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by bfung 10y ago
Just to clarify, Oracle has a cloud too, not just a database product: https://cloud.oracle.com/home I think Cisco's and Oracle's cloud are both not heard of before?
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by bfung 10y ago
I used to work for company writing software for car dealerships, and there's a lot under those brands that may make you think twice, even about KBB. Note that this was 2005 - 2011; I haven't kept up with the industry to know if it
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by bfung 10y ago
Looks like parent post is on the money for the reason this library was done w/o static methods. Note that there are interfaces in the library. https://github.com/tdebatty/java-string-similarity/blob/mast
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by bfung 10y ago
It's interesting to see so many comments on an imprecise wording of a sentence. As humans, people can parse this sentence and infer the thinking and meaning behind it. The related part of the problem with this the difficulty in finding
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by bfung 10y ago
"I know, right? It's probably a typo for #18, right under visual basic" leftpad(" I think your language is broken", 35) The nice way: where's the data that would suggest <language X> should b
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by bfung 10y ago
> "if solar is so great, why isn't my utility doing it..." Depends on your utility, some are: http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/solar/choice/in...
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by bfung 10y ago
Thanks for the in-depth analysis, it's super helpful. My understanding is that IPFS is bittorrent + blockchain mashed together (I've read the tech specs, it's more complicated but will have to suffice as a explanation device
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by bfung 10y ago
Can you elaborate, please? My initial reaction was the same as grandparent post - maybe IPFS doesn't have all the security things stated up front, but these things seem similar.
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by bfung 11y ago
or everywhere west of China...
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by bfung 11y ago
TL;DR - don't take the product seriously. It's the UX process. The article is more about the author learning UX methodologies and showing it off to Google rather than the product that's being pitched. The product being pitche
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by bfung 11y ago
If you use mac, it's available on homebrew. even easier.
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by bfung 11y ago
Honest question + comment + disclaimer question: why not add your info on glassdoor.com? (is there some evil behind glassdoor I don't know about?) comment: Probably worth noting general location of employment, like the metro region you
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by bfung 11y ago
^^^^ This is what managers and HR is for. If you're uncomfortable bringing up the issue, explain to HR and have them present it as "we want to help you" and not that "you're in trouble". Depends how good your
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by bfung 11y ago
I suspect this is a problem: it's hard to articulate the level of skill and competency of what we're trying to hire for. How does one describe a good engineer vs. a subpar one, when the only requirement listed is "knows Java
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by bfung 11y ago
What's in it for the insurance company to do this blockchain activity? What's in it for the city? They're not going to do this for nothing. And whatever entity that will help get this to work - wouldn't they be the ne
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by bfung 11y ago
From a management standpoint, it takes at least 2 developers to run something equivalent. Perhaps not full time, but it doesn't scale out that much - not more than 10 highly available services per team. A good example of this is ro
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by bfung 11y ago
> It's compress-once, decompress on somebody else's machine, so neither of those matter. Last week, there was a drive mount that was filling up, rate was roughly 30Gb/hr. The contents of that mount was used by the web app
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by bfung 11y ago
Going to troll a little. At my high school, IMSA was known as just as IA: "The Math Team at Naperville North ...and won ten consecutive Math Team state championships (1998–2007). ... The WYSE team won the state championship from 1999
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by bfung 11y ago
Doesn't seem as dead as the article suggests. In addition to squeak: http://pharo.org/ http://www.strongtalk.org/ One of the more impressive things I've seen in the past (like 5 years ago?) was D
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by bfung 11y ago
It's also weird - my gut feel is that photo sharing is done. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Flickr, Dropbox, Apple iCloud stuff, Google+ stuff, Smugmug... etc. If the investments are going to those companies (and if they are considere
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by bfung 12y ago
It's not just averages, it's division in general. Division is not commutative, as the article says. A simple example referring to the article's diagram of boxes: orders_2013 has sum(price) = 10, with 3 records orders_2014 ha
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by bfung 12y ago
our GC pause is pretty large =D
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by bfung 12y ago
Javelin still has a simple innuendo back into it's roots ;)
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by bfung 12y ago
I had this thought the other day - not robots washing the laundry, but folding it. Folding is actually not that simple after thinking about it.
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by bfung 12y ago
I also had this idea, but I never executed it as I haven't thought of a way to solve the real vs. estimated times perfectly. Probably can get close w/some data mining, but not sure if it's worth the effort. RE: scraping - in
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by bfung 12y ago
the UI is a bit off, but doesn't Google+ circles provide this functionality? Or the "Notes" section in the Contacts app on iPhone? Or LinkedIn even? What is missing or wrong with the current social network/address book t
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by bfung 12y ago
I don't have the data to look up, but I believe heating and cooling is the largest factor in energy consumption. This includes water heating as well as room climate control, so be sure to set those. The next largest would be applianc
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by bfung 12y ago
Here is the actual statement about 2%: http://schd.ws/hosted_files/buildstuff2013/ce/The%20unreason... "2% of reported Github issues for Javascript, Clojure, Python, Ruby, are type errors" The study
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by bfung 12y ago
Also introvert Asian engineer here, quite a bit older, and it sounds like we have different backgrounds. The good part is that you've identified what you don't want. The trickier part is finding solutions. 1. Do stuff alone? - s

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