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by bkanber 10y ago
Your 30k salary costs your employer around 50-60k (I don't know the deal with your benefits and payroll taxes and all that). Rule of thumb in the US is that you add about 40% to a salary to get the total cost to the company to support
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by bkanber 10y ago
(This comment pertains to Vanguard funds cause I don't know Fidelity). For long term growth you'd likely want either all-stock or a balanced fund, with the lowest costs possible. Unfortunately, funds like Vanguard 500 Index Admira
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by bkanber 10y ago
How many milligrams of caffeine per pea-sized serving is there? People who really like caffeine also really want to know how much they're getting. "Medium" cup of coffee could be anywhere from like 30mg to 80mg.
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by bkanber 10y ago
Atkins is not a keto diet. Atkins starts keto, then reintroduces carbs. Weight loss is simple: calorie deficit. However, switching from carbs to fats and taking advantage of some of the metabolic processes your body has to offer makes the p
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by bkanber 10y ago
There's no good answer. You have to learn how to focus. You can't wait for focus or motivation to come to you, you have to make it happen. Why do new languages interest you? Probably you're just looking for something diff
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by bkanber 10y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+die+in+car+c... 1.3 million people die every year. This very well may be on that scale.
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Towards an exact quantum description of chemistry(research.googleblog.com)
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by bkanber 10y ago
That's what volumes are for -- put a volume on NFS and have your DB persist there. Even with docker you still need roles for servers; your DB class of servers will have a cloud-config that inits the correct mount points.
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by bkanber 10y ago
A few possibilities: - If you don't actually need files, design around database instead - If you need to store files redundantly, you can use a distributed filesystem like HDFS or GridFs - If you need to store files redundantly, you ca
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by bkanber 10y ago
Hrm not yet. I'll probably put a mailchimp form on my blog. If you use twitter follow me @bkanber; I tweet rarely but I will tweet about any mailing lists or impending book releases. Appreciate the interest!
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by bkanber 10y ago
I'd say: you should learn as much as you can! That way you can decide for yourself whether or not Kubernetes is for you. One thing Kubernetes IS helpful with at small scales: portability. If you're fully Kubernetes/Docker, th
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by bkanber 10y ago
Since the book is called "Complete Docker" it's broad in scope; I pitched the book to my editor as spanning beginner, intermediate, and production topics. I won't really go into advanced Docker in the book. Right now t
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by bkanber 10y ago
My guess is it's a simple time-decay-weighted karma-based formula. That is, karma * e ^ -age. "Best" vs "top" may be the difference in net karma vs gross positive karma.
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by bkanber 10y ago
"Volumes" are the Docker construct used to store persisted data. You use a volume when you want to decouple the lifecycle of your data with the lifecycle of the app. You can either map the volume to a directory on the host (ie, ma
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by bkanber 10y ago
How many people actually need it? Nobody! We managed to run servers for years without containers or orchestration tools. Docker is a new technology. Does it make things better , though? Yes. Yes it does. Kubernetes was designed at Google
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by bkanber 10y ago
So, you build a web app and it gets popular. It needs one load balancer, 5 app servers, at least two database nodes for replication, a redis cluster for caching and queuing, an elasticsearch cluster for full text search, and a cluster of jo
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by bkanber 10y ago
I think the author is making the claim that AWS could add any new product to their Service Offerings at any time (they can) and that Amazon _could_ clone a customer's IP and add it as a Service Offering on AWS, and this clause would pr
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by bkanber 10y ago
Not a lawyer, but I think the reason Amazon did this is to prevent themselves against Oracle vs Google type issues. Alternatively, it could prevent attacks against AWS packaging popular software like Node or Wordpress in their offerings. On
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by bkanber 11y ago
It's simple: the US economy is huge. It's bigger than Japan, Germany, France, Brazil, and the UK combined. It's got the same GDP as the EU and as China, but half the population (and 1/4, respectively). No matter where yo
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by bkanber 11y ago
You guessed right with the lighter payload. They could afford the fuel to burn all the way back rather than landing downrange on the barge.
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by bkanber 11y ago
Nice! It's a cool project, and ambitious, but definitely worth doing. I'll be rooting for you! Let me try to poke a hole or two in it for you. Not to discourage you, of course, but just to try and get you to think of some of the h
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by bkanber 11y ago
Well, I have a biased view here. I'm a knowledge junkie and I love learning systems. In software, I _actually_ RTFM for every single tool I use even tangentially. (As a side note, reading tech documentation cover to cover is actually a
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How I taught myself electronics(burakkanber.com)
4 points by bkanber 11y ago|5 comments
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I love this article. Not only is the story of a champion gymnast born without legs fascinating, but the fact that the protagonist happens to be gold medalist Dominique Moceanu's really adds an extra dimension. Then, you're hit wit
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A Tale of Two Sisters(psychologytoday.com)
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by bkanber 11y ago
Duplicate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671356
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by bkanber 11y ago
Me too -- after reading your comment, I found that I effectively halved my age in a dozen trials or so with a smaller window.
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by bkanber 11y ago
> In countries that have electricity coming from fossil fuels, it's inherently less efficient "Inherently" less efficient? As in, "electric cars are inherently less efficient that gasoline cars in fossil-fuel countrie
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by bkanber 11y ago
It is true. A Tesla on coal power is roughly equivalent, emissions-wise, to a 25-30 MPG gasoline ICE. Source: I was a hybrid vehicle powertrain engineer.
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by bkanber 11y ago
Great idea on Amazon's part; they're already set up to handle the logistics for this kind of last-mile delivery stuff. Of course, one could argue that moves like this and pushing us towards the gig economy are a net negative for o

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