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by bkeroack 10y ago
"Donating" his shares to his own charity that he fully controls and his children will inherit. It's little more than a smart tax shelter.
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by bkeroack 10y ago
The loss of the Pacific Electric system was tragic. LA is currently spending many billions to re-build what was lost, but we're doing a good job so far: - The Expo light rail line is scheduled to open 5/20. This is the first rail
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by bkeroack 10y ago
PyPy is in the unfortunate position of being both uninteresting to many of those who rely on Python (numpy, etc and Spark work fine and are fast without PyPy) and irrelevant to application developers who switched off Python because it was t
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by bkeroack 11y ago
If NYC decided to punish littering by imprisoning you, your entire family, and all of your descendants in perpetuity in some of the world's worst labor/torture/starvation camps....NYC would be pretty spotless too.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
I thought that's what AppC was supposed to be? Does that mean AppC is moribund?
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by bkeroack 11y ago
LA has a proposal for $120B in transit investment over a similar timeframe. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-transit-pro...
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Amateurs aren't allowed to write any crypto, so unless one of the few accredited elite like djb decide to write an alternative, we're all out of luck.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
I've used wrk[1] which is quite nice. My local macbook was able to completely saturate the service with ~20k req/sec. 1. https://github.com/wg/wrk
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by bkeroack 11y ago
"At the time we had consultants working with us to speed up the development process..." Mistake #1.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Also the concentration goes down with the cube of the distance from where it's released into the air, so if a drone is carrying 10mg it's very unlikely to be able to harm even a single person. Unless it fires a dart or something l
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by bkeroack 11y ago
No TLS and their stubborn refusal to even acknowledge HTTP2 makes this of very limited usefulness.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Thinking more about it, this is a fundamental weakness of having self-policing processes, which I suppose is the OP's main point. It can be mitigated by having infinite lock TTLs, at the cost of risking system deadlock on process fai
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by bkeroack 11y ago
It's not really "fundamental". It's simply that the process that acquires the lock can fail (or be paused, or partitioned away from everything else, etc), and if it does, but then comes back later with a valid lock, bad
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by bkeroack 11y ago
etcd would be a fine choice, but Consul provides a lock feature[1] out of the box. 1. https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/leader-election.html
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Salaries tend to be sticky. A more likely outcome is the bottom ~25% of engineers being laid off or moved to contract status.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
> Linkedin is down 38%. Tesla is down quite a bit. My guess is that some VCs were leveraged and had to liquidate positions. You're not a VC if your money is in publicly-traded firms.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
With Jobs, it wasn't so much what you have right now as it was where he was taking you . To the bright, beautiful future where everything was different and better. One could overlook the imperfections because the vision was so appea
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Premature worry (aka FUD). We run Go services that terminate TLS and handle thousands of req/sec per server and it's never been even a slight concern. CPU usage for TLS has not been measurable. GC has also not been an issue, at le
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by bkeroack 11y ago
That's the theory (or the marketing pitch, depending upon perspective). The reality can be rather different[1][2][3]. 1. http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/21/technology/amazon_server_out... 2. http:&#x2
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by bkeroack 11y ago
I'd like to know more about read performance. My understanding is that when you base your system on Raft, you have to choose one of two operating modes: - all reads go through the Raft state machine, which means that reading from one n
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by bkeroack 11y ago
If you have a good CI pipeline, "patching" is all automatic. A security bugfix just got pushed for Go 1.5. Since all my apps are dockerized based on the official golang image and are built by CI, as soon as the fix was published i
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by bkeroack 11y ago
"As low as $6/hour" Which means you can expect ~50% more than that for the realistic case -- maybe $9-10/hour. Which (at $200+/day) is no better than an average rental car.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
China subsidizes shipping for domestic businesses either a) explicitly as a part of economic policy, or b) implicitly/de facto via corruption. In other words, for the business selling you the item, shipping is free. It's the Chine
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Have any old Zip disks laying around (or did you ever)? How accessible are the contents to you today? Now imagine trying to get that data 150 years from now.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
The really smart thing would be to donate[1] it to a "charity" you create and fully control (that your kids will inherit, etc) so it's effectively a tax-free bank account. 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/1
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by bkeroack 11y ago
There's a vesting cliff so you only get 25% of your salary the first year.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
To really grasp the full impact of this leak, you need to watch the infrared video (since methane is invisible): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnbcsm0VzQM&feature=youtu.be It's been literally spewing out of the h
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by bkeroack 11y ago
> But at some point, the boss would say "alright, no more raises". Not because $100 is too much, but because you've annoyed her by asking too many times. $100 is still trivial in value to the business.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Every aspect of human physiology is highly dependent upon the very specific (and, as far as we currently know, unique) conditions found on Earth. Everything from the salinity of our bodily fluids to the atmospheric pressure and composition
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Consumer service in LA is pretty good, around $90 for 200/20 in most areas. It's TWC Business Class that's a horrible rip off.

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