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by bbulkow 5y ago
Look, I have some tinopico boards and like them, but let's be honest. The made-by-espressif esp32 devkit boards are 11 bucks bought from Mauser or Digikey and they are perfectly fine boards from a quality perspective. It is really the
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by bbulkow 5y ago
I used Plato at udel , and had my first programming jobs there. It is hard to underestimate how far ahead they were, and that system influenced all my designs in my entire career. Like realtime chat with any other user, character by charact
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by bbulkow 5y ago
A disparity that high is unlikely to be rate of crime. It is hard to study rate of crime, obvious reasons, but when you slice drug use by race, blacks use more, when you investigate drug contraband found per traffic stop, the is not a high
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Yet, if you want to pass a technical interview, that's the game. If you would like to introspect, having a large number of passes before you changed course was unnecessary. I also interviewed and received job offers after burning out a
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by bbulkow 5y ago
And you need to find some buried comment on hacker news to figure out that partitioning is the problem! Thanks!
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by bbulkow 5y ago
As others have said, essentially by being the single os for a multibillion dollar pc industry for decades. I forget exactly when the hibernate api came online... 90's?... and Microsoft has a porting layer test suite as a manufacturer t
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by bbulkow 6y ago
i once had a vc, during a pitch, who asked if i could sell to her mom. As it was database infrastructure, it seemed kinda wrong, but it turns out her mom owned a small business and was the primary tech buyer, and the mom was in the lobby be
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by bbulkow 6y ago
I have a system for this. You have two problems, not one. You need to get useful feedback out of 100pct of people, and you might need more people. To get useful feedback, distill your potential value proposition to one sentence. If you have
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by bbulkow 6y ago
Skipping 8 bytes at the front of each packet? Probably a sequence number or timestamp, a very normal think to do.
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by bbulkow 6y ago
Cloud happens to be a multibillion dollar business.
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by bbulkow 6y ago
I am surprised to not see a product reason. There is one. Engagement falls off when there is a delay in experience past a certain point. Usually considered around 100ms to 150ms with extreme drop off at a second or higher. This has to go wi
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by bbulkow 6y ago
My thought here. I'm not exactly a disinterested party because I built my own key value store company (possibly the wrong way but that's a different story). I have a huge respect for Redis, and Antirez, but I have to say my respec
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by bbulkow 6y ago
I have learned most things myself my entire life, and I would even say get a teacher. there are a set of things you have to know about tone and thinking in tune and how to practice. once you get the key concepts, which might take a few mont
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by bbulkow 6y ago
For the Cambridge Analytica case, FB had to pay $5b. there is recourse.
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by bbulkow 6y ago
mongodb's business model, forever, has been to get developers to write code, be damned the fact that you can't support it reliably on a cloudy day.
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by bbulkow 6y ago
that acquisition that used mongo got spun off and is now Honeycomb.io . nice people.
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by bbulkow 6y ago
Possibly neither, that is, there are many possible reasons. for example, stateful firewalls can only track a certain number of connections. If you don't have a public IP, or if they are trying to protect you, it may be necessary to wai
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by bbulkow 7y ago
the innovation has happened at cloud database projects. dynamo, redshift, cosmos, big query, etc. they don't publish their code, but there is plenty happening under the covers. at this point, i think anyone who acquires machines and in
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by bbulkow 7y ago
the question with many databases using rotational based storage engines is not how much you want to store, but how much you want to query. Couch requires 99% cache hit rates for queries, they tell you to add memory if you are lower. which
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by bbulkow 7y ago
this has some elements of cultural difference. in America, we want to be coddled with empty sorries and emphatic statements. the reality is seeing a movie is a transaction, and in many other countries, they don't get as excited about s
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by bbulkow 7y ago
Brett, i have evolved a different system, and i agree on the difficulty and importance of the problem. Give me a ring, we can have a coffee and discuss.
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by bbulkow 7y ago
apparently there is an eruv in palo alto. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2007/06/19/palo-alto-eru...
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by bbulkow 7y ago
A competitive market with high barrier to entry seems to stabilize at 3 entrants. Others that might seem to be in market are niche players. Scale is good for consumers, benefit of scale is a thing, so 'trust busting' should happen
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by bbulkow 7y ago
I'm enough of a jerk that sometimes, if they are at the edge of the road, I will stop and honk. Even if they are engrossed in their phone. Because, in my jurisdiction, it is illegal to not give the pedestrian the right of way at a cros
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by bbulkow 7y ago
I give non-fives for cheating ( extending pickup or dropoff ), serious safety issues ( falling asleep and drifting out of lane ), and impersonating ( a different person than registered to drive ). The platform should be able to detect the f
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by bbulkow 7y ago
This, and worse. Using a taxi cab in Berkeley before Lyft was a worse nightmare. It's a long story, but Berkeley has a "medallion" system ( because, um, they were afraid of a crush of taxis? ), and one business bought them al
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by bbulkow 7y ago
We usually called it the liquidation stack. Because of different trigger points, whether different investors are participating or non participating, you needed a spreadsheet to figure out what common gets, for each potential outcome. There
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by bbulkow 7y ago
I use 1pass like many here, but don't use the cloud service and am not happy doing so. My passwords are in a file which i share using a file share service, but i know it is all encrypted with my master password, which is my primary liv
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by bbulkow 7y ago
Very surprised this made the front page. Everyone should have shifted to ssds years ago for laptops. The productivity win was a no brainer a very long time ago.
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by bbulkow 7y ago
I was going to do some technical posts for medium, but i found as a user they were not surfacing good technical content. They were surfacing bubble gum articles better placed in cosmopolitan, even after i set my preferences and explicitly s

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