very good experiences with it. I've never used it with Postgres, but it supports it: http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/postgres/
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by azylman 9y ago
Sure, if I started writing my opinion on the case of course I would include it
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by azylman 9y ago
> the only way Waymo could find out for sure what had happened was bring a lawsuit. Or do you think Waymo should have just taken Uber's word that it hadn't done anything illegal?
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by azylman 9y ago
I've been very open about that (it's in my HN profile) and I didn't think it was relevant here since I was quoting the judge and not offering up my own opinions. Apologies if you disagree. :)
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by azylman 9y ago
That's a quote from the judge, not something that I said. The judge also doesn't make any value judgement about whether or not their assumption was reasonable, so I'm not sure what or who you're arguing against.
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A new chapter for Glass(blog.x.company)
4 points by azylman 9y ago|0 comments
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by azylman 9y ago
The judge asked them to drop all the patent claims, even the one that Google claims Uber is still using/infringing, which means it's unlikely to be related to whether or not Uber was or continues to infringe on them and more likel
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by azylman 9y ago
Note that the reason he told them to drop the trade secret claims is because they're kind of ridiculous: > the judge scolded Waymo for being "overbroad" in what it says are 121 trade secrets involved in the case. For examp

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