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by bitcrusher 9y ago
Excuse me, but I believe you are very much mistaken. Those places are as much or MORE expensive than most places on the peninsula... In fact, the reality is that prices have almost normalized across all of the cities from SF to Los Gatos. I
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by bitcrusher 9y ago
*This observation was used to pursue hypothermia in other causes of anoxic injury, which is clinically used today. With pretty astounding results, honestly. My son was born having been without oxygen for at least 6-9 minutes. He was immedia
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by bitcrusher 9y ago
Meta Note: If you don't read Oona's blog regularly, you're really missing out on some great stuff. Even if you have little interest in sound processing, her discovery processes are more than worth the price of admission. Here
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by bitcrusher 9y ago
I don't mean to belittle you either, but this is hogwash. Of course a Rails or Node developer wouldn't be able to write Postgres without ramp-up time... Maybe what you're saying is that the ramp-up time would be LONGER for so
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by bitcrusher 9y ago
or even: [Esc] :x to save and exit.
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by bitcrusher 9y ago
This is the same alarmist outcry that happened in the 90s... "India has a billion people who are educated and cheaper! Outsourcing will kill all the tech jobs!" I think the thing that folks keep missing is that technology isn&#x27
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by bitcrusher 9y ago
And so the debate rages on... There are two sides to this, illustrated by the parent post and you post. Ultimately, it comes down to style preference and his little actual tangible TECHNICAL benefit. The benefits to team process/organi
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by bitcrusher 10y ago
Depends on the company; My current employer added 2 times my annual in RSUs.
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by bitcrusher 10y ago
Yes, it is insane. It's a pressure cooker, which induces personality traits in folks that are undesirable at best. People figure out how to game the system, squash the less assertive/aggressive/self selling types and keep fig
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by bitcrusher 10y ago
Contrarily, the special snowflake and myopic individualism is what MADE the tech industry. The hubris to say, "I see a better way" or "I can do it better than that person" is how we got here. In point of fact, this entir
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by bitcrusher 10y ago
I think the issue is not to invalidate your specific experience, but to highlight that your experience is pretty atypical and further that your experience should not be the norm. For every person like yourself that had a great experience
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by bitcrusher 10y ago
I agree. In a lot of ways, in the areas that I have been exposed to, SV culture IS intellectually bankrupt. It's a sad state of affairs, honestly.
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by bitcrusher 10y ago
In some sense, I believe this stems from being afraid of 'not knowing'. Especially in the current SV culture, it's really anathema to say, "I don't know". "Not knowing" something is frowned upon, espe
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by bitcrusher 10y ago
That's not really true at all. Basho (makers of Riak) have a multi-paxos implementation that is used in Riak. Riak_Ensemble:( https://github.com/basho/riak_ensemble )
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
I've literally seen the opposite interviewing as distributed computing person, most people ask for a distributed engineer and then want someone to stitch together Hadoop and Spark or how to effectively leverage HDFS. When you start tal
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
I think the big problem with the microservice movement is that it is easy to understand but difficult to implement. It reminds me of when OO was new on the block and people designed these really elaborate OO hierarchies only to have them br
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
If you're talking about raw performance, I'm afraid you're mistaken. If you're perhaps referring to the 'aesthetics' of the language syntax, that's pretty subjective, in which case you're right for yo
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
"Android developer talks more trash about iOS.. Film at 11." yawn
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
For me, what's maddening is people claiming 'cognitive dissonance' when the Federal Government does the job it is supposed to do, which is make sure 'states rights' don't get out of line with the constitution o
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
This is only partially true. You are 'strongly encouraged' to enforce your patent violations, for after a period of years (6) they basically become unenforceable. This is to prevent things like 'patent bombs'. In practic
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
No, that ALSO applies to patents, though the term is actually 6 years rather than the standard 3. Your 'confused' comment is a good example of why the FSF should encourage educating ones-self instead of trying to play semantic gam
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
ALL companies are aggressive in litigating against anyone who they feel borrows their ideas via intellectual property laws. It's basically REQUIRED (by those same intellectual property laws) to maintain your 'intellectual property
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
Bo Jackson was both an NFL and MLB player. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Jackson
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
Maybe you're right; But something feels a bit out of focus for me, only because they're only 'involved' from the standpoint that they're selling software. If their software was called 'seed' tracker and th
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
From the top of the page: "There is! For readers not already familiar with first year calculus, this post will be a lot of non-sense." FWIW, it is a pretty straight forward explanation of 'half-integrals'... which by in
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
You have some interesting points, however Eric Brewer isn't just 'some Google guy discussing CAP'. He actually invented the theorem... It's also known as 'Brewer's Theorem'. FWIW, CAP is not about NoSQL or
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
It really depends on where you live. In places like Arizona, this unit could pay for itself in a matter of a few years. Even if it is only used as a load shifter, it could generate great savings during the summer/hot months.
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
As I understand it, Graal+Truffle is basically the DLR. This has been around since 2008 from Microsoft. Both IronPython and IronRuby have used this for years. The "Day 1" comment was specifically pointed at the read-between the li
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
Except, in both of the examples you cite, .Net has had those features since day 1 ( more than 13 years now ). I think it's pretty disingenuous to say those things are hard to measure or even estimate. Java and C# are close enough that
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by bitcrusher 11y ago
I think you're mistaken on a couple of points: - VCs aren't interested in "revenue tomorrow" unless you mean a 10x+ exit multiple. VCs want you you to focus on your product because there's an invisible( and sometime

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