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by bpicolo 7y ago
another option is to take advantage of Gitlab's shared CI runners for small side projects
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Opencensus is Google's opentracing alternative. A merger for the two projects (now OpenTelemetry) was recently announced and is being worked on. https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/21/a-brief-history-of
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by bpicolo 7y ago
It's not functional for library dependencies, where you still need to manage the setup.py instead. Only useful for end-user application dependencies.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
My company runs twice-yearly performance reviews. In the quarters where we don't run them, I personally run with my team quarterlies that match well with this concept. "What have you done in the last 3 months" and "What
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Discord does build a best-in-class client, users love Discord. Tinkerers just like tinkering.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Stock-based compensation for a public company with a good track record of growth and stability is not much different than cash, it's just on a different timer than 2x/month. It should skew the numbers.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Wouldn't say that. With something like Segment it's easy to shovel data from the backend to any analytics provider you can think of. The majority of analytics providers have a REST api of some sort.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Ironically, many actions are drastically easier to track on the server side. Frontend pageview tracking is trivially knocked out by ad block. Backend pageview tracking is impossible to block.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> People who were already spending $10 a month or more in movie tickets I don't think that's the case. I know a ton of people who went from seeing movies almost never to seeing them several times a month. They had the opposite
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Netflix, Amazon, Google are all on the Java train in real capacities. There's a crap load of Java out there.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Big companies seem to typically be on the opposite side, and not care about tech of the day.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
I would enjoy working close to the metal in some capacity, it's just not really what the majority of modern tech businesses require, and moving in that direction is likely not worth the sort of career reset it would require.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
SageMath moved to Postgres: https://blog.cocalc.com/2017/02/09/rethinkdb-vs-postgres.htm...
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by bpicolo 7y ago
I suppose I could have phrased that better. I appreciate the correction. I mostly mean to say that the functionality is really impressive today, and serves its use case very well for the intended target of lower level search primitives. Tan
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Tantivy is an interesting project I'd point to in this space: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy That said - it's effectively Lucene rewritten in rust, so the main win is some performance gains. Lucene
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Took me a minute to comprehend (that the substring bit is the whole point was not obvious, because all string operations in Python are non-destructive regardless) but this is exactly what I imagined given that note. Glad that thought lined
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by bpicolo 7y ago
I went crabbing for the first time recently and it was just ludicrously enjoyable.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Same goes for all sorts of elements, like Gold.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Google search, reddit, HN, social media of various sorts? There's a ton of discoverability out there. Youtube is not the only path
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by bpicolo 7y ago
The outage appears to have ended between that post and your post.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Eat24 was doing this prior to the Grubhub purchase. Perhaps they picked it up from there? (It's also possible this started with grubhub and then bled to Eat24 I suppose). It's also for SEO, not just commissions.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Slicer paper: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46921
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> https://www.shepherdcolor.com/products/yinmn/ Looks like it hasn't received approval for commercial sale yet. Presumably some health / safety entity?
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> why aren't new and existing technology companies embracing these protocols and making them ubiquitous? Because they don't want to be at the behest of protocol maintainers to improve their product? Their goals and the goals of
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by bpicolo 7y ago
For nicer kitchenware, shy away from retail stores in general. Search out brands, find what nice restaurants are using - some fancy restaurants seek out small, artisanal manufacturers for sure. I remember Jungsik had all dinnerware from Kor
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Gotta be more targeted in your searches if that's what you care about. https://www.sherrillmfg.com/ https://www.globalkitchenjapan.com/collections/flatware-cutl...
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> It’s too specialised, too narrow a demographic Instagram has a billion users. What's narrow?
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Eagerly await the follow up: Falsehoods programmers believe about AWS costs
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Pycharm is way too intimidating if the goal is to get non-programmers to play with a language. Something more like Swift playgrounds would be a better target
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Presumably the open source package in question would just support the Postgres protocol, with cockroach being one option? What else are you envisioning there?

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